SSRN CELS 2010 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (Archive)

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 1,714

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 1,427

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 III and Alexandria Zhang

Stanford University, Stanford Law School and Johns Hopkins University

Downloads 1,286

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,274

5.

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 Hebrew University - Faculty of Law

Downloads 1,096

6.

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 1,062

7.

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 (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School and Duke University School of Law

Downloads 1,060

8.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,052

9.

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

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Rachael V. Cobb, D. James Greiner and Kevin M. Quinn

Suffolk University - Department of Government, Harvard University - Center on the Legal Profession and UC Berkeley School of Law

Downloads 959

10.

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

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Zev J. Eigen

Littler Mendelson

Downloads 792

11.

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, York University - Schulich School of Business, Australian National University (ANU) - College of Business and Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 772

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 746

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 690

14.

Supply-Chain Spillover Effects and the Interdependence of Firm Financing Decisions

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2014

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William C. Johnson, Jun-Koo Kang, Ronald W. Masulis and Sangho Yi

Suffolk University - Sawyer School of Management, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - Nanyang Business School, University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business and Sogang University

Downloads 678

15.

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 626

16.

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

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Corey Rayburn Yung

University of Kansas School of Law

Downloads 584

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 474

18.

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

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Yonathan A. Arbel

University of Alabama - School of Law

Downloads 467

19.

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

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 466

20.

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

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Yonca Ertimur, Fabrizio Ferri and David A. Maber

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting, Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and Cal Poly

Downloads 455

21.

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

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Melanie D. Wilson

University of Tennessee College of Law

Downloads 453

22.

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 438

23.

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

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Anup Agrawal and Tareque Nasser

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Kansas State University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 423

24.

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 373

25.

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 372

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

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 336

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

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Alan C. Marco, Shawn P. Miller and Ted M. Sichelman

United States Patent and Trademark Office, Stanford Law School and University of San Diego School of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 322

28.

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

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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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 321

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 320

30.

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 315

31.

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

2012 Financial Intermediation Research Society-Minneapolis Conference paper

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Jun 2010 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2012

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Anup Agrawal and Tareque Nasser

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Kansas State University

Downloads 292

32.

Stealing Sunshine

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 73, 2011, 5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 May 2010 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2010

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Ronen Perry and Dana Weimann-Saks

University of Haifa - Faculty of Law and University of Haifa

Downloads 290

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 288

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 261

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 253

36.

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 242

37.

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 K Chen

University of South Carolina

Downloads 217

38.

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

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Joshua B. Fischman

University of Virginia School of Law

Downloads 197

39.

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 197

40.

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

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 193

41.

‘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 188

42.

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 186

43.

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 179

44.

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 176

45.

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

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Zhongmin Wang

Resources for the Future

Downloads 171

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 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Downloads 164

47.

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

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Yuval Feldman and Doron Teichman

Bar-Ilan University - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law

Downloads 155

48.

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 139

49.

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 136

50.

Access to Justice and Mediation in Small Claims Courts: Empirical Research and Statistical Analysis in Nine Brazilian States

5th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Jul 2010

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Leslie S. Ferraz

UNIT

Downloads 135

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