This legal contribution reflects on the changing role of central banks in the global economy by observing three interconnected developments: globalization, regionalization and the global financial crisis. The hypothesis at the outset is that these developments which are to a considerable extent...

The protracted international dispute on currency manipulation has exposed the weakness of the contemporary international economic law framework in regulating the sovereign intervention on foreign exchange rate. The legal mandate of the WTO on currency manipulation remains questionable and the...

The focus of this article is the effect of globalization on the protection of human rights, particularly the protection of human rights through international human rights law. This effect of globalization must be considered because, as the former Secretary General of the United Nations noted:...

While to an economist, business person or policy maker, movement of goods, services and foreign direct investment should logically be covered in the same agreement, history has not allowed this to happen. International legal regimes are spinning into greater fragmentation as the number of...

Taxpayers' money may not be put at risk again. Financial firms have to be efficiently supervised in order to make the financial sector more resilient against any future market turmoil. Efficient supervision can be achieved only when timely and accurate information is constantly assessed by...

This working paper intends to follow an inductive approach by performing an empirical study of annual reports of global financial institutions during and after the Global Financial crisis in 2008 with regard to compulsory and voluntary company disclosures. The hypothesis is that due to the...

We often fail to see important dimensions of international human rights (HR) protection because we use lenses that do not reveal them. This short article suggests a way of looking at HR protection that I believe has value in many contexts and for many – those who make decisions about human...

In recent years, the oil & gas industry has started, to realize how important IP is to the industry. The oil & gas industry owns a large variety of state of the art technologies utie of the art knowledge. Problem arises when these technologies are transferred through different business models.In...

Most any industry, property owner, or individual is simultaneously subject to countless regulations at the local, state, and federal levels. That is an unavoidable consequence of living in the modern administrative state. At least some of those regulations are arbitrary or unreasonable, exceed...