This paper analyses the role of the convergence of national corporate governance codes affecting listed public limited companies within the EU member states. It assesses this process against the need for protection of stakeholders and public interests. The first chapter looks to company...

The argument that environmental standards must be harmonized among countries involved in free trade in order to ensure a quot;level playing fieldquot; has been prominent in the recent political discourse surrounding globalization and the expansion of international trade. Among academic...

If charity begins at home, scholarship on the charitable deduction has stayed at home. In the vast legal literature, few authors have engaged the distinction between charitable contributions that are meant to be used within the United States and charitable contributions that are meant to be used...

This essay address the Israeli Supreme Court decision holding that the use of physical force by the General Security Service (GSS) in the course of its interrogations of terror suspects was unauthorized by Israeli law. The Court ruled that, in the absence of explicit enabling legislation, the...

In the war against terrorism, a democratic state has the duty and the right to protect its citizens. In June 2002, the Israeli government has decided to erect a security fence in order to prevent terrorist infiltration from the Palestinian territories into Israel's territory. However, the chosen...

Current rules in most U.S. jurisdictions prohibit judges from becoming involved in plea negotiations and limit the judges' role to reviewing a plea bargain once it is presented by the parties. The enclosed article surveys three systems that provide for more significant judicial involvement -...