Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance

PUBLISHER

Oxford University Press

DATE

2020

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Pierre-Hugues Verdier

Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Global Banks on Trial: U.S. Prosecutions and the Remaking of International Finance, Oxford University Press (2020).

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