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Radio Spectrum And The Disruptive Clarity Of Ronald Coase, Richard E. Redding, Thomas W. Hazlett, David Porter
Radio Spectrum And The Disruptive Clarity Of Ronald Coase, Richard E. Redding, Thomas W. Hazlett, David Porter
Richard E. Redding
In the Federal Communications Commission, Ronald Coase exposed deep foundations via normative argument buttressed by astute historical observation. The government controlled scarce frequencies, issuing sharply limited use rights. Spillovers were said to be otherwise endemic. Coase saw that Government limited conflicts by restricting uses; property owners perform an analogous function via the “price system.” The government solution was inefficient unless the net benefits of the alternative property regime were lower. Coase augured that the price system would outperform. His spectrum auction proposal was mocked by communications policy experts, opposed by industry interests, and ridiculed by policy makers. Hence, it took …
Without A Prayer?: Spirituality And Performance In Law School – A Reply To Professor Taylor, Richard E. Redding
Without A Prayer?: Spirituality And Performance In Law School – A Reply To Professor Taylor, Richard E. Redding
Richard E. Redding
Professor Scott Taylor’s Spirituality and Academic Performance at a Catholic Law School: An Empirical Study was disheartening to Catholics and fellow travelers because it reported finding no relationship between the spirituality of law students and their academic performance at a prominent Catholic law school committed to its religious identity. In this essay, I explain how Professor Taylor’s study – the first and only one of its kind – is so methodologically flawed it leaves us unable to conclude anything about whether spirituality is related to academic performance. After a review of the few prior research studies on spirituality and performance, …
Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie
Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie
Richard E. Redding
Judges play a central role in decision making in the justice system. This chapter reviews the extant empirical research on judicial decision making in criminal, juvenile, and civil cases. We discuss judges’ decision making about forensic mental health evidence introduced in these cases, judicial receptivity to various kinds of evidence, and their understanding of clinical and scientific evidence as well as the ways they make rulings about such evidence. We focus on decision making at the trial court level, in those arenas that are most relevant to the forensic mental health practitioner (psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker) who is called …
Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie
Judicial Decision Making About Forensic Mental Health Evidence, Richard E. Redding, Daniel C. Murrie
Richard E. Redding
Judges play a central role in decision making in the justice system. This chapter reviews the extant empirical research on judicial decision making in criminal, juvenile, and civil cases. We discuss judges’ decision making about forensic mental health evidence introduced in these cases, judicial receptivity to various kinds of evidence, and their understanding of clinical and scientific evidence as well as the ways they make rulings about such evidence. We focus on decision making at the trial court level, in those arenas that are most relevant to the forensic mental health practitioner (psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker) who is called …