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Boxed in? Australia's Plain Tobacco Packaging Initiative and International Investment Law
Mitchell, Andrew D.; Wurzberger, Sebastian M. - 2011
This article uses Australia as a case study to identify the issues that may arise in ensuring compliance of plain …-state dispute settlement under Australia’s investment protection agreements, as Philip Morris Asia Limited has done in its claim … under the Australia-HK bilateral investment treaty. It then considers whether the tobacco industry would satisfy the …
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Resolving Reverse-Payment Settlements with the Smoking Gun of Stock Price Movements
McGuire, Thomas G. - 2016
The Supreme Court recently held that in reverse-payment settlements of drug patent disputes, anticompetitive effects can be inferred if the reverse payment exceeds the patent holder's anticipated litigation costs, absent some offsetting justification. Application of this standard is problematic...
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Inside the Arbitrator's Mind
Franck, Susan D. - 2017
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what judges are to domestic dispute resolution. Despite its global significance, arbitral decision making is a black box. This Article is the first to use original experimental research to explore how...
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Keeping it in the Neighbourhood? Neighbourhood Courts in the Australian Context
Murray, Sarah - 2011
The first Neighbourhood Justice Centre has recently been set up in Australia and forms part of a worldwide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182119
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Australia's Move to the Plain Packaging of Cigarettes and its WTO Compatibility
Mitchell, Andrew D. - 2010
Tobacco companies have expressed concern that Australia's plain cigarette packaging initiative breaches international … worldwide and in Australia that have led to this initiative, and finally examines the claim of cigarette companies that the move … is incompatible with the TRIPS Agreement. It concludes that the general move towards plain packaging in Australia and …
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The Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
Rimmer, Matthew - 2018
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Will Plain Packaging Reduce Cigarette Consumption?
Clarke, Harry; Prentice, David - 2012
paper reviews this legislation and its likely effects on prices, market structure in the tobacco industry and on smoking …
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Economists' and Criminologists' Views on Guns : Crime, Suicides, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handgun Laws
Lott, John R. - 2016
Economists and Criminologists have very different models of human behavior. A total of 74 out of all 130 academics who published peer-reviewed empirical research on gun issues in criminology and economics journals responded to our survey. That was a 57% response rate. Looking at their views on...
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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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Physiological Steps Doctrine
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2009
In vivo conversion is a process, often metabolic in nature, wherein one substance, usually a chemical compound, is altered significantly by physiological pathways in the body into one or more different substances. For example, when a patient ingests a therapeutic drug, that drug is often...
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