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The Dodd Frank Act of 2010 (DFA) was the legislative response by the US Government to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007. DFA’s rescission of Rule 436 (g) of the Securities Act of 1933 - the exemption from liability clause - was the response to the post-crisis perception that credit rating agencies were insufficiently constrained by reputational risk considerations and consistently failed to provide high quality and accurate credit ratings as a consequence of the immunity they enjoyed and the regulatory reliance placed on ratings, as well as the conflicts of interest that they faced. This paper investigates whether the market failure event that occurred in the Asset Backed Securities market immediately after DFA was signed into law on July 21, 2010 was due to real economic concerns held by rating agencies about operating under a liability regime or whether it was merely an act of brinkmanship on the part of the rating agencies. The paper also predominantly examines US case law to identify the dilution of the freedom of speech defence in state courts, the conflict of interest issues and the legal challenges faced by plaintiffs when bringing a lawsuit against credit rating agencies, and proposes a novel co-pay and capped liability model to address the concerns of both credit rating agencies and investors.
Large companies are increasingly on trial. Over the last decade, many of the world’s biggest firms have been embroiled in legal disputes over corruption charges, financial fraud, environmental damage, taxation issues or sanction violations, ending in convictions or settlements of record-breaking fines, well above the billion-dollar mark. For critics of globalization, this turn towards corporate accountability is a welcome sea-change showing that multinational companies are no longer above the law. For legal experts, the trend is noteworthy because of the extraterritorial dimensions of law enforcement, as companies are increasingly held accountable for activities independent of their nationality or the place of the activities. Indeed, the global trend required understanding the evolution of corporate criminal law enforcement in the United States in particular, where authorities have skillfully expanded its effective jurisdiction beyond its territory. This paper traces the evolution of corporate prosecutions in the United States. Analyzing federal prosecution data, it then shows that foreign firms are more likely to pay a fine, which is on average 6,6 times larger.
In memory of Brigitte Haar
(2021)
Nachruf auf Brigitte Haar (1965-2019).
Das Arbeitspapier zeigt Perspektiven eines Promotionsprojektes auf, das sich mit der Reform der englischen Common Law- und Equity-Gerichtsbarkeit im Viktorianischen Zeitalter befasst. Nach einem Einblick in relevante Quellen und Literatur wird inhaltlich auf Mitglieder und Aufgaben der im Jahr 1867 eingesetzten Judicature Commission eingegangen. Anschließend werden Neuerungen aufgezeigt, die für das englische Gerichtswesen aus den in den 1870er Jahren verabschiedeten Judicature Acts folgten.
Es ist eine besondere Pointe der Theorieschöpfung Thomas S. Kuhns, dass man im Wissenschaftsdiskurs nach schnellem Abschied vom "Fortschrittsdenken" nunmehr in den "Paradigmenwechsel" geradezu vernarrt zu sein scheint – fast täglich kippen die Paradigmen wie die Pappkameraden, Paradigmenwechsel ist immer und überall. ...
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat den Tatbestand des Art. 8 Abs. 2 lit. b (iv) IStGH-Statut („das Umweltkriegsverbrechen“) bisher noch nicht angewandt. Zahlreiche seriöse Medien berichten seit Beginn der völkerrechtswidrigen Invasion durch russische Streitkräfte in das Staatsgebiet der Ukraine von Kämpfen rund um das größte Atomkraftwerk Europas in Saporischschja. Dies rief global Furcht darüber hervor, dass es erneut zu einer Atomkatastrophe inmitten des europäischen Kontinents kommen könnte. Dieser Sachverhalt bietet Anlass für eine Diskussion über den Tatbestand des Umweltkriegsverbrechens sowie seiner Auslegungsschwierigkeiten. Anhand eines hypothetischen Sachverhalts soll veranschaulicht werden, ob das Umweltkriegsverbrechen jemals Anwendung finden kann oder ob die Menge an politischen Kompromissen in seiner Gestaltung seine Nutzbarkeit gänzlich negieren.
Privatrecht als Gesellschaftstheorie? : Bemerkungen zur Logik der ordnungspolitischen Rechtslehre
(1974)
Jura Studieren
(1968)