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Uncertainty of Law and the Legal Process
Dari-Mattiacci, Guiseppe; Deffains, Bruno - 2006
and deters parties from settling disputes out of court. In contrast, the law is certain ex post: litigation fosters the … of a legal system (kept under control by litigation) and its litigation rate (sustained by uncertainty). We describe such … equilibrium rates in a model of tort litigation, study how they are affected by different policies, and compare the costs and …
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Do judges react to the probability of appellate review? Empirical evidence from trial court procedures
Berlemann, Michael; Christmann, Robin - 2014
The appellate review system is intended to serve as an efficient remedy for imperfect judicial decision making. However, it can fulfill this task only when appeals are filed solely due to bad verdicts and are ex-ante unpredictable based on factors that are exogenous to the judge. Using data from...
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Are pain and suffering awards (un-)predictable? Evidence from Germany
Flatscher-Thöni, Magdalena; Leiter, Andrea M.; Winner, … - 2015
This paper assesses the widely held belief that damages for pain and suffering are random or arbitrary. We empirically analyze the differential impact of a plaintiff's personal characteristics, pain-specific circumstances and a lawsuit's procedural features on such payments. Relying on a dataset...
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Arbeit – Politik – Recht: Das Recht(ssystem) als Forschungsdesiderat in den Arbeitsbeziehungen – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft
Rehder, Britta; Vogel, Berthold - In: Industrielle Beziehungen 22 (2015) 1, pp. 8-12
Das deutsche System der industriellen Beziehungen weist im internationalen Vergleich gemeinhin ein hohes Mass an Verrechtlichung auf. Umso ueberraschender ist der Umstand, dass das Recht und seine Akteure, Institutionen und Verfahren in der Forschung ueber Arbeitsbeziehungen seit Jahrzehnten...
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O que aconteceu com os recursos após o código de processo civil de 2015?
de Castro, Alexandre Samy; dos Anjos, Jefferson Silva; … - 2024
The 2015 Civil Code of Procedure (Law 13.105) entailed extensive changes in the system of civil appeals in Brazil but, after more than seven years of its enactment, there hasn't been any empirical assessment regarding the impacts of the procedural reform on the propensity to appeal in civil...
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Trial experience, satisfaction and incentive to bring another lawsuit: Does aspiration level influence winners and losers?
Yamamura, Eiji - 2013
This paper used individual level data in Japan to explore how a complainant’s past trial experience influences their satisfaction and incentive to bring a future lawsuit. Controlling for kinds of incidents and a complainant’s individual characteristics, the major findings were; (1) there is a...
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The gatekeeper's dilemma: Expert testimony, scientific knowledge and judicial reasoning
Peruzzi, Edoardo; Cevolani, Gustavo - 2024
We examine the relationship between scientific knowledge and the legal system with a focus on the exclusion of expert testimony from trial as ruled by the Daubert standard in the US. We introduce a simple framework to understand and assess the role of judges as 'gatekeepers', monitoring the...
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Inside Post-Socialist Courts: The Determinants of Adjudicatory Outcomes in Slovenian Commercial Disputes
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014
theory of litigation, we find that trial-based resolution is more likely when the case is complex and less likely when …
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The Duration of Judicial Deliberation: Evidence from Belgium
Bielen, Samantha; Marneffe, Wim; Grajzl, Peter; … - 2016
We utilize case-level data from a large Belgian court to study a policy-relevant but thus far empirically unexplored aspect of judicial behavior: the time that a judge takes to deliberate on a case before rendering a verdict. Exploiting the de facto random administrative assignment of filed...
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Political bias in court? Lay judges and asylum appeals
Martén, Linna - 2015
Several countries practice a system where laymen, who lack legal education, participate in the judicial decision making. Yet, little is known about their potential influence on the court rulings. In Sweden lay judges (namndeman) are affiliated with the political parties and appointed in...
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