In the past decade, China has made considerable progress in legislating new legal protections for workers, expanding access to arbitration and courts, and expanding the government-operated legal aid system. But how do they fare in this process? Are they able to find legal representation? This...

This chapter presents the main strategies towards greater enforcement of the Brazilian Competition Law. It focuses on the two major problems faced by Brazilian competition authorities: (a) merger review, and (b) dissemination of competition values among the judiciary, public prosecutors, and...

In order to begin developing a base of paying licensees in the context of widespread infringement, IP owners must sometimes significantly discount licensing terms in their early negotiations – with a view that successful licenses, even at a relatively low price, will deliver value by...

In Estonia, since 2001 the function of the enforcement of public law claims, such as fines or taxes, has been transferred to freelance bailiffs. The intention was to create profit motives for private enforcers to increase the effectiveness of the enforcement system. In this paper it is shown...

This paper directs the ‘visual turn' in criminology to corporate crime, a topic that has been understudied by cultural criminologists. A recent trend of white collar crime movies suggests that film can compellingly critique economic crime and unethical business cultures. This paper studies how...

In this article we trace the expansion of interior immigration enforcement measures since the 1990s, focusing on the period after the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003. We consider the rationale for the escalation of enforcement during this period, as well as the...

The paper explores the sources of law used by international law-enforcing bodies, thus informing our prophecies about their output. It discusses the practice of international and domestic bodies, who claim to enforce international law, or can be plausibly described as doing just so, and...

The article discusses the overlooked aspect of piercing the corporate veil, namely, the enforcement of subsidiary's judgment debt against parent company through piercing the corporate veil (“Enforcement Piercing”). Through empirical research of 1,044 piercing cases in the U.S. during a...

Can court decisions affect electoral behavior? Can they enhance electoral accountability by signaling to voters that integrity considerations are important? In this paper we utilize a unique political-legal situation that emerged in 2013 shortly before the municipal elections in Israel. Then,...