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"Are We There Yet?": Towards a New Rule for Choice of Law in Tort
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2000 The Supreme Court's effort to establish certainty in this area by basing a firm rule on a clear theory has failed. The intention was laudable but the proposed theory bore little relation to the courts' adjudicative concerns; and the rule sometimes ...
Janet Walker
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Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transparency is a key concern in global governance scholarship, yet its contribution to good governance remains deeply ambivalent. Scholars are increasingly questioning the idea of transparency as a silver bullet, emphasizing the need to better understand its potential, pitfalls, and regulatory challenges.
Janne Mende, Richard Georgi
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Exploring the Limits of Ukrainian Tort Law from Business and Human Rights Perspective
Теорія і практика правознавстваThis paper examines the capacity of Ukrainian tort law to address business-related human rights violations, using a model case to evaluate its effectiveness.
Bohdan Karnaukh
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Journal of Legal Studies Education, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 41-49, Winter 2026.Abstract Most business students are not interested in becoming lawyers. Therefore, business law and legal environment instructors must convey why students should study business law. To assist instructors (especially first‐time ones), this teaching note presents interrelated pedagogical questions to introduce the first week of class.
Jason R. Hildebrand
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 785-814, September 2026.This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
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CIVIL LIABILITY OF PRINCIPAL FOR THE ACTS OF AGENT – A COMPARISON BETWEEN FRANCE AND MAURITIUS
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u BeograduMauritian civil law is strongly influenced by French civil law, for historical reasons. Civil liability, tort and contractual law, is regulated in an almost same manner in the two countries.
Goran GEORGIJEVIĆ
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Expert Asymmetry: Evidence From Securities Litigation
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 293-326, September 2026.ABSTRACT Modern litigation often involves two separate, extra‐legal features: (1) contingency fee arrangements with the plaintiff‐side attorney, and (2) a “battle of the experts” where the outcome of the case rests on conflicting expert witness testimony.
Adam Callister +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2017 This article discusses the right and a potential duty of directors to pursue CSR policies under German law. It first explains the two main duties of directors: to make sure that the company complies with its legal obligations, which has been broadly ...
Peter Rott
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English tort law and the pandemic: the dog that has not barked. [PDF]
Geneva Pap Risk Insur Issues Pract, 2023 Howarth D.
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