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Tort Liability for the Act of a Minor Child: from the Special Regimes towards a General One?–A Comparison between French and Mauritian Laws

open access: yesAnnales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul
Both the French and the Mauritian Civil Codes, the latter being, for historical reasons, strongly influenced by the former, contain special rules on tort liability for the acts of minors.
Goran Georgijevic
doaj   +1 more source

The law of AI knowledge distillation

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Knowledge distillation—the practice of training a compact student model on the outputs of a larger teacher model—has emerged as the fastest‐growing technique for replicating and disseminating frontier artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Taorui Guan
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums [PDF]

open access: yes
We evaluate the effect of tort reform on employer-sponsored health insurance premiums by exploiting state-level variation in the timing of reforms. Using a dataset of healthplans representing over 10 million Americans annually between 1998 and 2006, we ...
Ronen Avraham   +2 more
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Commercial Appropriation of a Person's Image: Wells V Atoll Media (Pty) Ltd (Unreported 11961/2006) [2009] ZAWCHC 173 (9 November 2009) [PDF]

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2011
Our modern society has become transfixed with celebrity. Business people and marketers also endeavour to cash in on the popularity enjoyed by the stars and realise the value of associating merchandise or trademarks with the rich and famous. This leads to
SJ Cornelius
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Why Engage Communities in Biomedical Research?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While community engagement in biomedical research is widely lauded, and many reasons to engage communities have been adduced, it is unclear whether all these reasons are equally important, and, if not, which are most important. Here, I argue that, outside of rare circumstances, community engagement should not be understood as seeking ...
Robert Steel
wiley   +1 more source

Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms [PDF]

open access: yes
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size.
Friedson, Andrew I., Kniesner, Thomas J.
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Inhibition of the MER tyrosine kinase ameliorates pulmonary fibrosis by suppressing macrophage M2 polarisation and osteopontin signalling

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose The MER proto‐oncogene tyrosine kinase (MERTK) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis (PF), and MERTK inhibition has been shown to ameliorate PF. However, the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we have investigated how MERTK inhibition attenuates bleomycin (BLM)‐induced PF in mice and to elucidate the ...
Juan Li, Xiangsheng Yang, Xiao Xiao Tang
wiley   +1 more source

Tort Law and Human Rights - Second Edition

open access: yes, 2017
This is a completely revised and expanded second edition, building on the first edition with two principal aims: first, to elucidate the role that domestic tort principles (including the new "remedy" under the Human Rights Act 1998) play in securing to ...
Wright, J
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on the Equivalence between Contractual and Tort Liability [PDF]

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The aim of this paper is to conciliate some conclusions of the economic theories of breach of contract and tort law. The main result is that the two efficient alternatives that tort law identifies (negligence rule and strict liability with a defense of ...
Germán Coloma, Sergio Pernice
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