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This article argues that punitive, nominal, contemptuous, vindicatory, and disgorgement damages (commonly referred to as non-compensatory damages) can be collectively analysed as public interest damages because all these awards are justified by violations of public interests in addition to...
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Courts assessing compensatory damages awards often lack adequate information to determine the value of a victim's loss. A central reason for this problem, which the literature has thus far overlooked, is that courts face a dilemma when applying their standard information-forcing tool to the...
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A considerable amount of literature has been published on Creative Commons (CC) licensing. There are many short articles which concisely discuss the array of problems that can arise when releasing a work under a CC licence. This paper, on the other hand, aims to provide a thorough and critical...
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In this short essay, I criticize Professor Jane Stapleton's argument (defended in her article ‘The Normal Expectancies Measure in Tort Damages' (1997) 113 LQR 257) that “[c]lassifying compensatory damages into different measures of damages is a useful analytical device in the study of the...
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This paper will explore the efficacy of contractual exclusions of obligations of care or liability for negligence. It … will begin by setting out some fundamental principles of construction of exclusive clauses affecting the tort liability of …
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Civil liability of rating agencies has to strike a balance between over-deterrence and overly lax behavior control. The … or liability caps …
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Twenty-five years have passed since courts first adopted market share liability, a theory under which a plaintiff … market share liability to a very small number of products.This Article argues that courts should eliminate the fungibility … requirement by recognizing that market share liability is just one variant of a broader concept that the author calls proportional …
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liability rules, namely transaction costs. Property rules should be used when transaction costs are low and the parties can … bargain with one another. Liability rules are best applied when transaction costs are high and bargaining is impossible or … particular, they claim that liability rules may be superior to property rules even when transaction costs are low. The Article …
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Fiduciary remedies are notoriously potent. Fiduciaries who profit from their disloyalty are liable to be ordered to disgorge all of their gains. It is widely understood that disgorgement deters disloyalty by threatening removal of gains, the prospect of which might incentivize wrongdoing....
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Law and economics has had a significant impact on foundational private law subjects — property, contracts, and torts — as well as advanced private law areas. This chapter analyzes how law and economics influences private law and how New Private Law (NPL) is influencing law and...
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