Principles of Cross-Border Insolvency Law

Financing Innovation: The Role of Insolvency Law

Scholars working in the ‘law and finance’ field have investigated empirically the links between various types of law and the incidence of venture capital finance. However, no study to date has systematically investigated the relationship between insolvency law— both personal and corporate—and venture capital finance. This paper argues that a nation’s personal insolvency law may have an importan...

Article: Cross-border Securitization: without Law, but Not Lawless

* Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law. I am indebted to Edward Smith, Esq., Bingham, Dana and Gould, Boston, to my colleagues at Boston University Workshop, and to Professors Wendy Gordon, Maureen O'Rourke and William Park for their insightful comments. Many thanks to my assistants Dan Pierce, 3L, and William Hecker, Esq. for their invaluable help in research and editing the Artic...

Legal and Ethical Principles of Criminalization in Iran’s Criminal Law

Background: The criminal code is the rules that restrict the rights and freedoms of a person to ensure peaceful coexistence. What behavior should be prohibited and which one can be removed from the circle of legal acts. How can the word ethics in the world of law refer to ethical and literary means from the past, and is called the tradition of morality, in the sense of moral standards? On the b...

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand

Oversight of EU medical data transfers – an administrative law perspective on cross-border biomedical research administration

The notion of privacy has long had a central role in human rights law, not least in connection to health and medicine. International, regional and national bodies have enacted a number of binding and non-binding document for physicians and researchers to adhere to, in order to protect the autonomy, dignity and privacy of patients and research subjects. With the development of new technologies, ...