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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?
Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher +2 more
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Intraportfolio Litigation Essay [PDF]
, 2011 The modern trend is for investors to diversify. Shareholders who own one S&P 500 firm tend to own many of the others as well. This trend casts doubt on the traditional compensation and deterrence rationales for legal rules that hold corporations liable ...
Rose, Amanda M., Squire, Richard
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Some Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education [PDF]
, 2004 The litigation campaign against segregation that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education\u27 remains an important subject of study. Brown continues to be controversial because Americans remain uncertain about what its substantive commitments were, and,
Tushnet, Mark V.
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Automatic Card Shufflers and Antitrust Litigation: An Arbitration Perspective
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines an American Arbitration Association (AAA) class action proceeding in which Mohawk Gaming Enterprises LLC alleges that Light & Wonder Inc. and L&W Gaming Inc. fraudulently obtained and enforced patents, thereby monopolizing the market for automatic card shufflers and violating Sections 2 and 3 of the Sherman Act.
Tariq K. Alhasan
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Discovering Discovery: Non-Party Access to Pretrial Information in the Federal Courts 1938-2006 [PDF]
, 2007 In the modern era, the pretrial process is critical to the disposition of almost all litigation. The vast majority of cases never go to trial. Those which are contested at trial and upon appeal are often decided upon the results of the information gather
Moskowitz, Seymour
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Board Governance as a Strategic Mechanism: Carbon Risk and Firm Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Carbon emissions are a major contributor to global warming and pose significant threats to the environment. In response to the urgency of climate change, firms are under increasing pressure to adopt policies that enhance environmental performance while reducing carbon risk.
Sarmad Ali +3 more
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Market Perceptions of ESG Reputational Risk in the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Negative ESG‐related reputational events generate significant corporate risks, particularly within sensitive sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry. Using novel reputational data, this research investigates investor perceptions of the consequences of experienced ESG breaches among US pharmaceutical firms.
Erdinc Akyildirim +3 more
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Workers' compensation in the United States: high costs, low benefits [PDF]
, 1995 Studies suggest that income replacement is low for many workers with serious occupational injuries and illnesses. This review discusses three areas that hold promise for raising benefits to workers while reducing workers' compensation costs to employers:
Boden, Leslie
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT National and supranational institutions are establishing emission trading systems and control schemes in an attempt to manage stakeholders' willingness to engage with regulatory systems and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Nonetheless, despite the national and supranational focus on carbon neutrality, little research has been centered ...
Daniele Giordino +3 more
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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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