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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Regelmäßig wird von Seiten der Geberländer im deutschen Länderfinanzausgleich der Vorschlag vorgebracht, das Land Berlin in ein „direktes Bundesgebiet“ umzuwandeln, das nach dem Vorbild von Washington,D. C. direkt vom Bund finanziert werden sollte. Begründet wird dies mit sogenannten...

Regelmäßig wird von Seiten der Geberländer im deutschen Länderfinanzausgleich der Vorschlag vorgebracht, das Land Berlin in ein „direktes Bundesgebiet“ umzuwandeln, das nach dem Vorbild von Washington,D. C. direkt vom Bund finanziert werden sollte. Begründet wird dies mit sogenannten...

Since the Centros decision of the European Court of Justice in 1999, the regime of corporate laws in Europe has evolved in a fundamental way. Although it is rather incomplete and imperfect, a two-level system of corporate laws has emerged. It is characterized by a considerable degree of free...

"Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to be have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations,...

" Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the "world's oldest profession" and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the crime and family literature, prostitution appears to be have all the features of traditional markets: prices, supply and demand considerations,...

Großunternehmen sind zentrale Akteure westlicher Gesellschaften. Sie üben massiven Einfluss auf das wirtschaftliche und politische Geschehen aus. Die Machtverteilung innerhalb von Großunternehmen ist daher eine Frage von gesellschaftlicher und politischer Tragweite. Am Beispiel des...

This paper is the introductory chapter for the forthcoming NBER volume Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. The Great Recession has led to cuts in criminal justice expenditures, and the trend towards ever-higher incarceration rates that has been underway since the 1970s in the U.S....

This paper is the introductory chapter for the forthcoming NBER volume Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. The Great Recession has led to cuts in criminal justice expenditures, and the trend towards ever-higher incarceration rates that has been underway since the 1970s in the U.S....