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Stop Right There! Assessing the Role of Collateral Estoppel in a Fraud Proceeding Against a Debtor and a Debtor-Owned Business [PDF]
, 2018 (Excerpt) In an adversary proceeding, under section 523(a)(2)(A) of title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”), to determine the non-dischargeability of a debt based upon fraud, a state courts finding of fraud against a debtor-owned ...
Dorman, Brandon
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University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 2012 Undocumented immigrants in financial distress are barred from seeking many forms of assistance. Bankruptcy is one tool that is, in theory, available to undocumented debtors because legal status is not a prerequisite to bankruptcy relief. This Article explores undocumented debtors' interactions with the bankruptcy system.
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Informal creditors and sovereign debt restructuring. [PDF]
Indian Econ Rev, 2023 Ghosal S, Thomas D.
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Effective faking of verbal deception detection with target‐aligned adversarial attacks
Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Deception detection through analysing language is a promising avenue using both human judgements and automated machine learning judgements. For both forms of credibility assessment, automated adversarial attacks that rewrite deceptive statements to appear truthful pose a serious threat.
Bennett Kleinberg +2 more
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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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MediaTropes, 2013 In this paper I focus on the affective dimension of debt and its primary mode of dissemination--privately and digitally created credit money. To do so, I examine the age-old--though increasingly visible--relationship between debtor and creditor, a ...
Matthew Tiessen
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Contextualising Hohfeld's Analysis of Rights: Legal Relations and the Rule of Law
Ratio Juris, EarlyView.Abstract More than a century ago, W. N. Hohfeld offered the most influential analysis of rights to date. However, his classification has rarely been received without criticism. Many of the objections to his framework stem from the longstanding debate between interest and will theories of rights.
Paulo Baptista Caruso MacDonald
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In times of crisis, maintaining citizens' trust in government is crucial for policy legitimacy. Yet, research on how institutional design shapes trust under crisis conditions remains limited. This study addresses this gap by examining how the delegation of authority and the degree of institutional independence of public health agencies relate ...
Jana Gómez Díaz
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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