This paper utilizes the population of personal bankruptcy filings in the state of Delaware during 2003 and finds that household expenditures on durable consumption goods, such as houses and automobiles, contribute significantly to personal bankruptcy. Medical conditions also lead to personal...

This article evaluates, from a policy of law perspective, how Swedish development assistance organisations try to quot;export,quot; specifically to developing countries, the legal model of Rechtsstaat. Several definitions, as well as their accompanying values, can be seen as encompassed in the...

The paper deals with with one possible Utopian model, according to which law is an important part of the speculative Utopian Myth. This model is illustrated by using two narratives, created centuries apart. Both stories, from Hebrew sources, refer, in some detail to imaginary societies. Both...

Plaintiffs, defendants, policymakers and scholars are often interested in trends in settlements of securities class action lawsuits. In this paper, we present descriptive statistics of the most comprehensive database of settlements of securities class actions categorized by several aspects of...

In its recent decision in Mars, et al. v. Coin Acceptors Inc., the Federal Circuit ruled that reasonable royalty damages were not capped by the amount an infringing firm could have paid to avoid infringement. In other recent decisions the Federal Circuit concluded that a reasonable royalty was...

As a matter of public policy, a motion to compel arbitration will either be stayed or dismissed if tribal court remedies have not been exhausted. As recently as this past October, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Seneca Nation of Indians, granting a stay...

This paper outlines a framework for evaluating the effect of traded options on aggregate damages in class action litigation brought under The Securities and Exchange Commission's rule 10b-5. Although buyers of call options and sellers of put options are sometimes included in the class, it is far...