The composer has historically been at the top of the tree in the music industry; most royalties due to artists flow back to composers/songwriters rather than performers. Over the last few decades, the enactment of stronger performers’ rights has sought to redress this historical imbalance by...

This paper examines the implications associated with a recent Supreme Court ruling, Kelo v. City of New London. Kelo can be interpreted as supporting eminent domain as a means of transferring property rights from one set of private agents — landowners — to another private agent — a...

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory today – certainly in the US – is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in certain categories of ‘information good’ (copyright...

In the 1970s motion picture studios increased their use of blind bidding and non-refundable guarantees in an attempt to reduce the risks associated with producing a small number of large budget films. However, theater owners claimed that blind bidding and guarantees shifted risk to them and...

The paper uses the findings of psychology, behavioral economics, and behavioral ethics to revisit three main related assumptions of the rational-choice approach to equity, by developing three main points: first, not only bad people try to circumvent the law; second, behavior depends on the...

In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing...

El artículo tiene como propósito resaltar el vínculo entre el derecho y la economía y su aplicación en los sistemas jurídicos internacionales. La forma bajo la cual se están realizando los acuerdos y las negociaciones en los tratados internacionales de comercio obligan a reconsiderar la...

In many settings, human beings are boundedly rational. A distinctive and insufficiently explored legal response to bounded rationality is to attempt to "debias through law," by steering people in more rational directions. In many important domains, existing legal analyses emphasize the...

Uppsatsen konstaterar att rättsstaten bygger på och skyddar våra gemensamma värden: frihet, rättvisa och trygghet. Värdena är förankrade i kulturarvet. Kulturarvet omfattar diverse komponenter, vissa klart fastställbara, andra svåra att påvisa. Den juridiska doktrinen är en klart...

Uppsatsen jämför det konstitutionella skyddet för äganderätten i Europa och Sverige genom en schematisk analys av olika grundlagar. Den privata äganderätten som kärnan i marknadsekonomin kräver konstitutionellt skydd och reglering eftersom skyddet för enskilda individers äganderätt...