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Governing Autonomous Vehicles : Emerging Responses for Safety, Liability, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Industry Risks

Taeihagh, Araz; Lim, Hazel Si Min - 2018

The benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) are widely acknowledged, but there are concerns about the extent of these benefits and AV risks and unintended consequences. In this article, we first examine AVs and different categories of the technological risks associated with them. We then explore...

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Product Safety, Contracts, and Liability

Hua, Xinyu; Spier, Kathryn E. - 2019

A firm sells a dangerous product to heterogeneous consumers. Higher consumer types suffer accidents more often but may enjoy higher gross benefits. The firm invests resources to reduce the frequency of accidents. When the consumer's net benefit function (gross benefits minus expected harms) is...

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Brazilian Experience on Liability of Legal Persons for Corruption Offences at the National and International Levels

Silva, Wagner - 2016

Brazilian experience on preventing and countering corruption is an evolving process. This paper brings an overview of Brazilian legal framework since 1993 up to 2016 on this matter. It focuses on the Anti-Corruption Law (ACL), especially on the liability of legal persons by two ways: by...

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Intent and Liability in Employment Discrimination

Eisenstadt, Leora F.; Boles, Jeffrey R. - 2016

The Silicon Valley Ellen Pao trial brought to the forefront once again the changing nature of discrimination in the workplace with its focus on a culture of bias and the prevalence of unconscious discriminatory behavior. This case is only the most recent high-profile example. There is an...

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The United States as an International Litigant

Feldman, Mark - 2018

This chapter addresses U.S. participation in international dispute resolution from the Jay Treaty through investor-State arbitration. The chapter analyzes two sharp turns in U.S. sentiment toward a permanent international court: first, in 1935, when the U.S. Senate declined to approve the...

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Jurors, Judges, and the Mistreatment of Risk by the Courts

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

juror sample did not properly apply negligence rules, as their errors were particularly great for low probability-large loss …

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The Liability of Foreignness in International Patenting

Baik, Yoon-Suk; Seog, S. Hun; Song, Jaeyong - 2013

This study investigates the different effects of the 1982 reform of the U.S. patent judiciary systems on patent scope in foreign and American firms. We first develop a model of patent scope decision-making under litigation uncertainty. We hypothesize that although the 1982 patent reform...

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Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation : An Experiment from Patent Law

Schwartz, David L.; Seaman, Christopher B. - 2015

Standards of proof are widely assumed to matter in litigation. They operate to allocate the risk of error between … importance, there have been relatively few empirical studies testing jurors’ comprehension and application of standards of proof … study to test the impact of standards of proof in patent invalidity challenges. We found that delivering the jury …

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Liability of Directors in New Zealand

Watson, Susan; Noonan, Chris - 2012

The risk of company directors in New Zealand being found liable for corporate fault has expanded in recent years. An increasing number of statutory provisions provide for liability for directors. When the Companies Act 1993 was introduced, it was accompanied by howls of outrage from those who...

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Deterring and Compensating Oil Spill Catastrophes : The Need for Strict and Two-Tier Liability

Viscusi, W. Kip; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 2012

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill highlighted the glaring weakness in the current liability and regulatory regime for oil spills and for environmental catastrophes more broadly. This article proposes a new liability structure for deep sea oil drilling and for catastrophic risks generally. It...

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