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AUTHOR
Albert Breton
A comparison of internal and international barriers to trade
In a world in which barriers to trade at all levels - international and internal - are mostly a by-product of the implementation by governments of different regulatory policies to deal with domestic or local problems, the mechanisms that are set in motion by the operation of competition among the governments inhabiting the different jurisdictional tiers of federal countries lead to outcomes that are different from those generated by the 'agreed-upon' rules that govern the relations of national governments with each other in matters of international trade. A model is used to compare two ways of dealing with the external damages that are consequent on the pursuit of beneficial domestic regula…
Bijural services as factors of production
This study is primarily concerned with the security of transactions and contracts in contexts in which there is more than one legal system - in bijural (or multijural) societies - and with the contribution that bijural lawyers can make to the security of transactions and contracts, that is with the productivity of bijural lawyers. It is, as a consequence, focused on the demand for bijurallawyers as factor inputs in the production of contractual security and, at one remove, transaction security.1 To be in a position to proceed with this analysis, certain basic concepts must be clarified and the domain of the inquiry delineated. We devote the Introduction to these tasks.(...)
Le multijuridisme: manifestations, causes et conséquences
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