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Regulating Internet Gaming: Challenges and Opportunities
Ngai Pindell and Anthony Cabot
Internet gaming sparks controversy from corporate board rooms to legislative hallways. Unlike traditional casinos, the Internet permits people to engage in gaming activities from virtually anywhere over computers and mobile devices. Governments and policy makers looking at this activity struggle with such questions as whether regulation can assure that Internet gaming can be restricted to adults, the games offered are fair and honest, and players will be paid if they win. This book is a timely collection of eleven chapters discussing key considerations and model approaches to internet gaming regulation and outlining the important questions and emerging answers to regulating gaming activity outside of land-based casinos.
Some of the regulatory insights are taken from lessons learned in the land-based casino industry and others from the relatively newer experiences of international internet gaming providers. Contributors are among the world’s leading experts on Internet gaming. They focus on structural concerns including record-keeping, managing different taxing regimes, maintaining effective controls, protecting customer funds, and preventing money laundering, as well as on policy concerns ensuring responsible play, the detection of fraud, reliable age verification, and the enforcement of gaming laws and norms across jurisdictions. Internet gaming is an emerging field, especially in the U.S., and the contributors to this book provide regulatory examples and lessons that will be helpful to lawyers, policy makers, gaming operators and others interested in this burgeoning industry.
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China's Legal System
Pitman B. Potter
The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making and institution-building have reached impressive levels. Understanding the operation and possible futures of law in the People's Republic of China requires an appreciation of the normative influences on the system, as well as an examination of how these norms have worked in practice.
[From The Chinese Legal System: Globalization and Local Legal Culture - 1st]
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Advancing Canada's Engagement with Asia on Human Rights: Integrating Trade and Human Rights
Pitman B. Potter, Joseph K. Ingram, Robert G. Wright, Douglas Horswill, Sharon K. Hom, and National Conversation on Asia Task Force
The National Conversation on Asia is a broad and inclusive initiative by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada to get Canadians thinking and talking about what Asia means to Canada. It is supported by Asia-engaged individuals, companies and organizations across Canada.
NCA Task Forces examine and formulate policy recommendations on strategic issues in the Canada-Asia relationship. Broad consultations with government, community and industry leaders, experts and stakeholders are an integral part of each Task Force’s activity.
This report is the third in a series of NCA Task Force reports. The first taskforce report, Securing Canada’s Energy Future, was released in June 2012. All reports are available at www.asiapacific.ca.
For more information, see www.nationalconversationonasia.ca.
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Report from the Rosenberg International Forum: The Mackenzie Basin
Rosenberg International Forum's Workshop on Tranboundary Relations in the Mackenzie River Basin and Gordon Christie
The Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy released this report based on the findings of a 2012 workshop on transboundary relations in the Mackenzie River Basin. The workshop, which took place in Vancouver from Sept. 5 to 7, 2012, convened several experts in the fields of law, economics and various scientific disciplines with the goal of looking at the legal and scientific principles relevant to creating a co-ordinated basin-wide approach to management. The workshop was co-hosted by The Gordon Foundation and Simon Fraser University’s Adaptation to Climate Change Team.
The Mackenzie River Basin is Canada’s largest drainage basin at 1.8 million sq. km – 20 per cent of Canada’s landmass – and is among the most intact large-scale ecosystems in North America. While the Basin is relatively undisturbed ecologically, it is at risk from both a warming climate and extractive and hydrological industries. These large forces of change threaten the Basin’s ecology, as well as its role as a homeland to aboriginals and northerners who rely on the land and its resources to provide food, clothing, water and other necessities of life.
[From Rosenberg International Forum: The Mackenzie Basin - The Gordon Foundation]
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Rescue!: The Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, 2nd ed.
Janis P. Sarra
The going-forward solution to a firm's financial distress depends on the reasons for insolvency, the firm's capital structure, viability of its business plan, effectiveness of its directors and officers, and the availability of capital to refinance or purchase the business.
Rescue! The Companies Creditors Arrangement Act, Second Edition is an indispensable guide to navigating the complexities of Canadian insolvency restructuring law. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of current and expected developments in this important area of law and practice and helps the reader gain an edge with insight into the latest decisions and developments shaping the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).
