The delegation of more and more soft regulatory powers to EU agencies occurs in an increasing number of policy areas, e.g. aviation, medicines and financial services. Although the growing scope of the delegation of public authority to agencies is said to be necessary to enhance the effectiveness...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) defines money laundering as the processing of criminal proceeds to disguise their illegal origin. This process is of critical importance, as it enables the criminal to enjoy these profits without jeopardising their source. In the same line of thought, the...

This study aims, first, at identifying data protection shortcomings in the inter-agency cooperation regime in the EU criminal justice and law enforcement area and, second, at outlining, under six possible scenarios, the interplay among the data protection legal instruments in the law-making...

How does making law through private lawsuits differ from making law by other means? That question is especially important where legislators deputize “private attorneys general” as statutory enforcers, from antitrust and securities to civil rights and consumer protection. Yet legal scholars...

No one played a more vital role responding to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression than a small band of state attorneys general (AGs). Yet this story has never been told nor its implications considered. For more than a decade these AGs brought enforcement actions across the...

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...

This is a submission to an Australian Senate review of the law around gun control in Australia. The particular focus of this submission is on 3D printed weapons and the effective enforcement of law. An introduction to 3D printing is given for non-experts, along with the 3D printing ecosystem...

At this stage in the development of EU integration, problems emanating from the “crisis of values” and the poor enforceability of Article 2 TEU have come to the fore in Hungary and elsewhere. The Union is apparently powerless to ensure that it is indeed composed of democratic states based on...

This note places the Florida Supreme Court's Jackson v. Shakespeare Foundation, Inc. decision in the context of federal and state law and makes an attempt to explain why the court was compelled to issue a ruling that, at least on the surface, would appear to many to be “unfair.” This note...