Creative Destruction - Idiosyncratic Claims of International Law and the Helms-Burton Legislation

There have been many many, many proposals to use Russia’s frozen assets to help Ukraine. Russia’s invasion violated international law; reparations are...

After several years of dramatic growth, ESG investing seems to have entered a period of retrenchment.  While it is impossible to predict the future...

En række amerikanske præsidentkandidater og kongresmedlemmer er i de sidste år begyndt at argumentere for, at USA burde lancere militære angreb mod...

There is concern that present-biased agents incur too much debt because of its deferred costs – concern that has influenced regulation of consumer...

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

False information causes harm, threatening individuals, groups, and society. Many people struggle to judge the veracity of the information around them...

This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...

This article examines the impact of Greece retroactively, via legislation, changing the terms in hundreds of billions of euros worth of Greek...

The Supreme Court’s recent expansion of the major questions doctrine has rocked administrative law, throwing into doubt executive agencies’ statutory...

Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...

There is a live debate going on over whether antitrust should take a broader view of the economics of market concentration. When antitrust reformers...

We examine the legal terms in the market for green bonds, debt instruments in which proceeds are earmarked, directly or indirectly, for projects with...

The SEC mandates that public companies assess new information that changes the risks that they face and disclose these if there has been a “material”...

Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...

The conventional view is that standardized boilerplate terms represent an optimal contractual solution to the contracting problems facing parties in...

In an era defined by partisan rifts and government gridlock, many celebrate the rare issues that prompt bipartisan consensus. But extreme consensus...

Consequential damages have been a cornerstone of contract doctrine since the broken crankshaft in Hadley v. Baxendale. And the Hadley rule is one of...

In this article, we examine the relations between risk, the choice of foreign or local contract terms (parameters), and maturity in the sovereign debt...