Because we live in a world of national laws and international business activity, the regulation of a single transaction can be affected by several different legal regimes. Within domestic systems, even if sub-units such as the states of the United States exist, there is a central government...

In this Essay, Andrew Guzman proposes internationalization of antitrust law to supplant current methods of antitrust regulation across national borders. Specifically, instead of relying on local regulation, bilateral agreements between states, or a choice-of-law rule for antitrust enforcement,...

This Article analyzes the economic incentives countries face in selecting an antitrust policy. It demonstrates that, in the presence of international trade, antitrust policies chosen by national government will generally not lead to an outcome that is desirable from an international perspective

The capital markets within the United States are among the largest in the world. Today, the combined volume of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Nasdaq market system reaches approximately $ 4 trillion dollars annually. 1 With the size of the U.S. markets has...

The climate change debate in the United States has now moved beyond arguments about whether climate change is real and man-made to focus on what the country should do about this threat. In this excerpt of an Article published in the Columbia Law Review, we take on and debunk the “climate...

The question of expropriation is at the heart of modern foreign investment law, yet remains an area of great uncertainty and ambiguity. Neither treaty law nor existing jurisprudence provides clarity on the questions of when government action amounts to an expropriation or what to do if does.This...

Over the past forty-five years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important international legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign direct investment. Their proliferation over the past two decades in particular has been phenomenal. These...

Over the past forty-five years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important international legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign direct investment. Their proliferation over the past two decades in particular has been phenomenal. These...

American Lawyers are generally paid through either contingent fees or hourly fees. Under an hourly fee arrangement, the lawyer is paid a fixed dollar amount for each hour spent on the case. A contingent fee arrangement, on the other hand pays the lawyer a percentage of the final award of the...

The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) aims to find the right equilibrium between safeguarding each Member's interest in protecting its domestic market from products that threaten the life or health of humans, animals or plants and ensuring that these threats are...