Risk, Rights, and Restitution

Contract Rights and Risk Aversion.PDF

Is Human Rights Prepared? Risk, Rights and Public Health Emergencies

A new force seems to be at work in public health law and practice. Consider, for example, the proliferation of references to ‘preparedness’; specifically, ‘public health emergency preparedness’ and its more specialised variants such as ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’ and ‘international legal preparedness’. There is also increasing use of related phrases such as ‘global public healt...

Restitution and Reconciliation

Access Control and Rights related Risk Assessment

Deployed software, now-a-days, are continuously under attack. Attackers have been exploiting vulnerabilities for decades and seem to be on rise everyday. Firewalls, intrusion detection and antivirus systems cannot simply solve this problem to the desirable extent. The major reason may be the in-built vulnerabilities, which are not curable at these stages. Only a concerted effort, by the softwar...

Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking

We propose that stronger creditor rights in bankruptcy affect corporate investments by reducing corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater propensity of firms to engage in diversifying acquisitions and of firms with low-recovery assets to acquire targets with high-recovery assets. These relations are strongest in countries where manage...