Japan is in the midst of massive law reform. Mired in ongoing recession since the early 1990s, Japan has been implementing a new regulatory blueprint to kickstart a sluggish economy through structural change. A key element to this reform process is a rethink of corporate governance and its...

This contribution contains a reply to Harvard Law School Professor David Kennedy's 2018 Montesquieu Lecture titled ‘Law, Expertise and Global Political Economy', held at Tilburg Law School on March 8, 2018

Multiple shocks have led regulators and policy makers to put increasing faith in the diagnostic and prophylactic powers of international financial standards, but the nature, appropriateness and normative force of such standards varies. As a standard setter, the International Organization of...

As a response to multiple financial shocks, international standards have disappointed. Consensus-seeking has stifled innovation, perpetuating outdated regulatory concepts at a time of rapid market change. Different forces are at work now. Markets are complex and idiosyncratic; they may not be...

Romanian Abstract: Conform datelor publicate de Institutul Internaţional de Studii privind Cupru (I.C.S.C.), producţia mondială de cuprului s-a majorat în anul 2016 cu 2,33%, iar consumul mondial a crescut cu 1,85%. Potrivit acelorași analiştilor din cadrul I.C.S.C., balanţa mondială...

The article analyzes the impact that globalization has had on the ability of government at the national level. To do this, we study carefully how innovative organizational formulas have been subtracted to the governments and, second, the policy options are less due to the sovereign supranational...

Trademarks and certification marks increasingly denote sustainability or social responsibility standards. These marks of rectitude are particularly noticeable in the context of global trade, where market integration is accompanied by relatively uneven integration of environmental, labor and...