Abstract Feminist legal scholars have never cut the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada as much slack as the second.
Yet the first, Justice Bertha Wilson, introduced the contextual method into the Court’s jurisprudence. [...]
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INTRODUCTION Few people have read or watched the film adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly without proclaiming it a triumph of the human will. Jean-Dominique Bauby authored the memoir after suffering from a major stroke that left [...] Books Received in 2008
Teneille Brown and Emily Murphy, the Symposium’s first speakers, will be presenting their arguments against using neuroscientific evidence in courts. Panelists Michael Saks and David Faigman will be commenting. See below to read the abstract. — In this paper [...]
Abstract This article shows that the economic analyses of rescue laws developed in the ‘70s are the outcome of a long-term process
that began at the end of the 1950s with the passing of the first legislations intended to promote and control rescue behaviour (the so-called “good Samaritan” legislations, acts or statutes) and that finally results in the economic models of rescue developed by Landes and Posner (The Journal of Legal Studies, 7(1):83–128, 1978a; The American Economic Review, 68(2):417–421, 1978b). The article investigates the context that made the occurrence of the economic analysis of rescue law possible and the controversies that it fueled in both the legal and economic fields. It also highlights the influence of the economic analysis of altruism on this particular field of law and economics.
Abstract This experiment examined the importance of report content and the role of social categorization in consistency effects on
perceived credibility. Community volunteers (N = 374) evaluated the credibility of an adult who described a common, mundane event (everyday event) or a highly unusual, emotional event (intimate partner abuse, IPA) with one of two levels of report consistency. Participants evaluated consistent complainants and persons reporting everyday events more favorably than inconsistent complainants and IPA complainants, respectively. Findings suggest that social categorization fully mediates content effects on credibility. Participants viewed persons reporting everyday events as more similar, more likely to belong to the same group as themselves, and more credible compared to complainants reporting IPA. Social categorization was a weaker mediator of the relationship between consistency and credibility.
On October 30, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) issued a decision that has potentially significant implications for innovation in many fields, but particularly in the online commerce and the software industry. [...] On October 30, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) issued a decision that has potentially significant implications for innovation in many fields, but particularly in the online commerce and the software industry. Indeed, with the issuance of In re Bilski, the Federal Circuit has substantially changed its [...]
Abstract A follow-up of 107 male federal prison inmates previously tested with the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles
(PICTS) and Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV) was conducted to test the incremental validity of both measures. The PICTS General Criminal Thinking (GCT) score was found to predict general recidivism and serious recidivism when age, prior charges, and the PCL:SV were controlled. The PCL:SV, on the other hand, failed to predict general and serious recidivism when age, prior charges, and the PICTS were controlled. These findings support the hypothesis that content-relevant self-report measures like the PICTS are capable of predicting crime-relevant outcomes above and beyond the contributions of basic demographic variables like age, criminal history, and such popular non-self-report rating procedures as the PCL:SV.
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