survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) identifies the main parameters of ISDS regulation in … domestic procedural frameworks, despite a broad trend toward greater regulation in treaties of parameters of ISDS. Many …, characterized by significantly more thorough ISDS regulation and pioneered by some countries, seems to spread increasingly in …

This paper challenges the idea that globalization should be viewed as a damaging western ideology. Rather than being an … expression of US imperialism, the benign process of globalization is threatened by the unwillingess of the US to maintain its Pax …, whilst simultaneously attempting to legislate the affairs of the world through a form of 'ethical imperialism'. The argument …

the world is going from one crisis to another. Thus one must consider not only the economics of crisis but as well a kind …

’ of a country’s labour market regulation (the Longitudinal Labour Regulation Index), this study compares the evolution of … 1970 to 2005. We assess whether there has been a convergence in the protective strength of labour market regulation between …

It is a well-known and much explored fact that capital market regulation has had a larger share of activity and visible … moveable capital, corporate governance rules came under immense pressure to address the interests of world-wide operating … increasingly incentive-oriented, indirect regulation of corporate governance rules, placed to a large degree within the discretion …

laboratory free space or by self-regulation. It also shows that idiosyncratic national rules would result in legal fragmentation … and deprive the world of the benefit that digital services can provide.The paper suggests therefore that global standards … would be the most adequate solution for the regulation of global services. It proposes to re-conceptualize the FSB and to …