Can businesses succeed in a world of corruption (without paying bribes)?

Jan 12, 2016 11:31 am UTC| Law Business

Every global business has to be careful about running afoul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the federal law that prohibits paying bribes to foreign officials to obtain or retain business. The Justice...

Can schools punish students for off-campus, online speech?

Jan 12, 2016 11:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

In January 2014, Reid Sagehorn, a student at Rogers High School in Minnesota, jokingly tweeted actually yeah in response to a question about whether he had made out with one of his high school teachers. The public...

Xenophon is right to call for law reform on gift cards

Jan 12, 2016 05:03 am UTC| Law

The corporate collapse of Dick Smith has many people, including cross-bench Senator Nick Xenophon, angered at the treatment of gift card holders as unsecured creditors. The concept leading to this situation is more than...

Indonesia needs creative economy law to spur job creation

Jan 12, 2016 04:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law

Indonesia should put in place a law on the creative economy to allow businesses in the sector to operate with legal certainty. Supporting the growth of the creative economy will spur job creation, an answer to the...

Migrant Crisis Series

Seeing eurozone events through the lens of the global financial crisis

Jan 11, 2016 00:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Some 75 years in the making, the eurozone as it currently exists has generally succeeded in its aims of establishing shared institutions, political constraints and economic benefits: a single currency, open borders, free...

Corporate-style regulation of unions won't defeat corruption

Jan 08, 2016 00:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Commissioner Dyson Heydons 79 recommendations from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance represent a steamroller approach to industrial democracy and basic human rights, such as the right to collectively bargain...

Client of Eric Traut Sues Applebees After Finding Fingertip in Salad

Jan 07, 2016 12:30 pm UTC| Business Law

SANTA ANA, Calif., Jan. 07, 2016 -- The disturbing trend of biological and anatomical items found in food at national chain restaurants has occurred again, this time with a bloody fingertip in a salad at Applebees Paso...