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El Homo Economicus Y La Libertad De Contratación, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco Sep 2012

El Homo Economicus Y La Libertad De Contratación, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Se compartió la mesa con el profesor Juan José Martínez, en la presentación se debatió acerco del rol que cumple el presupuesto de racionalidad en el modelo standard del análisis económico del Derecho y las acotaciones del Behavioral Law and Economics.


Si Algo Puede Salir Mal... Saldrá Mal (Y En El Peor Momento Posible): Una Rápida Revisión Ius-Económica A La Imposibilidad Contractual, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco Sep 2012

Si Algo Puede Salir Mal... Saldrá Mal (Y En El Peor Momento Posible): Una Rápida Revisión Ius-Económica A La Imposibilidad Contractual, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

En la presente nota se desea subrayar algunas características económicas y jurídicas de figuras que sirven como justificación para el incumplimiento contractual, tales como la imposibilidad y la excesiva onerosidad.


Danbury Hatters In Sweden: An American Perspective Of Employer Remedies For Illegal Collective Actions, César F. Rosado Marzán, Margot Nikitas Aug 2012

Danbury Hatters In Sweden: An American Perspective Of Employer Remedies For Illegal Collective Actions, César F. Rosado Marzán, Margot Nikitas

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The European Court of Justice's ("ECJ") Laval quartet held that worker collective actions that impacted freedom of services and establishment in the E.U. violated E.U. law. After Laval, the Swedish Labor Court imposed exemplary or punitive damages on labor unions for violating E.U. law. These cases have generated critical discussions regarding not only the proper balance between markets and workers’ freedom of association, but also what should be the proper remedies for employers who suffer illegal actions by labor unions under E.U. law. While any reforms to rebalance fundamental freedoms as a result of the Laval quartet will have to …


Fomentando Más Visitas A La Catedral: El Aporte De Calabresi En El Debate Sobre Titularidades Y Nuevos Caminos, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco Jun 2012

Fomentando Más Visitas A La Catedral: El Aporte De Calabresi En El Debate Sobre Titularidades Y Nuevos Caminos, Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

Renzo E. Saavedra Velazco

En la presente nota procuro exponer algunos de los principales méritos de la propuesta efectuada por Guido Calabresi y Douglas Melamed en 1972. Tal esfuerzo se inserta en un reconocimiento al impacto que tal teoría tuvo para la comprensión de los sistemas jurídicos, relevancia que merece ser subrayada y revisitada sobre todo cuando, como sucede en estas fechas, se cumplen cuarenta años desde su divulgación.


Threats Escalate: Corporate Information Technology Governance Under Fire, Lawrence J. Trautman Jan 2012

Threats Escalate: Corporate Information Technology Governance Under Fire, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

In a previous publication The Board’s Responsibility for Information Technology Governance, (with Kara Altenbaumer-Price) we examined: The IT Governance Institute’s Executive Summary and Framework for Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology 4.1 (COBIT®); reviewed the Weill and Ross Corporate and Key Asset Governance Framework; and observed “that in a survey of audit executives and board members, 58 percent believed that their corporate employees had little to no understanding of how to assess risk.” We further described the new SEC rules on risk management; Congressional action on cyber security; legal basis for director’s duties and responsibilities relative to IT governance; …


On The Interpretability Of Law: Lessons From The Decoding Of National Constitutions, James Melton, Tom Ginsburg Jan 2012

On The Interpretability Of Law: Lessons From The Decoding Of National Constitutions, James Melton, Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg

An implicit element of many theories of constitutional enforcement is the degree to which those subject to constitutional law can agree on what its provisions mean (call this constitutional interpretability). Unfortunately, there is little evidence on baseline levels of constitutional interpretability or the variance therein. This article seeks to fill this gap in the literature, by assessing the effect of contextual, textual and interpreter characteristics on the interpretability of constitutional documents. Constitutions are found to vary in their degree of interpretability. Surprisingly, however, the most important determinants of variance are not contextual (for example, era, language or culture), but textual. …


American Finance And American Democracy: Towards An Institutionalist "Law And Economics", Tamara Lothian Jan 2012

American Finance And American Democracy: Towards An Institutionalist "Law And Economics", Tamara Lothian

Tamara Lothian

This article reconsiders the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2009 and the present debate about the regulation of finance in the light of a vision of how finance can better serve the American economy and American Democracy. The central claim is that regulation as conventionally understood cannot adequately redress the problems, and seize the opportunities, revealed by the crisis. We should approach financial regulation as the first step in a series of institutional innovations designed to put finance more effectively at the service of the real economy (financial deepening) while broadening economic opportunity in the country (financial democratization). I develop …


The Rise Of Planning In Industrial America, 1865-1914 Dec 2011

The Rise Of Planning In Industrial America, 1865-1914

Richard Adelstein

How American firms grew very large after the Civil War, and how Americans responded to them.


Exit, Voice And International Jurisdictional Competition: A Case Study Of The Evolution Of Taiwan’S Regulatory Regime For Outward Investment In Mainland China, 1997-2008, Chang-Hsien Tsai Dec 2011

Exit, Voice And International Jurisdictional Competition: A Case Study Of The Evolution Of Taiwan’S Regulatory Regime For Outward Investment In Mainland China, 1997-2008, Chang-Hsien Tsai

Chang-hsien (Robert) TSAI

This Article explores the interplay of demand and supply forces in the market for law through international jurisdictional competition led by offshore financial centers. To do so it uses the example of the evolution of a regulatory regime imposed by an onshore jurisdiction, Taiwan, to control outward investment into mainland China (“China-investment”). The argument is that jurisdictional competition brought about by capital mobility or exit will provoke legal changes to prevent the departure of capital when laws reduce the value of remaining within the jurisdiction. The case study is used to examine the extent to which jurisdictional competition fuelled by …