The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is a thirty-six member intergovernmental organization whose mission is to fight money laundering and terrorism financing; the U.S. is a founding member of the FATF. The FATF is best known for its 40 plus 9 Recommendations, many of which are directed towards...

This note, which was prepared for ASIL's International Legal Materials, introduces and places in context the September 2010 European Court of Justice case known as Akzo Nobel. Akzo Nobel involves the intersection of competition (antitrust) law and lawyer regulation. In 1982, the European Court...

The Revised GATS Handbook updates the Handbook that was published ten years ago by the International Bar Association (IBA). The goal of the revised Handbook is to enable IBA Member Bars to understand their jurisdiction's current GATS obligations and to enable them to meaningfully engage with...

During two historic days in Paris in November of 1998, representatives from around the world joined together to discuss the transnational practice of law. The Paris Forum on Transnational Practice for the Legal Profession was historic because it was the first meeting of multiple bar associations...

One of the most significant regulatory developments for legal services is their inclusion in the 1994 General Agreement on Trade in Services or GATS. The GATS was the first world trade agreement to cover services rather than goods and it applies to legal services. The GATS in Limerick is a...

This Article reviews the influence of comparative law during the past 100 years on the field of U.S. legal ethics. It begins by defining the field of legal ethics and then divides the last 100 years into three distinct comparative legal ethics eras. The first era consists of the time period...

More than two hundred countries in the world have agreed to abide by the anti-money laundering (“AML”) recommendations developed by the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”), which is an intergovernmental organization. This Article focuses on the potential impact on the legal profession...

When considering the proper scope of the U.S. legal profession's monopoly, regulators and commentators may find it useful to compare the scope of the U.S. monopoly with the legal profession monopolies found in other countries. This Article surveys what we know — and do not know — about the...

This article was written for a symposium on quot;Teaching Legal Ethicsquot; and discusses how to incorporate global and comparative perspectives into the required Professional Responsibility course. The scope of the paper is much broader, however. The first half of the paper explains why global...