The last period has seen an enormous investment in legal reform efforts in many transition and developing economies, much of it involving the importation of legal models from mature market economies. As a growing body of economic and legal literature shows, legal reforms in transition economies...

The scope of provisional measures is to protect the rights of the parties which may be prejudiced during the arbitral procedure. The risk that important evidence may be lost or that the goods subjected to litigation may be alienated, which would make the execution difficult is particularly high,...

This paper investigates public attitudes towards surveillance and privacy in Croatia. It segments the respondents based on their views on surveillance and privacy, and examines differences between them with regard to their demographic characteristics. The empirical analysis is based on data...

Based on empirical data, a two-equation game-type corruption reaction function model was developed. A 'data to model' approach was used rather than the usual a priori approach. The general hypothesis tested was the 'monkey see, monkey do' principle. The latest data on corruption among developing...

This paper studies the transition of contract enforcement institutions. The prevalence of relational contracts, low legal quality, strong cultural preference for personalistic relationships, low social mobility, and highly unequal endowment form a cluster of mutually reinforcing institutions...

In a concise formula, lex mercatoria has been defined as being a category of international law, separate from any national legislation, and which stems from, and applies to international commercial transactions. Although the notion of lex mercatoria does not have a well-defined content it is...

The role of political parties is important in the functioning of public authorities and at a first glance it is positioned above the citizens will expressed through voting. This paper describes such an interference of politics in the functioning of public authorities, in this case the Local...

This paper focuses on the factors which influence, in France, the behaviour of the judges who fix child support orders. The theoretical framework of arbitration models is adapted to build a judge?s utility function. Then our theoretical model is estimated with some original experimental data....

We investigate the effects of restrictive asylum policies on the number and group composition of asylum seekers. We model the choices of refugees and traffickers about whether to migrate and to apply for asylum. Counter-intuitively, restrictive asylum policies do not lead to a reduction in the...

We appreciate that by using the procedure on notarial divorce by agreement between the spouses in the law, the court shall provide relief to those cases, the rapidity resolution, confidentiality, and a maximum time of many safety checks prior to be make notary public in this proceeding.