On October 1, 2014 at the IOSCO 39th Annual Conference in Rio de Janiero, Chair Mary Jo White delivered remarks on The Challenge of Coverage, Accountability and Deterrence in Global Enforcement. In summarizing, the SEC's current approach to global
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Mapping Brazil’s Favelas
The Wall Street Journal looks at the promise and peril of making the favelas "official":For decades, favelas, the dense working-class neighborhoods that now house nearly a quarter of this city's population, didn't exist on city maps.Officials considered the informal settlements…
Jesus Christ (World Cup) Superstar?
– Derek Allen, Attorney –
The World Cup is in full bloom and like anything that involves lots of money and national pride, it’s going to generate its share of lawsuits (or threatened lawsuits). My favorite so far finds the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro…
World Biodiversity Day
Since 2000, May 22 has been designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Day of Biological Diversity. The 2014 theme is Island Biodiversity. This theme was chosen to coincide with the UN General Assembly's designation of…
Anti-Agenda 21 Movement Gains Momentum
Slate takes a look at the conspiracy theory cum increasingly-effective-political-movement that has scuppered a number of sustainable growth projects around the country:Agenda 21 [is] a nonbinding resolution that was signed by President George H.W. Bush and 177 other world leaders…
United Nations Launches the “High-Level Political Forum”; The Forum Replaces the UN Commission on Sustainable Development
World leaders at the United Nations today inaugurated a High-level Political Forum that aims to inject new energy into the global effort to boost development for all the world’s peoples in a manner that is sustainable for future generations. The…
Poirier’s Comparative Analysis of the Right to Dwell
Marc Poirier (Seton Hall) has posted Brazilian Regularization of Title in Light of Moradia, Compared to the United States’ Understandings of Homeownership and Homelessness, __ U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming). Here's the abstract:This Essay considers the…
Poirier on the Cultural Meaning of Homeownership in Brazil and USA
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Marc Poirier (Seton Hall) has posted Brazilian Regularization of Title in Light of Moradia, Compared to the United States’ Understandings of Homeownership and Homelessness (Miami Inter-American Law Review) on SSRN. Here’s the abstract:This Essay considers the cultural resonances of regularization…
Police Raid Abortion Clinic in Rio de Janeiro
Forbes: Police Raid Rio de Janeiro Abortion Clinic, by Kenneth Rapoza:Police raided an abortion clinic late Saturday in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Bonsucesso following tips that the clinic was also selling drugs. While abortions are tolerated in…
Brazilian Women Protest Policies That Promote Unnecessary C-Sections
Jezebel: Brazilian Women Taking Back Control of Their Birth Canals, by Doug Barry:Brazil, the land of talking exotic birds, is wrestling with a childbirth culture that has, in recent years, relied on interventionist procedures such as C-sections. More than…