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Foreign Punitive Damages Decisions and Class Actions in Italy

Quarta, Francesco - 2012

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...

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Neurobiology and Patenting Thought

Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014

Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable subject matter, and some have even suggested that any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long disagreed with such a draconian rule, and have instead upheld myriad patent...

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White Collar Over-Criminalization : Deterrence, Plea Bargaining, and the Loss of Innocence

Dervan, Lucian E. - 2014

Overcriminalization takes many forms and impacts the American criminal justice system in varying ways. This article focuses on a select portion of this phenomenon by examining two types of overcriminalization prevalent in white collar criminal law. The first type of over criminalization...

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The Paradox of Expected Punishment : Legal and Economic Factors Determining Success and Failure in the Fight Against Organized Crime

Buscaglia, Edgardo A. - 2013

when the expected punishment aimed at the members of criminal enterprises is increasing at the same time. The jurimetrics …

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The Paradox of Expected Punishment : Legal and Economic Factors Determining Success and Failure in the Fight Against Organized Crime

Buscaglia, Edgardo A. - 2008

when the expected punishment aimed at the members of criminal enterprises is increasing at the same time. The jurimetrics …

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Molecular Neuroeconomics of Crime and Punishment : Implications for Neurolaw

Takahashi, Taiki - 2013

framework for the investigation into crime and punishment. Neuroeconomic parameters (e.g., risk-attitude, probability weighting …

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Let the Punishment Fit the Criminal : An Experimental Study

Montag, Josef - 2018

We use a laboratory experiment to study the extent to which people tailor levels of punishment to the subjective … experience of the person to receive that punishment, for both monetary and non-monetary sanctions. We find that subjects tend to …-monetary punishments are different when considered as proportions of the maximum possible punishment, but that this does not hold when non …

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Let the Punishment Fit the Criminal : An Experimental Study

Montag, Josef - 2017

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Preventing Crime Through Selective Incapacitation

Vollaard, Ben A. - 2011

Making the length of a prison sentence conditional on an individual’s offense history is shown to be a powerful way of preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was some ten times longer than usual. We exploit...

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Preventing Crime Through Selective Incapacitation

Vollaard, Ben A. - 2011

Making the length of a prison sentence conditional on an individual's offense history is shown to be a powerful way of preventing crime. Under a law adopted in the Netherlands in 2001, prolific offenders could be sentenced to a prison term that was some ten times longer than usual. We exploit...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131571