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Humans are not unique: difficult birth is common in placental mammals
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human childbirth is widely presumed to be uniquely difficult and dangerous compared to birth in other mammals. Tight fetopelvic proportions can result in obstructed labour and contribute to high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality. Ideas summarised under the ‘obstetrical dilemma’ have contributed to this assumption by explaining difficult
Nicole D. S. Grunstra
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Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The article studies topical issues section of mortgage debt division by former spouses. The research is based on the material of law-enforcement practice of courts in Stavropol Krai in 2014-2016.
M. A. Malykhina, D. N. Malykhin
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, 1991 A comment on Judith Resnik\u27s article on the aggregation of civil cases is presented. The goals of aggregating litigation and the very circumstances in which aggregation works best in achieving those goals are discussed.
Winter, Ralph K.
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The comparative politics of courts and climate change [PDF]
, 2013 Disappointment with international efforts to find legal solutions to climate change has led to the emergence of a new generation of climate policy. This includes the emergence of courts as new ‘battlefields in climate fights’.
Vanhala, L
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on comparative institutional theory, we study the nature and magnitude of the effects of national environmental policies on corporate green innovation in developed versus emerging markets. Using a sample of 1831 listed firms in 34 countries from 2002 to 2020, we find that national environmental policies increase corporate green ...
Ivan Miroshnychenko +2 more
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Coattail Class Actions: Reflections on Microsoft, Tobacco, and the Mixing of Public and Private Lawyering in Mass Litigation [PDF]
, 2000 Ask anyone who follows legal news to name the two biggest litigation news stories in the United States at the start of the twenty-first century, and they will answer without blinking: Microsoft and tobacco.
Erichson, Howard M.
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ESG Performance, Debt Financing, and R&D Output: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing calls for sustainability in the healthcare sector, this study examines how and under what conditions environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences research and development (R&D) output. Although existing studies suggest that ESG performance enhances R&D output, the financial mechanisms that enable or constrain
Sarmad Ali +2 more
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Duties of the procedural adversary [PDF]
الرافدین للحقوق, 2009 Judicial litigation is a mobile phenomenon consisting of a large number of successive litigation procedures followed by each other, namely (litigation) does not move by force of self-motivation but needs to be pushed forward by its parties litigants and ...
Ammar Saadoun Al - Mashhadani
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Federal Judge Ideology: A New Measure of Ex Ante Litigation Risk
Journal of Accounting Research, 2019 Drawing on the political theory of judicial decision making, our paper proposes a new and parsimonious ex ante litigation risk measure: federal judge ideology. We find that judge ideology complements existing measures of litigation risk based on industry
Allen H. Huang, Kai Wai Hui, R. Li
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A Realist Defense of the Alien Tort Statute [PDF]
, 2011 This Article offers a new justification for modern litigation under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a provision from the 1789 Judiciary Act that permits victims of human rights violations anywhere in the world to sue tortfeasors in U.S. courts.
Knowles, Robert
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