ISSN 1936-5349 (print) ISSN 1936-5357 (online) HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS ARE THERE COMMON/CIVIL LAW DIFFERENCES AND PRECEDENT EFFECTS IN JUDGING AROUND THE WORLD? A LAB EXPERIMENT Holger Spamann Lars Klöhn Christophe Jamin Vikramaditya Khanna John Zhuang Liu Pavan Mamidi Alexander Morell Ivan Reidel Discussion Paper No. 1044 09/2020 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 02138 This paper can be downloaded without charge from: The Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3700289 Are there Common/Civil Law Differences and Precedent Effects in Judging Around the World? A Lab Experiment Holger Spamann*, Lars Klöhn#, Christophe Jamin♠, Vikramaditya Khanna♥, John Zhuang Liu♦, Pavan Mamidi♣, Alexander Morell⊕, Ivan Reidel§∞ * Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.
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