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Damages under the CISG - selected problems
… issues arising in the context of the right to damages under the CISG. The paper will therefore start with a brief description of the CISG, Art. 74 CISG et seq. as the basic provision on damages in the Convention and Art. 7 CISG as the provision regulating the interpretation and gap-filling of …
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Liquidated damages in multi-contract construction projects
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.
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Nutritional strategies to control mycotoxin damages in swine
… (class 2B). To control mycotoxins induced damages, different strategies have been developed to reduce the growth of mycotoxigenic fungi as well as to decontaminate and/or detoxify mycotoxin contaminated foods and animal feeds. Critical points, target for these strategies, are: prevention of …
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Damages in Transparent Materials by Ultrashort Laser Pulse
Ultrashort lasers that generate laser pulses down to picosecond and femtosecond range have advanced over the past decade from delicate lab systems to robust industry machines. The availability of stable ultrashort laser systems opens up a wide range of exciting applications from transparent …
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The imposition of punitive damages: a comparative analysis
… comparatively analyze the imposition of punitive damages in product liability and consumer protection cases. The main argument of this dissertation is based on the observation that the current Thai product liability and consumer protection system does not encourage plaintiffs to go to court to …
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Essays on Measuring Climate Change Damages and Adaptation
… already causing severe ecological and economic damages. Further warming is expected to have a profound effect on the functioning of ecological and human systems worldwide. While it is a top priority to limit carbon emissions and mitigate future climate change, it is also essential to prepare for …
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Sentimental damages in English contract law : a critical analysis
… by evaluating the prohibition on mental distress damages.
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Competition class action damages and the corporate leniency policy
Cartel conduct constitutes one of the most serious threats to the maintenance of competition in markets. Due to the secretive nature of cartels, and their conduct, they are extremely difficult for the Competition Commission1 (‘the Commission’) to detect, investigate and prosecute.2 Cartels …
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On the economic optimality of marine reserves when fishing damages habitat
In this thesis, I expand a spatially-explicit bioeconomic fishery model to include the negative effects of fishing effort on habitat quality. I consider two forms of effort driven habitat damage: First, fishing effort may directly increase individual mortality rates. Second, fishing effort may …
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Punitive Damages: A comparative study of the U.S. and Qatari law.
… concerns supporting the imposition of punitive damages. Outside the common law countries, punitive damages are of lesser importance or do not exist at all. The official tool of damages in Civil law countries is compensatory damages. The research aims to examine the possibility of introducing …
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Determination of Severance Damages Resulting From Partial Taking of Farm Land
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6402976.pdf: 3855036 bytes, checksum: e32798fe990566f8731c4e8b5997f289 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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The Admissibility of Shareholder Claims: Standing, Causes of Action, and Damages
… i) that shareholders are entitled to claim for damages vis-à-vis measures against the company in which they hold shares and ii) that ‘contract claims’ are to be distinguished from ‘treaty claims’. The central argument is that the failure to recognize substantive overlaps between shareholder …
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On the economic optimality of marine reserves when fishing damages habitat
In this thesis, I expand a spatially-explicit bioeconomic fishery model to include the negative effects of fishing effort on habitat quality. I consider two forms of effort driven habitat damage: First, fishing effort may directly increase individual mortality rates. Second, fishing effort may …
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Understanding How Jurors Award Civil Damages: A Test of Affect Control Theory
This dissertation examines predictors of juror-determined damage awards among 377 juror eligible mock jurors. Citizens reporting for jury duty in a large metropolitan county on five days when the study was conducted were invited to participate. Scenarios were created that varied both case facts and …
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The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk: Some Implications for Hedonic Damages
… to situations characterized by unilateral damages and unilateral precautionary technology. The theory developed suggests that the remedy that is perfectly efficient with respect to deterrence will vary with the magnitude of the risk increment created by the tort-feasor's activities. …
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Contratos: daños de expectativa (expectation damages) y las obligaciones exigibles con cierta probabilidad
… legal de daños de expectativa (expectation damages) no induce a las partes a un comportamiento eficiente en aquellos contratos en los cuales una de las partes, el deudor, debe decidir si cumple o no con su promesa (no es posible el incumplimiento parcial), y la otra parte, el acreedor, debe …
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Assessment of contractual damages : developments in the test for remoteness in contractual damages under English and South African law, with particular regard to the 2008 House of Lords judgement in The Achilleas
The test for remoteness of damages laid down in Hadley v Baxendale has survived more than a century and a half with comparatively little meddling from the English courts. That is not to say there has been no attempt at refinement or clarification. The recent decision in The Achilleas saw five Law …
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A study of methods of determining flood damages and of evaluating flood control benefits
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1939
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