Procedures & Litigation

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"Explains how nonlegal staff members within a corporation can take a leading role in fighting product liability suits and win--highlighting the quality, reliability testing, and investigating techniques necessary to reduce the potential for product liability. Removes the mystique surrounding the leg... More

To succeed in the US, non-American managers must understand the basics of American law. Doing Business in the US uses marketing strategy to identify the areas of American law which have the greatest impact on a firms success or failure. It then explains these areas of law clearly and concisely. The ... More

Nowadays software engineers not only have to worry about the technical knowledge needed to do their job, but they are increasingly having to know about the legal, professional and commercial context in which they must work. With the explosion of the Internet and major changes to the field with the i... More

The book investigates a two-person game of litigation and settlement with incomplete information on one side. The experimental design allows investigation of how subjects solve the bargaining problem. A prominence level analysis is applied to the data and suggests that subjects tend to choose "round... More

In this important book, an eminent legal authority provides an accessible introduction to and evaluation of the federal bankruptcy system governing bankruptcy filings.As record numbers of bankruptcy cases cause concern that more and more debtors are shirking their responsibilities, Gross offers a ne... More

Conflict, sadly, is part of our everyday life; experienced at home, in the workplace, on our TV screens. But is it an inevitable part of the fabric of our existence? In this volume, eight experts examine conflict at many levels, from the workings of genes to the evolution of galaxies. Evolutionary b... More

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Judicial Activism in India is a socio-political study of judicial review, tracing the evolution of the Supreme Court of India from a passive, positivist court into an activist, articulating counter-majoritarian checks on democracy.... More

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Enthused and encouraged by the exemplary success of Life Insurance Corporation of India the Government of India in the early 1970s decided to bring in the general insurance industry also into the vortex of a nationalised setup to provide comprehensive insurance security to the people of India.How ef... More

A plan for wide-ranging judicial reform in India is articulated in these essays that call for better treatment of the poor, comprehensive rather than piecemeal planning, and a solution to the problem of delays and case backlogs. Topics include judicial governance, the law and economic growth, altern... More