Since the 1970s there has been an explosion of regulatory efforts that have arisen, both within and beyond law, the object of which is to manage MNEs. The MNE itself has also exploded as body on which law can be imposed. It very much retains its identity as an object ("the enterprise") of...

This contribution explores the growing interest in transnational corporate accountability, arising out of the need to build trust in corporations. Emerging cultures of accountability and compliance, among other things, has driven the digitalization of corporate governance and the emergence of a...

Under what circumstances might a state be subject to liability for the conduct of its state owned enterprises (SOEs)? That question, always controversial but apparently settled by the end of the last century, has once again become important as the old conceptual categories for liability have...

This article considers the ramifications of current efforts to internationalize the regulation of corporate social responsibility. The primary focus will be on current United Nations efforts to regulate transnational corporations through the development of its Norms on the Responsibilities of...

Sooner or later, Cuba will have to engage with globalization. This article considers whether it will be possible Cuba to remain true to its Marxist-Leninist principles of political and economic organization, and simultaneously embrace the emerging system of economic globalization. China appears...

This essay considers the emergence of data driven analytics and the algorithmic techniques of imposing consequences (some of it machine driven (artificial intelligence (AI) based) as defining not just new modalities of governance but reshaping the conception of spatiality within which entangled...

Lawyers are moral actors deeply embedded in the social and political orders to the principles of which they owe a high degree of fidelity. A lawyer's ethical obligations are grounded in that basic fidelity and they may advance their client's interests only consistent with this higher duty. Thus,...