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Predicting Litigation Outcomes
Shepherd, Joanna - 2011
Economic theory asserts that, in general, the only cases going to trial should be cases with unpredictable outcomes. When the law applies to the facts to yield consistent and predictable outcomes, litigants have strong incentives to settle cases before trial. I test this theory using a dataset...
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The role of legal presumptions in patent litigation
Guerra, Alice; Kundu, Tapas - 2019
We formally analyze the effects of legal presumptions in patent litigation. We set up a novel contest model to study litigation outcomes, judgement errors, and resource dissipation under three alternative presumption criteria: a presumption that the patent is valid; a presumption that the patent...
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‘Smart Courts’ in China and the Future of Personal Injury Litigation
Zou, Mimi - 2020
While technology is playing an increasingly important role in courtrooms around the world, Chinese courts are adopting and experimenting with deep technologies at a much faster pace and on a greater scale than their counterparts in most other countries. In recent years, Chinese courts have seen...
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Rule of Law and Rule of Officials : Shareholder Litigation and Anti-Dumping Practice in China
Wang, Jiangyu - 2014
China has achieved remarkable success in building the necessary institutions for a functional legal system. However, it …-dumping investigation are two such contrasting examples. This brief will examine the evolution of shareholders' suits in China as well as … changes have tended to follow, rather then precede, economic changes in China. Strengthened legal protection was a result of …
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Suing the Government Under Independent Jurisdiction : Evidence from Administrative Litigation Reform in China
Cao, Guangyu; Liu, Chenran; Zhou, Li-An - 2021
Utilizing China's ``Trans-Regional Jurisdiction'' Reform in administrative litigation that started in 2014, the paper …
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Decisional Sequencing as a Prerequisite of Predictive Justice and Integrating Artificial Intelligence in the Judicial Decision-Making Process
Pilkov, Kostiantyn - 2022
The court proceedings need to be viewed as a sequential process, where the sequence of making decisions of particular questions is strictly regulated by the logic of the proceeding moving in the following direction: party's statement – assessment whether the claim is worthy to be considered on...
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Predicting Authoritarian Crackdowns : A Machine Learning Approach
Chan, Julian TszKin - 2020
We have developed a quantitative indicator to predict if and when a series of protests in China, such as the one that …-related articles published in the People's Daily—the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China. We use a set of machine …
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Non-economic damages in medical malpractice appeals : does the jurisdiction make a difference?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia - 2015
This article assesses predictors of payouts and non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases decided by the Spanish Supreme Court from 2006 until 2010. Medical malpractice cases can be judged in administrative or civil courts, and this distinction heavily relies on the type of hospital...
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Litigation and the timing of settlement : evidence from commercial disputes
Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2015
Although an overwhelming proportion of all legal disputes end in settlement, the determinants of the timing of settlement remain empirically underexplored. We draw on a novel dataset on the duration of commercial disputes in Slovenia to study how the timing of settlement is shaped by the stages...
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Litigation and settlement under court error
Ackermann, Philipp - 2010
Settlements are often considered to be welfare-enhancing because they save time and litigation costs. In the presence of court error, however, this conclusion may be wrong. Court decisions create positive externalities for future litigants which will not occur if a dispute is settled out of...
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