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1. The Law BusinessmanTM : Five Essays on Legal Self-efficacy and Business Risk
Abstract : The thesis challenges the notion of effectiveness of law as being based on the formal institutions of courts, law enforcement and written law. It argues that the best way to measure the effectiveness of law is the legal self-efficacy of laymen who are the end users of law. It presents a new perspective on the effectiveness of law. READ MORE
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2. The Costs of Legal Certainty : A Forensically-Informed Methodology on How to Identify the Relevant Costs in Exclusionary Abuse Cases
Abstract : This dissertation examines the forensic relationship between unilateral price practices and prima facie exclusionary abuse(s) under Article 102 TFEU. The research aim is to ascertain relevant cost benchmarks that can be used to determine the legal qualification of a dominant firm’s price practices. READ MORE
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3. Rule of law after war : ideologies, norms and methods for legal and judicial reform
Abstract : This study concerns itself with rule of law assistance in the aftermath of war. Over the past decade, rule of law has emerged as an essential objective in state-building missions. This has led to a host of programmes and projects on law reform, constitutional development, judicial training, and institutional establishment. READ MORE
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4. State Procedure and Union Rights : A Comparison of the European Union and the United States
Abstract : The overarching purpose of this doctoral thesis is to determine if the system of legal mechanisms in European Community law governing what procedural rules national courts shall apply to Community rights can be reformed to better balance involved interests. European Community law is often applied and enforced by ordinary national courts that, as a general rule, supplement substantive Community rules with national procedural rules. READ MORE
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5. Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
Abstract : Paper 1: Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu In this paper, we demonstrate that there is a robust negative relationship between the size of country territory and a measure of the rule of law for a large cross-section of countries. We outline a theoretical framework featuring two main reasons for this regularity; firstly that institutional quality often has the character of a local public good that is imperfectly spread across space from the core of the country to the hinterland, and secondly that a large territory usually is accompanied by valuable rents and a lack of openness that both tend to distort property rights institutions. READ MORE