There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book …
Ms. G lived alone in an apartment in New York City. In her seventies, Ms. G was starting to show signs of physical frailty, impaired vision, and forgetfulness. She was also beginning to …
The financial crisis of 2008 was caused in part by speculative investment in complex derivatives. In enacting the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress sought to address the problem of …
The world is still reeling from the aftershocks of the recent financial crisis. What started as a bursting US real estate bubble in mid-2007 escalated into a full-blown systemic meltdown in …
Mark Twain once said," Everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it."'The same can be said for one of the most famous-or infamous-of the financial products …
What is' financial innovation," and why should we care about it? This question has become increasingly important in the wake of the recent financial crisis, yet the nature of financial …
Page 1 Regulating Credit Rating Agencies Page 2 ELGAR FINANCIAL LAW Series editor: Takis Tridimas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK This important series comprises high-quality …
Market observers have noted that although some securitization products, such as structured investment vehicles (" SIVs") and highly leveraged" ABS CDO" securities,'may be gone …