AbstractThis study conducts a comparative legal analysis on the doctrine of piercing the corporate veil (PCV) in the USA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and addresses the way
in which two drastically dissimilar legal systems, common law and Sharia-based jurisprudence, respectively, handle the balance between shareholder protection and [...]
AbstractThe Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment responds to a persistent structural problem in cross-border finance of high-value movable assets,
most prominently aircraft. When collateral routinely traverses multiple jurisdictions, lenders’ security interests are exposed to fragmented domestic property and [...]
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship by SchneierBruce and SandersNathan E, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2025, pp. 337,
£27. ISBN-13: 9780262049948 [...]
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) constitutes an exception for sovereign states to the normal jurisdictional rules that govern when parties are subject to
suit in US courts. The commercial activity provision is a carveout within that broad exception-it deprives sovereign states of their exceptional immunity when they [...]
This Article demonstrates that peacetime espionage does not benefit from permissive customary international law exceptions. The mainstream view contends that, though peacetime
espionage may contravene international law, developments in customary international law (CIL) nevertheless undercut State responsibility for such conduct. [...]
Hydroelectric dams produce electricity, provide flood control, and improve agricultural irrigation. But the building and operation of these dams frequently involve forced displacement
of local communities. Displacement often has an outsized impact on indigenous persons, who are disproportionately poor, repressed, and politically marginalized. [...]
Financial regulation has traditionally been "hard": national legislatures and regulators (and sometimes international bodies) require certain kinds of behavior and forbid others,
on pain of business sanctions, fines, or even criminal penalties. When a financial crisis happens, the usual after-the-fact response is more hard regulation-new laws, [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 338: Protest Participation in Contemporary Europe: Individual Predispositions and National Mobilisation Context Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci15050338
Authors: Suzana Turcu [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 15, Pages 337: All Flourishing [In Rural School–Community Partnerships] Is Mutual Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci15050337 Authors: Bonnie
Stelmach [...]
