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  • 8 Dec 2022
    Stephen Winter

    Making monetary redress work

    There are hundreds of thousands of survivors of abuse in care around the world. Many survivors experienced grievous physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or severe neglect while in out-of-home care. Their experiences of systemically injurious orphanages, residential schools, and foster care are gaining popular attention through films such as Spotlight (2015), theater works such as […]

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  • 5 Dec 2022
    James J. Park

    Lying About Innovation

    The federal convictions of two founders of technology companies over the last year has illustrated the fine line between the over-optimism of entrepreneurs who believe they can change the world and the criminal intent to defraud investors. As it has become routine for stock valuations to reflect the future profits that may be generated by […]

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  • 2 Dec 2022
    Aleydis Nissen

    New kids on the block in ‘business and human rights’

    Human rights violations by corporations that operate in more than one state have attracted the attention of legal scholars over the past four decades. The field of ‘business and human rights’ has, however, been largely silent on private transnational corporations from developing and emerging states (TNC-DECs). If TNC-DECs are included in the literature, then they […]

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  • 30 Nov 2022
    Jeffrey Bellin

    Diagnosing the Causes of Mass Incarceration to Develop a Cure

    The United States imprisons a shocking proportion of its population, eclipsing the rates of other countries and historical norms. The past three years have produced some modest improvement, but much of that change was driven by a global pandemic. With jails, police departments and courtrooms returning to “normal,” and a growing perception of rising crime, […]

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  • 28 Nov 2022
    John Quigley

    The Legality of a Jewish State

    Anyone who knows anything about the Israel/Palestine issue knows that the United Nations decided on a plan to create a Jewish state in Palestine in order to protect world Jewry. That is, anyone who has not looked into what actually occurred at the United Nations. As my The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century […]

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  • 24 Nov 2022
    Longjie Lu

    Market or State: The Regulation and Practice of Bankers’ Remuneration in the UK and China

    Executive remuneration in the banking sector is always a contested question. Are bankers paid too much for their performance? How should bankers be incentivised? Should bankers’ remuneration be regulated? In the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), these questions have attracted extensive attention from academics. During the GFC, bank failures that spread across major […]

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  • 2 Nov 2022
    Henry Gao, Weihuan Zhou

    Disciplining China’s State Capitalism through International Trade Rules: Regaining the Missed Opportunity

    China’s state capitalism is one of the most controversial issues in today’s international trade governance. While China has undergone unprecedented market liberalization and economic reforms in past decades, in recent years it has consolidated its state capitalism through reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The ongoing reforms have strengthened the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party […]

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  • 1 Nov 2022
    Cedric Merlin Powell

    Reconstruction, Retrogression, Retrenchment, and the Roberts Court

    Every moment of transformative racial progress in American history has been met with violence to preserve white supremacy and the subordination of BIPOC. Scholars and authors have detailed how the Court legitimizes oppression and the advancement of whiteness as the defining feature of American political and constitutional culture. The three periods of Reconstruction—from the end […]

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