The Laws and Legal System of a Free-Market Cuba ― A Prospectus for Business

The re-entry of foreign-based businesses into Cuba will require a complete overhaul of Cuba's laws and legal institutions. It will also require enactment of major new legislation there, designed to enable and facilitate modern business transactions. Travieso-Diaz identifies these necessary legal, political, and economic changes, integrating legal and economic concepts in a way that businesspeople can understand and use in determining when it will be safe for them to reestablish business ties with Cuba. An important, readable resource for corporate management and their academic colleagues specializing in international business, trade, and investment.

MATIAS F. TRAVIESO-DIAZ is a partner in the Washington law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge. He concentrates on international matters and heads the firm's Cuban Project, an interdisciplinary effort to assess the legal and business issues that will emerge when Cuba becomes a free-market economy.