This paper is about a set of interrelated labour law initiatives called quot;supply chain regulation.quot; This set of labour law initiatives signal the progressive transcendence of direct employment as a focus of labour law. Supply chain regulation originated as a response to the exploitation...

This paper takes a snapshot of the role of economy, state and societal culture in shaping society's attitude toward business. It attempts to explore how cultural characteristics of the society may be related to the significance of the role stakeholders play in driving corporate behaviour.The...

Arbitration, though not totally devoid of some inherent legal issues, has come to be recognized as more effective than litigation. The reason for this development could be attributed among other things, to the craving need to get speedy and substantial justice without being hampered by the legal...

Outside the United States, financial regulators have recently focused their attention on whether a financial adviser to a party in a change-of-control transaction (such as a takeover) is obliged to avoid being in positions of conflict with the interests of that party. Because financial advisers...

The 2008 turmoil in the financial markets provided the primary impetus for significant financial reform of U. S. financial service institutions. The profound economic disruption had multiple causal factors, including, in part, the widespread use of privately negotiated over-the-counter...

Since the mid 1960s Italy has concluded bilateral investment treaties (BITs) with almost 100 countries. In the last fifteen years, there have been in excess of twenty (known) international arbitrations brought under Italian BITs. The underlying aim of the chapter is to assess the balance between...

This article focuses on how the Court of Justice of the European Union addressed the question of whether a prohibition on selling contact lenses via the internet constitutes a restriction to the free movement of goods. It will be submitted that the Court's reasoning needlessly conflates the Keck...

This paper examines the role of the General Counsel across Canadian and American comparisons, specifically with reference to Enron, Livent, and Hollinger cases of fraud. The General Counsel has been within a debate concerning their heightened role for disclosure in the American Sarbanes-Oxley...

Following the Jussila and Menarini judgments, it is now entirely clear that Article 6 ECHR, as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights, provides no grounds for abandoning the system in which the European Commission both investigates suspected infringements of the EU antitrust...