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Civil Justice Systems in Europe and the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Professor Kötz delivered the inaugural Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in Comparative Law in 2002 and this article is based on his remarks. The article is included in the inaugural volume of CICLOPs that collects the first six Bernstein lectures ...
Kötz, Hein
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Environmental Regulation at the Crossroads: A Review of Catalysts and Barriers in Circular Economy Transitions

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
wiley   +1 more source

La obligacion de alimentos en el derecho de familia alemán [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
El presente artículo pretende dar una visión general acerca de la obligación de alimentos en el derecho de Familia alemán, y su regulación en el Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (Código Civil alemán).
Bover Castaño, María Pilar
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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

English as common legal language: Its expansion and the effects on civil law and common law lawyers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
English has become the common language in a globalized legal world. However, the far-reaching consequences of the domination of key areas of the international practice of law by legal English are not yet fully understood and analysed.
Künnecke, Martina
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Regulating intimate relationships in the European polity: same-sex unions and policy convergence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Since 1989, twenty-three European countries have implemented same-sex union (SSU) laws. We argue that the political processes leading to the adoption of these policies have been shaped by international influences such as policy harmonization, elite ...
D. Paternotte   +4 more
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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Tragedy of Lutheran Jurisprudence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The teachings of Martin Luther (1483–1546) launched the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Luther believed in a discontinuity between God and humans that makes it impossible to provide an account of morality by reference to natural law.
Zimmermann, Augusto
core   +1 more source

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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