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The Popular Classes and Royal Justice in Medieval England: Evidence from the Derbyshire Eyre of 1330-1331

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
This article investigates the degree to which England’s royal courts of common law were used by the masses (peasants, craftsmen, wage-earners) to prosecute lawsuits of small value.
Chris Briggs
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Uncertainty of Law and the Legal Process. [PDF]

There is extensive literature on whether courts or legislators produce efficient rules, but which of them produces rules efficiently? Is there an optimal mix of litigation and legislation?
Bruno Deffains, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
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Is Kelly Shifting Under Google’s Feet? New Ninth Circuit Impact on the Google Library Project Litigation [PDF]

, 2007
The Google Library Project presents what many consider to be the perfect fair-use problem. The legal debate surrounding the Library Project has centered on the Ninth Circuit’s Kelly v. Arriba Soft.
Westin, Cameron W.
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The Link Between Financial Auditors and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Empirical Studies and Implications for Future Research

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on stakeholder agency theory, this structured literature review included 89 empirical quantitative studies published between 2013 and the present on the complex relationship between financial auditors and corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. We created a research framework based on DeFond and Zhang's (2014) taxonomy and the bi‐
Patrick Velte
wiley   +1 more source

Les syndicats britanniques et le recours au contentieux juridique

La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2015
During the 2000s, the battle for equal pay in the UK public sector materialised in large numbers of individual legal actions but also, for many women, in class action suits.
Cécile Guillaume
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Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights [PDF]

We study how the market for innovation affects enforcement of patent rights. Conventional wisdom associates the gains from trade with comparative advantage in manufacturing or marketing.
Alberto Galasso, Carlos J. Serrano, Mark Schankerman   +2 more
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Sustainability‐Oriented Collaborations in Green Energy Markets Formation: A Configurational Analysis of Alliance Management Capabilities and Relational View

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability‐oriented collaborations are inter‐organisational arrangements where the competencies of multiple companies are pooled together to tackle environmental challenges. These collaborations differ from traditional strategic alliances in that they tackle complex goals amidst greater uncertainties that extend beyond economic performance,
Vittorio Maria Garibbo, Eleonora Annunziata, Francesco Rizzi, Marco Frey   +3 more
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State Attorneys General

American Studies in Scandinavia
Under the United States federalist system of government, each of the fifty states (plus the District of Columbia) has its own state attorney general (AG).
Mark C. Miller
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Climate Change Litigation and Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries

Climate Law, 2019
The adoption of the Paris Agreement has prompted a flurry of climate change litigation, both to redress the impacts of climate change and to put pressure on state and non-state actors to adopt more ambitious action to tackle climate change.
A. Savaresi, Juan Auz
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Shareholder Access to Manager-Biased Courts and the Monitoring/Litigation Tradeoff [PDF]

Adequate access to courts by minority shareholders is commonly viewed as an important element of a good corporate governance system. Should shareholders be provided with easy access to courts when judges are unlikely to punish opportunistic managers?
Sergey Stepanov
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