Soft Law and the Global Financial System: Rule Making in the 21st Century

Soft Law and the Global Financial System: Rule Making in the 21st Century
by Chris Brummer
Release Date: March 15, 2012

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The global financial crisis of 2008 has given way to a proliferation of international agreements aimed at strengthening the prudential oversight and supervision of financial market participants. Yet how these rules operate is not well understood. Because international financial rules are expressed through informal, non-binding accords, scholars tend to view them as either weak treaty substitutes, or by-products of national power. Rarely, if ever, are they cast as independent variables that can inform the behavior of regulators and market participants alike. This book explains how international financial law "works" - and presents an alternative theory for understanding its purpose, operation, and limitations. Drawing on a close institutional analysis of the post-crisis financial architecture, it argues that international financial law is often bolstered by a range of reputational, market, and institutional mechanisms that make it more coercive than classical theories of international law predict. As such, it is a powerful, though at times imperfect tool of financial diplomacy, and poses novel opportunities and challenges for the evolving global economic order.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #18025 in Books
• Published on: 2011-12-26
• Released on: 2012-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice

Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice
by Gareth Peirce
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Acclaimed examination of the British government’s complicity in torture.

In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such as those of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq Rasul and Binyam Mohamed, Peirce argues that they are evidence of a deeply entrenched culture of impunity among those investigating presumed radicals among British Muslim nationals and residents, who constitute the new suspect community in the UK. Peirce shows that the British government has colluded in a whole range of extrajudicial activities—rendition, internment without trial, torture—and has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its actions. Its devices for maintaining secrecy are probably more deep-rooted than those of any other comparable democracy. If the government continues along this path, Peirce argues, it will destroy the moral and legal fabric it claims to be protecting.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #547425 in Books
• Published on: 2012-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• Binding: Paperback
• 154 pages