This lecture looks at the advantages that countries with common law systems have in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and other forms of capital investment. Using analysis of data obtained for 114 developing countries from 1970 to 2007, Dr. Staats will discuss how common law systems are more inclined than civil law systems to promote the rule of law and protect property rights and can be understood to provide more efficiency in the law, better contract enforcement, more judicial autonomy, and more market-oriented regulations.The Common Law Advantage for Obtaining Foreign Capital in Developing Countries
When/Where:
November 8, 2013
11:30:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM
Moot Court Room (Room 100)
Hamline Law School
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55104-1284
Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Staats, J.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He earned a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Staats practiced law as a trial attorney in Sacramento, California for over twenty years before obtaining his Ph.D. He teaches public law and judicial politics courses at UMD and specializes in research related to judicial performance and rule of law in developing countries. He was recently an expert witness on court performance in developing countries in Chevron Corp. v. Salazar et al., a case in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York relating to a $17 billion judgment entered against Chevron by an Ecuadoran trial court. He has been a consultant on judicial performance to the supreme judicial courts of Uruguay and Ecuador and the United Nations Development Program.
He has written many scholarly articles and has co-authored a 2012 book entitled Politics and Foreign Direct Investment (Michigan Studies in International Political Economy)
(U. Mich. Press.)By:
- Public Interest Law Community
- American Constitution Society
1 credit applied for
Cost:
Free.
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