Legal Environment Analysis

Hello, below are the instructions as follows: 

Response Papers

You will be required to develop two papers as described below. Your assigned country is based on the first

letter of your last name.

Last name Country

A-C Brazil

D-F Egypt

G-I Germany

J-L Japan

M-O New Zealand

P-R Nigeria

S-T Pakistan

U-V Russia

W-X UK

Y-Z Vietnam (MY LAST NAME STARTS WITH THE LETTER Y SO WRITE ABOUT VIETNAM)

If your last name starts with B, your country is Brazil. If your last name starts with U your name is Russia,

etc.

Legal Environment Analysis

1. Describe the legal environment of the country, making specific references to :

the rule of law (to what extent is the country governed by law as opposed to arbitrary decisions

of individual government officials)

– laws that govern foreign direct investment (for example, are there provisions to attract foreign

direct investment, such as tax incentives, most-favored-nation treatment, dispute resolution

fora; or provisions that restrict foreign direct investors such as high local content requirements or

currency exchange restrictions).

2. Discuss challenges and opportunities for American investors posed by the legal environment.

3. Based on the challenges and opportunities you have identified through your research, formulate two

recommendations, with your supporting arguments, to an American investor to successfully navigate

the country’s legal environment.

Grading criteria

This is a written assignment worth 10 points. It needs to be 3 pages long, double-spaced, Times New

Roman 12, 1.25 margins. The 10 points are distributed as follows:

– 1 point for respecting technical specifications (writing in essay format rather than bullet points;

meeting the requirement of 3 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12, 1.25 margins; the

length of 3 pages is a specific requirement

– 2 points for discussing the rule of law, i.e. accurately identifying the extent to which the country

is governed by law as opposed to arbitrary decisions of individual government officials, backed

up by evidence from primary sources and/or cited findings from secondary sources

– 3 points for identifying laws that govern foreign direct investment and discussing whether they

are favorable or unfavorable for foreign investors (as specified in the prompts for the

assignment, examples of relevant laws would be laws designed to attract foreign direct

investment, such as tax incentives, most-favored-nation treatment, dispute resolution fora; or

laws designed to restrict foreign direct investors such as high local content requirements or

currency exchange restrictions); identifying 1 relevant law would earn 1 point; identifying 2

relevant laws would earn 2 points; to earn 3 points, the paper should identify at least 2 relevant

laws (typically more) and identify overall trends in the country’s legal environment – for example,

are most laws favorable or unfavorable to foreign direct investment/ do the laws favor foreign

investors from a particular country of origin or from a particular sector of the economy/ is there

an ongoing tendency to modify existing laws to make them more or less favorable to foreign

investors

– 1 point for identifying challenges for American investors posed by the legal environment

– 1 point for identifying opportunities for American investors posed by the legal environment

– 2 points for formulating 2 recommendations (1 point for each recommendation) to an American

investor to successfully navigate the country’s legal environment (the recommendations have to 

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be actionable items; to get the full points, each recommendation has to be supported with

arguments)