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Washington and Lee University School of Law

Washington and Lee Law Review

Psychology

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Testation And The Mind, Adam J. Hirsch Jan 2017

Testation And The Mind, Adam J. Hirsch

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Article explores the panoply of state-of-mind rules in inheritance law. In areas of law concerned with wrongdoing, consideration of mental states achieves specific deterrence and moral justice. By comparison, in the inheritance realm, I argue that consideration of mental states can serve to economize on decision costs. The Article looks at state-of-mind rules through this prism and also analyzes the public policy of these rules from the perspective of modern research into psychology. Finally, the Article examines state-of-mind rules comparatively, identifying inconsistencies between them that require justification. The Article closes by observing potential expansions of the model and applications …


Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata As A Case Study, Christopher Slobogin Jun 2000

Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata As A Case Study, Christopher Slobogin

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Maladies Of The Legal Soul: Psychoanalysis And Interpretation In Law, Peter Goodrich Jun 1997

Maladies Of The Legal Soul: Psychoanalysis And Interpretation In Law, Peter Goodrich

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Identifying Law's Unconscious: Disciplinary And Rhetorical Contexts, David S. Caudill Jun 1997

Identifying Law's Unconscious: Disciplinary And Rhetorical Contexts, David S. Caudill

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lacan And The Subject Of Law: Sexuation And Discourse In The Mapping Of Subject Positions That Give The Ur-Form Of Law, Ellie Ragland Jun 1997

Lacan And The Subject Of Law: Sexuation And Discourse In The Mapping Of Subject Positions That Give The Ur-Form Of Law, Ellie Ragland

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.