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Full-Text Articles in Banking and Finance Law
Who's In Charge Of Global Finance?, Michael S. Barr
Who's In Charge Of Global Finance?, Michael S. Barr
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The global financial crisis caused widespread harm not just to the financial system, but also to millions of households and businesses and to the global economy. The crisis revealed substantive, fundamental weaknesses in global financial regulation and raised serious questions about whether national regulators and the international financial regulatory system could ever be up to the task of overseeing global finance. This Article analyzes post-crisis reforms with two questions in mind: First, how can we build an effective international financial architecture with more than one architect? Second, can we build a system that is legitimate and accountable? The Article suggests …
Global Administrative Law: The View From Basel, Michael S. Barr, Geoffrey P. Miller
Global Administrative Law: The View From Basel, Michael S. Barr, Geoffrey P. Miller
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International law-making by sub-national actors and regulatory networks of bureaucrats has come under attack as lacking in accountability and legitimacy. Global administrative law is emerging as an approach to understanding what international organizations and national governments do, or ought to do, to respond to the perceived democracy deficit in international law-making. This article examines the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, a club of central bankers who meet to develop international banking capital standards and to develop supervisory guidance. The Basel Committee embodies many of the attributes that critics of international law-making lament. A closer examination, however, reveals a structure of …
Responsibility Of International Organizations: The Accountability Mechanisms Of Multilateral Development Banks, Eisuke Suzuki, Suresh Nanwani
Responsibility Of International Organizations: The Accountability Mechanisms Of Multilateral Development Banks, Eisuke Suzuki, Suresh Nanwani
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article will focus on the development of access for third parties, particularly private individuals, to lodge claims against MDBs for noncompliance with their policies and procedures.
Labor Rights, Globalization And Institutions: The Role And Influence Of The Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development, James Salzman
Labor Rights, Globalization And Institutions: The Role And Influence Of The Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development, James Salzman
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article has four sections. The first recounts the history of the OECD, from its creation as the overseer of the Marshall Plan to its current prominence as global economic analyst, and explains its operations. The second section explores its influence on the development of labor rights, examining the well-known OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, publications on trade and labor by the Employment, Labor and Social Affairs Directorate, and the events surrounding South Korea's accession to the OECD. Each of these activities, though quite different from one another (and, in combination, very different from the activities of other IGOs), provided …
The United States And The World Bank: Constructive Reformer Or Fly In The Functional Ointment?, David A. Wirth
The United States And The World Bank: Constructive Reformer Or Fly In The Functional Ointment?, David A. Wirth
Michigan Journal of International Law
Review of The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank: Issues of International Law and Policy by Bartram S. Brown