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   "text": "Rule switching costs for a jurisdiction are probably higher when it must make substantial new demands on its courts in addition to changing its statutes, which raises the cost of competing with a bundled corporate law product.",
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   "text": "Member States unwilling to incur the rule switching costs of conducting judicial proceedings in English could be precluded from marketing their corporate charters in other Member States that do not share their language.",
   "abstract": "Member States unwilling to incur the rule switching costs involved with using English in judicial proceedings could be precluded from marketing their corporate charters in other Member States that do not speak the same language.",
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