This chapter aims to stimulate a debate on the role played by lawyers in law and economics scholarship. It is argued that traditional legal scholarship is unfairly undervalued in the current law and economics movement. By using examples in English contract law, this chapter argues that lawyers...

The remedy of damages for repudiation modifies not only the parties’ behaviour after the contract is repudiated (ex post behaviour), but also their behaviour in making and performing the contract (ex ante behaviour). In this paper, a law-and-economics approach is adopted to analyse the House...

This paper applies a law-and-economics approach to the study of legal remedies for unconscionable contracts, intending to develop a theoretical framework for the private law remedies in relation to the doctrine of unconscionability. It examines how the different legal remedies will modify a...

This Chapter argues that the current harmonisation of European contract law will eventually fail. Supporters of the harmonisation suggest that the divergence in national contract laws not only generates unnecessary costs for cross-border trade, but also undermines fair competition in the...

This paper questions the effectiveness of Article 17 of the Commercial Agent (Council Directive) Regulation 1993 (hereafter referred to as Article 17), which aims to benefit the commercial agent by forcing the principal to make a mandatory end payment to the agent on termination of the contract....

Intentional misrepresentation (IM) or fraudulent misrepresentation in this paper is defined as a type of behaviour whereby one contracting party (representor) intentionally presents untrue information to another party (representee), inducing the latter to contract with him. This behaviour is...

A dynamic bidirectional coupled model for watershed environment (E-DBCM), consisting of upland watershed module (UWSM) and 2D downstream waterbody module (DWBM), was developed. The computational domain was divided into upland watershed and downstream waterbody according to the water depth. The...

In this study, high-rate mixotrophic denitrification was realized under natural aerobic conditions via introducing PHBV and controlling the pyrite sizes. Results showed that optimal pyrite size was 30 mesh (0.45 mm) with removal efficiency of nitrogen and phosphorus of 96% and 25%, respectively....

Urban greenspace plays a positive role in improving the urban living environment, and thus extensive studies have paid attention to the mapping of urban greenspace for various applications. Recently, open and high-resolution land-cover (LC) data have been viewed as essential sources for urban...