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How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime 犯罪如何影响保险和保险如何影响犯罪
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad002
Tom Baker, Anja Shortland
Crime creates demand for insurance but supplying insurance may promote crime. We examine five case studies of insured crimes (auto theft, art theft, kidnap and hijack for ransom, ransomware, and payment card fraud) and find a co-evolutionary process through which insurers engage with insureds, governments, and legal and extralegal third parties to mitigate losses, particularly when criminal innovations destabilize the insurance market. “Insurance as crime governance” stimulates demand for security, shapes criminal incentives, engages with the state to combat crime, and tolerates some crime in the interest of profitability.
犯罪创造了对保险的需求,但提供保险可能会助长犯罪。我们研究了五个保险犯罪案例(汽车盗窃、艺术品盗窃、绑架和劫持赎金、勒索软件和支付卡欺诈),并发现了一个共同进化的过程,保险公司通过这个过程与被保险人、政府以及法律和法外第三方合作,以减轻损失,特别是当犯罪创新破坏保险市场稳定时。“保险即犯罪治理”刺激了对安全的需求,形成了犯罪激励,与国家合作打击犯罪,并为了盈利而容忍一些犯罪。
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Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District 远程工作与城市衰落:服装区的经验教训
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-09-06 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad004
Clayton P Gillette
The dramatic rise of remote work threatens the traditional source of urban growth—the unique ability of dense cities to provide a setting in which firms and employees share productive resources, match needs with skills, and transmit knowledge at low cost. These “agglomeration benefits” have induced cities to pursue clusters of related firms that have served as the basis for local economic development and technological innovation. Remote work reduces the necessity for related firms to co-locate, and its popularity has led commentators to predict significant decrease in city business activity, tax revenues, and services as traditional clusters dissipate. It remains unclear how cities will react to the remote work phenomenon. Prior episodes of cluster decline, however, reveal that cities have difficulty pivoting to new economic models when outmoded ones threaten local decay. Instead, cities tend to support existing clusters, notwithstanding that the impending decline is a function of external forces rather than of local policies. This article addresses the potential mismatch between cluster decline that may flow from remote work and city responses. The article theorizes that continued municipal efforts to support a declining cluster emerge from the ability of affected firms to coalesce, exercise political influence, and exploit fragmented municipal decision making to preserve the status quo, maintain or increase municipal subsidies for the cluster, and deter entry by competitors for city resources. Those strategies impede the city’s transition to a more productive economy in the face of looming cluster decline. The article then turns to the history of the garment industry in New York City to illustrate the theory. That history provides a cautionary tale about how cities should and should not respond to the threats they face from remote work.
远程工作的急剧兴起威胁着城市增长的传统来源——密集城市提供一种独特的能力,在这种能力中,企业和员工可以共享生产资源,将需求与技能相匹配,并以低成本传播知识。这些“集聚效益”促使城市追求相关企业集群,这些企业集群是当地经济发展和技术创新的基础。远程工作减少了相关公司共处一地的必要性,其受欢迎程度使评论员预测,随着传统集群的消失,城市商业活动、税收和服务将大幅减少。目前尚不清楚城市将如何应对远程工作现象。然而,之前的集群衰退表明,当过时的经济模式威胁到当地的衰退时,城市很难转向新的经济模式。相反,城市倾向于支持现有的集群,尽管即将到来的衰退是外部力量而非地方政策的作用。这篇文章讨论了远程工作可能导致的集群减少与城市反应之间的潜在不匹配。这篇文章的理论是,市政当局为支持一个衰落的集群所做的持续努力,源于受影响的企业能够联合起来,行使政治影响力,并利用分散的市政决策来维持现状,维持或增加市政当局对集群的补贴,并阻止竞争对手进入城市资源。在集群衰退迫在眉睫的情况下,这些战略阻碍了该市向生产率更高的经济转型。然后,本文转向纽约市服装业的历史来阐述这一理论。这段历史为城市应该和不应该应对远程工作带来的威胁提供了一个警示。
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Finding Facts in Medieval English Law 从中世纪英国法律中寻找事实
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad009
Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Accounts of the post-Lateran IV period tend to emphasize the different procedural paths taken by English courts, which adopted jury trial for felony cases, and continental European courts, which turned toward inquisitorial methods and a greater reliance on confession. This article argues that the fact-finding strategies of the two systems had more in common than may appear at first glance due, in part, to a shared cultural reservoir exemplified by the strategy of circumstantial inquiry employed by confessors. Rather than focusing on the point of greatest difference, the trial jury, this article examines pre-trial investigative processes to emphasize shared jurisprudential priorities.
