This paper examines the role of courts in promoting fulfillment of the right to education in developing countries, focusing on India and Indonesia?two countries that have experienced increased education rights litigation in recent years. It argues that this litigation has been part of broader...

Every year, across the country, the federal and state governments spend about $259 million on Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs); these agencies conduct investigations that recover almost $1.8 billion in inappropriate Medicaid spending, returning $7 for every $1 spent. We study the effects of...

Over the past few decades, landowners have tried to use the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to fully privatize the upper, dry-sand part of the beach. If these efforts were to succeed, there would be a host of negative consequences, and not just for surfers. In most of the states in which...

For centuries, defaulting governments were immune from legal action by foreign creditors. This paper shows that this is no longer the case. Building a dataset covering four decades, we find that creditor lawsuits have become an increasingly common feature of sovereign debt markets. The legal...

The chapter begins with a brief discussion of the distinctive features of policing and prosecuting the money laundering offence. It then outlines the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s international standards on money laundering and its method of mutual evaluation, particularly after the...

In many historical episodes, the extent of criminal activity has displayed booms and busts. One very clear example is the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of metal thefts in the UK (and elsewhere) rose very sharply...

The United States free trade agreements with other North and Central American countries contain provisions allowing citizen submissions that may be a useful tool for advocates seeking to improve enforcement of U.S. environmental laws. The Dominican Republic-Central America-U.S. Free Trade...

The use of behavioural science interventions, and particularly social norms, in tax compliance has become a growth industry for scholars and practitioners alike in recent years. However, these interventions largely represent a 'black box', where effects could be explained by a pro-social desire...

This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the nature of an optimal emissions tax when firms' emissions are not perfectly observable, specifically in two types of market structure: perfect competition and Cournot competition with and without free market entry. The purpose is to examine how...