The economics of lawmaking /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Parisi, Francesco, 1962-
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Fon, Vincy.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=38dc271836344f6caa38c54a25d5bc92
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-321) and index.
ISBN: 9780199705863
9780195374155
Index Number: K3316
CLC: D90-05
Contents: Lawmaking through legislation : an introduction -- Optimal specificity of laws : rules versus standards -- Optimal timing of legal intervention : lawmaking under uncertainty -- Optimal territorial scope of laws : subsidiarity and legal harmonization -- Lawmaking through adjudication : an introduction -- Litigation and the evolution of legal remedies -- Judicial path-dependence and legal change -- Theories of legal precedent : stare decisis and jurisprudence constante -- Lawmaking through practice : an introduction -- Fostering the emergence of customary law -- Customary law and articulation theories -- Stability and change in customary law -- Lawmaking through agreement : an introduction -- Formation and accession to treaties -- Ratification and reservations : the effects of reciprocity -- The hidden bias of treaty law.