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Rebuilding Accountability In The Boardroom, Stephen M. Davis Jan 2003

Rebuilding Accountability In The Boardroom, Stephen M. Davis

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Emergence Of A Private Banking Sector In The Czech Republic, Phillip M. Stupak Jan 2003

Emergence Of A Private Banking Sector In The Czech Republic, Phillip M. Stupak

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Corporate Governance In The Sultanate Of Oman, Ellen Kerrigan Dry Jan 2003

Corporate Governance In The Sultanate Of Oman, Ellen Kerrigan Dry

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

While the United States’ capital market has had its headline-grabbing scandals involving companies such as World Com and Entron, the capital markey in the Sultanate of Oman (Oman) has also experienced its share of corporate troubles affecting not onlt large Omani companies such as National Rice Mills SAOG and Oman National Investment Company Holdings SAOG, but also dozens of smaller companies, which have had to turn to the government to assistance.


Corporate Governance In The Emerging Markets Of The Global Village: Latin And South America, Rhoda Karpatkin Jan 2003

Corporate Governance In The Emerging Markets Of The Global Village: Latin And South America, Rhoda Karpatkin

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Corporate governance scandals in America have focused public attention once again on global governance issues. Issues that are not solely corporate or business concerns, they have become public, political, and ethical concerns. They have become economic concerns, particularly due to the erosion of public confidence in the integrity of corporate leadership and the institutions that are charged with their oversight.


Corporate Responsibility And The Regulation Of Corporate Lawyers, James M. Mccauley Jan 2003

Corporate Responsibility And The Regulation Of Corporate Lawyers, James M. Mccauley

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

On July 30, 2002, in an effort to demonstrate to the American public a resolve to crack down on corporate scandals such as Enron, Adelphia, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, President Bush signed into law the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002”. Proclaiming that the new law will restore investor confidence, reform the oversight of public accounting and increase the transparency of corporate financial statements…


Foreigners At The Gate: Foreign Direct Investment Regulations & Dispute Resolution Mechanisms In The People’S Republic Of China, George O. White Iii Jan 2003

Foreigners At The Gate: Foreign Direct Investment Regulations & Dispute Resolution Mechanisms In The People’S Republic Of China, George O. White Iii

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

The elevation of law over politics is very new in China and the extent to which it is to be taken seriously is not always clear to the Chinese involved. The Chinese official and the Chinese citizen are part of a political structure in which the Party’s will and policies have been the most effective law… Laws and regulations have to be understood in this wider context of a society in which the formal legal position is only one consideration and still often not the most important.