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Blinded by ‘Fairness’: Why We Need (Strong) Procedural Safeguards in Screening Self-Dealing and Obtaining a Fair Price Is Not the Answer
Ex post court review of related party transactions (RPTs) is one of the main mechanisms to deal with the problem of value diversion in public...
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Inward FDI Regulation in the UK: Closing the “Open Door”?
In recent years, the UK has undergone major shifts in its international economic policy that challenge its traditional commitment to an “open door”...
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Foreign Central Banks and Immunity from Execution: Too Sovereign to Be Attached?
Foreign central banks traditionally enjoy a broad immunity from enforcement measures within the wider framework of immunity from execution granted to...
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The Possibility of a Uniform Legal Language at the Interplay of Legal Discourse, Semiotics and Blockchain Networks
This paper explores the possibility of a standard legal language (e.g. English) for a principled evolution of law in line with technological...
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Targeted Sanctions and Deterrence in the Twenty-first Century
The use of sanctions is often associated with coercion and deterrence. The former implies that sanctions contribute to changing the behaviour of...
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China’s Securities Market and Anti-Securities-Fraud “Law on the Book”
By the end of September 2021, China had more than 4500 listed companies in its two stock exchanges, and the market capitalization reached nearly 87...
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Sanctions on Russia: What Impact Do They Have on the Question of “Third-Party Countermeasures”?
The purpose of this chapter is to examine whether the sanctions on Russia may contribute to creating the rule of “third-party countermeasures” under...
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A Mechanism for the Coordination of Cross-Border Enforcement
IOSCO’s enforcement strategy is to support cross-border enforcement cooperation among its Members when they face transboundary enforcement cases. In...
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Enforcing the ‘Community Interest’ in Combating Transnational Crimes: The Potential for Public Interest Litigation
Transnational criminal law treaties could give rise to public interest litigation concerning the breach of an obligation erga omnes partes , meaning...
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Oracle of Delphi: How China’s Judiciary Divines the Notion of ‘Financial Security’?
In the past few years, the term financial security has been increasingly referred to by politicians in China’s public discourse. This term was meant...
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Peculiarities of the Art Market
This chapter explores the plethora of the peculiarities and characteristics that relate to the art market’s functioning and operation. For this...
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Hong Kong, the Virus and Illiberalism: Between Flattening the Curve and an Authoritarian Slide?
Can the pandemic measures be used to advance particular political means? The question of correlation between illiberal legal changes adopted amongst...
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The Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice Between Utilitas Publica and Utilitas Singulorum (1947–1962)
All legal orders know of a fundamental distinction between the interests of society as a whole on the one side (utilitas publica) and the interests...
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Assay-ssination
Jewellery is a provocative object which has a particular criminal allure due to several inherent qualities. As a commodity, the high value, portable,...
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International Humanitarian Law: Ad Hoc Compliance/Non-compliance Control Through Ex Post Measures
International law prohibits the use of chemical weapons. The compliance/non-compliance control is focused on how to deal with potential and actual...
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Enforcement Against Movable Property in Germany
After a long discussion, the German legislator reformed the law of enforcement in movable property in 2013. A main point of the reform was to...
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Regulating the Technology (Placement)
This chapter examines the placement phase of MLFT. This chapter starts in Sect. 5.2 by examining the definition of virtual wallets under the EU...
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The Politics of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: How Strategic Firms Evaluate Investment Arbitration
The spread of investor-State dispute settlement is attributed to two key motivations: assisting host States in overcoming credible commitment...
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Do State-Owned Enterprises Have Worse Corporate Governance? An Empirical Study of Corporate Practices in China
A great deal of prior literature on corporate governance in China has asserted that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are inefficiently run and badly...
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Locating the Veto Power in the International Legal Order: When a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council Becomes an Aggressor
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reminder of the inadequacy of the current collective security system under the Charter of the United Nations. It...