“Extreme” weather has become the new normal. What were previously considered to be inexplicable and unpredictable “acts of God” can no longer reasonably be said to be so. They are acts of man. The established doctrine of contractual impracticability rests on the notion that a party may...

Empirical evidence shows that takeovers are value-maximizing events for target firm shareholders and enhance social efficiency. Takeovers are commonly thought to play a key role in reducing managerial slack in corporate governance through the replacement of inefficient management. Additionally,...

This paper contains four comments that were delivered by a panel on extraterritorial regulation at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. The panelists took as their jumping-off point the 2010 decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, in which the Supreme...

Energy security and energy sovereignty have their national and international dimensions. In the EU Member States, these dimensions are further complemented by the EU perspective. The concept of raw materials and energy security, as currently proclaimed by a number of states, is probably too...

As the strategic economic partner of the Southern Mediterranean (MEDA) region, the European Union (EU) seeks to promote effective mechanisms of development through increased industrial cooperation in order to create a Euro-Mediterranean area of shared prosperity. The first Euro-Mediterranean...

Twice in thirty years, the “mad scramble to the U.S. Courts for immediate attachments …” seemingly characteristic of cross-border cases prompted a legislative fix to this nation’s federal restructuring system, with territorialism giving way to progressively more pronounced...

The standard account of corporate human rights accountability assumes that corporate entities, rather than individual corporate officers or employees, are the optimal targets of regulatory litigation. This assumption has led human rights advocates to despair over recent court decisions that make...

The U.S. in the recent United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and U.S.-Japan Digital Trade Agreement adopts a new clause which mirrors Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, shielding online intermediaries from third-party contents liability. For policymakers, the seemingly...

This article analyzes the different legal concepts of “seat” and “registered office” in Cyprus company law. The distinction between the concepts of “seat” and “registered office” in Cyprus company law is very important for the definition of corporate investor in respect of the...

In some countries an IP owner’s attempts to defend or enforce its IP rights in a conventional way may face difficulties, particularly if the country’s judiciary is not able to effectively render justice since it lacks the necessary resources, if the courts are subject to interventions by the...