First posted on Commercial Law international on July 1, 2009. The question that faces Australian securities regulators is what to do about two or more Chinese state owned enterprises together owing substantial shareholdings in an…
Mitch Potter of the Star reported this week on the increase in protectionism in the U.S., A small army of Canadian diplomats fanned out across Washington today in a full-court press to “contain the contagion”…
Catherine Boyle of the TimesOnline reports: Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, will go on trial over allegations that it was complicit in the execution of a well-known Nigerian environmental activist and author……
On Thursday, Canada joined the EU, Brazil and Chile in demanding the withdrawal of tax credits in the U.S. for black liquor. The credits are estimated at $4-8 billion, passed in 2007, and intended for…
Following a significant decline in corporate expenditures on legal services in 2008 and the first half of 2009, businesses will once again begin increasing their law budgets in the second half of this year according…
Blame the current economic crisis on too much debt taken on with too little research. Nobel Prize winning economist Myron Scholes lectured at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law on March 19, packing…
First posted on Commercial Law International on March 7, 2009 by Charles Wanguha. In the early 1990s, Nike suffered a huge backlash from the revelation of child labour in its factories abroad. As a result,…
This post was created and posted in real-time, before the talk was even concluded. For a more detailed article on the same talk see the UWO Law website. People will always act rationally, right? That’s…
For an excellent primer on the financial crisis, watch the video below: The Obama administration is currently seeking all legal means to prevent AIG from using federal bailout money to pay $165 million in contractual…
Last week I met with Mitch Kowalski of the Legal Post. He mentioned our conversation earlier today on the site, which is the kick in the butt I needed to do my own write-up on…
When Areas of Law Intersect The Re B.C. Motor Vehicle Act eluciated some interesting challenges in the intersection of different areas of law. The court cited Joseph Eliot Magnet of the University of Ottawa, The…
