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Securities Laws As Foreign Policy, Karen E. Woody
Securities Laws As Foreign Policy, Karen E. Woody
Nevada Law Journal
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Inequities In Corporate And Securities Law: Disabling The Exploitative Chinese Corporation And Charting A Path To International Commercial Accountability, Jonathan P. Schmidt
Inequities In Corporate And Securities Law: Disabling The Exploitative Chinese Corporation And Charting A Path To International Commercial Accountability, Jonathan P. Schmidt
San Diego International Law Journal
This article seeks to illuminate these issues and provide a roadmap for the U.S. federal and state legislatures to come together to protect the U.S. investor from the type of accounting fraud and stock misinformation that was the impetus behind enacting the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. First, this article will discuss the legal backdrop and legislative policy behind U.S. laws such as SOX and its enforcement mechanisms, and the ability for shareholders to bring securities class action derivative actions for financial fraud. This article will also discuss trade secrets laws, criminal extradition treaties, international enforcement of judgments, and elucidate the …
Mexico And The Settlement Of Investment Disputes: Icsid As The Recommended Option, Bernardo Sepúlveda
Mexico And The Settlement Of Investment Disputes: Icsid As The Recommended Option, Bernardo Sepúlveda
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
The changes that have taken place in arbitration conditions, the greater fairness in the arbitration process, and the increasingly stringent qualifications to be met by arbitrators, as well as contemporary economic realities, have been instrumental in causing Mexico's about-face on its approach to arbitration. Although in certain quarters doubts remain in Mexico as to the advantages of international arbitration, it would be ill advised to ignore a legal and political reality. In signing treaties that include an arbitration clause, Mexico has assumed rights and obligations. Politically speaking, a border has already been crossed. In the face of this indisputable fact, …
A Securities Regulator Looks At Onvergence, Donald T. Nicolaisen
A Securities Regulator Looks At Onvergence, Donald T. Nicolaisen
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
For many years there has been a dedicated group of practitioners, standard setters, business leaders and others from around the world who have worked to establish a single set of globally accepted accounting standards for the benefit of the capital markets. These people clearly had their hearts in the right place but, absent a binding mandate to apply the standards, it seemed largely a labor of love. Now I expect those pioneering initiatives and the many years of effort to pay off because in 2005 a large number of companies are joining what up to now has been a limited …
Editor's Foreword, Charles G. Burr Editor-In-Chief
Editor's Foreword, Charles G. Burr Editor-In-Chief
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is a new undertaking at Vanderbilt Law School. The Journal is an outgrowth of the predecessor publication, The Vanderbilt International, which was established in 1967 as a bulletin of the Vanderbilt International Law Society. A number of factors, including increased student enrollment at the Law School and a growing awareness of global activities and problems, have facilitated the Journal's evolution into its present, expanded format. It is indeed appropriate that the lead article of the new publication should be authored by Judge Philip C. Jessup, who has long been the foremost advocate in the …