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This chapter discusses the challenges of determining appropriate remedies in cases involving animals with a focus on companion animals. Damages fall into one of two categories: substitutionary relief, which is based on the value of loss of the animal, and specific relief, which “seeks to...
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The distribution of blockbuster punitive damages awards has fat tails similar to the distributions of losses from natural disasters. Extremely large awards occur more often and are more difficult to predict than if blockbuster awards were distributed normally. The size and predictability of...
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precedents in the diffusion of the strict liability rule for manufacturing defects. This new study tests which legal precedents … new state legislation appeared to influence courts’ propensities to adopt the strict liability rule. When the executive … Democratic Party – state courts were more inclined to adopt the strict liability rule. This last result contradicts an economic …
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This article concerns the recent case of Georges v United Nations, which constitutes, to date, the most elaborate public law challenge to the principle of UN immunity from suit and private law attempt at procuring compensation from the UN for alleged malfeasance. Despite the fact that it relates...
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interaction between EU/EEA rules on procurement remedies and the more general principle of State liability for breaches of EU …
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The EFTA Court adopted two recent Judgments on the liability thresholds for damages claims for breaches of EU … liability and found that ‘A simple breach of public procurement law is in itself sufficient to trigger the liability of the …
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procurement law is in itself sufficient to trigger the contracting authority's liability in damages (Fosen-Linjen). I argue that … Court. The latter held that the liability of a contracting authority for the breach of EU public procurement rules under the … remedies directive is assimilated to that of the State under the general EU law doctrine of State liability and thus requires a …
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