The author argues that one of the major causes of exploitative child labor, the multinational corporation (MNC), may well provide a partial solution to the child labor problem. Under circumstances in which conventional processes and institutions of international law have failed and seem likely...

The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern such data flows remain national or, at best, regional. This mismatch weakens privacy protection, increases costs and uncertainty for business, creates tension and political...

The conventional view of privacy, at least shared among privacy scholars, is that privacy is a rather culture — dependent issue and would be interpreted much differently in various jurisdictions. Though this is pretty true in the pre-digital age, the scenario may have been under considerable...

Although the U.S. Supreme Court first considered the conflict between U.S. discovery rules and foreign non-disclosure law in 1958, a clear standard regarding how to enforce U.S. law against foreign domiciled companies has yet to emerge. As a result of the 2006 ammendments to the U.S. Federal...

The increased expansion of economic activity beyond national borders leads to a shift of regulatory power. Public authorities concede power, explicitly or tacitly, to private bodies, whereas the multilayered ecology of global governance inevitably increases the role of transnational...

The optimal scope of legal harmonization and the desirable patterns of lawmaking vary according to current legal, social and economic conditions. In this paper we specify a positive and testable hypothesis according to which legal systems respond to exogenous changes in the external environment...