Deciding Disputes: Factors That Guide Chinese Courts in the Adjudication of Rural Responsibility Contract Disputes

Church Property Disputes in the Civil Courts

T HE EXTENT to which civil courts may assume jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters in church property disputes1 was involved in the North Carolina case of Reid v. Johnston. 2 There, a Baptist church, organized in 1894, -received land on a conveyance which attached no doctrinal limitations to its use. In 1953, a new pastor, supported by a majority of the congregation, led a movement to withdraw...

Valuing Information Systems in Contract and Intellectual Property Disputes

Decades of research on the economic impact of computer information systems used by businesses provide the basis for assessing claims arising in litigation over such systems. It is possible to estimate the impacts of systems on costs of business operations, on market share, on margins, on flexibility of product design, and on market entry strategies. It is possible to estimate economic impacts, ...

Verbal Disputes

Is there a distinction between questions of fact and questions of language? Many philosophers have said no. But a version of the distinction is ubiquitous, in philosophy and elsewhere, in the notion of a verbal dispute. Intuitively, a dispute between two parties is verbal when the two parties agree on the relevant facts about a domain of concern, and just disagree about the language used to des...

Networks & disputes

Networked systems often consist of inter-dependent subsystems that are governed by locally determined heterogeneous preferences or policies. Examples include interdomain routing, peer-to-peer storage, and decentralised security systems. This dissertation introduces a notion called dispute — a cyclic structure that underlies the dependence and preferences of subsystems. Disputes may cause advers...

How Are Patent Cases Resolved? An Empirical Examination of the Adjudication and Settlement of Patent Disputes