Global social indicators have become a core point of interest of scholarship in law and other social sciences. The term ‘legitimacy’ is occasionally mentioned in this literature but without in-depth discussion. This article aims to fill this gap by way of exploring the relationship between...

Legal scholars, economists and other social scientist often refer to the idea that countries can be classified into a number of “legal families” or “legal origins”. Yet, this research is unsatisfactory as regards the actual classifications of the legal systems of the world. Legal...

The legal origins hypothesis is one of the most important and influential ideas to emerge in the social sciences in the past decade. However, the empirical base of the legal origins claim has always been contestable, as it largely consists of cross-sectional datasets which provide evidence on...

The COVID-19 crisis has been accompanied by an extensive use of indicators, such as those related to COVID infections and deaths but also a good number of COVID policy indicators. This paper discusses these indicators from the perspective of a legal scholar with an interest (and some expertise)...

Since the Global Financial Crisis that started in 2008, the term “ordoliberalism” has experienced a marked revival. Academics and politicians of all couleurs have recently referred to ordoliberalism as a possible way forward. Others have held ordoliberalism responsible for Germany's...

Previous research often emphasised the similarity of shareholder protection in common law (or English legal origin) countries. Conversely, this article found a remarkable diversity of shareholder protection in common law countries. Using our new shareholder protection index with 60 variables, we...

Since the beginning of the new century harmonisation of company law has once again been on the European agenda. One of its most important aims is the protection of shareholders. This article addresses this aim from a leximetric perspective. At the outset, it will be explained what leximetrics is...

This is the Russian language version of the Report. The English version is available at lt;a href=quot;http://ssrn.com/abstract=1001990quot;gt;http://ssrn.com/abstract=1001990lt;/agt; This Report was prepared, with support by the World Bank, for the Russian Center for Capital Market Development...

We test the 'law matters' and 'legal origin' claims using a newly created panel dataset measuring legal change over time in a sample of developed and developing countries. Our dataset improves on previous ones by avoiding country-specific variables in favour of functional and generic...