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Considering Business Opportunities In The Soviet Union In The 1990s, Richard N. Dean

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The purpose of this Essay has been to provide, in somewhat summary fashion, basic background and guidelines to assist Western companies that are considering commercial transactions in the Soviet Union. It was not intended to be an exhaustive analysis of all factors that may affect the negotiation, completion and implementation of commercial transactions in the Soviet Union. Rather, we have drawn from our experience in assisting our clients over the last three years in the USSR and have attempted to provide an appropriate context for the consideration of potential business opportunities.

In our experience, the most effective perspective to adopt …

Eastern Europe: Observations And Investment Strategies, Marek Wierzbowski

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

It is my impression that right now an American lawyer has no problem getting acquainted with East European laws concerning foreign investment. There are so many translations now in this country that almost every new law is immediately translated into English. The American lawyer can get to this text at almost the same time as the East European lawyer can get to it.

So it is very easy to get acquainted with legal texts of the most important laws from the point of view of foreign investors, but there are some traps. And it is my impression that when lawyers …

Book Review, Richard Gruner

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Large corporations are important, yet enigmatic, participants in world commerce. International corporate behavior is morally and legally significant because of its immense scope and societal impact. That behavior, however, is often so complex as to defy characterization under the simple moral or legal standards applicable to individuals. Furthermore, the ability of traditional moral or legal systems to shape multinational corporate conduct is also unclear given that large corporate bureaucracies lack the motivations and fears normally used to enforce moral or legal accountability. As one frustrated court noted, the problem is that corporations have "no soul to damn, and no body …