Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies 1600-1850 [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the impact of law on corporate governance by means of a case study of joint-stock enterprise in England and Scotland before 1850.
Acres W.M. +24 more
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Initial Conditions, Institutional Dynamics and Economic Performance: Evidence from the American States [PDF]
, 2003 Using state-level data from the United States, we find that differences in colonial legal institutions affect the current quality of state legal institutions.
Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay
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Interpretation Rules and Good Faith as Obstacles to the UK\u27s Ratification of the CISG and to the Harmonization of Contract Law in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 This essay examines Article 7 of the CISG, the provision on the Convention’s interpretation, through the lenses of both German and English law in order to shed light on interpretative issues in which there are divergent views in common law and civil law ...
Hofmann, Nathalie
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Civil Forfeiture: A Higher Form of Commercial Law? [PDF]
, 1993 In this Article, Messrs. Schwarcz and Rothman analyze the disquieting impact of civil forfeiture law on creditors\u27 rights. The Article begins by describing the historical origins of civil forfeiture and its development into current day law.
Rothman, Alan E., Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Civil Justice Systems in Europe and the United States [PDF]
, 2002 Professor Dr. Hein D. Kötz - dean of Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, and a leading scholar in comparative law - presents the inaugural Herbert L.
Kötz, Hein
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Jewish Law: Finally, a Useable and Readable Text for the Noninitiate [PDF]
, 1988 Why would anyone not studying religion be interested in Jewish law? It will be surprising for some to learn that some twenty to twenty-five law schools now offer courses in Jewish law. The literature in English is growing year after year. And the area is
Cohn, Sherman L.
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“Users United”: The Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 [PDF]
, 1991 The implementation of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, a law designed to improve the management of the civil justice system, is discussed.
Peck, Jeffrey J.
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Authorized Managerialism Under the Federal Rules— and the Extent of Convergence With Civil-Law Judging [PDF]
, 2007 This article, part of a symposium marking the fortieth anniversary of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, first surveys the (very considerable) extent to which changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure over the ...
Rowe, Thomas D., Jr.
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Legal Origins, Civil Procedure, and the Quality of Contract Enforcement [PDF]
, 2014 This paper empirically compares civil procedure in common-law and civil-law countries. Using World-Bank and hand-collected data, and unlike earlier studies that used predecessor data sets, this paper finds no systematic differences between common- and ...
Spamann, Holger
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Reflections on Sexual Liberty and Equality: Through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall [PDF]
, 2013 This Essay uses the opportunity to examine Roe v. Wade forty years after it was decided and Lawrence v. Texas ten years after it was decided as a platform from which to analyze the status of the civil rights paradigm in American law.
Hunter, Nan D.
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