对后拉特兰四世时期的描述倾向于强调英国法院和欧洲大陆法院所采取的不同程序路径,前者对重罪案件采用陪审团审判,后者转向检察方法并更多地依赖供词。这篇文章认为,这两个系统的事实调查策略比乍看起来有更多的共同点,部分原因是忏悔者采用的间接调查策略体现了一个共同的文化库。本文不是关注最大的差异点,即审判陪审团,而是研究审前调查过程,以强调共同的法理优先事项。
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Corporate Governance Welfarism 公司治理福利主义
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad007
Marcel Kahan, Edward Rock
Corporate governance is on the verge of entering a new stage. After the managerialism that dominated the view of the corporation into the 1970s and the shareholderism that supplanted it, we are witnessing the emergence of a new paradigm: corporate governance welfarism. Welfarism rejects the faith that market forces will promote general welfare and lacks confidence in the government’s ability to set proper boundary constraints. By looking to corporations to internalize externalities directly, welfarism thus offers an alternative way to deal with social problems that the political system has failed to address. Welfarism comes in three strands—portfolio welfarism, shareholder welfarism, and direct social welfarism—two of which are consistent with shareholder primacy. The important distinction between welfarism and shareholderism, rather, is that welfarism, by embracing goals that are much broader than shareholder value as a means to promote overall welfare, reflects a departure from the classical liberal economic theory that underpins shareholderism. Welfarism, in turn, departs from managerialism in looking beyond the single firm, in relying on shareholder and stakeholder pressure rather than on managerial discretion to balance firm value maximization and broader objectives, and in embracing a wider set of potential stakeholders. Welfarism is on the rise ideologically. While it is unclear how much welfarism has already affected operations at individual firms, the underlying drivers of welfarism are likely to remain or grow. There are, therefore, good reasons to believe that the push towards welfarism will take hold, grow, and, over time, generate a welfarist turn in corporate governance. Welfarism, however, is subject to two inherent limitations. First, welfarism has its greatest traction for publicly traded companies with dispersed shareholders. By contrast, for companies with a single shareholder, a controlling shareholder, or a small group of shareholders, the welfarist prescriptions will have only a limited impact. Second, the very lack of consensus that impedes political solutions reemerges under and constrains welfarism by generating disagreements among shareholders, impugning its legitimacy, and imposing political barriers to its implementation.
