State-owned enterprises have long constituted, and are likely to remain, an important instrument in any government's toolbox for a variety of economic and societal goals. However, the significant extent of state ownership among the world's top companies, and the quantitative and qualitative...

The paper has a two-fold aim: first, it accounts for the legal grounds and evolution of the regulations regarding the mechanisms of international restitution of proceeds from illicit activity. Secondly, it illustrates the main challenges international asset recovery faces and possible solutions...

The present study explores the complex and still evolving international legal framework aiming at contrasting the global threats to security represented by terrorist financing, money laundering and financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It starts noting that the pivotal...

The prevailing view among legal scholars over the last decade is that international financial collaboration is a resolutely cooperative venture that cannot be reduced to the interests or relative power of individual states. Moving along this line, the book under review shows that the protection...

The past thirty years have seen unprecedented international initiatives aimed at combatting corrupt practices. The net effect of such initiatives is that today there exists a sort of “hyper-norm” repudiating corruption that transcends national boundaries. Over the same period, Italy has...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment in the British Airways case has settled the treatment of targeted and loyalty-inducing rebates/commissions confirming the legal test being applied to assess exclusionary unilateral conduct. The timing of the decision, issued after the publication of...

The prevailing view of the U.N. system’s approach to organized crime holds that progress in integrating counter-crime initiatives into peace operations established by the U.N. Security Council has been limited, and the U.N. system has taken a cautious approach against organized crime. A more...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...