Legal change and the social value of lawsuits

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 203-208

  Miceli, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency of the law; Judicial decision making; Legal change; Precedent; Selection effect; Value of lawsuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956431871     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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