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The Case For Collaborative Tools: Long Distance Teamwork On A Shoestring Budget, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Lucie Olejnikova
The Case For Collaborative Tools: Long Distance Teamwork On A Shoestring Budget, Jessica De Perio Wittman, Lucie Olejnikova
Jessica de Perio Wittman
An article written on how to create podcasts using readily-available technology, and how to use these podcasts in legal education.
The Great Attributional Divide: How Legal Policy Debates Are Shaped By Divergent Views Of Human Nature, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson
The Great Attributional Divide: How Legal Policy Debates Are Shaped By Divergent Views Of Human Nature, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson
Adam Benforado
This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes and behavior with reference to people's dispositions (i.e., personalities, preferences, and the like), and the more accurate situationist approach, which bases attributions of causation and responsibility on unseen influences within us and around us. Given that situationism offers a truer picture of our world than the alternative, and given that attributional tendencies are largely the result of elements in our situations, identifying the relevant elements should …