This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands
our understanding of female beneficence in shaping diverse political cultures. The contributors examine the role of philanthropy, the giving of time, money, and/or [...]
Through adopting legal lenses, this chapter examines the legal framework of the Macolin Convention and assess its contribution to addressing the challenges posed by sport manipulation.
The chapter also explores what is still required to realise the Convention's full potential to address the phenomenon. [...]
This article offers a critical analysis of the Odebrecht/Braskem case under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Two Brazilian companies, Odebrecht S.A. and its subsidiary
Braskem S.A., have been caught in a massive bribery machine that concerned Brazil as well as many other countries, including Switzerland and the United States. [...]
Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin is a topic seen consistently in today's media publications; however, the average citizen does not truly understand what it is and how it works. In
addition, due to its innovative nature, cryptocurrency presents many legal and regulatory issues that the US federal government does not know how to deal with. [...]
The article examines the legal content of the concept of special confiscation in the Criminal Code of Ukraine (hereinafter – “the CC of Ukraine”), as well as takes into
account the main differences between special confiscation as another measure of criminal law and confiscation of property as a type of punishment in criminal law.The [...]
The article deals with the issues related to the laundering of the proceeds of a crime. It is argued that the problems related to counteraction and, in particular, criminal
liability for illegal handling of property obtained by criminal means are not a novelty for national criminal law. [...]
The article examines issues of domain name dispute resolution. The analysis of legal regulation of these relations was done. There were analysed the Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy and other Rules adopted by the administrators of address space within the Internet. [...]
The article contains the research of the legal status of the trustee as a trust owner of trust property. In particular, the following special aspects of this legal status have
been emphasized and analyzed:– the trustee cannot be the beneficiary under the contract;– the trustee acts in his name and in the interests of the trustors without [...]
This paper engages with the central question in legal ethics concerning the lawyer’s role, analyzing this fundamental question in terms of professional identity. Literature
in this debate frames the lawyer either as a professional who exists entirely to serve her client (the “standard conception”), or as a professional whose primary [...]
This Article defines usage, as that term is used in the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), in order to consider whether the ICC’s definitions
for common delivery terms set forth in the ICC publication Incoterms should be characterized as usage for purposes of the CISG. [...]
