In the post-British Raj Era, two hallmarks characterize Indian banking law: financial inclusion and financial liberalization. Indian banking law and policy has emphasized incorporation of the unbanked and under-banked as part of an overall development strategy to alleviate poverty. This emphasis...

India's first generation external sector reforms are a fascinating case study of emergence from a post-Independence socialist-style economy to the world's largest free market democracy. Part I of this article reviews the Indian license Raj system that prevailed after the 1947 Partition of India...

Not even the most farsighted policymaker in Moscow could have foreseen that Russia would go from a resource-rich, middle-income country, well-integrated into the world trading system, following its August 2012 World Trade Organization (WTO) accession, to the most heavily sanctioned nation on...

Well-travelled international law teachers, students, and practitioners know there are a few countries that defy mastery. Repeated trips to such countries across decades, and still the sense of wonder, indeed inscrutability, prevails. At or near the top of this short list of countries that...