An Introduction to German Law and Legal Culture offers students, comparative law scholars, and practitioners an insightful and innovative survey of the German legal system. While recognizing the significant influence of the Civil Law tradition in the German legal culture, the book also considers...

Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge aus Rechtswissenschaft und Ökonomik zu grundlegenden Fragen des deutschen Deliktsrechts. Dabei zeichnet ihn die interdisziplinäre, rechtsökonomische Herangehensweise aus - zum Beispiel bei der Frage, wie die Verhaltensforschung für deliktsrechtliche...

Accepting the argument made by Manne, Epstein and others that firms wishing to allow their employees to insider trade should be permitted to do so, this article shows that there is still a crucial role for government in regulating insider trading. In particular, allowing employees to profit by...

This report analyses Egypt's legal and policy framework and takes stock of the Egyptian Government's efforts to co-ordinate child justice services and make the justice system in Egypt more child-friendly. It includes an analysis of specific design and delivery mechanisms of justice and support...

Kent Greenfield's Corporations Are People Too (And They Should Act Like It) reclaims the legal theory of corporate personhood from the conservative right and champions it for the progressive left. Greenfield argues that corporate personhood, properly construed, can further progressive goals by...

Can artificial intelligence, in particular, machine learning algorithms, replace the idea of simple rules, such as first possession and voluntary exchange in free markets, as a foundation for public policy? This paper argues that the preponderance of the evidence sides with the interpretation...

This book examines the concept of ‘development’ from alternative perspectives and analyzes how different approaches influence law. ‘Sustainable development’ focuses on balancing economic progress, environmental protection, individual rights, and collective interests. It requires a...

This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program (LSP) on family structure and welfare participation. LSPs provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-differences research design based on...

This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program (LSP) on family structure and welfare participation. LSPs provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-differences research design based on...

Tort and civil liability reform has been a hotly debated issue across US states. This has spawned a large theoretical and empirical academic literature that evaluates the implications of such reform and the impact that it can have on various aspects of an economy. This study adds to that...

China’s massive law reform program was originally driven by its “open door” policies and has been sustained by WTO accession and internationalisation. These reforms, in combination with franchise specific laws, have both legitimised and facilitated the development of a franchise sector in...

This article explores whether legal empowerment can address horizontal inequalities in post-conflict settings, and if so, how. It argues that legal empowerment has modest potential to reduce these inequalities but that there are risks of strengthening group identities, reducing social cohesion,...

In academic circles, there are now a myriad of proposals for reform of Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy law. Many of these proposals call for the replacement of Chapter 11 with market-oriented alternatives, including in some cases, auction of insolvent, publicly held companies. Auctions in...

The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) is a non-partisan, nonprofit, unincorporated association comprised of commissions formed in each state of the United States and also the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its mission is "to promote uniformity in the law among the...

Portugal has embarked on an ambitious agenda to guide the transformation of the justice sector. The report takes stock of the Portugal's justice sector modernisaton reforms and more current efforts to make the justice sector more transparent, accessible and effective. It examines specific...

Innovation is of critical value in the modern global economy, as it performs several important economic functions. The first is related to supporting the sustainability of socio-economic systems, preventing the emergence of crises and, if they do occur, providing solutions to overcome their...

In this paper Sir Ivor Richardson discusses the role and possible methods of work of lawyers assigned to law reform tasks outside their home jurisdictions. In particular, he relates his comments to his own experience in preparing fiscal and banking legislation for Mauritius, Tonga and Western Samoa

This article sketches, conceptually and empirically, the nature and magnitude of the economic gains associated with the impact of legal reform covering the financing of commercial aircraft and aircraft engines as contemplated by the proposed UNIDROIT Convention on International Interests in...

This report offers an empirical tool to help planners, statisticians, policy makers and advocates understand people's everyday legal problems and experience with the justice system. It sets out a framework for the conceptualisation, implementation and analysis of legal needs surveys and is...

Introduction -- Part I CONCEPTUALIZING DEVELOPMENT -- Tomáš Gábriš, “Law and Development” in the Light of Philosophy of (Legal) History -- Christine Mengès le Pape, Populorum Progressio, Development and Law? -- Flavio Felice, Luca Sandonà, Luigi Sturzo’s Socio-Economic Development...

For all its stability the law of contract has seen a good deal of reform, most of it judge-made, in the last quarter century or so. In this 1988 paper the author tries to sketch at least some of the main features of this judicial law reform in the law of contracts, to suggest the areas where...

This article, Why I Do Law Reform, is the lead article in a symposium issue on the Uniform Probate Code: Remaking American Succession Law, 45 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 727 (2012). The symposium, held at the University of Michigan Law School on October 21, 2011, was held in honor of the author’s...

Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...