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Law School News: Rwu Law Dean Seeking To Build On Culture Of Service, Innovation 12/09/2020, Barry Bridges, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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The Intersection Of Judicial Attitudes And Litigant Selection Theories: Explaining U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making, Jeff L. Yates, Elizabeth Coggins

Jeff L Yates

Two prominent theories of legal decision making provide seemingly contradictory explanations for judicial outcomes. In political science, the Attitudinal Model suggests that judicial outcomes are driven by judges' sincere policy preferences -- judges bring their ideological inclinations to the decision making process and their case outcome choices largely reflect these policy preferences. In contrast, in the law and economics literature, Priest and Klein's well-known Selection Hypothesis posits that court outcomes are largely driven by the litigants' strategic choices in the selection of cases for formal dispute or adjudication -- forward thinking litigants settle cases where potential judicial outcomes are readily …

Writing: "It" Is A Start; Getting "It" Read Is The Goal., Timothy Blevins

Timothy D Blevins

The want or need to publish begins with writing the document. Once the decision is made to write, and a subject identified, the writer must focus on the reader. A one size fits all attitude toward writing can result in a negative impression with a publication's editors.

Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities, And Organizational Maintenance: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1955 To 1994, Jeff L. Yates, Andrew B. Whitford, William Gillespie

Jeff L Yates

In this study, we examine agenda setting by the U.S. Supreme Court, and ask the question of why the Court allocates more or less of its valuable agenda space to one policy issue over others. Our study environment is the policy issue composition of the Court's docket: the Court's attention to criminal justice policy issues relative to other issues. We model the Court's allocation of this agenda space as a function of internal organizational demands and external political signals. We find that this agenda responds to the issue priorities of the other branches of the federal government and the public. …

The Purple, June 1896

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The First Catholic College in New England
• The Alumni Bishops of Holy Cross
• Alma's Soldier Sons
• Holy Cross Students in the Civil War
• Holy Cross Students on the Judiciary Bench
• Duty of the College and of College Men to the Summer School
• To the Sacred Heart
• A Word with the Young Man Who Is to Take Up the Study of Law
• Vesper
• Some Words of Counsel to Those About to Take Up the Study of Medicine
• Fancy …