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Economic Analysis of Proof of Causation in Environmental Torts [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī, 2019 One of the common difficulties in the field of environmental torts is the proof of causation between the tortious conduct of the tortfeasor and the damage suffered by the victim. This problem, according to the principles of economic analysis of tort law,
Hasan Badini, Farzaneh Motevaseliyan
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Duties in tort law and its theory
, 2021 This thesis has three aims. The primary aim is to consider the widespread claim that torts are wrongs or (equivalently) breaches of duty. This claim is often presented as essential to understanding tort law’s true nature and, relatedly, to the ...
Boonzaier, Leo
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Machine learning (ML) systems, increasingly deployed in high‐stakes decision‐making, inherently produce uncertain outputs that can lead to unlawful discrimination. This article provides the first legal analysis of how predictive uncertainty in ML systems interacts with UK anti‐discrimination law under the Equality Act 2010.
Holli Sargeant
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Utrecht Law Review, 2019 Can tort law play a significant role in the Dutch and Belgian legal systems in the legal fight against damage caused by smoking behaviour? This contribution looks into the compensatory function of tort law.
Ilse Samoy +2 more
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Issues of Defining Administrative and Tort Relations as an Object of Legal Research
Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2020 The concept of administrative and tort relations, their social nature, features (properties, characteristics), specific features as a type of administrative and legal relations, structure (objects, subjects and content) and types of administrative and ...
O. V. Panasiuk
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Incidence, Risk, and Disclosure of Corporate Litigation: Insights from Federal Court Filings
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assemble and describe a sample of 174,782 lawsuits filed against 218,437 public‐company lawsuit‐defendants in federal district court from 2006 to 2021. These lawsuits involve an array of allegations, including product liability, civil rights discrimination, contract breaches, improper compensation and labor practices, antitrust violations ...
MARY BROOKE BILLINGS +3 more
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Rawls and Tort Law: Against the Consequentialism Thesis
Civilistica.com, 2019 Rawlsian accounts of tort law have argued for one of two extreme positions. Sometimes it is affirmed, as does Arthur Ripstein, that tort law must remain indifferent to the distributive goals that animate most part of Rawls’s conception of justice (e.g ...
Leandro Martins Zanitelli
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Introducing No-Fault Compensation in Slovenian Medical Tort Law
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022 The National Strategy for Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2022–2031, drafted in November 2021 from the Slovenian Ministry of Health, sets out, i.a., the basic foundations of a no-fault compensation model for medical errors.
Maja Ovčak Kos
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The hole in the doughnut: Formalizing and testing a key model of degrowth
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Degrowth scholars often claim that capitalism generates social and ecological imbalances, as captured by Kate Raworth's leading doughnut model. We formalize this model using social and environmental indices and measure imbalances using their coefficient of variation.
Ashruta Acharya +2 more
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