Although law and economics is considered to be enjoying significant success and influence in the United States, particularly in American law schools, its reception elsewhere is at most tepid. In this paper, I suggest that this sorry state of affairs is due to the lack of economic literacy skills...

The Arab Spring of 2011 was a series of recent events that are still fresh in many people's recollection. Unlike previous political revolutions, the events which started in Tunisia in late 2010 and continuing to other Arab states in 2011, and other subsequent similar events in Hong Kong and...

Solicitors in West Malaysia shall apply scale rates prescribed in the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 2005 (“SRO”) on legal services involving non-contentious matters. Against this backdrop is the recently enacted Competition Act 2010. In the absence of an explicit exemption by the...

The subject of 'orphan works' and 'abandonware' is gaining legal attention. It concerns the status of copyrighted works which are still within the term of protection but are no longer commercially available to the public.This paper examines the question of orphan works and abandonware from a law...

This article recounts the failed attempt to include and pass a provision on licensing orphan works in the Digital Economy Act 2010 by the British Parliament. It starts by identifying the causes of orphan works and the history behind the orphan works provision of the Digital Economy Bill. It then...

In this paper, I identify the reason for the tepid reception of law and economics scholarship in British academia to the lack of sufficient ability in mathematical and statistical skills among British legal scholars. I offer some evidence of the importance of competency in these economic...

In this paper, an economic analysis of the first copyright Act, the Statute of Anne of 1710, is described. Part I covers the emergence of common law copy-right and the enactment of the Statute of Anne. Part II examines the provisions of the Statute of Anne from a law and economic perspective,...

In this paper, I develop an economic argument for regulating the sending of junk emails, and examine the efficiency of various approaches to regulate junk emails. The first part of the paper develops an externality model of spam to show that in the absence of regulation, junk emails are...