Observers of the international investment law (IIL) system regularly complain about the system’s lack of transparency and accountability. Major reform efforts, both past and present, inevitably turn to “more transparency” as a solution to the system’s problems. But what does transparency...

Authoritarian leaders frequently send mixed messages about law. While official rhetoric typically emphasizes obeying law, leaders have proven willing to sidestep the law when it proves inconvenient. We explore the impact of this duality on the attitudes of Russian citizens, drawing on three...

In a variety of contexts, taxpayers can file tax elections that dictate their tax treatment. After filing or not filing a given tax election, a taxpayer might later feel regret. Perhaps the taxpayer lacks adequate information about the election's existence or tax effects at the time the taxpayer...

In June of 2021, a group of agricultural economists delivered a set of papers concerning the market for beef cattle. This project undertaken at the request of the House Agriculture Committee and paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture was intended to address the major marketing issues...

Critics of plea bargaining have long contended that it has an innocence problem - that the imbalanced and coercive nature of plea negotiations can induce even innocent defendants to plead guilty. While laboratory studies confirm that innocent individuals can indeed be induced to plead guilty,...

It is impossible to effectively analyze public policy without considering the decision-making processes that will define and implement public policy and, more importantly, the choice of which of these decision-makers will decide what issues. Or so I have argued for over 50 years. I have referred...

Article I, section 8, Clause 1 enumerates a power "to provide for the common defense and general welfare." Conventional constitutional doctrine interprets this language"called the General Welfare Clause in this article"as conferring "The Spending Power," a power to spend, but not to regulate,...

This paper is about four courses developed by faculty of the Wisconsin Law School from about 1950-1970 that reflected the law-in-action instructional goals of American legal realism: Legal history by Willard Hurst; Criminal Justice Administration by Frank Remington, Herman Goldstein and...

This research discusses the Sovereign Wealth Funds phenomena in Iraq as well as their types and sources. It first explains the concept of Sovereign Wealth Funds and some main characteristics of them. In addition, it attempts to answer the question of whether Iraq has Sovereign Wealth Funds, and...

In recent years investor-state arbitration has become ubiquitous. Foreign investors who believe the states hosting their investments have violated their rights under international law routinely sue those states before international tribunals. Most investment law experts would probably identify...