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The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law seated at Lausanne was established by the federal statute of October 6, 1978. The Institute is envisioned as a center for the "documentation of and research into comparative, foreign, and international law." According to the statute and the implementing decree of December 19, 1979, the Institute serves the following purposes: (1) to supply federal agencies and the federal administration with material and studies that may be needed for decisions concerning legislation and international treaties; (2) to contribute towards international efforts at the harmonization and unification of law; (3) to provide information and expert opinions to courts, administrative agencies, attorneys, and other interested parties; [and] (4) to pursue its own scholarly research studies, to support and coordinate studies at the Swiss universities and to offer to scholars and researchers an adequate research center in Switzerland. . Two principles resulting from the purposes of the Institute affect the character of the library. First, to satisfy the practical and scholarly orientation of the Institute, the collection is designed to facilitate research into the present state of law and its future development. Thus, material on legal history of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and, with rare exceptions, Roman or canon law will not be collected. More recent legal history, however, will be placed in the collection if such material is useful in the application or scientific treatment of modern law.

The international financial architecture and its reform after the global crisis / Mario Giovanoli -- Reforming the IMF / Sean Hagan -- Crisis prevention : lessons from emerging markets for advanced economies / Jonathan T. Fried and James A. Haley -- Standards and the rule of law after the global financial crisis / William Blair -- The G-20 emphasis on promoting integrity in financial markets / James H. Freis, Jr. -- The proposals of the Larosière Group on the future of financial supervision in the European Union / Christos Gortsos -- The implementation of the Larosière report : a progress report / Jean-Victor Louis -- The Basel Committee and EU banking regulation in the aftermath of the credit crisis / Klaus Peter Follak -- Striking changes in US banking supervision and regulation / Ernest T. Patrikis -- Lessons for 21st century central bankers : differences between investment and depositary banking / Cynthia Crawford Lichtenstein -- The reform of financial regulation in the United Kingdom after the crisis / Sandeep Dhama, John Taylor, and Charles Proctor -- Regulation of rating agencies : current and future / Takashi Kubota -- Sovereign wealth funds and their regulation / John Taylor -- The Federal Reserve's response to the crisis : doing whatever it takes within its legal authority / Thomas C. Baxter, Jr. and David Gross -- European supervisors in the credit crisis : issues of competence and competition / René Smits -- Legislative measures to support financial market stability : the German example and its European context / Bernd Krauskopf -- Cross-border bank resolution : a reform agenda / Eva Hüpkes and Diego Devos -- The rescue of UBS / Luc Thévenoz -- How crisis resistant is Islamic finance? / Gopala Krishnan, K. Sundaram -- The Donegal case and the African legal support facility / Adesegun Akinjuwon, Akin-Olugbade -- The enforcement of sovereign debt / Engela C. Schlemmer -- The objectives of central banks / François Gianviti -- Neutrality of money and central bank independence / Manuel Monteagudo -- In search of order in the world monetary system : state intervention after the decline of the lex monetae / Kazuaki Sono and Hideki Kanda -- An institutional theory of money / Antonio Sáinz de Vicuña -- Transfer of funds : investment rules and their relationship to other international agreements / Rudolf Dolzer -- Global and cross-border credit transfers : the role of legislation in addressing legal risk for participants / Benjamin Geva -- Indexation and value clauses / Charles Proctor

In contrast to the arguments of Charlesworth et al (1991) that international law is responsible for the marginalization of women, it is contended here that international law is responsible for promoting the interests of women; however, international law has failed women in two areas. (1) A disproportionate amount of attention has been given to economic issues. (2) No cohesive strategy for the enforcement of women's human rights has been outlined. The history of feminist jurisprudence & the most popular feminist critiques of international law are discussed. International law is viewed from the perspective of Carol Gilligan (1982). The feminist notion that international human rights law is ethnocentric is considered, concluding that international human rights law is actually compatible with feminist theories. Women are welcome at international law conventions & are encouraged to form their own nongovernmental organizations. International law is gender biased only in that it focuses on improving the economic situations of individual states, &, therefore, policies that work to advance the position of women are not given as much attention as they might otherwise be. K. A. Larsen