VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

The author proposes a methodological exercise of transfer of concepts, norms and principles created in the Ecuadorian legal system - which recognizes Nature as a subject of Rights, and of the right to access justice in particular - to the facts that...

The law is deeply anthropocentric and tends to exclude nature from court proceedings. Consequently, in most states, pollution and destruction of ecosystems or animal abuse cannot be challenged directly by nature. This has been challengend constantly...

Legal academia has historically been diligent in examining legal knowledge as a method of interacting with, controlling, or transforming the world. However, it has been only tangentially concerned with the discourses and practices that constitute...

The Republic of Korea has shown a strong political will to develop its anti-corruption capacities. Research argues that corruption has been - and still is - an issue for the Korean political system before and after its democratization. Even after...

One of the most pressing challenges in anti-corruption law is whether and how to coordinate enforcement across multiple agencies, that is to say, under conditions of institutional multiplicity. One approach is modular enforcement, which involves...

In 2018, the promulgation of the Supervision Law in China professed the central government’s determination to combat ‘corruption’ at a new level. By putting ‘all public officials exerting public powers’ under supervision, these...

This article seeks to conceptualise anti-corruption legalism as a symptom of a broader phenomenon: the securitisation of corruption. Securitisation refers to the complex social processes through which political actors frame corruption as an...

Piero Foresti, Laura de Carli and others v. Republic of South Africa is the only case, administered by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), that involves the Republic of South Africa. This case was...

This paper discusses the adaptation and feasibility of some of the tools shared by the OECD Convention and the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The article highlights three of them: incentives and protection to whistleblowers, prosecutorial...

The 2019 Philippine UHC Act provides one of the most recent examples of contractualization of health care. Despite the significant change it brings, it regulates contracting only marginally, so that the purpose and deployment of this mechanism...