Browsing III. Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Dissertations by Title
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The Kindness of Strangers and the Limits of the Law: The Moral and Legal Obligations of Bystanders to a Vulnerable Person in Need of Emergency Assistance
(2015)Reports of how some bystanders interact with victims on the scene of an emergency are shocking: instead of assisting or calling for help they take pictures of the victims on their cell phones. In the common law of torts ... -
Marginal Effect of Criminal Law and Tort Law on HIV Prevention
(2013)The purpose of this paper is to assess how laws that impose legal liability for exposing others to HIV affect public health in the United States and to provide guidance for future research efforts. As criminal law and tort ... -
Multi-level Analysis of Responses to Disaster Displacement in East and Southeast Asia
(2017)This thesis examines responses at the international, national and local levels to severe natural hazards that produce large-scale displacement. Its focus is on east and southeast Asia, a region that is particularly exposed ... -
The New Saudi Arabian Companies Law, And Its Failure to Protect Minority Shareholders in Public Joint Stock Companies
(2017)Minority shareholders in public companies represent a significant component of today’s corporate regulations. Numerous studies have illustrated how safeguarding them with decent protections could correspond to the development ... -
Original Explication and Post-Liberal Constitutionalism: The Role of Intent and History In Judicial Enforcement of Teleological Constitutions
(2016)Most of the world’s constitutions fall between two main categories. First, framework constitutions that are mostly structural in nature. The majority of these constitutions can be characterized as liberal democratic, ... -
Planning to Preserve Saudi Arabian Family-Owned Companies for Future Generations: What We Can Learn from Corporate Governance Laws and Practices in the US and the UK
(2018)Family-owned companies in Saudi Arabia often fail in the third generation due to lack of succession planning, family conflicts, and communication gaps among family members. In addition to the distress and economic ... -
Proposing a Deferential Standard of Review for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Proportionality, Determinatio, and The Principle of Subsidiarity
(2013)The author proposes to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights the adoption of a deferential standard of review to cases regarding human rights open to multiple instantiations. In doing so, he rejects proportionalist ... -
The Protection of Non-Controlling Shareholders in the Acquisition of Controlling Shares
(2015)Kuwait seeks to become the financial hub of the Middle East. In pursuance of this vision, Kuwaiti lawmakers adopted foreign laws in the hope of producing results similar to those foreign nations. The application of some ... -
The “Public Body” Issue in the WTO: Proposing A Comparative Institutional Approach To International Issues On State-Owned Enterprises (SOES)
(2018)Over the last two decades, the state-owned or state invested enterprises (SOEs) of emerging economies like China and India have significantly increased their participation in cross border trade and investment activities. ... -
The Regime Politics' Origins of Procedural Regulation
(2017)In this dissertation I explain civil procedure in the age of the administrative state as a congressional delegation to private enforcers and the judiciary that happens often at the ‘cost of’ or ‘as an alternative to’ ... -
Regulatory Competition in Corporate Law
(2008)This dissertation project is composed of three parts.(l) State Legislation and corporate Mobility, (2) Doctrinal Foundations of the Charter Market, (3) A Comparative Bibliography: Regulatory Competition in Corporate Law. ... -
The Negotiability of Debt in Islamic Finance: An Analytical and Critical Study
(2014)Islamic finance is a new, promising, and growing industry that serves Muslims and non-Muslims around the world. Many Western countries host Islamic financial institutions to benefit from Islamic financial businesses in ...
