The proliferation of rules aimed at the management of cross-border insolvencies has not been coupled with sufficient attention to the choice of law rules relating to the avoidance of antecedent transactions as legal acts detrimental to all the creditors. This article is the first of its kind in...

This article argues that the enforcement in England in Re New Cap Reinsurance Corporation of an Australian monetary judgment rendered under Australian insolvency law does not sit easily with the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933. This is because the Foreign Judgments...

Commercial law is not a single, monolithic entity. It has grown into a dense thicket of subject-specific branches that govern a broad range of transactions and corporate actions. When one of these events falls concurrently within the purview of two or more of these commercial law branches - such...

As is typical of a Breyer opinion, Unicolors v. H&M—the only IP decision this Term—illuminates the distinction between mistakes of fact and of law and explains the reasoning by virtue of a brief hypothetical. Imagine someone (named John) who sees a flash of red in a tree and blurts out,...

The article deals with class actions against banks and credit card companies under Israeli Law.The article criticizes the conservative approach of the courts and their reluctance to certify the submission of class actions. The courts interpret the conditions set forth in the Law with excessive...

This article serves to introduce an aspect of current research related to the review of the Seychelles Civil Code and the important question of the role of trusts. The Civil Code is based on the Code Napoléon and has therefore no provision for the trust of English law. The Courts of Seychelles...

This Article is the first comprehensive study of how American courts have resolved conflicts of laws arising from cross-border torts over the last four decades. This period coincides with the confluence of two independent forces: (1) a dramatic increase in the frequency and complexity of...

The evolution of the law concerning a trustee’s powers and a third party’s liability for participating in a breach of trust generally supports efficiency in the law. The standard of liability for third parties participating in a breach of trust, as set forth in the recently adopted Uniform...

This chapter offers legal scholars a brief introductory survey of modern happiness research. This chapter analyzes how happiness research can inform legal policy. This chapter explains how and why happiness research differs from and is related to behavioral economics. This chapter develops two...

A tentative explanation of arbitration law might begin with recognition of the tension between two sets of expectations. First, courts should give effect to arbitration commitments obtained through informed consent. Second, judges must monitor arbitration's basic procedural integrity, which...