Brazil is one of the world's largest emerging markets, with many opportunities for development. Persuading financiers to commit funds to Brazilian firms requires effective corporate and securities laws to facilitate ‘arm's length' contracting. Enforcement of these laws is problematic....

This chapter provides an overview of the contract law system in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The central theme of this chapter is that while the black letter contract law has indicated a trend of convergence moving towards some basic norms which appear in other countries' contract laws...

The Anti-trafficking Protocol reflects the interests of the major powers. Due to the high costs of compliance, countries will strategically select certain obligations, which will satisfy the major powers most efficiently with lower costs of compliance. Among the three main obligations of the...

This article surveys insider trading enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States in the five-year period from 2009 to 2013. We first introduce the legal framework in which securities laws are enforced in the United States and then focus our...

As the process of internalization keeps growing, so does the importance of cross-border situations and their correct tax evaluation. One key factor of this is the tax cooperation, which the authors of this paper confront from an European and an International point of view. At first, the legal...

The majority of the work necessary to advance the Rule of Law in China is yet to be done. This is particularly the case as it relates to deterring accidents and compensating injuries. The Rule of Law is concerned with much more than the substantive terms of legal provisions. As such, China must...

This paper studies the causal impact of court deferrals, a legal strategy to help defendants avoid a felony conviction record, on the future criminal and labor market outcomes of first-time felony drug offenders. To accomplish this, we exploit two natural experiments in Harris County, Texas, in...

U.S. immigration control is typically understood in terms of enforcement practices undertaken by federal officers guided by legislation and court decisions. While legislation and court opinions are important components of the immigration control apparatus, they do not adequately account for...

The Trump Administration might follow Donald Trump's populist campaign rhetoric and adopt an approach to antitrust enforcement that emphasizes reining in corporate power. This approach would honor the preferences of the working-class voters who have put Trump into office by vigorously enforcing...