DeFi, or Decentralized Finance, is the technological distribution of financial services empowered by blockchain. This alternative market deals with similar processes of traditional finance involving the creation, management, and investment of money and financial assets. However, the fundamental...

International law is not known for being quick or effective. Cases can drag on for years, have limited legal force, and are infamous for noncompliance. Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement process had served as a beacon of hope for being one of the fastest and...

A disclosure -based framework is at the heart of U.S. securities regulation. This paper examines this model's emphasis on disclosure and discuss why it is inherently flawed. Specifically, the disclosure model is outdated and does not seem to reflect the current trading patterns that dominate the...

The paper aims to set grounds to analyse the correlation between Development and Rule of Law indicators in Brazil, comparing Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), which are perception indicators, and GDP per capita, homicides, and child mortality, in a comparative perspective between Brazil,...

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...

Drawing on the 2016 update of the IMF's Central Bank Legislation Database, this paper examines differences in central bank legal frameworks before and after the Global Financial Crisis. Examples from select countries show that many central bank laws have undergone changes in objectives,...

Directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to their corporations, and by extension to their shareholders. When a corporation approaches or enters insolvency, however, courts have recently found that the fiduciary duty calculus may change. Recognizing that creditors have financial...

In this article, I attempt to answer fundamental questions raised by the rise of robots and the emergence of ‘robot law'. The main theses developed in this article are the following: (i) robot regulation must be robot- and context-specific. This requires a profound understanding of the micro-...

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...