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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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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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green human resource management is increasingly recognised as essential for integrating environmental concerns into organisational strategies. Drawing on qualitative data from 30 professionals in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, this study explores how inconsistencies between employees' environmental values and GHRM practices influence ...
Winifred Aina +2 more
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Examining ESG Performance Through TNFD‐Aligned Disclosure Practices
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines adherence to the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework in relation to the ESG performance of non‐financial and non‐utility S&P 500 firms. Drawing on legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional monitoring theories, we construct measures of TNFD, nature‐related risk and opportunity indicators for ...
Dauda Bola Abdulsalam +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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Signalling ESG Misconduct: What Matters to Investors?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate what matters most to investors when environmental, social and governance (ESG)‐related corporate misconduct news is signalled and how these factors influence the magnitude of market value punishment. Using an event study on 44,859 corporate news items related to ESG incidents, we find that investors react negatively to such ...
Dewan Muktadir‐Al‐Mukit
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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor ...
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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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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