Here is the question legal academics have been asking for the last few years. Did the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) that began in the United States with the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and eventually spread to slow growth in most of the worlds major economies – including here in Spain –...

In his article, The Corporate/Securities Attorney as a Moving Target - Client Fraud Dilemmas, Marc Steinberg does an outstanding job of identifying the complex and significant ethical issues currently confronting securities lawyers. In this article, I attempt to explore the important legal and...

For a long time, soft commodity arbitration has been portrayed as over-simplistic and possibly archaic. Critical observations have traditionally focused on non-legal adjudicators and non-legal party representatives struggling to apply English law to the international sale of soft commodities....

Thirty years ago, Ronald Gilson asked the question, “what do business lawyers really do?” Since that time legal scholars have continued to grapple with that question and the implicit question of how business lawyers add value to their clients. This article revisits the question again but...

The increased cost of litigation has not decreased the number of lawsuits filed each year. Even the economic recession has not helped. The majority of Ugandans probably have been or will be involved in a law suit at some point in their lives. They will be a party to a breach of contract,...