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DePaul Law Review

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Bloomington Community Brain Health Services Program: The Intersection Of Law Enforcement And Brain Health, Janet Yeats, Luke Campbell, Booker Hodges

Forensic Scholars Today

In 2023, the Bloomington Police Department launched the Bloomington Community Brain Health Services (BCBHS) program in response to increasing mental health crises, provider shortages, long wait times for services, and rising law enforcement involvement in crisis calls. The Bloomington Model integrates licensed therapists and supervised graduate-level interns directly within a police department structure. The program aims to reduce mental health-related calls, stabilize residents experiencing crisis, and eliminate cost barriers by offering up to 15 sessions of free, short-term therapy delivered in homes, schools, virtual settings, and community spaces.

This article outlines the program’s development, implementation, and early outcomes, highlighting key …

Donald Trump’S Latest Tariffs Are Part Of A New Trade Strategy. The U.S. Has A Much Bigger Target Than Our Wine And Cheese, Barry Appleton

Other Publications

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The Role Of Online Disinhibition On Social Media Users' Privacy Concerns And Behaviors, Lisa Thompson, Sinyong Choi

Faculty Articles

As social media platforms become central to digital interactions, concerns about both privacy and the disclosure of personal information have evolved. Online disinhibition—the psychological detachment users experience in digital spaces that distance their online behaviors from offline consequences—may shape perceptions of privacy risks, particularly on social media platforms like TikTok. This study examines the relationships between online disinhibition and users’ privacy concerns and protective behaviors while accounting for individuals’ sense of gratification, media awareness, identity, and experience. By exploring dimensions such as anonymity and invisibility, we investigate how these factors are linked to self-disclosure and diminished privacy caution. Findings from …

"Distributed Voice" During Deliberations: What Real Juries Tell Us, Mary R. Rose, Shari S. Diamond

DePaul Law Review

Juries are supposed to represent the views of their community,

but securing representative bodies will not meet fair cross-section

aims if deliberations fail to actually produce contributions from a

wide variety of voices. This Essay develops the concept of

“distributed voice,” or the ability of a jury to spread out talk across

more jurors. Analyses examine what factors predict a jury’s

likelihood of producing more egalitarian distributions of speaking

turns and of words spoken. Data from actual deliberations of fifty

civil juries demonstrate that talk patterns on juries are more widely

distributed when there is a greater diversity of views …

Procedural Justice And Body Worn Cameras, Yael Granot

DePaul Law Review

The extensive and rapid roll out of body cameras across

American police forces in the past decades was intended to improve

issues of accountability and transparency in policing. Trust and

perceptions of fairness of police are shaped, in large part, by how

one is treated by officers and departments—the fundamental

interpersonal work of procedural justice. This Article reviews

findings on public and police support for body cameras, as well as

research connecting body cameras to perceptions of procedural

justice. It then elaborates on past research with a vignette

experiment, aimed at isolating the unique and interactive effects of

just policies, …

What We Should Know About The Reliability Of Empirical Legal Studies, Kathryn Zeiler

DePaul Law Review

The findings of replication studies conducted in the early 2010s

led many to declare that science was in the midst of a “replication

crisis.” Since then, a growing number of reforms have been

proposed and tested. The field of empirical legal studies seems

behind other fields such as psychology, economics, political science,

medicine, biology, and others that have taken significant steps

toward uncovering the general reliability of the field’s empirical

work, investigating the causes of observed unreliability, and

instituting and testing the effects of various reforms. The purpose of

this Article is to summarize what we know about the reliability …

Reflections On Danny Kahneman's Influence On Legal Scholarship, Jennifer K. Robbennolt

DePaul Law Review

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Intuitions In Tort Law And Theory, James Macleod

DePaul Law Review

This Essay highlights the many ways that ordinary conceptual and moral intuitions shape the development of tort law. It further argues that, for a range of doctrinal and institutional reasons, such intuitions deserve a central place in tort theorists’ efforts to explain, predict, justify, and reform the law of torts. Finally, given the stakes for both positive and normative tort theory, the Essay emphasizes the need for more systematic empirical research into the content and operation of people’s tort-relevant intuitions.

The Open Science Movement And Its Implications For Expert Testimony, Robert J. Maccoun

DePaul Law Review

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What The Law Can--And Cannot--Do About Bias In The Mind, Neil A. Lewis Jr.

