by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2014 | Publication
Emerging market countries are currently facing a dual challenge. How do countries incorporate transnational regulations into their societies, while building their own versions of regulatory capitalism? This raises a multitude questions and challenges. Will the...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2013 | Publication
In August and September of 2013, Botswana’s courts delivered two different rulings relating to customary property rights. The first ruling denied Botswana’s indigenous Kalahari Bushmen the opportunity to challenge government restrictions on their customary rights to...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2013 | Publication
International migration has long been linked to development through hometown associations, remittances, and the brain drain/gain. These themes also carry over to work on forced migration where resettlement is viewed as the opportunity to obtain social and economic...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 1, 2013 | Publication
With new technologies accompanied by new roles for police in providing security and maintaining order, the Fourth Amendment’s relevance to modern life is becoming increasingly tenuous. In fact, one federal appeals court judge recently announced the death of the Fourth...
by Kiel Downey | Apr 1, 2012 | Publication
How do property rights become secure? How does rule of law take hold in an economy? The author uses an original survey of 516 firms in Russia and Ukraine, as well as interview-based case studies, to reexamine these fundamental issues of political economy. Most states...
