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Torts and the Protection of "Legally Recognized" Interests [PDF]
The law of torts plays an important role in completing the legal property rights system by defining the extent to which property is protected from harm.
Hanemann, W. Michael, Hoffmann, Sandra
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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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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the strategic engagement of global union federations (GUFs) with emerging human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation as a mechanism of transnational labour governance. Drawing on a multimethod qualitative design—including legal and document analysis and interviews with union officials—the study identifies six ...
Ingrid Landau +2 more
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The law of AI knowledge distillation
American 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
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Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 1995 In the last few years, the Supreme Court of Canada has held that private international law rules applicable to the jurisdiction of Canadian courts and the recognition and enforcement of the judgments of sister provinces must conform to the demands of ...
Jean-Gabriel Castel
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Why Engage Communities in Biomedical Research?
Bioethics, 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
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The Islamic Law of Torts and Product Liability (An Analysis)
Pakistan Journal of Islamic ResearchThis research paper expounds the emerging legal concept of ‘product liability’ from the perspective of Islamic law of torts. In the developed jurisdictions of the world today the tort regime is considered as one of the most adequate regime to ensure ...
Muhammad Akbar Khan
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsIn the early 1990s, China introduced into its civil legal system the punitive damages system derived from the Anglo-American legal tradition, marking a significant legislative breakthrough among civil law countries.
Ran An, Ying Zhou, Rongzhao Zhang
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British 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
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Asbestos and the Future of Mass Torts [PDF]
Asbestos was once referred to as a miracle mineral' for its ability to withstand heat and it was used in thousands of products. But exposure to asbestos causes cancer and other diseases. As of the beginning of 2001, 600,000 individuals had filed lawsuits
Michelle J. White
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