This case study analyzes the reasons for failures by Credit Suisse banking advisors prior to the recent financial crisis and attempts to develop a strategy for international law that will dis-incentivize advisors from failing, thereby averting consumer losses in the future.The paper does not...

The article will show what is meant by the concept of evidence and means of evidence in terms of the Tax Procedure Code, and also in terms of the legal doctrine.In the fiscal procedural law the concept of evidence is used in a narrow sense. Therefore, the notion of evidence is the legal means...

The protracted international dispute on currency manipulation has exposed the weakness of the contemporary international economic law framework in regulating the sovereign intervention on foreign exchange rate. The legal mandate of the WTO on currency manipulation remains questionable and the...

The influence of NGOs in international development policy and practice has grown exponentially since the end of the Cold War. These NGOs' agendas now compete with donor states' in setting the priorities for international development assistance. Indeed, many NGOs now claim that the legitimacy of...

Environmental justice is a notion coined in the U.S. in an attempt to protect the environments of minorities whose neighbourhoods had been used to store hazardous waste. Attempts have been made to evolve this concept on a global scale to protect the environments of periphery nations around the...

Among international organizations, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is widely credited with having the most effective dispute settlement system. Its highly developed dispute settlement system, which is one of the few in international law to include a standing appellate body, invites...

This book offers a detailed account of how the Chinese real estate market actually operates in practice, from both legal and business perspectives. My goals are twofold. First, I seek to establish and describe how the Chinese real estate market, with so few written laws, actually functions. How...

Throughout the 20th century, the culture and trade debate evolved in parallel with the emergence of related concepts, such as cultural industries, cultural specificity, and cultural diversity. Traditionally, the dominant regulatory method in approaching the relationship between cultural...

Recently, in CIBC World Markets Inc. v. R. (“CIBC case”), the Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada (“TCC”) was faced with an issue that was novel to Canada's consumption tax jurisprudence. Can a GST registrant retrospectively change its method for allocating input taxes between its...