Government Cloud Computing and the Policies of Data Sovereignty

Government cloud services are a new development at the intersection of electronic government and cloud computing which holds the promise of rendering government service delivery more effective and efficient. Cloud services are virtual, dynamic and potentially stateless which has triggered governments' concern about data sovereignty. This paper explores data sovereignty in relation to government cloud services and how national strategies and international policy evolve. It concludes that for countries data sovereignty presents a legal risk which can not be adequately addressed with technology or through contractual arrangements alone. Governments therefore adopt strategies to retain exclusive jurisdiction over government information

The Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy G: The Special Case of Derivatives

Discusses how Lehman\u27s book of derivatives was resolved and to evaluate the efficacy of the methods used, how the regulation of derivatives has been modified with the adoption of Dodd-Frank, and whether derivatives now pose more or less of a systemic risk to financial stability than they did in 2008