International Law

World Law Vs Global Law: Legal Models for the World Economy.
A Non-Western Approach to Law and ADR as a Resource for South-South, South-East Business Relations

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2011-01/EN by IGNAZIO CASTELLUCCI The following paper aims to foster the development and use of alternative legal models which can be employed in the modern world economy. The positive aspects, which indeed may prove very useful in transnational economic activities, of such alternative models will be revealed through the [...]


Trading the Shield of Sovereignty for the Scales of Justice:
A Proposal for Reform of International Sea Piracy Laws

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2009-11/EN (published in University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal, Vol. 21 No. 2, 2009 ) by MIKE MADDEN   Contemporary piracy represents a large and complex threat to international security. The crime has evolved to the extent that it no longer conforms to its antiquated definition, and the rationales [...]


Private Regulation:
Indispensable for Responsible Corporate Conduct in a Globalizing World?

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2009-06/EN (published in Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers (ed), Law & Globalization (VDM Publishing 2009)) by TINEKE LAMBOOY & MARIE-EVE RANCOURT Is private regulation proven to be generally more successful than public regulation in controlling the transnational conduct of multinational companies? The exponential growth of private regulations aimed at [...]


International Migration and Trading Regimes:
NAFTA and the EU in Interdisciplinary Perspective

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2009-05/EN (published in Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers (ed), Law & Globalization (VDM Publishing 2009)) by JAGDEEP BHANDARI This paper investigates the policy arguments underpinning the relationship between free trade and migration, as embodied in the regulatory choices made in two of the most significant experiments of international economic [...]


Global Law and Plunder: The Dark Side of the Rule of Law

Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers, No. 2009-03/EN (published in Bocconi Sch. L. Student-Ed. Papers (ed), Law & Globalization (VDM Publishing 2009)) by UGO MATTEI & MARCO DE MORPURGO The ‘rule of law’ has traditionally been conceived as an intrinsically positive and politically neutral ‘tool’, universally valid and capable of being ‘exported’ everywhere. This paper—which represents [...]


Chronicles of a Failure: From a Renegotiation Clause to Arbitration of Transnational Contracts

ILSU Working Paper No. 2008-11/EN  (published in Connecticut Journal of International Law, vol. 24, 2008 ) by LUIGI RUSSI The present paper recounts the various steps which parties to a transnational contract containing a renegotiation clause may need to go through, should the circumstances accounted for in the renegotiation clause come to existence. To this [...]