Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in the world, with negative effects on productivity, profitability, economic growth, and development. The social responsibility role of public companies in contributing towards reducing the negative effects of HIV/AIDS is priceless. This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance (CG) on social and environmental acc...

Hostile takeover bids arrived in Japan in 2005 and U.S. legal scholars announced that their arrival offered strong evidence in support of corporate governance convergence to the U.S. shareholder-oriented model. Now, four years later, there has still not been a successful hostile takeover bid and the practice has seemingly fallen out of favor. The Japanese experience with hostile takeover bids s...

the variety of issues posed by the internet today cannot be easily neglected by jurists and politicians. these are problems that the international community has no other way but to find appropriate solutions to. the first and most important issue faced in relation to the internet, is the problem of internet governance. the internet is currently managed by the icann, an american company and the ...

Scholars have proffered a number of theoretical explanations for the phenomenon that corporate ownership is diffuse in some countries and highly concentrated in others. One explanation, the social democracy theory, holds that leftist ideology weakens a variety of corporate governance mechanisms and thus prevents the separation of ownership from control in social democracies, where leftist ideol...

Accountability and the rule of law are fundamental indispensable elements democracy. The legitimacy transparency collection spending public finances is a sine qua non democratic governance. To ensure this, it necessary to take legal action find specialized mechanisms that have authority exercise control prevent possible abuse power. These an integral part architecture economic governance most c...

In February 2011, the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea handed down its Advisory Opinion in Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entities with respect to Activities in the Area. Although primarily focused on governance of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (‘the Area’), the Opinion has wider relevance for both int...

I T I S N O S E C R E T T H AT H U M A N R I G H T S, governance, and development may all be linked to each other. Yet the nature and extent of these links have barely been explored empirically, in partly due to the paucity of measurement in the human rights field. Based on recently available data, we embarked on an investigation, focusing on the links between what is often labeled as first gen...

International cooperation has become critical in controlling infectious diseases. In this article, I examine emerging trends in international law concerning global infectious disease control. The role of international law in horizontal and vertical governance responses to infectious disease control is conceptualized; the historical development of international law regarding infectious diseases ...