Organized crime can endanger the security of any country, but particularly those with fragile democracies that lack experience effectively managing it. Such crime is a considerable threat to the security of every country in the Balkans, to the region in general and specifically to Kosovo. Events...

The attached article argues that the conception of lawyers' independence invoked by commentators in the wake of disasters such as Enron is too amorphous a concept to inform analysis. Instead, this article views legal practice as a dialectic between branding and gatekeeping. All lawyers seek to...

Wie sehr bedroht das organisierte Verbrechen Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft? Wirtschaftskriminalität und Organisierte Kriminalität sind die Bereiche, die den größten "Profit" für die Täter bringen. Kaum jemanden ist bewusst, dass nach den Kriminalstatistiken diese Fälle zwar nur 5 % der...

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of corruption in the public sector in a large number of...