The widely known and reported fact that approximately 300 billion EUR of Russian assets have been frozen in the EU’s Central Securities Depositories (‘CSD’), in particular
in Euroclear and Clearstream, has prompted many questions as to whether creditors with a title can take their benefit from this temporally indefinite concentration [...]
Written by Pieter Baert. Amid growing concerns about wealth concentration and fiscal strain, debates on the taxation of ultra-high-net-worth individuals have intensified in
(international) taxation forums. The European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC) is due to hold a public hearing on this topic on 11 December 2025. [...]
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Ahead of Print. Volitional impairment is central to the civil commitment of sexually violent persons (SVPs), yet little is known about how forensic
professionals define and assess this construct. This study surveyed 29 experienced SVP evaluators (mean experience > 20 ... [...]
Compliance and discretion are central concerns of public administration scholarship. Yet less is known about the revealed outputs of state regulators who operate in a more
constrained decision-making space known as discretion-as-granted. This study addresses that gap through a longitudinal analysis that examines inspector-level decision-making [...]
AbstractThe outer continental shelf (“OCS”) regime established by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (“LOS Convention”) is a package deal composed of the
provisions of Articles 76 and 82, and a State party claiming the OCS right has to assume the corresponding obligations. [...]
AbstractThis article analogises contemporary international law with ancient Chinese inter-polity governance (notably, the Chunqiu period), uncovering structural parallels in
their visions of world order. It argues that both systems are “world-making projects” that use a façade of universality to manage power hierarchies, and that [...]
AbstractCanadian law likely requires asset managers with discretion over client funds to consider the sustainability impacts of their investment decisions, but there is little
to no case law elaborating on this obligation—perhaps due to procedural barriers to litigation in this field. [...]
