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Decomposition of Accident Loss and Efficiency of Negligence Rule

Jain, Satish K.; Kundu, Rajendra Prasad - 2013

efficiency of negligence rule. It so turns out that in providing correct incentives to the parties, part of accident loss, equal …

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Economic Efficiency as a Model of the Social Context of the Conceptualization of the Law

Tretyakov, Sergey - 2013

of law is modeled predominantly by the economic efficiency concept. Considering the early stages of the concept …

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Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making

Crouch, Dennis David - 2014

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Efficient Liability Assignment With Decoupling : An Example

Kaur, Harshil - 2019

The paper, by providing example of an efficient liability assignment rule under which liabilities of interacting parties for accidental losses is not always coupled, demonstrates that decoupling is not entirely inconsistent with efficient assignment of liabilities

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Economic Efficiency and the Law : Distinguishing Form from Substance

Wagner, Richard E. - 2015

been intrigued by the possibility that legal processes operate to promote economic efficiency. This essay probes the … problematical character of the efficiency claim. This appraisal operates by refracting the efficiency claim through Vilfredo Pareto … efficiency is an objectively meaningful concept only inside a model of competitive equilibrium. Outside that model, economic …

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Efficient Liability Assignment : Is Coupling a Necessity?

Kaur, Harshil - 2020

The paper, by providing example of an efficient liability assignment rule under which liabilities of interacting parties for accidental losses is not always coupled, demonstrates that decoupling is not inconsistent with efficient assignment of liabilities

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Commorientes, Joint Tenancies and the Law of Succession

Mee, John - 2013

This paper examines the impact of commorientes (the situation where two or more people die in circumstances where the order of death is unclear) on the law of succession and on joint tenancies. As well as considering the law of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, it also looks at the...

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Reciprocity and the Criminal Responsibility of Corporations

Taslitz, Andrew E. - 2011

In Citizens United, the United States Supreme Court held that, at least for many purposes, corporations are people too. This brief essay argues that principles of reciprocity, rooted in moral theory and social science, require, in exchange for the benefits the Court has granted, corporations to...

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Toward Drug Control : Exclusion and Buyer Licensing

Leitzel, Jim - 2011

The uncertainties associated with the precise nature of legalization regimes and with their expected outcomes sometimes are used to justify the maintenance of drug prohibition. This paper details the role that buyer licensing and exclusion might play in implementing a low-risk, post-prohibition...

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The Nature of Contractual Indemnities

Courtney, Wayne Benjamin - 2011

Promises by one party “to indemnify” or “to save harmless” another party take many different forms and appear in many different kinds of contracts. It is clear, however, that not all indemnities possess identical characteristics. So what, then, is the essential characteristic of a...

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