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    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Hastie, Reid (DePaul Law Review, 2002)
      Richard Lempert, a Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Michigan criticized our recent article on judge and jury performance of a punitive damage judgment task, calling it a "failure of a social science case ...
    • O'Connor, Erin O'Hara, 1965- (Chicago Journal of International Law, 2002)
      Recent US court enforcement of foreign forum-selection clauses is durable only to the extent that the clauses make the contracts more valuable to the parties. The clauses can create value by making dispute resolution ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Northwestern University Law Review, 2003)
      This article addresses the state's police power authority to deprive people of liberty based on predictions of antisocial behavior. Most conspicuously exercised against so-called "sexual predators," this authority purportedly ...
    • King, Nancy J., 1958- (Michigan Law Review, 1996)
      This article examines two aspects of the jury system that have attracted far less attention from scholars than from the popular press: avoidance of jury duty by some citizens, and misconduct while serving by others. ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Legal Studies, 2001)
      A sample of almost 500 jury-eligible citizens considered a series of experimental situations involving accidents. The juror sample did not properly apply negligence rules, as their errors were particularly great for ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Ohio State Law Journal, 2009)
      This article, written for a symposium analyzing Justice Ginsburg’s jurisprudence on the 15th anniversary of her tenure on the Supreme Court, is the first sustained look at her views on criminal procedure issues (search and ...
    • Sherry, Suzanna (William and Mary Law Review, 1998)
      Many commentators view City of Boerne v. Flores,' in which a divided Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), as a major defeat in the battle for religious freedom in the United ...
    • Fitzpatrick, Brian T. (Notre Dame Law Review, 2017)
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951-; Fondacaro, Mark R., 1957- (Iowa Law Review, 2009)
      The current eclectic mix of solutions to the juvenile-crime problem is insufficiently conceptualized and too beholden to myths about youth, the crimes they commit, and effective means of responding to their problems. The ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, 2009)
      The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has long been the workhorse of species protection in contexts for which a species-specific approach can effectively be employed to address discrete human-induced threats that have straightforward ...
    • Vandenbergh, Michael P. (Arkansas Law Review, 2018)
      In response to the shrinking federal role in environmental protection, many policy advocates have focused on the role of states and cities, but this symposium focuses on another important source of sustainability initiatives: ...
    • King, Nancy J., 1958- (Yale Law Journal Online, 2012)
      The Supreme Court in Missouri v. Frye1 and Lafler v. Cooper2 broke new ground by holding for the first time that a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment can be violated by the ...
    • Gervais, Daniel J. (Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, 2011)
      I see a bright future for collective management as a model. Each country and each CMO will be different and United States CMOs will likely have fewer collectivized elements than their foreign counterparts. But beyond those ...
    • Jones, Owen D.; Goldsmith, Timothy H. (Columbia Law Review, 2005)
      Society uses law to encourage people to behave differently than they would behave in the absence of law. This fundamental purpose makes law highly dependent on sound understandings of the multiple causes of human behavior. ...
    • Jones, Owen D. (Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1997)
      This Article explores ways in which social science perspectives on behavior can be combined with life science perspectives on behavior to the advantage of law. It emphasizes both values of and techniques for integration, ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Hersch, Joni, 1956- (Review of Law and Economics, 2012)
      This paper reports the distribution of doctoral degrees in economics and in other fields among faculty at the 26 highest ranked law schools. Almost one-third of professors at the top 13 law schools have a Ph.D. degree, ...
    • Edelman, Paul H. (Constitutional Commentary, 2002)
      Can mathematics be used to inform legal analysis? This is not a ridiculous question. Law has certain superficial resemblances to mathematics. One might view the Constitution and various statutes as providing "axioms" for ...
    • Jones, Owen D.; Schall, Jeffrey D.; Shen, Francis X. (Law and Neuroscience, 2014)
      This provides the Summary Table of Contents and Chapter 1 of our coursebook “Law and Neuroscience” (forthcoming April 2014, from Aspen Publishing). Designed for use in both law schools and beyond, the book provides ...
    • Ruhl, J. B.; Salzman, James (Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 2007)
      Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in ecosystem services from scientists, economists, government officials, entrepreneurs, and the media. This article traces the development of the ecosystem ...
    • Meyer, Timothy (University of Illinois Law Review, 2019)
      American ambivalence toward international institutions is nothing new. In his farewell address, George Washington famously warned against foreign entanglements. After World War I, the U.S. Senate rejected the Treaty of ...