DePaul Law Review

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Procedural Justice In Trump's America, Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

DePaul Law Review

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Jury Consultants And Empirical Social Science: Framing A Modest Critique, Michael Heise, Nicole A. Heise

DePaul Law Review

Public and scholarly concerns about “integrity” issues relating

to empirical social science research, while already significant,

continue to grow. While problems with the status quo are relatively

obvious and easy to identify, less clear, however, is whether a fixed,

universal set of “norms” or “best practices” should be implemented

to address research integrity concerns or, in contrast, whether

important differences across empirical research genres, scholarly

fields, or research designs warrant different responses. Locating

jury consultants’ empirical work-product in the broader universe of

empirical social science genres provides necessary context, which

assists with the task of identifying which research integrity or …

Procedural Justice And Trial By Jury, Valerie P. Hans

DePaul Law Review

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Probabilistic Injury And Presumptions Of Prejudicial Preferences, Erik J. Girvan

DePaul Law Review

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Noneconomic Tort Damages And Biased Beliefs About Vulnerability To Harm, Roseanna Sommers, Nathan Cheek

DePaul Law Review

The American tort system aspires to provide fair compensation to injured plaintiffs, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, religion, or gender. Recent experimental evidence from psychology suggests, however, that factfinders consistently judge identical harms as less severe when experienced by individuals of lower socioeconomic status (SES). People presume, for instance, that a paper cut hurts a wealthy person more than a less well-off person, that domestic violence inflicts greater suffering on a high-SES woman than a lower-SES woman, and that bullying harms a fiveyear- old from a high-SES family more severely than one from a low- SES family. This Essay examines …

Subjective Due Process As A Legal Standard: Using Lay Judgments As A Basis For Evaluating Emerging Remote And Impersonal Civil Procedures, Tom Tyler

DePaul Law Review

The forums through which the civil justice system operates are

rapidly changing toward the adoption of remote and impersonal

procedures. These changes are being driven by efforts to manage

large case loads through a system which has limited resources.

Authorities supporting these evolving forums suggest that they

respond to litigant concerns for rapid and inexpensive case

management procedures. A review of research suggests that, in

contrast to this perspective, people are actually very sensitive to

whether they believe they receive due process. Such due process

concerns have been identified through the literature of procedural

justice. They reflect four judgments about …

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DePaul Law Review

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The Criminal Prosecution Of Public Employees: Between The Binding Effect Of Criminal Judgments And The Administration’S Disciplinary Authority A Comparative Analytical Study Under Iraqi And Lebanese Law, Mohammed Aboud Faisal Al-Janabi

Imam Ja'afar Al-Sadiq University Journal of Legal Studies

Administrative discipline of public employees is regarded as an autonomous punitive system that is distinct from other sanctioning regimes in terms of its objectives, characteristics, and the authority responsible for its enforcement. Nevertheless, this autonomy does not preclude the existence of a close relationship between administrative disciplinary law and criminal law, nor does it prevent the former from being influenced by the latter in several respects. The same factual conduct that the administration characterizes as a disciplinary offence may simultaneously constitute a criminal offence punishable under the law. Consequently, a public employee may be subject to both disciplinary and criminal …

The Contemporary Tax Journal Volume 15, No. 1 – Summer 2026

The Contemporary Tax Journal

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The White Hat Hacker's Approach: A Vulnerability Analysis Of U.S. Cyber Laws, Carlissa R. Carson

Montana Law Review

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Punishing The Pursuit Of Punitive Damages: The Constitutional Flaws In Montana's Punitive Pleading Bar, Colin P. Spear

Montana Law Review

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The Montana Supreme Court, The Montana Legislature, And Judicial Reform, Brit Englund

Montana Law Review

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The Montana Supreme Court – The Statistics, Simon Mcmahon, Bryn Sokoloski

Montana Law Review

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Strategic Surveillance Against Newsgathering, Courtney C. Douglas

Montana Law Review

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Court-Connected Mediation In Montana: Law, Practice, And Recommendations For Reform, Paul F. Kirgis, Brianna Anderson, Brock Flynn

Montana Law Review

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2026 Hon. James R. Browning Distinguished Lecture In Law: Pride And Precedent: Some Thoughts On Judging, Danielle J. Forrest

Montana Law Review

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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Ai Policy, Kevin Frazier

Montana Law Review

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Building China’S Space Station Intellectual Property Protection System: Strategic Demands, International Rule Competition, And Institutional Pathways, Xiao Youdan, Bing Xiao, Yi Zheng, Xianghui Liu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

As China’s space station transitions into its application and development phase, on-orbit research outputs are entering a period of concentrated yield. The protection of space station intellectual property (IP) has evolved from a theoretical proposition into a pressing institutional demand. For decades, developed economies, notably the United States and European nations, have dominated the development of international space IP rules. Their core approach extends the traditional principle of territoriality through “legal fiction”, establishing jurisdiction based on the “State of registry’s jurisdiction”—that is, treating space objects as extensions of the registering State’s territory, thereby extending the reach of domestic IP law …

Synthesis Report, Khalid Naciri

Revue Marocaine de Droit, d'Economie et de Gestion (Moroccan Journal of Law, Economics and Management)

Thirty years after Moroccan civil servants were granted a specific legal and administrative framework, the General Statute of Public Service naturally prompted reflection and debate among practitioners and academics. In this spirit, the Public Law Department of the Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences at Hassan II University organized a colloquium on May 12–13, 1989, to examine the public service, focusing on elements of continuity and change. Situated at the intersection of legal, cultural, sociological, and political dimensions, the subject proved particularly complex. The colloquium explored this complexity through three main themes: the structures of public service, the legal …