Empirical evidence about the influence of exposure to public spaces on victimization strongly support the routine activities theory but, maybe reflecting the difficult of available data, specific evidence about the influence of the commuting on probability of victimization is not abundant. As...

Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. We study how business groups can substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. In a two period model, there is no contract enforcement in the first period. The firms within the...

This article assesses the operation of the Financial Collateral Arrangements (No.2) Regulations 2003 (FCAR), as amended by the Financial Markets and Insolvency (Settlement Finality and Financial Collateral Arrangements) (Amendment) Regulations 2010. It will be seen that the FCAR has achieved...

This paper considers the factors the allowed for the birth and facilitated the subsequent development of the equity side and the finance (or debt) side of the Islamic capital markets. The equity side of the Islamic capital markets began in 1998 with the issuance (after five years of debate) of a...

A general principle of legal ethics is that a law firm may not represent a client suing someone who is also a client of the law firm (1) even though the two matters are unrelated, (2) a different law firm represents the client in that law suit, and (3) there is no risk that the lawyer would...

Article III of the Constitution grants federal district judges, appellate court judges, and Supreme Court Justices important constitutional protections (lifetime tenure and no salary diminution) to guarantee their independence. However, the Supreme Court has allowed Congress to create, under...

This article was the Kirby lecture presented in March 2009 at the Southern Cross University in Sydney, Australia. Adrien Wing's keynote speech was in support of Australian retired Justice Michael Kirby's legacy that national courts can and should gain strength from international law. The author...

President Obama stated during his presidential campaign: “Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people.” The situation for all Gazans remains dire. Adrien Wing and Samuel Nielson advocate for gender issues not to be left out of whatever developments do occur. When a general project...

In this contribution to a symposium sponsored by the Kansas Law Review, I examine the path from the Iowa Supreme Court's 2009 ruling in Varnum v. Brien (in which the court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage) to the ouster of three of the court's seven justices in Iowa's 2010...

This essay discusses why the increase in high-profile, high-fees chapter 11 bankruptcy cases creates some real public relations problems for bankruptcy professionals and what those professionals might do to avert a backlash in the media and in the public opinion of lawyers