The investor-state arbitration legitimacy crisis: Could AI be its future savior (or resurrector)?

The State of Islamic Finance: Post-crisis and Future Prospects

The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...

The Legitimacy Crisis and the Future of Courts

There is an overall legitimacy crisis in courts. The sources of this crisis have, to a large extent, been misconstrued. While there has been significant writing depicting the diminished quality, effectiveness, and fairness of courts, these phenomena have, for the most part, been viewed as distinct problems that warrant discrete solutions. This article shows that these problems are all manifesta...

Could Touch User Interfaces be the future ?

In recent years the popularity of the touch user interface (TUI), has skyrocketed. There are currently no signs for this trend to diminish; to the contrary future vision videos from leading technology companies show a future relying even heavier on this method of input (e.g. Microsoft, 2009). However, reviews of TUI implementations point to a number of problems, including: lack of overview of a...

How the WTO Could Be Improved

AbstractThis paper examines the impasse in the current Doha Development Round negotiations andasks how the rules of the WTO could be changed to facilitate multilateral negotiations andto increase the welfare of the Member countries. It considers possible changes to the methodof negotiation. As examples of rules which are outdated, it considers the rules relating toregional trade agreements and ...

Could gene therapy be the future for muscular dystrophy?