This report discusses cash bail reforms that have occurred in the United States and provides key considerations for people interested in implementing bail reforms in their jurisdiction. Based on a landscape analysis of bail reforms across all 50 states, we identify the four main actors who take...

The introduction of the W-salaries and the junior professorship through the amendment of the University Framework Act 2002 is viewed critically, both from the perspective of that time and in retrospect.

How does the publication of patents affect innovation? We answer this question by exploiting a large-scale natural experiment--the passage of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)--that accelerated the public disclosure of most U.S. patents by two years. We obtain causal...

1. Purpose: Analyzing the Validity of the Insolvency Law Model -- 2. Overview of Insolvency Law Theories and Contexts -- 3. Methodological Framework -- 4. Vietnam -- 5. Laos -- 6. Myanmar -- 7. Introduction -- 8. Colonial Insolvency Regime in Present Time -- 9. Corporate Insolvency in Practice...

Countries are not equally developed in large part because most countries face sets of property rights that do not foster growth despite the aggregate gains that would result from changing property rights. The difference in rents to society between the extant set of property rights and some...

Housing is one of the areas where it may be most critical for poor people to have access to legal representation in civil cases. We study the roll-out of New York City's Universal Access to Counsel program (UA), using detailed address-level housing court data from 2016 to 2019. The program,...

Neben einer rechtlichen Einordnung sogenannter Erstreckungsmechanismen wurden hierzu soziologische und ökonomische Forschungsarbeiten ausgewertet und um qualitative Ergebnisse aus Experteninterviews ergänzt. Es zeigt sich, dass die 2014er-Reform bisher nicht zu mehr...

This paper studies how the ease of repossessing collateral in bankruptcy affects corporate leasing policy. Using plausibly exogenous variation of the comparative advantages in the ability to repossess assets between leases and secured lending generated by anti-recharacterization laws, I find...

"Public procurement affects a substantial share of world trade flows, amounting to 1000 billion euros per year. In the EU, the public purchase of works, goods and services has been estimated to account on average for 16% of GDP. The novelty of this book is that it focuses on the new European...

This paper uses evidence from three Indian states, one of which amended inheritance legislation in 1994, to assess first- and second-generation effects of inheritance reform using a triple-difference strategy. Second-generation effects on education, time use, and health are larger and more...

This chapter examines a critical banking reform issue in developing countries – the equitable inclusion of individuals effectively excluded from mainstream banking/financial sectors of their respective countries. The author sets forth the proposition that the equitable and accessible provision...

The purpose of this study is to identify the causes and factors of corruption and its effects and the most important legal tools to fight it. The study aims at evaluating the legal and institutional frameworks for the Anti-Corruption Commission in Jordan through showing some of the fallacies and...

Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote hirings and employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to let some of the legal parameters of FTCs (as well as those of other labour market institutions) vary...