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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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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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confine their legislation to the narrowest limits in the closest of cases. To the extent that my argument is successful in … diminishing the judicial legislation position, it would tend to serve to corroborate Dworkin’s rights thesis …
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Finally, an analysis of the present situation in EU gambling and sport betting after the recent ECJ decisions will be attempted, via scenarios from primary (national MS practices, policies, and case law) and secondary (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2006; European Gaming and Betting...
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Courts prevent conflict by requiring power to be exercised in a principled way. This paper discusses the implications of courts systems moving from a monopoly of power by nation states to emerging private court systems
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will normally be in the interests of the parties that their dispute be consolidated in the one adjudication, and if they … are party to an arbitration agreement their ex facie preference will be for a one-stop adjudication by way of arbitration …
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investment treaty arbitration does not support fair and independent adjudication of the boundaries of sovereign authority and of …
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Nationwide injunctions — injunctions extending beyond the immediate parties to litigation and beyond the geographic …
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in litigation or arbitration. The outside entity — called a “third-party funder” — could be a bank, hedge fund, insurance …
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