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Developmentally-Sound Practice In Family And Juvenile Court, Marty Beyer
Developmentally-Sound Practice In Family And Juvenile Court, Marty Beyer
Nevada Law Journal
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Obtaining And Utilizing Comprehensive Forensic Evaluations: The Applicability Of One Clinic's Model, Antoinette Kavanaugh, Jennifer Clark, Tiffany Masson, Barbara Kahn
Obtaining And Utilizing Comprehensive Forensic Evaluations: The Applicability Of One Clinic's Model, Antoinette Kavanaugh, Jennifer Clark, Tiffany Masson, Barbara Kahn
Nevada Law Journal
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Evaluating The Impact Of Intervention On Families, Catherine E. Krebs
Evaluating The Impact Of Intervention On Families, Catherine E. Krebs
Nevada Law Journal
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The Science Of Persuasion: An Initial Exploration, Kathryn M. Stanchi
The Science Of Persuasion: An Initial Exploration, Kathryn M. Stanchi
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The purpose of this Article is to enhance knowledge of effective persuasive legal writing by taking the exploration in a somewhat different direction from the traditional approaches. This Article argues that it is critical for persuasive writers to study the existing social-science data about human decisionmaking. Trial lawyers have taken serious steps to study and probe social science for ideas about how to persuade (or pick) juries. Yet, decades after Jerome Frank reminded us that judges, like juries, are human, appellate lawyers have been slow to follow their trial brethren in the pursuit of scientific data about what persuades people. …
Book Review: "Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality", Stacey A. Tovino
Book Review: "Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals About Morality", Stacey A. Tovino
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The field of neuroethics has been described as an amalgamation of two branches of inquiry: the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience, which has received considerable attention over the past three to four years, is concerned with the ethical principles that should guide brain research and the treatment of neurological disease, as well as the effects that advances in neuroscience have on our social, moral, and philosophical views. The neuroscience of ethics, which has received considerably less attention, may be described as a scientific approach to understanding ethical behavior. Psychiatrist and lawyer Laurence Tancredi …