Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems articles

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Evolutionary Developments in Mortgage Securitization: Financial Law Reforms, Putative Beneficiaries, and Archetypal Economic Risks
June 22, 2012... V. AGENCY AND HIDDEN INFORMATION PROBLEMS IN THE "LEMONS" MARKET A. Investors as the Intended Beneficiaries 1. Market Failures As described earlier, (289) securitization, in theory, alleviates Akerlof's "lemons" problem (290) via introducing independent agents screening out risky...

Evolutionary Developments in Mortgage Securitization: Financial Law Reforms, Putative Beneficiaries, and Archetypal Economic Risks
June 22, 2012... I. INTRODUCTION 396 II. PUTATIVE VALUE OF SECURITIZATION 402 A. A Structural Overview: Transactional Basics, 402 Complexity, and Legal Risks B. Three Strata of Beneficiaries ...

Law as Problem Solving: Standards, Networks, Experimentation, and Deliberation in Global Space
June 22, 2012... Abstract This paper presents a view of international law as a framework for problem solving. Many authors have noted the increased legalization of world politics. Where many conventional approaches to legalization conceive of law as regulation and stress compliance with preexisting rules, we...

Early Security Council Efforts at Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law and Policy: Cooperation Forgotten
June 22, 2012... I. INTRODUCTION 337 II. DISARMANMENT AND ARMS CONTROL UNDER THE .U.N.CHARTER 339 III. EARLY SECURITY COUNCIL EFFORTS 344 A. Atomic Energy Commission 345 B. Com mission for Conventional...

Defining the Space of Transnational Law: Legal Theory, Global Governance, and Legal Pluralism
June 22, 2012... I. INTRODUCTION 305 II. THE ANXIETIES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND THE AMBIVALENT 312 NATURE OF LAW III. METHODOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES 323 IV. THINGS WE LOST--THINGS WE OUGHT TO REMEMBER ...