The debate on the institutional reform and governance of the WTO has now been underway for over fifteen years. In the context of a Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations stumbling forward in fits and starts, the most prominent focus of discussions of WTO reform has been options for...

Are we witnessing the gradual globalization of national land laws, which have traditionally been considered to be the paradigm of legal idiosyncrasy, by virtue of their reflecting place-specific society, culture, and politics? This Article offers an innovative analysis of the conflicting forces...

This article proposes a conceptual foundation for the field of international tax law. The article refers to this foundation as the institutional competence of nations in global economic development. A nation's institutional competence is its discretion to make decisions in pursuit of our...

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...

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over trade liberalization concerns whether, and how, labor rights provisions should be incorporated into free trade agreements (FTAs). The predominant approach to crafting these provisions has been what might be termed a State Action-State...

This paper is a comparative study of the independent inspection mechanisms in international financial institutions. These mechanisms, which are an important development in the accountability of international organizations, allow private complainants who believe that they have been harmed or...

As emerging market businesses increasingly seek credit through United States and other international financial markets, hedge funds and other market players more actively trade claims to their debt. Such creditors accordingly confront in greater measure the disconnect between the integrity,...

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

The paper describes the legal and regulatory mechanism in the United States pursuant to which generic versions of patented medicines may be approved for marketing by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The paper makes two basic points: (1) the system works reasonably well for the United...