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1.

Bank CEOs, Inside Debt Compensation, and the Global Financial Crisis

Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 11-49
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2013
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Frederick Tung and Xue Wang
Boston University School of Law and Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business
Downloads 1,817
2.

The Secret of My Success: How Status, Prestige and School Performance Shape Legal Careers

Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 207, UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-26, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2012
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Richard H. Sander and Jane R. Bambauer
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law
Downloads 1,557
3.

The Impact of Right-To-Carry Laws and the NRC Report: Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2011
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Abhay Aneja, John J. Donohue and Alexandria Zhang
Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University
Downloads 1,306
4.

Is Delaware Losing Its Cases?

as published in 9 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, pp. 605-656 (2012), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-03, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 36/2010, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 174, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 151/2010, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 11/08
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2015
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John Armour, Bernard S. Black and Brian R. Cheffins
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law

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Downloads 1,304
5.

Can Voter ID Laws Be Administered in a Race-Neutral Manner? Evidence from the City of Boston in 2008

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol. 7, No 1, pp 1-33
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Rachael V. Cobb, D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn
Suffolk University - Department of Government, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science
Downloads 1,174
6.

Institutional Investors as Minority Shareholders

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
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Yishay Yafeh and Assaf Hamdani
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration and Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,144
7.

The Sources of Value Destruction in Acquisitions by Entrenched Managers

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 106, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012
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Jarrad Harford, Mark Humphery-Jenner and Ronan Powell
University of Washington, UNSW Business School and University College Dublin (UCD) - Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business
Downloads 1,142
8.

Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu

UNC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1633439, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2016
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Mark C. Weidemaier, Robert E. Scott and G. Mitu Gulati
University of North Carolina School of Law, Columbia University - Law School and Duke University School of Law
Downloads 1,136
9.

When Do Generics Challenge Drug Patents?

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 379
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
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C. Scott Hemphill and Bhaven N. Sampat
New York University School of Law and Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health

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Downloads 1,120
10.

Creditor Rights and LBOs

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2014
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Jerry Cao, Douglas J. Cumming, Meijun Qian and Xiaoming Wang
Independent, Florida Atlantic University, Australian National University (ANU) - College of Business and Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Downloads 812
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When and Why Individuals Obey Contracts: Experimental Evidence of Consent, Compliance, Promise, and Performance

Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Zev J. Eigen
Syndio Solutions
Downloads 802
12.

What Happens in Nevada? Self-Selecting into Lax Law

Review of Financial Studies 2014 doi: 10.1093/rfs/hhu058, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2011-08
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 18 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2016
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Michal Barzuza and David C. Smith
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce
Downloads 786
13.

U.S.-Style Investor Activism in Japan: The First Ten Years

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 06-10, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 290/2010
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
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Yasushi Hamao, Kenji Kutsuna and Pedro P. Matos
Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Kobe University - Graduate School of Business Administration and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
Downloads 713
14.

The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals: An Empirical Study

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, p. 1345, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2010-38
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
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David L. Schwartz and Lee Petherbridge
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 635
15.

Flexing Judicial Muscle: An Empirical Study of Judicial Activism in the Federal Courts

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 1, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Corey Rayburn Yung
University of Kansas School of Law
Downloads 594
16.

Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance

118 W. Va. L. Rev. 100 (2015)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Yonathan A. Arbel
University of Alabama - School of Law
Downloads 526
17.

Revolving Door Lobbyists

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2013
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Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen
London School of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Downloads 484
18.

Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback can Reduce Residential Energy Usage

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2014
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Ian Ayres, Sophie Raseman and Alice Shih
Yale University - Yale Law School, Yale University - Law School and Yale University - Law School

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Downloads 479
19.

Reputation Penalties for Poor Monitoring of Executive Pay: Evidence from Option Backdating

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, AAA 2011 Management Accounting Section (MAS) Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 10 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Yonca Ertimur, Fabrizio Ferri and David A. Maber
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting, Associate Professor and Cal Poly
Downloads 472
20.

Improbable Cause: A Case for Judging Police by a More Majestic Standard

Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, Forthcoming, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Melanie D. Wilson
University of Tennessee College of Law
Downloads 458
21.

Insider Trading and CEO Pay

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 521, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 13 May 2010 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2010
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M. Todd Henderson
University of Chicago - Law School
Downloads 448
22.

Insider Trading in Takeover Targets

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Anup Agrawal and Tareque Nasser
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Kansas State University

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Downloads 438
23.

Takeover Defenses, Innovation, and Value-Creation: Evidence from Acquisition Decisions

Strategic Management Journal, 2014, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 668-690, DOI: 10.1002/smj.2121
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 29 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Mark Humphery-Jenner
UNSW Business School
Downloads 412
24.

Personal Income Taxes and Corporate Investment

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2010
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Murray Z. Frank, Rajdeep Singh and Tracy Yue Wang
University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads 380
25.

Antitrust Enforcement in Developing Countries: Reasons for Enforcement & Non-Enforcement Using Resource-Based Evidence

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2011
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Dina I. Waked
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, Sciences Po Law School
Downloads 360
26.

Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting: Evidence from European Multinationals

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS11-09
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 14 May 2012
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Dhammika Dharmapala and Nadine Riedel
University of Chicago Law School and Oxford University CBT

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Downloads 343
27.

