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The International Court of Justice's decision regarding South Africa's request for provisional measures in its genocide case against Israel is expected tomorrow. Whatever the Court decides, it is worthwhile noting that the impact of the process is already evident. And any provisional measures that may be given, will shape a years-long and likely tense dialog between Israel and the Court, as well as third countries. Everything that will happen for the duration of the proceedings, over the next two or three years at least, will continue to build evidence until, finally, the owl of Minerva will spread its wings. My purpose in this post is to provide some provisional reflections on how that may work. In doing so, I will expand a bit on a notion I've tried to develop in a previous post, that of counter-genocidal governance.

What are the global governance structures through which the world is attempting to address the greatest policy challenge of our age - climate change?

Former Cabinet Office civil servant Philip Rycroft and former Communities Secretary John Denham set out the guidance that Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer might give to the Cabinet Secretary ahead of the next general elections to ensure that the stated ambitions of both of the main parties are realised in relation to English devolution and the effective delivery of English public policy.
The post Reforming England's national governance appeared first on Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

This report summarizes the results from a survey of California Bay-Delta science enterprise stakeholders conducted in 2021 by researchers from the University of California-Davis, University of Colorado-Denver, and University of Arizona.  You can download the full report here.

As a member of the Delta Science Program's Science Advisory Committe, I'm currently engaged in a planning process called the "Science Needs Assessment" (SNA).

Since at least the 1980s, private actors and market-based mechanisms have played an increasingly important role in the provision of public goods and services and the pursuit of public policy objectives in general. A market approach is also widely used in the field of public health. In effect, the PPP approach, as illustrated by COVAX, can work to structurally protect the interests of (a majority) of the high-income countries. While PPPs in global health may do a lot of good things, their private law, contractualist nature and structures safeguard formal state sovereignty and voluntarism, predominantly benefitting high-income donor countries

Happy New Year 2020!  I went to San Francisco last weekend and saw the amazing musical Hamilton. You should definitely go!  I also spent half of Dec 31, 2019 editing a paper on the spread of conflict in polycentric governance systems, where we are particularly concerned about how conflict and cooperation within one policy forum may spread like a virus to other forums.  I think the idea of "seconds" in the duels performed in Hamilton, may help us think about conflict in polycentric systems, along with the role of "collaborative" governance.

In our article, that was awarded the 2023 AIPEN Richard Higgott Prize for best journal article, we analyse some of the key political actors that do talk about taxes, namely the Big Four professional services firms of PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG.
The post The Big Four and Corporate Tax Governance appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

Later this month it will be World Biodiversity Day, and we will again celebrate the remarkable contributions that biodiversity makes to the resilience and productivity of the earth's ecosystems. But it will also be a fitting time to face the continued failure of our institutions to grasp the scale of biodiversity loss. Or, if not […]

Citizen journalists on YouTube and other platforms may be able to replace local newspapers, providing citizens with a new source of government accountability.

With an estimated 6,9 million deaths and with its enormous scale of economic, social and political collateral damages, the COVID-19 Pandemic has created excessive momentum for re-considering the rules and procedures governing global health – or has it? In this blog contribution, I will discuss the promises and pitfalls of current law-making and law-amending efforts that seek to strengthen pandemic governance post COVID-19 by reflecting on three distinct features of global health as an area of international cooperation.

Finance ministers must forestall reapplication of the existing fiscal rules, to prevent a disastrous renewal of austerity.

Investing in the future and reforming the fiscal rules are essential, while decentralising and democratising economic governance.

The post Winter School on Federalism and Governance 2024 appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog.

Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University School of Law) has posted Corporate Governance and Risk-Taking: A Statistical Approach on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article makes three related claims about risk-taking in corporate governance. Because prudent governance often requires managers...