The prevailing view of the U.N. system’s approach to organized crime holds that progress in integrating counter-crime initiatives into peace operations established by the U.N. Security Council has been limited, and the U.N. system has taken a cautious approach against organized crime. A more...

This Article contributes to the discussion about the development of international trade regulation of state interventionism by situating the tensions that exist about the future design of subsidies and state enterprises treaty regulation in the broader context of current systemic challenges to...

The Security Council's reaction to the nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) in 2016 through Resolutions 2270 and 2321 have significantly changed the picture of UN sanctions regime against this country and created the most comprehensive,...

The past thirty years have seen unprecedented international initiatives aimed at combatting corrupt practices. The net effect of such initiatives is that today there exists a sort of “hyper-norm” repudiating corruption that transcends national boundaries. Over the same period, Italy has...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgment in the British Airways case has settled the treatment of targeted and loyalty-inducing rebates/commissions confirming the legal test being applied to assess exclusionary unilateral conduct. The timing of the decision, issued after the publication of...

The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical assessment and outline issues in criminal regulation relating to international anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Design/methodology/approach – In the first part, this paper outlines the serious threats posed by transnational laundering...

The purpose of the article is two-fold:1) To provide an outline of the main results of our upcoming book Corruption Economic Analysis and Evolution of the International Law and Institutions, by focusing in particular on the economic findings along with the policies we deem must be widely...