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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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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and restoration goals requires innovative solutions that balance carbon sequestration with biodiversity conservation. Payments for ecosystem services markets often treat carbon sequestration and biodiversity separately, but integrating biodiversity as a co‐benefit within ...
Yuan Gao +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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TORT LIABILITY AND UNAWARENESS
International Economic Review, 2018 Abstract We explore the implications of unawareness for tort law. We study cases where injurers and victims initially are unaware that some acts can yield harmful consequences, or that some acts or harmful consequences are even possible, but later become aware. We model unawareness by Reverse Bayesianism.
Chakravarty, Surajeet +2 more
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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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On Environmental Quality Standards and Finding of Liability for Environmental Pollution Torts
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2019 Though bearing technical and legal attributes, environmental quality standards are neither rules nor regulatory documents. With the binding force coming from the legal norms where they are cited, environmental quality standards are designed and ...
You Mingqing
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Discordance of the 2011 Criminal Procedure Code of Serbia with other regulations [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2014 The article points to the discordance of the new 2011 CPC with other regulations of our judicial system: The Constitution, practices of the European Court of Human Rights, Criminal Code, Law on Public Prosecution, Law on Police, Law on Contracts and ...
Brkić Snežana S.
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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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Torts, Contracts, Property, Status, Characterization, and the Conflict of Laws
, 1959 This is a formidable title, involving areas where angels fear to tread. Nevertheless, some of us are foolish enough to rush in. A few years ago Dean Prosser, for example, somehow got himself tangled up in a conflict of laws problem involving torts.
Harper, Fowler
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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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