公司治理即将进入一个新阶段。在20世纪70年代主导公司观的管理主义和取代它的股东主义之后,我们正在见证一种新范式的出现:公司治理福利主义。Welfarism拒绝相信市场力量会促进普遍福利,并且对政府设定适当边界约束的能力缺乏信心。因此,通过寻求企业直接内化外部性,福利主义提供了一种替代方式来处理政治制度未能解决的社会问题。福利主义分为三种——投资组合福利主义、股东福利主义和直接社会福利主义——其中两种与股东至上主义一致。相反,福利主义和股权主义之间的重要区别在于,福利主义通过将比股东价值更广泛的目标作为促进整体福利的手段,反映了对支持股权主义的古典自由主义经济理论的背离。反过来,福利主义背离了管理主义,超越了单一企业,依靠股东和利益相关者的压力而不是管理层的自由裁量权来平衡企业价值最大化和更广泛的目标,并拥抱了更广泛的潜在利益相关者。福利主义在意识形态上正在兴起。虽然目前尚不清楚福利主义对个别公司的运营产生了多大影响,但福利主义的潜在驱动因素可能会继续存在或增长。因此,有充分的理由相信,对福利主义的推动将站稳脚跟,并随着时间的推移,在公司治理中产生福利主义的转变。然而,福利主义有两个固有的局限性。首先,福利主义对股东分散的上市公司有着最大的吸引力。相比之下,对于只有一个股东、一个控股股东或一小群股东的公司来说,福利主义的规定只会产生有限的影响。其次,阻碍政治解决方案的缺乏共识再次出现在福利主义之下,并通过在股东之间产生分歧、质疑其合法性和对其实施设置政治障碍来限制福利主义。
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The Promise of Bargaining Protocols 谈判协议的承诺
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad006
Shay Lavie, Avraham Tabbach
Litigants settle in the shadow of the law, but they behave in the shadow of the settlement outcome. Disparities in bargaining power drive a wedge between the shadow of the settlement and the shadow of the law. Broad literature has recognized various problems that stem from this discrepancy, from suboptimal deterrence to distributive concerns. We offer a new perspective to address these concerns—regulating the settlement process, through a judge-induced bargaining protocol. We develop this argument through a bargaining protocol that assigns a take-it-or-leave-it offer to one of the parties and discuss the policy goals that such protocol could advance.
诉讼人在法律的阴影下和解,但他们的行为却在和解结果的阴影下。议价能力的差异在和解的阴影和法律的阴影之间造成了隔阂。广泛的文献已经认识到由这种差异引起的各种问题,从次优威慑到分配问题。我们为解决这些问题提供了一个新的视角——通过法官诱导的谈判协议来规范和解过程。我们通过一个谈判协议来发展这一论点,该协议将接受或放弃要约分配给其中一方,并讨论该协议可以推进的政策目标。
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Privacy Protection, At What Cost? Exploring the Regulatory Resistance to Data Technology in Auto Insurance 隐私保护,代价是什么?汽车保险业对数据技术的监管阻力探析
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad008
Omri Ben-Shahar
Regulatory and sociological resistance to new market-driven technologies, particularly to those that rely on collection and analysis of personal data, is prevalent even in cases where the technology creates large social value and saves lives. This article is a case study of such tragic technology resistance, focusing on tracking devices in cars which allow auto insurers to monitor how policyholders drive and adjust the premiums accordingly. Growing empirical work reveals that such “usage-based insurance” induces safer driving, reducing fatal accidents by almost one third, and resulting in more affordable and fair premiums. Yet, California prohibits this technology and other states limit its effectiveness, largely in the interest of privacy protection. The article evaluates the justifications fueling the restrictive regulation vis-à-vis the loss of lives resulting from this regulation. It concludes that the social benefits of the tracking technology dramatically outweigh the privacy and related costs.
监管和社会学界对新的市场驱动技术,特别是对那些依赖收集和分析个人数据的技术的抵制,即使在该技术创造巨大社会价值和拯救生命的情况下,也是普遍存在的。这篇文章是对这种悲剧性的技术阻力的案例研究,重点关注汽车中的跟踪设备,这些设备可以让汽车保险公司监控投保人的驾驶方式,并相应地调整保费。越来越多的实证研究表明,这种“基于使用的保险”可以让驾驶更安全,将致命事故减少近三分之一,并带来更实惠、更公平的保费。然而,加利福尼亚州禁止这项技术,其他州限制其有效性,主要是为了保护隐私。本文评估了助长限制性法规的理由,以及该法规造成的生命损失。它得出的结论是,追踪技术的社会效益大大超过了隐私和相关成本。
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Women in U.S. Law Schools, 1948–2021 1948年至2021年美国法学院的女性
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad005
Elizabeth D Katz, Kyle Rozema, Sarath Sanga
We study the progress of women’s representation and achievement in law schools. To do this, we assemble a new dataset on the number of women and men students, faculty, and deans at all ABA-approved U.S. law schools from 1948 to the present. These data enable us to study many unexplored features of women’s progress in law schools for the first time, including the process by which women initially gained access to each law school, the variance in women’s experiences across law schools, the relationship between women’s representation and student achievement, and the extent to which women disproportionally occupy interim and non-tenure track positions. We contextualize our findings by situating them within the vast qualitative literature on women’s experiences in law schools and the legal profession.
