This essay considers firms as collective social actors from three perspectives associated with individualism. Ontologically, it describes firms as constantly changing relational contracts that define roles and relationships among the participants, and argues that the characteristic routines and...

We examine the evolution of fishing rights in colonial Bengal through a series of cases heard at the Calcutta High Court in the 1880s and culminating in the passage of legislation in 1889. We posit an implicit relational contract between the colonizing British and the landowning class in...

This essay applies a simple economic model of the plea bargaining process to the two-tiered structure of negotiated pleas and sentences in South Africa. Bargaining in South Africa proceeds along one of two tracks. A formal procedure, authorized and regulated by s 105A of the Criminal Procedure...