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We need a world financial court with specialist judges

By Jeffrey Golden

Published: September 8 2009 16:28 | Last updated: September 8 2009 16:28

Do we need an international tribunal for complex financial market disputes or sophisticated, cross-border financial crimes? Should we be recruiting or training specialist judges for the task?

Our newspapers are full of stories about financial market regulators and regulation; however, we read little about our courts’ preparedness to interpret that regulation or deal with the highly technical cases that could follow the current financial upheaval.

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