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The Punitive Damages Calculus: The Differential Incidence of State Punitive Damages Reforms
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 State punitive damages reforms have altered how courts award punitive damages. We model the decision to award punitive damages as a two-step process involving the decision to award any punitive damages and the decision of what amount to award. For the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts samples of trial court verdicts, punitive damages caps reduce the
Benjamin J. McMichael, W. Kip Viscusi
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Punitive Damages as Societal Damages
The Yale Law Journal, 2003 I. EXISTING CONCEPTIONS OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES AND PLAINTIFFS’ WINDFALL GAINS 356 A. Punishment and Retribution: The Individual Harm Paradigm.... 359 B. Deterrence: The Societal Harm Paradigm 363 1. Economic Theory: The Internalization of Full Costs 365 2. The Punitive Damages “Multiplier” and Its Limitations ...... 367 C. The Plaintiff’s Windfall as
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan +2 more
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2017 As a result of the case law by the European Court of Human Rights, the Constitutional Court was compelled to rectify its former doctrine by broadening the scope of the right to the presumption of innocence beyond punitive administrative resolutions and ...
Silvia del Saz Cordero
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We are interested in investigating whether firms use political donations as a license to neglect environmental sustainability. We further deepen the examination by exploring the role of executive contracting. Drawing on a wide range of data between 2002 and 2021 and a global sample, our findings confirm that firms use political contributions ...
Habiba Al‐Shaer +3 more
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Political consumerism (PC) refers to consumers boycotting or deliberately buying (“buycotting”) products or brands for political, moral, or ethical reasons. This paper presents three studies that consider the intricacies of the relationship between political ideology and political consumerism.
Lara J. Greening +3 more
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MGM Journal of Medical SciencesBackground: The rise in medico-legal litigation and evolving legal frameworks has made medico-legal awareness essential for anesthesiologists. Identifying gaps in legal knowledge can support targeted educational interventions to improve compliance and ...
Neha Gupta +3 more
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