Der britische BBC-Korrespondent Misha Glenny stellte jahrelang weltweit Recherchen in der kriminellen Unterwelt an und traf überall auf Verflechtungen zwischen Politik, Wirtschaft und organisiertem Verbrechen. (Verlagstext)

La version française de cet article peut être consultée à: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2022359 This briefing paper provides an overview of the existing European Union approach to issues of security, counter-terrorism, and organised crime. In particular, it focuses on the role of the European...

This paper discusses intellectual property theft in the context of President Obama's National Security Council’s Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime and Executive Order 13581. The paper's focus is on understanding how the counterfeiting of industrial and consumer goods harms...

The attached article argues that the conception of lawyers' independence invoked by commentators in the wake of disasters such as Enron is too amorphous a concept to inform analysis. Instead, this article views legal practice as a dialectic between branding and gatekeeping. All lawyers seek to...

The risks of terrorism and of organised crime depend on the actual and potential diffusion of the Lax Financial Regulation (LFR) countries. The LFR country is a jurisdiction in which the features of the financial regulation increase the probability to offer money laundering services, utilised by...

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of corruption in the public sector in a large number of...