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Risk Realization, Emotion, And Policy Making, Chris Guthrie
Risk Realization, Emotion, And Policy Making, Chris Guthrie
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In their study of terrorism and SARS, Professor Feigenson and his colleagues report "significant positive correlations between people's risk perceptions and their negative affect." In their review of the judgment and decision-making literature, Professor Slovic and his colleagues document the interplay between reason and emotion in assessing risk. And in the context of a soldier's concerns for himself and his family, Professor Moran provides a powerful narrative of fear. But what happens when such threats are actually realized? Do we accurately predict the emotional impact of such events? Or are there meaningful and predictable differences between the feelings we forecast …
Justice On The Tennessee Frontier: The Williamson County Circuit Court 1810-1820, Cornelia A. Clark
Justice On The Tennessee Frontier: The Williamson County Circuit Court 1810-1820, Cornelia A. Clark
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Note examines the history of one early nineteenth-century circuit court and the caliber of its bench and bar. To analyze the workings of that court, this Note applies the analytical framework adopted by Friedman, Blume, and other historians to the raw data provided by a study of the Williamson County Circuit Court records. In each of several substantive areas for which the court's records provide information, the Note first considers Friedman's generalizations about nineteenth-century law and then interprets the Williamson County data in the light of those generalizations and the results of other case studies. This Note proceeds on …