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Legal Expertise on Corporate Audit Committees and Financial Reporting Quality
Accounting Review, 2011 Recent trends in corporate board composition indicate an increase in the appointment of directors with legal expertise. Using two financial reporting quality measures, accruals quality and discretionary accruals, we find—for a sample of Russell 1000 ...
Jagan Krishnan, Yuan Wen, Wanli Zhao
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Legal concepts and legal expertise
Synthese, 2020A recent wave of empirical legal scholarship reports surprising findings about various concepts of legal significance, including the concept of acting intentionally, causation, consent, knowledge, recklessness, reasonableness, and law itself. These studies typically examine laypeople, but often draw broader conclusions about legal experts or law ...
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Executives’ Legal Expertise and Corporate Innovation
Corporate Governance: An International Review, 2022ABSTRACTResearch QuestionThis study investigates whether and how executives with legal expertise impact corporate innovation.Research FindingsUsing a sample of listed firms in China, we have the following findings: (1) Firms that hire executives with legal expertise are associated with more corporate innovation.
Yunhao Dai, Xinchu Tong, Xiao Jia
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Cultural expertise in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland: the potential for Nordic Legal Pluralism
Published online: 10 July 2024This paper explores the reception, perception, and implementation of cultural expertise within the court systems of Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. It uses both quantitative and qualitative data collected from 2018 to 2022 for
Noora Arajärvi
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The American Journal of Jurisprudence
Abstract Legal experts can reliably ascertain which legal norms are valid, and therefore which legal propositions are true. Legal experts are in this position because they have a grasp of the deep cognitive structure of law: the habits, commitments, and values that characterize the practice of legal argument in a specific jurisdiction ...
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Abstract Legal experts can reliably ascertain which legal norms are valid, and therefore which legal propositions are true. Legal experts are in this position because they have a grasp of the deep cognitive structure of law: the habits, commitments, and values that characterize the practice of legal argument in a specific jurisdiction ...
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A case-based approach to modeling legal expertise
IEEE Expert, 1988Hypo, a computer program that performs case-based reasoning in the legal domain, helps attorneys analyze and make arguments about new fact situations in terms of the most relevant precedent cases. To perform this task, Hypo must make factual comparisons of cases relative to the problem situation and determine the legal significance of comparisons in ...
ASHLEY, KD, Rissland, EL
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Legal Indeterminacy and/as Professional Expertise
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 2003One of my concerns here has to do with what I perceive as the possible elision of the normative possibilities of law– and, therefore, the possibility of a more democratically meaningful understanding of justice in the space provided by law. It is an attempt to think seriously about the claim that ``law provides a terrain of contestation on which the ...
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Legal Expertise and Biographical Experience
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2017Abstract The Universal Declaration of Human Rights included – in Article 15 – the right to a nationality. Asserting this right paved the way to agreements such as the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons of 1954. Major protagonists in the development of this and other such human rights instruments were Jewish lawyers and their NGOs.
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The Politics of Legal Expertise in EU Policy-Making
2021Legal advisers working in the institutions of the European Union exercise significant power, but very little is known about their work. Notwithstanding the handful of cases where legal matters find their way into the news, legal advice remains invisible in EU policy making.
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