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(Much) More on the Collateral Source Rule [PDF]
The collateral source rule is a common law norm that permits recovery of accident-related damages from both the victim’s insurer and the injurer. Many jurisdictions have modified the rule through statutory reform during the last twenty-five years ...
Andrew Feeley, David Schap
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Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms on SMEs’ Investment Decisions under the Particular Consideration of Inflation [PDF]
Corporate tax reforms carried out in EU countries since 1980 entail lower statutory tax rates and reductions in generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs.
Chang Woon Nam, Doina Maria Radulescu
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Collateral Consequences and Reentry in Alaska: An Update [PDF]
, 2014 This article describes recent efforts at the national level to ameliorate the public costs of unnecessary collateral consequences, summarizes the array of statutory and regulatory impediments faced by released offenders in Alaska, and highlights ...
Periman, Deborah
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Dismantling the earnings-related social pension scheme: Germany beyond a crossroad [PDF]
A paradigm shift in pension policy decided by the German red-green coalition government will affect the level and structure of pension benefits as well as the mix of old-age security arrangements remarkably.
Schmähl, Winfried
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Reduction of regulatory risk: a network economic approach [PDF]
Several definitions of regulatory risk are known from the literature. From the perspective of regulatory reform it is important to differentiate between the impact of a given regulatory scheme on the firm's risk exposure and the risk arising from ...
Knieps, Günter, Weiß, Hans-Jörg
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Crushing Animals and Crashing Funerals: The Semiotics of Free Expression [PDF]
, 2012 With insights from philosophy of language and semiotics, this article addresses judicial choices and semantic errors involved in United States v. Stevens, 130 S.Ct.
Lloyd, Harold Anthony
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Reporting rape: victim perspectives on advocacy support in the criminal justice process [PDF]
, 2016 Concerns about the criminal justice response to rape have prompted the development of victim advocacy services across a range of jurisdictions, yet research evidence about the nature, meaning and value of advocacy remains limited. This article draws upon
Brooks, Oona, Burman, Michele
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Using the Law to Change the Custom [PDF]
We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator.
Gani Aldashev +3 more
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Rewriting Fair Use and the Future of Copyright Reform [PDF]
, 2005 This essay describes a social practices approach to the production of creative expression, as a construct to guide reform of copyright law. Specifically, it reimagines copyright's fair use doctrine by basing its statutory text explicitly on social ...
Madison, Michael J
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An analysis and critique of statutory reforms relevant to pest control [PDF]
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1993 Abstract The Biosecurity Bill is primarily concerned with the development and implementation of Pest Management Strategies (PMS) and the enforcement mechanisms that are necessary to support them. Before we look at the Bill, however, I propose to review the issue of legislation in our legal system and its relationship to the carrying out of governmental
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