我们研究了妇女在法学院的代表性和成就的进展情况。为了做到这一点,我们收集了一个关于1948年至今美国律师协会批准的所有美国法学院男女学生、教师和院长人数的新数据集。这些数据使我们能够首次研究女性在法学院进步的许多未被探索的特征,包括女性最初进入每一所法学院的过程、不同法学院女性经历的差异、女性代表性与学生成绩之间的关系,以及妇女在多大程度上不成比例地占据临时职位和非终身职位。我们将我们的研究结果置于关于女性在法学院和法律职业中经历的大量定性文献中,将其置于背景中。
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Algorithmic Harm in Consumer Markets 消费者市场中的算法危害
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-08-21 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laad003
Oren Bar-Gill, Cass R Sunstein, Inbal Talgam-Cohen
Machine learning algorithms are increasingly able to predict what goods and services particular people will buy, and at what price. It is possible to imagine a situation in which relatively uniform, or coarsely set, prices and product characteristics are replaced by far more in the way of individualization. Companies might, for example, offer people shirts and shoes that are particularly suited to their situations, that fit with their particular tastes, and that have prices that fit their personal valuations. In many cases, the use of algorithms promises to increase efficiency and to promote social welfare; it might also promote fair distribution. But when consumers suffer from an absence of information or from behavioral biases, algorithms can cause serious harm. Companies might, for example, exploit such biases in order to lead people to purchase products that have little or no value for them or to pay too much for products that do have value for them. Algorithmic harm, understood as the exploitation of an absence of information or of behavioral biases, can disproportionately affect members of identifiable groups, including women and people of color. Since algorithms exacerbate the harm caused to imperfectly informed and imperfectly rational consumers, their increasing use provides fresh support for existing efforts to reduce information and rationality deficits, especially through optimally designed disclosure mandates. In addition, there is a more particular need for algorithm-centered policy responses. Specifically, algorithmic transparency—transparency about the nature, uses, and consequences of algorithms—is both crucial and challenging; novel methods designed to open the algorithmic “black box” and “interpret” the algorithm’s decision-making process should play a key role. In appropriate cases, regulators should also police the design and implementation of algorithms, with a particular emphasis on the exploitation of an absence of information or of behavioral biases.
