The Report of the Working Party on Charities and Sporting Bodies recommended the establishment of a Commission for Charities in New Zealand, but at the same time concluded that no change should be made to the legal meaning of "charitable". This article is an assessment of these recommendations

Athletes always want more money, they all believe they deserve a bigger check and the athletes of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (“UFC”) are no different. Fighters of the most prominent mixed marital arts (MMA) promotion, the UFC, feel as though they are not being compensated adequately....

Human choice is a foundational part of our social, economic and political institutions. This focus is about to be significantly challenged. Technological advances in data collection, data science, artificial intelligence, and communications systems are ushering in a new era in which digital...

Technical standard setting, though conducted largely through private organizations, possesses many attributes of a public function. By and large, SDO policies operate effectively to enable competitors to collaborate to develop standards that produce network effects and yield significant social...

French Abstract: Le présent article se propose de réfléchir aux leçons que la Commission européenne devrait tirer, en matière de contrôle des opérations de concentration, de la crise financière et économique des années 2008 et suivantes

Antitrust enforcement regimes rely on two types of penalties for deterrence: penalties against the violating firm and penalties against the agents of the violating firm. In this paper I examine the economics of punishing agents versus firms. My area of application is antitrust, but the argument...

In European Union ("EU") competition law, the supply policy of a dominant input provider can be deemed unlawful, if his wholesale and retail price-mix forces rival input purchasers to compete at a loss on the downstream market. This is known as an abusive "margin squeeze". Whilst this stands to...

Much of the recent history of intellectual property has been a move from status to contract, resulting in an unchecked expansion of controls over knowledge beyond the boundaries once drawn in IP law. When employers introduce these contractual arrangements as standard HR provisions, they are...