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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: An Assessment of Governance and Legitimacy - Part II
Maziar Peihani
Part I of this project overviewed the literature on the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS) and provided a primer on the Committee’s governance and functions. It also engaged with the current theories on legitimacy and discussed what legitimacy meant for the global governance of banking and how it could be assessed. This part investigates the BCBS’s governance, operation, and policy outcomes to determine the extent to which it is and has been legitimate. The assessment is conducted based on three principles of reasoned decision making, transparency, and accountability. Maziar Peihani argues that the BCBS has gradually become a more legitimate institution but there still exists significant room for improvement. He highlights a number of areas for reform and sets out policy prescriptions to enhance the BCBS’s legitimacy.
[From Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – An Assessment of Governance and Legitimacy- Part II | Brill]
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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: A Primer on Governance, History, and Legitimacy - Part I
Maziar Peihani
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) was established in 1974 as an informal group of central bankers and bank supervisors with the mandate to formulate supervisory standards and guidelines. Although the Committee does not have any formal supranational authority, it is the de facto global banking regulator and its recommendations have been widely implemented by member and non-member states. Maziar Peihani investigates the BCBS’s governance, operation, and policy outcomes to determine the extent to which it is and has been legitimate. The project is comprised of two parts. This part overviews the literature on the BCBS, outlines its contribution, and provides a primer on the Committee’s governance and functions. In addition, it engages with the current theories on legitimacy and discusses what legitimacy means for the global governance of banking and how it can be assessed.
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Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text and Materials, 4th ed.
Stephen G.A. Pitel, Joost Blom, Elizabeth Edinger, Geneviève Saumier, Janet Walker, and Catherine Walsh
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Lawyers' Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950
W. Wesley Pue
Approaching the legal profession through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue explores the social roles lawyers imagined for themselves in England and its expanding empire from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a critical moment when lawyers – whether leaders or rebels – sought to reshape their profession. In the process, they often fancied they were also shaping the culture and politics of both nation and empire as they struggled to develop or adapt professional structures, represent clients, or engage in advocacy.
As an exploration of the relationship between legal professionals and liberalism at home or in the Empire, this work draws attention to recurrent disagreements as to how lawyers have best assured their own economic well-being while simultaneously advancing the causes of liberty, cultural authority, stability, and continuity.
This work will be of interest to scholars interested in the history of empire and law’s role in governance at home and overseas. As such it will be of interest to lawyers and legal scholars. It is suitable for advanced seminars in history, law, sociology, and political science.
[From UBC Press | Lawyers’ Empire - Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950, By W. Wesley Pue]
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Workers and the Global Informal Economy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Supriya Routh and Vando Borghi
The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic.
Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality.
This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.
[]From Workers and the Global Informal Economy: Interdisciplinary perspective]
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Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 4th ed.
Hamish Stewart, Benjamin Berger, Emma Cunliffe, Ronalda Murphy, and Steven Penney
Available at Evidence : a Canadian casebook : Stewart, Hamish, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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A Property Law Reader: Cases, Questions and Commentary, 4th ed.
Bruce Ziff, Jeremy de Beer, Douglas C. Harris, and Margaret E. McCallum
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Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary
Sharryn J. Aiken, Catherine Dauvergne, Donald Galloway, Colin Grey, and Audrey Macklin
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Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou
Brenna Bhandar and Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity has influenced and inspired scholars from across disciplines. The contributors to Plastic Materialities—whose fields include political philosophy, critical legal studies, social theory, literature, and philosophy—use Malabou's innovative combination of post-structuralism and neuroscience to evaluate the political implications of her work. They address, among other things, subjectivity, science, war, the malleability of sexuality, neoliberalism and economic theory, indigenous and racial politics, and the relationship between the human and non-human. Plastic Materialities also includes three essays by Malabou and an interview with her, all of which bring her work into conversation with issues of sovereignty, justice, and social order for the first time.
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 5th ed.
David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, Geoffrey Loomer, and Lisa Philipps
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Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Texts and Materials
Anthony Duggan, Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Thomas G.W. Telfer, Janis P. Sarra, and Roderick J. Wood
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The 2015 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
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Comparative Health Law and Policy Critical Perspectives on Nigerian and Global Health Law
Irehobhude Otibhor Iyioha and Remigius N. Nwabueze
Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addressing and interacting with these sources the volume advances research on health care law and policy in Nigeria and spells the beginning of what may now be formally termed the ’Nigerian health law and policy’ legal field. The collection provides a comparative analysis of relevant health policies and laws, such as reproductive and sexual health policy, organ donation and transplantation, abortion and assisted conception, with those in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and South Africa. It critically examines the duties and rights of physicians, patients, health institutions and organizations, and government parastatals against the backdrop of increased awareness of rights among patient populations. The subjects, which are discussed from a legal, ethical and policy-reform perspective, critique current legislation and policies and make suggestions for reform. The volume presents a cohesive, comparative, and comprehensive analysis of the state of health law and policy in Nigeria with those in the US, Canada, South Africa, and the UK. As such, it provides a valuable comparison between Western and Non-Western countries.
[From https://www.routledge.com/Comparative-Health-Law-and-Policy-Critical-Perspectives-on-Nigerian-an/Iyioha-Nwabueze/p/book/9781472436757]
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NAFTA and Sustainable Development: History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform
Hoi Kong and L. Kinvin Wroth
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its companion agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), provide important and often underappreciated protection for the environmental laws of the Party states: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. On the twentieth anniversary of NAFTA's ratification, this book assesses the current state of environmental protection under those agreements. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and regulators from all three Party states, it outlines the scope and process of NAFTA and NAAEC, their impact on specific environmental issues, and paths to reform. It includes analyses of the impact of the agreements on such matters as bioengineered crops in Mexico, assessment of marine environmental effects, potential lessons for China, climate change, and indigenous rights. Together, the chapters of this book represent an important contribution to the global conversation concerning international trade agreements and sustainable development.
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