机器学习算法越来越能够预测特定人群将购买什么商品和服务,以及以什么价格购买。可以想象这样一种情况,在这种情况下,相对统一或粗略设定的价格和产品特征被更多的个性化方式所取代。例如,公司可能会为人们提供特别适合他们情况、符合他们特定品味、价格符合他们个人估价的衬衫和鞋子。在许多情况下,算法的使用有望提高效率和促进社会福利;它还可能促进公平分配。但当消费者因缺乏信息或行为偏见而痛苦时,算法可能会造成严重伤害。例如,公司可能会利用这种偏见,引导人们购买对他们来说价值不大或根本没有价值的产品,或者为对他们来说有价值的产品支付过高的费用。算法伤害,被理解为利用缺乏信息或行为偏见,会不成比例地影响可识别群体的成员,包括女性和有色人种。由于算法加剧了对不完全知情和不完全理性的消费者造成的伤害,它们的日益使用为减少信息和理性缺陷的现有努力提供了新的支持,特别是通过优化设计的披露授权。此外,还特别需要以算法为中心的策略响应。具体来说,算法的透明度——算法的性质、用途和后果的透明度——既是至关重要的,也是具有挑战性的;设计新颖的方法来打开算法的“黑匣子”并“解读”算法的决策过程应该发挥关键作用。在适当的情况下,监管机构还应监督算法的设计和实施,特别强调利用缺乏信息或行为偏见的情况。
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Managerial Contracting: A Preliminary Study 管理承包:初步研究
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laac007
Lisa Bernstein, Brad Peterson
Important types of contractual relationships—among them those between integrated product manufacturers and their suppliers—are neither fully transactional nor fully relational. The agreements that govern these relationships incorporate highly detailed written terms that focus not only on what is promised but also on the details of how it is to be achieved and how suppliers’ actions will be monitored and responded to over the life of the agreement. Together with the implicit relational contracts that support their operation, these provisions create an economic hybrid that lies between markets and hierarchies, a set of relatively standard institutional arrangements that give buyers the right (but not the obligation) to exercise a package of quasi-integration rights that enables them to obtain many of the most important benefits of vertical integration while simultaneously reaping most of the core benefits of outsourcing. The contract provisions used to govern these relationships are termed here “managerial provisions” because they employ the techniques of intra-firm hierarchy that managers use to organize relationships and increase productivity within firms. This article focuses on a subset of these provisions, namely those that are analogous to the eighteen management practices that the World Management Survey (WMS) reveals are closely associated with persistent performance differences across similarly situated enterprises. After documenting the convergence between these practices and the terms of procurement contracts, the article suggests that the contract governance regime these practices create is well designed to support the creation and maintenance of cooperative relationships, strengthen the force of network governance, and scaffold the emergence of the type of inter-firm process-based trust that is associated with better supplier performance. More generally, this article concludes that in the modern economy, where the value of so many types of contracts—from research and development alliances to business process outsourcing agreements and beyond—depends on employees of the contracting entities working together much as if they worked for a single firm, lawyers would be well advised to look to the broad array of managerial techniques successfully used within firms (not only those based on WMS practices) to develop new ways to better govern transactions between firms.
重要的合同关系类型——其中包括集成产品制造商和供应商之间的合同关系——既不是完全的交易关系,也不是完全的关系关系。管理这些关系的协议包含非常详细的书面条款,这些条款不仅关注承诺的内容,还关注如何实现承诺的细节,以及在协议有效期内如何监控和回应供应商的行为。与支持其运作的隐性关系契约一起,这些条款创造了一种介于市场和等级之间的经济混合体,这是一套相对标准的制度安排,赋予买方行使一揽子准整合权利的权利(但不是义务),使他们能够获得垂直整合的许多最重要的利益,同时获得外包的大多数核心利益。用于管理这些关系的合同条款在这里被称为“管理条款”,因为它们采用了管理者用来组织关系和提高公司生产率的企业内部等级制度技术。本文主要关注这些条款的一个子集,即那些类似于世界管理调查(WMS)所揭示的18种管理实践的条款,它们与情况相似的企业之间持续的绩效差异密切相关。在记录了这些实践与采购合同条款之间的趋同之后,本文认为,这些实践创建的合同治理制度设计良好,可以支持合作关系的创建和维护,加强网络治理的力量,并支持与更好的供应商绩效相关的基于企业间流程的信任类型的出现。更一般地说,这篇文章的结论是,在现代经济中,从研发联盟到业务流程外包协议等等,如此多类型合同的价值取决于合同实体的员工一起工作,就像他们为一家公司工作一样。律师们最好借鉴公司内部成功运用的各种管理技术(不仅仅是那些基于WMS实践的技术),以开发新的方法来更好地管理公司之间的交易。
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OUP accepted manuscript OUP接受稿件
IF 2.2 1区 社会学 Q1 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jla/laac002
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