This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability. Fiduciary law governs how trustees, fund managers or other custodians administer the investment portfolios owned by beneficiaries. Written for a diverse audience, not just legal scholars, the book examines in a multi-jurisdictional context an array of philosophical, institutional and economic issues that have shaped the movement for responsible investing and its legal framework. Fiduciary law has acquired greater influence in the financial economy in tandem with the extraordinary recent growth of institutional funds such as pension plans and insurance company portfolios. While the fiduciary prejudice against responsible investing has somewhat waned in recent years, owing mainly to reinterpretations of fiduciary and trust law, significant barriers remain. This book advances the notion of ‘nature’s trust’ to metaphorically signal how fiduciary responsibility should accommodate society’s dependence on long-term environmental well-being. Financial institutions, managing vast investment portfolios on behalf of millions of beneficiaries, should manage those investments with regard to the broader social interest in sustaining ecological health. Even for their own financial self-interest, investors over the long-term should benefit from maintaining nature’s capital. We should expect everyone to act in nature’s trust, from individual funds to market regulators. The ancient public trust doctrine could be refashioned for stimulating this change, and sovereign wealth funds should take the lead in pioneering best practices for environmentally responsible investing.
This book is about fiduciary law’s influence on the financial economy’s environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards ...
What Every Woman Should Know About Sharia Law, Before It's Too late! is an eye-opening expose of the brutal mistreatment of women and children under Islamic sharia law.Women (and males) across the USA will be stunned to learn that the Quran, the Holy Book of Islam, counsels men to beat their wives to keep them obedient. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.Islamic men, under sharia law can beat, or butcher the female members of their families, up to and including murdering them for disobedience. This is known as 'honor killings', a misnomer if there ever was one.With the threat of punishment for displeasing the men in their lives, women and girls may be , beaten, burned by fire or acid, have an extremity or their nose cut off, even be burned or buried alive with NO repercussions to the male involved.Because male-female relationships in the Islamic world are so strict, rape is commonplace in Islamic countries, and usually unpunished. Girls are often forced to marry their rapist or go to jail themselves.Women in Western societies need to realize that they are being targeted for recruitment to Islam, and why. This book explains why this recruitment has been so successful.Some of the topics covered in What Every Woman Should Know About Sharia Law, Before It's Too Late! are:• the Cinderella Complex• the Mystique of the Sheik• sharia law in the USA• Islamic goals for world Domination• taqiyya and kitman• honor killings• polygamy• child brides• bacha• female genital mutilation• and a host of other important topics.This is a book that every woman should read and then share with every woman she knows and loves.
This is a book that every woman should read and then share with every woman she knows and loves.
Sejarah jangan dijadikan alasan sebagai warisan yang membebani untuk keturunannya, tetapi keberadaan sejarah dapat dioptimalkan sebagai wacana intelektual antar generasi keturunan dapat belajar dan memahami sejarah para leluhur, agar kedepannya mampu menjalani kehidupan yang luhur dan beradab di lingkungan masyarakat. Segala bentuk perubahan pada lingkungan memiliki sifat kesejarahan. Begitu pula dengan manusia dan lingkungannya dapat dijadikan dialektika kajian antar generasi pada kurun waktu tertentu. Prespektif kajian sejarah peradaban Islam menghantarkan pada aspek dialektika kehidupan masa lalu, masa sekarang, dan masa depan agar dapat dijadikan wawasan pengetahuan. Dari kurun waktu, tentu sejarah peradaban Islan lokal memberi kontribusi membangun perdaban kemanusiaan dan lingkungan. Sudah berang tentu, sejarah sebagai wacana pengetahuan yang dapat memberi berbagai asumsi dan multi tafsir. Tradisi tutur tulis tidak lain sebagai pendokumentasian adanya sejarah lokal yang terdapat di daerah Tulungagung. Segala bentuk kajian untuk dokumentasi tulis (narasi sejarah) sudah sepantasnya sejarah peradaban Islam menjadi angin segar wawasan pengetahuan. Disinilah harus "wajib" adanya hubungan emosional antara pendokumentasi dengan objek kajian, agar dapat merasakan nuansa olah jiwa dan olah hati dari peristiwa sosok tokoh Islam. Perdikan Tawangsari hadir sebagai wacana sejarah peradaban Islam di daerah Tulungagung masa Mataram Islam.
Masuknya masyarakat muslim ke Indonesia tentunya tidak hanya membawa ajaran agama Islam, tetapi juga membawa kebudayaan Islam ke Indonesia. Budaya-budaya Islam ini kemudian berkembang dengan pesat di Indonesia ketika agama Islam menjadi ...
Provides a behind-the-scenes look at the BCCI scandal, describing a complex web of intrigue, kickbacks, corruption, and coverup
From the two Time correspondents who cracked the story, the definitive book on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: an explosive, fast-paced expose of one of the largest criminal conspiracies in history.
Bank Guarantees in International Trade is a comprehensive study of the legal and practical aspects and implications of independent (first demand) guarantees and standby letters of credit. It serves to broaden the understanding of the law on the subject of bank guarantees, while placing marked emphasis upon the practical implications and issues which can arise in the daily functioning of these legal instruments. The work comprises all reported case law from the Netherlands, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Belgium. It also takes into account the law in certain other European countries and the United States and provides valuable insight into the governing law of bank guarantees in numerous regions, particularly within the Middle East and North Africa. Written from a transnational perspective, this book can be used in other jurisdictions. The texts of the 1992 ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees and the UNCITRAL Convention have been included.
Written from a transnational perspective, this book can be used in other jurisdictions. The texts of the 1992 ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees and the UNCITRAL Convention have been included.
Frequently the ethical attorney finds himself in a position where he can no longer reconcile con-flicting responsibilities he owes to his clients with those he owes so-ciety and himself. Faced with the dilemma of choice among coun-tervailing and competing obliga-tions, he has little training and precedence to guide him. If he is over forty, the overwhelming probability is that he never took a course on legal ethics; if he looks for a general, up-to-date text to provide insight, he will look in vain. Nor is there a developed body of case law from which to glean an appropriate course of action.This vacuum of authoritative formulations of responsible be-havior is a matter of concern not only to the legal profession, but to all sectors of American society. Lawyers shape the mores and thoughts of all of us. Their will is exerted not only in modifying our national institutions, but ulti-mately our individual, personal sense of values.This volume serves two impor-tant purposes: it provides the interested professional and lay reader with an appreciation of thespectrum of the ethical dilemmas confronting the legal profession, and it provides a sense of balance about the competing consid-erations present in each of these dilemmas. At a time when the legal profession is under attack both from within and without, this book represents some of the best critical thinking by lawyers about their role and responsibilities in American society.
At a time when the legal profession is under attack both from within and without, this book represents some of the best critical thinking by lawyers about their role and responsibilities in American society.
This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales. As such it maps the complex regulatory environment in which the legal profession in England and Wales now operates. It opens with a critical overview of professional ideals, organisation, power and culture and an examination of the mechanisms of professions, exercised through governance, regulation, discipline and education. The core of the book explores the conflict between duties owed to clients (loyalty and confidentiality) and wider duties (to the profession, third parties and society). The final part applies lawyers' ethics to dispute resolution and settlement (litigation, negotiation, advocacy and alternative dispute settlement). Now laid out in a more accessible format and written in a more approachable style, the book is ideal reading for those teaching and learning in the field of legal ethics.
This is the third edition of the leading textbook on legal ethics and the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales.
