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Competition law

Business Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems, 2021
cacy role, with the vendor then typically turning to its regulatory counsel to evaluate the suitors. Bidders in a well run auction will be judged in part on their regulatory (Competition Act, Investment Canada Act, etc.) risk profile and the steps they ...
Binch Mendelsohn
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Law, Finance and Firm Growth

, 1998
We investigate how differences in legal and financial systems affect firms' use of external financing to fund growth. We show that in countries whose legal systems score high on an efficiency index, a greater proportion of firms use long-term external ...
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt   +1 more
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Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science.

Science, 1987
A psychological space is established for any set of stimuli by determining metric distances between the stimuli such that the probability that a response learned to any stimulus will generalize to any other is an invariant monotonic function of the ...
R. Shepard
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Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation

, 1999
Zipf ’s law is a very tight constraint on the class of admissible models of local growth. It says that for most countries the size distribution of cities strikingly fits a power law: the number of cities with populations greater than S is proportional to
X. Gabaix
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Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law

, 2019
Serving as a single-volume introduction to the field as a whole, Brownlie’s Principles of Public International Law seeks to present international law as a system that is based on, and helps structure, relations among states and other entities at the ...
I. Brownlie, J. Crawford
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Environmental Law

Water Environment Research, 1998
Activities in environmental law in 2008 were heaviest in the areas of enforcement, water quality, and emerging issues. EPA and other agencies produced several new documents dealing with global climate change and sustainability issues. EPA's compliance office claimed responsibility for nearly $12 billion in environmental improvements that resulted from ...
openaire   +1 more source

A History of Islamic Law

, 2019
Lawyers, according to Edmund Burke, are bad historians. He was referring to an unwillingness, rather than an inaptitude, on the part of early nineteenth-century English lawyers to concern themselves with the past: for contemporary jurisprudence was a ...
N. Coulson
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Sustainable Development Goals: Law, Theory and Implementation

, 2018
Building on the previously established Millennium Development Goals, which ran from 2000-2015, the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the UN with a roadmap for development until 2030.
D. French, L. Kotzé
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Law's Empire

, 1987
Scholars of culture, humanities and social sciences have increasingly come to an appreciation of the importance of the legal domain in social life, while critically engaged socio-legal scholars around the world have taken up the task of understanding ...
R. Dworkin
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What Is International Law

, 2016
International law is a social historical legal tradition that emerged and spread over time to deal with matters between and across polities. This statement may appear obvious, but its full implications point to a thorough reconstruction of theoretical ...
B. Tamanaha
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