This paper investigates the impact of judiciaries on firms' contracting behaviour and economic performance. In 2002, the Code of Civil Procedure Amendment Act was enacted in India to facilitate speedy disposal of civil suits. Some State High Courts had already enacted some of the amendments...

In the present essay we undertake the comparison of three federations, the ancient Greek Achaean, with the modern Indian and the European Union (EU). We elaborate a set of criteria, democratization and cohesion, which include each four sub-criteria, in order to analyse the institutional set-up...

Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through optimal allocation of resources and time in accordance to their relative returns. In this paper I first summarize the theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between...

This Article argues that a more grounded and nuanced understanding of women's lived realities requires legal scholars to engage geography. Because spatial aspects of women's lives implicate inequality and moral agency, they have direct relevance to an array of legal issues. The Article thus...

This article addresses the problems and the potential that American Indian businesspeople face in starting and operating businesses. American Indians are the poorest racial or ethnic group in the United States and the vast majority of the 300 Indian reservations do not have functioning...

Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgments about right and wrong. The decision to behave ethically is a moral one; employees must decide what they think is the right course of action. This may involve rejecting the route, which would lead to the biggest short-term profit. It seems the...

Significant advancements have been made in cyber aggression literature, with many studies revealing the consequences associated with adolescents’ involvement in these behaviors. Few studies have focused on cyber aggression involvement in China, India, and Japan. The present study examined...

India's population is quite young - perhaps 35 % of the total population is aged less than 15 years. In the mid-1970s, India was so worried about its explosive population growth. Population growth has slowed from 4 % in the 1960s to about 1.7 % now, fueling hopes of stable growth by the middle...

At various points in its career, the Indian state has deployed technologies to govern the nation. Recently the state has undertaken a number of large scale projects to install digital technology. The most controversial of these is the Unique Identity Project, which is registering the biometric,...