This paper documents the evolution of the Australasian Environmental Law Enforcement and Regulators neTwork (AELERT), through several phases, focussing on both the accomplishments and challenges encountered along the way. Commencing as a national network with five Australian foundation member...

This paper provides a summary of the author’s recent study that assessed the utility of environmental enforcement networks. The study considered fourteen current and active environmental enforcement networks, at the sub-national, national, regional and global levels, from seven countries. The...

As states take on more comprehensive and stricter obligations in multilateral environ-mental agreements (MEAs), increasing focus is being given to the effective implementation of these obligations. In the Kyoto Protocol context, the Marrakesh Accords have established a Compliance Committee with...

This paper discusses and compares the implications of U.S. and E.U. standards for antitrust standing and antitrust injury with respect to private enforcement. In the U.S. these concepts are relatively well defined. In the E.U. they are still subject to a period of interpretation. The comparison...

This article provides an overview of criminal enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Tanzania, its provides for both the policy, legal and institutional framework for Criminal enforcement of IPRs in Tanzania. It provides for an introduction of criminal enforcement of IPRs in General and...

The use of exacted conservation easements is widespread. Yet, the study of the implications of their use has been minimal. Conservation easements are nonpossessory interests in land restricting a landowner’s ability to use her land in an otherwise permissible way, with the goal of yielding a...

Many law enforcement managers and analysts have come to the conclusion that strong action against drug production, distribution and use cannot be successful in eradicating drug markets, and that new strategies and approaches are needed. Consistent with general IDPC drug policy principles, we...

Welcome to the second issue of the IDPC magazine. This series of magazines from IDPC, created in association with TalkingDrugs, will feature personal stories behind the policy debates to give a flavour of how policies affect the real, lived experiences of people on the ground. This second...

This article argues for an economic approach to a widely-debated issue in the international commercial arbitration literature: whether arbitration awards vacated in the arbitral situs should nonetheless be enforceable in other jurisdictions. Under this economic approach, parties should be...

This paper addresses the legitimacy of competing interests involved in the enforcement of covenants not to compete (“noncompetes”). To date, the courts and legislatures have not relied on a principled theoretical framework to identify and assess the competing interests between firms and...