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Author:   Yun-Chien Chang (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9781108474870

ISBN 10:   110847487
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   19 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Yun-chien Chang; 1. Do patent law suits target invalid patents? Michael Frakes and Melissa Wassermann; 2. Platform procedure: using technology to facilitate (efficient) civil settlement J. J. Prescott and Alexander Sanchez; 3. Speedy adjudication in hard cases and low settlement rates in easy cases: an empirical analysis of Taiwan courts with comparison to US federal courts Yun-chien Chang and William Hubbard; 4. How lower courts respond to a change in a legal rule Anthony Niblett; 5. Career judge system and court decision biases: preliminary evidence from Japan Hatsuru Morita and Manabu Matsunaka; 6. Judges avoid ex post but not ex ante inefficiency: theory and empirical evidence from Taiwan Yun-chien Chang; 7. When winning is not enough: prevailing-party civil appeals in state courts Michael Heise; 8. The evolution of case influence in modern consumer standard form contracts Florencia Marotta-Wurgler; 9. Judging insurance antidiscrimination law Ronen Avraham, Alma Cohen and Ity Shurtz, 10. Are judges harsher with repeat offenders? Evidence from the European Court of Human Rights Eric Langlais, Alessandro Melcarne and Giovanni Ramello; 11. Does efficiency trump legality? The case of the German Constitutional Court Christoph Engel.

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Yun-chien Chang is a Research Professor at Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and serves as the Director of its Empirical Legal Studies Center. He was a visiting professor at New York University, University of Chicago, Universität St. Gallen, University of Haifa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Professor Chang has authored and co-authored more than ninety journal articles and book chapters. His English articles have appeared in leading journals in the world, such as the University of Chicago Law Review; the Journal of Legal Studies; the Journal of Legal Analysis; the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; International Review of Law and Economics; among others.

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