Gillian K. Hadfield

University of Toronto

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Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5

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1.

Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 426, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 410, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1757982
Number of pages: 513 Posted: 08 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2014
Robert E. Litan, Yochai Benkler, Henry N. Butler, John Henry Clippinger, Bob Cook-Deegan, Robert D. Cooter, Aaron S. Edlin, Nicole Stelle Garnett, Ronald J. Gilson, Oliver R. Goodenough, Gillian K. Hadfield, Mark A. Lemley, Frank Partnoy, George L. Priest, Larry E. Ribstein, Charles Sabel, Peter H. Schuck, Hal S. Scott, Robert E. Scott, Alex Stein, Victoria Stodden, John E. Tyler, Alan D. Viard and Benjamin Wittes
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Harvard Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Human Dynamics Group, Arizona State University (ASU) - School for the Future of Innovation in Society, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Notre Dame Law School, Stanford Law School, Vermont Law School, University of Toronto, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Yale University - Law School, University of Illinois College of Law (deceased), Columbia University - Columbia Law School, Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia University - Law School, Israel Supreme Court, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, American Enterprise Institute and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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entrepreneurship, policy, growth, rules, innovation, immigration, intellectual property, ip, university, business, federal, national, patent

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The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System

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The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 09 Nov 1999
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Price of Law: How the Market for Lawyers Distorts the Justice System

Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 157; and Stanford Law John M. Olin Working Paper No. 185
Posted: 09 Nov 1999
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto

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What is Law? A Coordination Account of the Characteristics of Legal Order

The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol 4
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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rule of law, philosophy of law, coordinated punishment, legal origins

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Privatizing Commercial Law: Lessons from the Middle and the Digital Ages

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Apr 2000
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the (Un)Corporate Practice of Law

International Review of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 13-4, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-16
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 02 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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access to justice, cost of law, legal profession, corporate practice of law, fee sharing, non-lawyers

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Contract Law is Not Enough: The Many Legal Institutions that Support Contractual Commitments

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

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Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

Forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 453, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 13-5, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-17
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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Microfoundations of the Rule of Law

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17, pp. 21-42, 2014
Posted: 21 May 2014
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science

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Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 102, April 2008, Univ. of Southern California Center in Law, Economics and Organization Research Paper No. C08-7, USC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-8
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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innovation, legal profession, legal markets, regulation, antitrust, judicial independence, legal independence

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Legal Infrastructure and the New Economy

I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2012, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C10-7, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 10-8
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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legal design, rule of law, globalization, internet, legal evolution, legal infrastructure

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Privatizing Commercial Law

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 18 Apr 2001
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Constitutions as Coordinating Devices

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-20, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-28
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2014
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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legal theory, institutions, law and development, constitutional law, law merchant, coordination games

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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

USC Law and Economics Research Paper No. 04-18, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C04-13
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
University of Toronto and Columbia University - School of Law
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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 414-441, 2006
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 29 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2011
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
University of Toronto and Columbia University - School of Law
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On Public Versus Private Provision of Corporate Law

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006
Posted: 23 Feb 2006
Gillian K. Hadfield and Eric L. Talley
University of Toronto and Columbia University - School of Law

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Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Non-Trial Adjudications and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

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Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Non-Trial Adjudications and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Jul 2004
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Where Have All the Trials Gone? Settlements, Non-trial Adjudications and Statistical Artifacts in the Changing Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Aug 2004
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Rational Reasonableness: Toward a Positive Theory of Public Reason

Law & Ethics of Human Rights Vol 6, 2012, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-3, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-8
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Stephen Macedo
University of Toronto and Princeton University, Politics and Human Values
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public reason, coordination, political liberalism, legal order, collective punishment, common knowledge, trust, deliberation, deliberative democracy, justice, liberalism

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Life in the Law-Thick World: The Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans

In S. Estreicher and J Radice (eds) Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Cambridge University Press 2016), USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS15-2, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 15-2
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 19 May 2016
Gillian K. Hadfield and Jamie Heine
University of Toronto and Independent
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Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C07-8, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 07-6
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 May 2007
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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common law, civil code, comparative law, legal origins, evolution of law, institutions

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Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?

USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS16-16, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-18, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 493
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 May 2016 Last Revised: 08 Dec 2016
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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Rule of law, what-is-law, private ordering, decentralized enforcement

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Scaffolding: Using Formal Contracts to Build Informal Relations in Support of Innovation

USC CLASS Research Paper No. C12-3, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 12-6
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2015
Iva Bozovic and Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Southern California - School of International Relations and University of Toronto
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relational contracts, innovation, reputation, coordination, non-contractual practices, formal contracts, informal enforcement

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Law without the State: Legal Attributes and the Coordination of Decentralized Collective Punishment

Journal of Law and Courts, Vol 1, 3-34, Forthcoming, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-11, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C13-10
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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legal order, rule of law, coordination, collective punishment

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The Quality of Law: Judicial Incentives, Legal Human Capital and the Evolution of Law

University of Southern California CLEO Research Paper No. C07-3
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 07 Mar 2007
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Feminism, Fairness, and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law and Economics

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Feminism, Fairness, and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law and Economics

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 1, p. 285, 2005, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C05-15, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 05-22
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Nov 2005
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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welfare economics, care, justice, efficiency, normative, ethics

Feminism, Fairness, and Welfare: An Invitation to Feminist Law and Economics

Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2005), Vol. 1, pp. 285-306, 2005
Posted: 18 Oct 2010
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto

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Legal Barriers to Innovation

Regulation, Vol. 31, No. 3, Fall 2008, USC Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 09-5, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-5
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 27 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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innovation, corporate legal markets, law, legal barriers, bar association, regulation, monopoly, self-regulation, legal market, barriers to entry

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How to Regulate Legal Services to Promote Access, Innovation, and the Quality of Lawyering

Hastings Law Journal, Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS16-6, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-7
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Feb 2016
Gillian K. Hadfield and Deborah Rhode
University of Toronto and Stanford Law School
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Innovating to Improve Access: Changing the Way Courts Regulate Legal Markets

Daedalus, Forthcoming, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS14-18, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 14-19
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 03 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2014
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-9, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-10
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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legal origins, compartive law, civil code, common law, legal evolution, institutions

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Framing the Choice between Cash and the Courthouse: Experiences with the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

Law and Society Review, Forthcoming, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-8, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-9
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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September 11, 9/11, civil litigation, settlement, alternative dispute resolution, participatory democracy, tort law, tort reform, law and courts

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Building Legal Order in Ancient Athens

Journal of Legal Analysis Advance Access, July 12, 2015, USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS15-1, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 15-1, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 479
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2015
Federica Carugati, Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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law, legal history, law and economics, postive political theory and the law

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The Strategy of Methodology: The Virtues of Being Reductionist for Comparative Law

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 59, p. 223, 2009, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-14, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 09-27
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 28 May 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Cost of Law: Promoting Access to Justice through the Corporate Practice of Law

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C12-16, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 12-26
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Dec 2012
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Equipping the Garage Guys in Law

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2011, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-5, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-11
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 06 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment

USC CLASS Research Papers Series No. CLASS18-10, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 18-10
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Apr 2018
Dylan Hadfield-Menell and Gillian K. Hadfield
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) and University of Toronto
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Exploring Economic and Democratic Theories of Civil Litigation: Differences between Individual and Organizational Litigants in the Disposition of Federal Civil Cases

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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Collective Punishment: A Coordination Account of Legal Order

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C11-4, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 11-9
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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legal order, rule of law, concept of law, collective punishment, coordination, focal points, coercion

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Privatizing Law: Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium without Private Ordering?

USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS17-25, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 17-24
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 23 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2017
Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
University of Toronto and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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Law, Law and Economics, What Is Law, Legal Theory

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Producing Law for Innovation

KAUFFMAN TASK FORCE ON LAW, INNOVATION AND GROWTH, RULES FOR GROWTH, Forthcoming , USC CLEO Research Paper No. C10-18, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 10-21
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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legal profession, legal markets, regulation of lawyers, innovation

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Higher Demand, Lower Supply? A Comparative Assessment of the Legal Resource Landscape for Ordinary Americans

Fordham Urban Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 May 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2009
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund: 'An Unprecedented Experiment in American Democracy'

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Role of International Law Firms and Multijural Human Capital in the Harmonization of Legal Regimes

MULTIJURALISM: MANIFESTATIONS, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES, Albert Breton, Anne Des Ormeaux, Katharina Pistor, and Pierre Salmon, eds., 2010
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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The Public and the Private in the Provision of Law for Global Transactions

CONTRACTUAL CERTAINTY IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE: EMPIRICAL STUDIES AND THEORETICAL DEBATES ON INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC EXCHANGES OXFORD, Volkmar Gessner, ed., Hart Publishing, 2009, USC Center for Law and Economics Research Paper No. C09-15, USC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-28
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 May 2009 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2009
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto
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private legal systems, globalization, international trade, common law, civil code

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Democracy, Courts and the Information Order

European Journal of Sociology, 54 (2013) pp. 67-95, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 13-12, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C13-11
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 May 2013 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2013
Gillian K. Hadfield and Dan Ryan
University of Toronto and University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
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sociology of information, democracy, information order, civil litigation, access to justice, participatory democracy, civil procedure

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Of Sovereignty and Contract: Damages for Breach of Contract by Government

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 1999
Posted: 19 Mar 1999
Gillian K. Hadfield
University of Toronto

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