Undergraduate business law courses typically utilize traditional textbooks organized by topic. Individual chapters address the usual topics including contracts, torts, the court system and ethics. An innovative approach to facilitating a business law course involves segregating sections of the...

This is an attempt to introduce lawyers trained in the civil law tradition about the unique features of the common law and equity traditions that influence American business entity law. The approach is historical, and traces the development of equitable ownership and equitable duties to the 14th...

Multiple, overlapping, and systemically interactive normative orders regulate commerce, trade, and finance. A diverse set of state and non-state actors produce this plurality of rules governing markets. How these rules operate, what they are, whether some of them deserve recognition as what...

Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

A worthy reader of the JIBM suggested us to give glossary of the technical terms at the end of the each Issue of the JIBM. Keeping in view the potential benefit of such a glossary for easy and general understanding of various aspects of Islamic banking and finance, a comprehensive glossary of...

In my experience as an expert witness for a number of excellent litigators, I find that litigators know the Rules of Civil Procedure, the Local Rules, the Rules of Evidence, and the personalities of the judges extremely well. I find that in business issues, litigators tend to use terms like...

If Canadian corporate statutes include rules providing that a corporation and its shareholders are separate legal persons, what lets courts disregard these rules by piercing the corporate veil? The Court of Appeal for Ontario’s Chevron decision brought this question into the judicial...