The recent outcry against qualified immunity, a doctrine that disallows damages actions against government officials for a wide swath of constitutional claims, has been deafening.
But when the Supreme Court in November 2020 and February 2021 invalidated grants of qualified immunity based on reasoning at the heart of the doctrine for the first [...]
European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. The current study sought to integrate aspects of classic strain and institutional anomie theories with concepts from deterrence
and rational choice theories for application in a large sample of European respondents. [...]
European Journal of Criminology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the concept of proterrence: scaring people into doing something to stop others from doing something bad.
This contrasts to deterrence, which involves threatening persons to not do something bad. [...]
ABSTRACTThe Eurosystem is mandated to safeguard price stability according to article 127 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Based on a theoretical
and policy-oriented approach, this article sheds light on a second public good with enormous practical relevance both for financial markets and institutions as well [...]
ABSTRACTTo every thing there is a season. In the area of securities regulation in the United States, it is the season for expansion. This article shows why such expansion should
not involve use of the core issuer disclosure, fraud, and insider trading laws to reduce information asymmetry in the stock market in the name of investor protection. [...]
ABSTRACTThe ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court and its call for conducting and communicating proportionality assessments regarding monetary policy have been
the subject of some controversy. However, it can also be understood as a way to strengthen the de facto independence of the European Central Bank (ECB). [...]
ABSTRACTDagong Global Credit Rating Agency (Dagong) was originally branded as a Chinese national representative credit rating agency. Its international expansion in the US
and the EU, in order to challenge the biggest international credit rating agencies, was unsuccessful and achieved little of significance. [...]
ABSTRACTThe economic harm being caused by the novel coronavirus may soon result in multiple sovereign debtors moving into default territory, but the existing playbook for dealing
with multi-sovereign emerging market debt crises is blank. Currently, the only way to deal with a debt crisis is to carry out protracted country-by-country and contract-by-contract [...]
International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 288-307, September 2021. In this article the author submits that COVID-19 pandemic challenges
could be utilised as an opportunity to reform government institutions to develop resilience measures that would potentially meet contemporary and future challenges. [...]
