When someone becomes involuntarily unemployed, they typically lose not only income and wealth but also psychological well-being as a result of the experience of being unemployed. This paper proposes that when a plaintiff proves that a defendant's illegal action caused the plaintiff to be...

As Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist James Carville famously phrased it back in 1992, the key issue for voters... “It’s the economy, stupid.”Something similar could be said for high value strategic cases in global commercial litigation, international arbitration and competition today,...

Multi-party litigation refers to different legal mechanisms that facilitate groups of litigants with similar causes of action to bring consolidated legal claims to court. The rise of collective action regimes around the world reflects a trend in civil litigation which offers an alternative to...

In the midst of globalization and liberalization fever, the people are grooming with wide-range of information even before the age of majority. However, the Indian Contract Act envisages that the minors are incompetent to hold any form of contracts. This paper is concern only with minor in...

The green building market continues to grow, but so do the corresponding legal risks which are only now being explored by scholars and practitioners. Lurking in the shadows behind any green building risk management strategy is how consequential damages should be allocated among the project...

Businesses and sophisticated parties have long used “contract exchanges,” like the Chicago Board of Trade, to obtain a fair price and protect themselves from market volatility. These contract exchanges have greatly benefitted both their participants and the public at large, but participation...

This chapter deals with the enforceability of U.S. opt-out class actions in continental Europe, with special attention to Italy, France and Spain. The study sets out by a thorough analysis of U.S. precedents concerning the availability of extra-compensatory damages in complex litigation (among...

This project presents six years of hand-collected federal district court data to analyze the first representative sample of veil piercing litigation. Our method identifies veil piercing complaints through Westlaw's trial pleadings database and codes each case through a detailed examination of...