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Autonomy And The Folk Concept Of Valid Consent, Joanna Demaree-Cotton, Roseanna Sommers
Autonomy And The Folk Concept Of Valid Consent, Joanna Demaree-Cotton, Roseanna Sommers
Law & Economics Working Papers
Consent governs innumerable everyday social interactions, including sex, medical exams, the use of property, and economic transactions. Yet little is known about how ordinary people reason about the validity of consent. Across the domains of sex, medicine, and police entry, Study 1 showed that when agents lack autonomous decision-making capacities, participants are less likely to view their consent as valid; however, failing to exercise this capacity and deciding in a nonautonomous way did not reduce consent judgments. Study 2 found that specific and concrete incapacities reduced judgments of valid consent, but failing to exercise these specific capacities did not, even …
Maggots And Morals: Physical Disgust Is To Fear As Moral Disgust Is To Anger, Spike W. S. Lee, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Maggots And Morals: Physical Disgust Is To Fear As Moral Disgust Is To Anger, Spike W. S. Lee, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Book Chapters
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Lawyer As Emotional Laborer, Sofia Yakren
Lawyer As Emotional Laborer, Sofia Yakren
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Prevailing norms of legal practice teach lawyers to detach their independent moral judgments from their professional performance-to advocate zealously for their clients while remaining morally unaccountable agents of those clients' causes. Although these norms have been subjected to prominent critiques by legal ethicists, this Article analyzes them instead through the lens of "emotional labor," a sociological theory positing that workers required to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance mandated by organizational rules face substantial psychological risks. By subordinating their personal feelings and values to displays of zealous advocacy on behalf of others, lawyers, too, may …
Response: Between Economics And Sociology: The New Path Of Deterrence, Dan M. Kahan
Response: Between Economics And Sociology: The New Path Of Deterrence, Dan M. Kahan
Michigan Law Review
The explosive collision of economics and sociology has long illuminated the landscape of deterrence theory. It is a debate as hopeless as it is spectacular. Economics is practical but thin. Starting from the simple premise that individuals rationally maximize their utility, economics generates a robust schedule of prescriptions - from the appropriate size of criminal penalties,1 to the optimal form of criminal punishments, to the most efficient mix of private and public investments in deterrence. Yet it is the very economy of economics that ultimately subverts it: its account of human motivations is too simplistic to be believable, and it …
Hating Criminals: How Can Something That Feels So Good Be Wrong?, Joshua Dressler
Hating Criminals: How Can Something That Feels So Good Be Wrong?, Joshua Dressler
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Forgiveness and Mercy by Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton
Petrazycki: Law And Morality, William R. Jentes S.Ed.
Petrazycki: Law And Morality, William R. Jentes S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Mortality. By Leon Petrazycki