The European Commission has been working to promote reform and modernisation of restrictive regulation in the professional services area since 2002. This underlines wide disparities in levels of regulation across the EU and reveals links between excessive regulation and economic inefficiency....

In his article, The Corporate/Securities Attorney as a Moving Target - Client Fraud Dilemmas, Marc Steinberg does an outstanding job of identifying the complex and significant ethical issues currently confronting securities lawyers. In this article, I attempt to explore the important legal and...

The increased cost of litigation has not decreased the number of lawsuits filed each year. Even the economic recession has not helped. The majority of Ugandans probably have been or will be involved in a law suit at some point in their lives. They will be a party to a breach of contract,...

Thirty years ago, Ronald Gilson asked the question, “what do business lawyers really do?” Since that time legal scholars have continued to grapple with that question and the implicit question of how business lawyers add value to their clients. This article revisits the question again but...

For a long time, soft commodity arbitration has been portrayed as over-simplistic and possibly archaic. Critical observations have traditionally focused on non-legal adjudicators and non-legal party representatives struggling to apply English law to the international sale of soft commodities....

In this essay we make two major claims. The first is that public legislatures should think seriously about giving maximum effect to the principle of freedom of contract in company law. This would not only give corporate lawyers the tool they need to provide legal services that match the needs of...