Browsing III. Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Dissertations by Title
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Effects of Familism on Corporate Practices in Family Businesses in Southeastern Mexico: Tools to Accomplish the Dream of Continuity
(2015)This dissertation discusses the effects of culture (in the form of Familism, which is described as a cultural pattern that privileges group over personal interests) in the decision making process of 10 family businesses ... -
Essays on Culture, Art, and Authority
(2020)Law is distinguished by its use of authority. A legal argument has credibility not just because of its logic or consequence, but because of who said it previously. To this extent law is content-independent. Cultural ... -
Extraordinary Measures: A Comparative Approach to Crafting a New Legal Framework for Preventive Detention of Suspected Terrorists
(2014)Preventive detention as a counter-terrorism tool is fraught with conceptual and procedural problems and risks of misuse, excess and abuse. Many have debated the inadequacies of the current legal frameworks for detention, ... -
Human Rights and Copyright: Human Rights Challenges to Criminal and Online Copyright Enforcement in Latin America
(2018)Copyright protection and human rights are in tension through Latin America. Historically, countries in the region have strained public interest in general, and human rights in particular, when implementing international ... -
The Interdependence of Conflict of Laws and Piercing the Corporate Veil
(2016)This thesis explores the relationship between piercing the corporate veil and conflict of laws through an empirical research of judicial decisions rendered by U.S. courts for a three-year period between 1 January 2012 and ... -
International Compensatory Financing
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Is Islamic Insurance Ready to Take the Lead?: A Case Study of Saudi Arabian Insurance Law
(2014)The focus of this thesis is Islamic insurance, which has generated significant debate within Saudi society. Insurance is a new phenomenon for Muslims in general, and for the Saudi society, in particular, because most Islamic ... -
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 ...
