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China's Belt And Road Development And A New International Commercial Arbitration Initiative In Asia, Weixia Gu

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The policy centerpiece of President Xi Jinping's foreign strategy, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ambitiously aspires towards expanding regional markets and facilitating regional cooperation. In context of a rising volume of cross-border transactions generated by the BRI, a robust legal framework on dispute resolution is required to forge investor confidence and enable BRI's integral goal of economic integration. In light of the substantial levels of harmonization among arbitration laws, arbitration is argued to constitute a primary vehicle of international commercial dispute resolution in an economically integrated Asia under the BRI. It is against this backdrop that the Article argues …

An Overview Of The Symposium, Timothy L. Fort, Cindy A. Schipani

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

By design, this conference was constructed to brainstorm about the connection of governance, ethics, and peace. To that end, the conference and these papers were a success. As a novel question, however, we are far from providing a definitive answer to exactly what should be done to foster the connection and, more basically, exactly what the connection looks like. One can, however, identify three general themes emanating from the conference that provide a sense for the opportunities of future research.

First, there is a public policy dimension. Corporations gain their authority through state action and the duties of fiduciaries of …

Commercial Restrictions In English Law, Edward A. Morrison

Vanderbilt Law Review

With the passing of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956, the English statute book is now furnished with a set of enactments, comprising this Act and the Monopolies Acts 1948 and 1953, which are comparable to the anti-trust legislation of the United States. The English statutes present marked dissimilarities to their American counterparts both in aim and method. In order to understand them it is necessary to consider certain divergences of emphasis on the part of English and American judges on the common law rules in which the legislation of the two countries alike is embedded, and certain aspects of …