With this book, you can
Rely on the expertise of a leading insolvency authority
Janis Sarra is an insolvency authority, a leading law professor, and Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law. In this convenient resource, she identifies and meticulously analyzes the most recent and most significant decisions to shape the CCAA to give an expert understanding of the issues that will affect your next proceeding.Reduce research time
The author zeroes in on all cases relevant to the CCAA and sheds fresh light on their impact. You'll anticipate new issues that could arise at every stage of the proceeding, and learn how to navigate them effectively.Avoid commonly overlooked issues
When the case law so dominates the legislation, it can be challenging to ensure you've done absolutely everything to your client's advantage. This resource takes you through every step of proceedings under the CCAA, highlights the cases that impact each step, offers practical advice, and gives you valuable practice tools, such as model orders and a sample plan of arrangement.[From Rescue! The Companies Creditors Arrangement Act, Second Edition | Thomson Reuters]
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 4th ed.
David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, Geoffrey Loomer, and Lisa Philipps
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Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law
Benjamin Perrin
The face of modern warfare is changing as more and more humanitarian organizations, private military companies, and non-state groups enter complex security environments such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. Although this shift has been overshadowed by the legal issues connected to the War on Terror and intervention in countries such as Rwanda and Darfur, it has caused some to question the relevance of existing international humanitarian law.
To bridge the widening gap between the theory and practice of the law, Modern Warfare brings together both scholars and practitioners who offer unique, and often divergent, perspectives on four key challenges to the law’s legitimacy: how to ensure compliance among non-state armed groups; the proliferation of private military and security companies and their use by humanitarian organizations; tensions between the idea of humanitarian space and counterinsurgency doctrines; and the phenomenon of urban violence. The contributors do not simply consider settled legal standards – they widen the scope to include first principles, related bodies of law, humanitarian policy, and the latest studies on the prevention and mitigation of violence.
By bringing to light international humanitarian law’s limitations – and potential – in the context of modern warfare’s rapidly changing landscape, Modern Warfare opens a path to preventing further unnecessary suffering and violence.
Modern Warfare is mandatory reading for academics and practitioners of international law and students and scholars of security studies, international relations, and political science.
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Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance
Pitman B. Potter, Heather Gibb, and Erika Cedillo
Taken together, the symposium papers and presentations illustrate the rich diversity of perspectives and issues emerging from the discourse of Coordinated Compliance with regard to specific issues on gender equality and trade, revealing a fundamental concern over human well-being along with an abiding commitment to scholarly rigor.
[From Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance by Pitman Potter :: SSRN]
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Rule of Law and Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches To Economic Development Across the BRIC Countries
Nandini Ramanujam, Mara Verna, Julia Betts, Kuzi Charamba, and Marcus Moore
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Human Trafficking: Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities
John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin, and Philip Reichel
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A Property Law Reader: Cases, Questions and Commentary, 3rd ed.
Bruce Ziff, Jeremy de Beer, Douglas C. Harris, and Margaret E. McCallum
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Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children
Joel Bakan
Joel Bakan reveals the astonishingly callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations, and also society’s shameful failure to protect them. Bakan shows how corporations pump billions of dollars into rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from a relentless commercial assault designed solely to exploit their unique needs and vulnerabilities.
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Report on Proposals for Unfair Contracts Relief
Joost Blom, Margaret Easton, Russell Getz, Do‐Ellen Hansen, Allan Parker, Lisa Peters, Peter Rubin, Tony Wilson, Kevin Zakreski, and Unfai r Contract s Relie f Project Committee
The basic purpose of the law of contracts is to ensure that promises made for consideration are enforced. Achieving this basic purpose offends the conscience of society in some cases. The courts have a longstanding jurisdiction to refuse to enforce contracts that are determined to be unfair.
This report recommends reforms to the leading concepts used by contract law to tackle the problem of unfairness. These concepts are unconscionability, duress, undue influence, good faith, and misrepresentation. Over the past years, they have been considered in an increasing number of court decisions. This has led to an expansion of, and a degree of confusion about, their scope. It is now timely to rationalize and consolidate these concepts.
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Maritime Security in Southeast Asia
John Bradford, Tim Cook, Hasjim Djalal, James Manicom, Meredith Miller, Neil A. Quartaro, Clive Schofield, Sheldon W. Simon, Ian Storey, and Ian Townsend-Gault
This NBR Monograph examines maritime security issues in Southeast Asia, including disputes over resources, piracy, and other threats to strategic waterways, and draws implications for U.S. policy in the region.
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