Breaking new ground: dispatches on law & economics from India

Abstract

The book Law and Economics: Breaking New Grounds aims to educate and spread awareness on the interdisciplinary subject of law and economics among technocrats, scientists, social engineers, professionals and policy makers, which will build-up a rational society. This book includes 15 essays drawn from the International Conference on Law and Economics held in March, 2015 at GNLU, India. This event was organised by a consortium of technology, management and legal institutions namely IIT, Kanpur; IIM, Ahmedabad and Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. The conference with national and international resource persons and professionals had effective deliberations on: (i) Role of discovery and the early settlement of litigation, (ii) evaluation of trade venues, (iii) consumerism in EU, economic rationale for the patent system, and (iv) evidence based law. These topics have been covered in this book. This books includes essays from a broad array of topics such as Trade and Investment, Competition Law, Alternate Dispute Resolution and Regulating the Financial System.This book will be immensely useful to students, academicians, researchers and policymakers. It provides a unique multidisciplinary approach to subject of Law and Economics