Susan Block-Lieb

Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes that law and who benefits affects all states and all market players. Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs cra

Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes that law and who benefits affects all states and all market players. Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs cra

Consumer bankruptcy is considered dangerously rampant across the US, and it appears that other countries are feeling the effects of it as well. These ten essays assert that the insolvency of consumers

來自美國的Susan是深度貓控。來到臺灣之後，就被臺灣友善貓咪店家與貓店長深深地吸引住。因為在美國的貓咪店長很少，也不如台灣的方便好親近，臺灣對Susan來說根本就是貓咪天堂。於是挖到寶藏的Susan開始探訪全臺灣超過80間以上的貓咪店長，收集每一隻貓店長的故事，並記錄在自己的部落格上與外國朋友分享。今天，Susan要將臺灣貓咪店長的幸福分享給大家，以雙語編撰出這本私藏的貓咪地圖，讓臺灣的友善寵物