Law and economics
Subtitle: breaking new grounds
By: edited by Dr. Ranita Nagar, Dr. P. Murali Prasad, Dr. Pavan Mamidi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Eastern Book Company
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Lucknow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9789351454625
Subjects: Commercial law; Congresses; Law and economics
Description: This book includes 15 essays drawn from the International Conference on Law and Economics held in March, 2015 at GNLU, India. This event was organised by a consortium of technology, management and legal institutions namely IIT, Kanpur; IIM, Ahmedabad and Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The conference with national and international resource persons and professionals had effective deliberations on: (i) Role of discovery and the early settlement of litigation, (ii) evaluation of trade venues, (iii) consumerism in EU, economic rationale for the patent system, and (iv) evidence based law. These topics have been covered in this book. This books includes essays from a broad array of topics such as Trade and Investment, Competition Law, Alternate Dispute Resolution and Regulating the Financial System.
Notes: Papers presented at an International Conference on Law and Economics, organized by IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahmedabad and Gujarat National Law University, held at Gujarat National Law University in March 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New ground (and how it is broken) : an introduction / [Ranita Nagar, P. Murali Prasad, Pavan Mamidi]; title: Institutional reform as bargain / Robert Cooter and Hans-Bernd Schäfer; title: Examining the relationship between labour laws and economic development of India / Varun Chotia and N.V.M. Rao; title: Crimes in India : in the perspective of property crime / Chitwan Lalji and R. Jagadeesh; title: Role of judiciary in the interpretation of the land acquisition law : a comparative study of the US and India / Malabika Pal; title: Challenges of the global financial regulatory system : in the era of financial innovation / Hitesh Thakkar and Ranita Nagar; title: A study on trends and regulations of NPAs in Indian commercial banks / Riddi Suresh Dave; title: Investment economics : an introduction / Rajendra Prasad Gunput and Ranita Nagar; title: Paradiplomacy : local governance, international relations and statutory restraints / Bisen Mangalsingh Satishsingh; title: An Overview of Assam's export potentials : trends, pattern and challenges / Rashmita Barua and G.G. Banik; title: Effect of tariff regulation in major port container terminals : the case of Jawaharlal Nehru port trust / G. Raghuram and Prashanth D. Udayakumar; title: Determining thresholds in competition law : some concerns on inherited costs / Supruet Thavornyutikarn; title: Juxtaposition of the liberalisation policies and the competition law(s) in India / Shreya Biswas and Rasananda Panda; title: To conciliate or (not) to conciliate : empirical evidence from labour disputes in India / Rahul Suresh Sapkal; title: Transition to online dispute resolution : a mechanism to curb transaction cost in access to justice / Suman Kalani; title: An attempt towards making contract marriage an option in India / Rasananda Panda and Prabhav Gupta; title: Efficacy of social norms in supplementing the contents of law / Manashi Neog; title: A perspective on law and economics in the Indian context / K.V. Bhanu Murthy, Ashis Taru Deb and Phool Chand; title: Exploring the effects of agency theory on ownership structures and firm performance / Radhika Voleti and Sneha V. Deshpande; title: Consumer sovereignty : a common thread between competition law and consumer protection law / Praveen Tripathi; title: Consumer law between paternalism and market orientation from a law and economics perspective / Thomas Eger and Franziska Weber