Do Economic Downturns Dampen Patent Litigation?

12 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 481 (2015) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Alan C. Marco, Shawn P. Miller and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy, Stanford Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

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Downloads 335
28.

Executive Control vs. Bureaucratic Insulation: Evidence from Federal Contracting

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 May 2010 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2010
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Sanford C. Gordon
New York University (NYU) - Wilf Family Department of Politics
Downloads 325
29.

Micro-Prudence, Macro-Risk: Where Financial Regulation Meets Bankruptcy

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 15 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
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Sarah P. Woo
New York University School of Law
Downloads 322
30.

The Price of Pay to Play in Securities Class Actions

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, (2011): 650-81 , 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 09-025
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Stephen J. Choi, Drew T. Johnson-Skinner and Adam C. Pritchard
New York University School of Law, New York University School of Law and University of Michigan Law School

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Downloads 322
31.

Corporate Financial and Investment Policies in the Presence of a Blockholder on the Board

Quarterly Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, 2018
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 13 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Anup Agrawal and Tareque Nasser
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Kansas State University
Downloads 304
32.

Stealing Sunshine

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 73, pp. 33-46, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 May 2010 Last Revised: 20 May 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Ronen Perry and Dana Weimann-Saks
University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Haifa
Downloads 293
33.

The Effects of Ownership and Stock Liquidity on the Timing of Repurchase Transactions

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 27 May 2009 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2012
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Amedeo De Cesari, Susanne Espenlaub, Arif Khurshed and Michael Simkovic
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School - Finance & Accounting Group, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School, Division of Accounting Finance and USC Gould School of Law
Downloads 293
34.

Who Will Manage Complex Civil Litigation?: The Decision to Transfer and Consolidate Multidistrict Litigation

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2010
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Margaret S. Williams and Tracey E. George
Federal Judicial Center and Vanderbilt University - Law School
Downloads 278
35.

The Impact of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, 21 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 247 (2011)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Lei Ding, Carolina Reid, Roberto Quercia and Alan M. White
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, University of California, Berkeley, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of City and Regional Planning and CUNY School of Law
Downloads 257
36.

Defensive Medicine Under Enterprise Insurance: Do Physicians Practice Defensive Medicine, and Can Enterprise Insurance Mitigate its Effect?

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 17 Jul 2010
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Brian Chen
University of South Carolina
Downloads 227
37.

Interpreting Circuit Court Voting Patterns: A 'Social Interactions' Framework

Forthcoming, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Joshua B. Fischman
University of Virginia School of Law
Downloads 205
38.

Profiling and Consent: Stops, Searches and Seizures after Soto

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Nov 2010
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Jeffrey Fagan and Amanda Geller
Columbia Law School and NYU Department of Sociology
Downloads 203
39.

The Impact of Local Knowledge on Banking

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2014
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Robert C. Bird and John D. Knopf
University of Connecticut - School of Business and University of Connecticut - Department of Finance
Downloads 200
40.

The Meaning of Contractual Silence: A Field Experiment

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 400, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 05 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Yair Listokin
Yale Law School
Downloads 200
41.

Where are Limited Liability Companies Formed? An Empirical Analysis

Univ. of Texas School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 126, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 04 Jul 2010
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Jens Dammann and Matthias Schundeln
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Goethe University Frankfurt

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Downloads 196
42.

‘For the Times they Are A-Changin’: Explaining Voting Patterns of U.S. Supreme Court Justices through Identification of Micro-Publics

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014
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Jeff Yates, Justin A Moeller and Brian Levey
Binghamton University - Department of Political Science, University of Georgia and University of Georgia
Downloads 191
43.

Class Membership in Class Actions: An Experimental Study

Tilburg University TISCO Working Paper No. 007/2010, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Tilburg Law School Research Paper No. 013/2011
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2016
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Gijs van Dijck
Maastricht University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 177
44.

Supermarket and Gasoline: An Empirical Study of Bundled Discount

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2010
Working Paper Series
Zhongmin Wang
Resources for the Future
Downloads 175
45.

Are All Contractual Obligations Created Equal?

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper , The Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Yuval Feldman and Doron Teichman
Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law
Downloads 166
46.

Institutional Heterogeneity Among Stock Exchanges: Implications for Market Efficiency

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2011
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Stephen F. Diamond and Jennifer W. Kuan
Santa Clara University - School of Law and Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business
Downloads 166
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Court Output, Judicial Staffing, and the Demand for Court Services: Evidence from Slovenian Courts of First Instance

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2010
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Valentina P. Dimitrova-Grajzl, Peter Grajzl, Janez Sustersic and Katarina Zajc
Virginia Military Institute, Washington and Lee University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Law

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Downloads 163
48.

Firm CFO Board Membership and Departures

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2018
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Shawn Mobbs
University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Business Administration
Downloads 153
49.

The Misunderstood Consequences of Shelley v. Kraemer

UCLA School of Law Research Paper No. 10-27, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2010
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Yana Kucheva and Richard H. Sander
The City College of New York and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law
Downloads 149
50.

Property Law Culture: Public Law, Private Preferences and the Psychology of Expropriation

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 17 Jul 2010
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Cherie Metcalf
Queen's University - Faculty of Law
Downloads 144