Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and ...

Globalization has not come without a cost. In today's world of international travel, if someone from Japan sneezes, someone in southeast Missouri may soon catch a cold. Or maybe even something worse.

Over the past half-century we have witnessed a gradual trend towards increased globalization. This phenomenon includes such diverse processes as the greater mobility of capital, goods, and services, ...

The Brexit referendum, and some of the political discourse in the US presidential election, shows clearly that there is pushback on globalization. Globalization is a term that I think of as referring ...

Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...

When we talk about blockchain technology, for a lot of people, bitcoin is the first thought in their mind. That’s because bitcoin presented us with the first use-case application, where the value of ...

Law schools from around the world have joined forces to create what they say is the first formal, international network geared toward spurring legal teaching and research collaborations.