The recently published Media Piracy in Emerging Economies report includes a detailed consideration of the conflict between the regulatory approach of strengthening IP regulations and enforcement, and the establishing of new business models in order to take advantage of efficient digital...

This paper outlines key innovations of the new Russian Hunting Act, compares it with biodiversity MEAs, Russian laws and makes some theoretical, methodological and practical assumptions about problems of enforcement of inconsistent national legislation

In July 2009 the Australian Parliament passed legislation criminalising cartel conduct and introducing jail penalties for individuals who engage in cartel behaviour. The rhetoric justifying criminalisation assumes that compliance can be induced through the mechanism of deterrence. This in turn...

In recent years, as Congress has created new intellectual property (IP) rights and courts have often interpreted those rights broadly, legal scholars have frequently decried the expanded scope of protection afforded IP owners in most substantive areas of IP law. According to this critique, the...

Until the seventeenth century, the Ottomans used fines extensively for law enforcement and employed agents to collect the fines. Fines can be costly to implement because of agency problems and corruption. To solve the problem of corruption, the Ottomans implemented a variety of mechanisms,...

In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that China’s rapid economic development has come at a significant environmental cost. Pollution problems are now a source of serious public concern, at times even social unrest. The government has responded with an ambitious reform program that...

The past several years have seen an evolution in the obligations of pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials abroad. Key players, such as international human rights organizations, multinational pharmaceutical companies, the United States government and courts, and the media, have...

Virtually on the eve of Chinese New Year – on February 1, 2011 – five brand-new regulations implementing the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) came into effect. The regulations were enacted by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce...

This article examines P2P file sharing and the copyright enforcement problem it has created through the lens of scalability. Writing about the growth and governance of the Internet, David Post observed that "scaling problems - the problems that arise solely as a consequence of increasing size or...

This article presents the main difficulties surrounding private enforcement of antitrust law in Poland, currently the key implementation problem in the field of antitrust law. Whereas the basic standards concerning the public pillar of antitrust enforcement have already been established, either...