Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional...

The Pursuit of Justice is a realistic yet hopeful analysis of how the law works in practice rather than in theory. The multi-chapter discussion recognizes that decision makers in the law - judges, lawyers, juries, police, forensic experts and more - respond systematically to the incentive...

Should laws be made in courts or in parliaments? Orlin Yalnazov proposes a new approach to the problem. He conceptualizes law as an information product, and law-making as an exercise in production. Law-making has inputs and outputs, and technology is used to transform one into the other. Law...

Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Field of Forensic Economics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The Meaning of Earning Capacity -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definitions -- 2.3 Supply and Demand -- 2.3.1 The Supply Side -- 2.3.2...

Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in...

This book examines the links between employee-organisation relationships, work wellness and the impact thereof on the labour market from a South African perspective. By employing this focus, the book explains the role of the employment relationship and the psychological contract in improving...

Grundlegendes/Foundations -- Law and Economics in the 21st Century -- Zur Konsequentialistischen Interpretationsmethode -- Law and Economics and the Independence of the Judiciary -- The Prince and The Law -- The Appeal of Legal Empiricism -- Eigentum/Property -- Anreize aum Verschenken — Open...

Grundfragen der ökonomischen Analyse des Öffentlichen Rechts -- Staat, Verfassung, Demokratie -- Ökonomische Theorie von Institutionen und Organisationen -- Theorie staatlicher Entscheidungen -- Öffentliche Finanzen -- Wirtschaftsrecht -- Umweltökonomik.