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This paper investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical review of the legal origins literature, we first analyze the evolution of legal rules and regulations during the last decade (2006-2014). For that purpose, we use legal/regulatory indicators from the Doing Business Project (World Bank). Our findings indicate that countries have actively reformed their legal systems during this period, particularly French civil law countries.
This report by the foreign law research staff of the Law Library of Congress’s Global Legal Research Directorate includes surveys of sixteen foreign jurisdictions on laws and policies on protecting children from abuse and neglect. This introduc...
This report surveys the laws of eight democratic foreign jurisdictions with respect to whether there are special laws concerning children asylum-seekers, particularly unaccompanied children. Covered jurisdictions include the countries of Australia, C...
Optimism about the use of laws, constitutions, and rights to achieve social change has never been higher among practitioners. But the academic literature is skeptical that courts can direct resources toward the poor. This paper develops a nuanced acc...
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