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Research View, November/December 1998

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

Poverty and Welfare Reform: Will Communities Be Able to Cope?

Watershed CPR: Working toward healthy rivers

Bear Necessities: Giving Ursus a chance to recover

Health Care on Main Street: Helping rural hospitals address ethical issues

Frontiers in Neuroscience: Insights into CNS regeneration and repair

Worship And Evangelism In Pre-Christendom, Donald C. Nevile

Consensus

Kreider, Alan. Worship and evangelism in pre-Christendom. Cambridge, England: Grove Books, 1995.

Minority As A Majority: Does It Make A Difference?, Terrance J. Taylor

Student Work

The relationship between race and crime has long been a primary concern of criminal justice researchers. Numerous studies have examined this relationship through the use of official statistics, self-reports, and victimization surveys. The results of these studies present multiple and often conflicting results. Studies examining official statistics and victimization data have generally found a significant difference in delinquency between White and minority juveniles, with minority juveniles responsible for more delinquency than White youth in terms of both incidence and seriousness. Self-report studies, on the other hand, have often found no differences between minority and White youth, or smaller differences than …

Minority As A Majority: Does It Make A Difference?, Terrance J. Taylor

Student Work

The relationship between race and crime has long been a primary concern of criminal justice researchers. Numerous studies have examined this relationship through the use of official statistics, self-reports, and victimization surveys. The results of these studies present multiple and often conflicting results. Studies examining official statistics and victimization data have generally found a significant difference in delinquency between White and minority juveniles, with minority juveniles responsible for more delinquency than White youth in terms of both incidence and seriousness. Self-report studies, on the other hand, have often found no differences between minority and White youth, or smaller differences than …

With All Good Intentions: The Collapse Of Jamaica's Financial Sector, Paul Chen-Young

Documents

account of Jamaica's financial crisis by then-CEO of Eagle Financial Entities

Remedies And The Psychology Of Ownership, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Forest Jourden

Vanderbilt Law Review

It is surprising that there are cases like Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.I The plaintiffs in Boomer were eight homeowners seeking injunctive relief against the dust and noise produced by a neighboring cement plant, the Atlantic Cement Company. The trial court declared Atlantic Cement a nuisance, but refused to enjoin the plant's operations. Instead, the court awarded monetary damages to the plaintiffs for the loss in value to their property attributable to the defendant's activities. The dissatisfied plaintiffs appealed, but ultimately New York's highest court declared that they were not entitled to injunctive relief. That the plaintiffs sued the plant …

Protecting Religious Liberty In The Next Millenium: Should We Amend The Religion Clauses Of The Constitution, Robert P. George

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pocket Glances At The University Of North Florida: 98 Bites, University Of North Florida

Faculty and Staff History Printed Materials

Reference book prepared by the Division of Administration and Finance.

Books & Bytes Issue No. 13, Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Books & Bytes

Books & Bytes is a forum for communicating library policies, addressing user issues, and marking future directions and present accomplishments of our staff and this institution. This newsletter provides information on how the library functions in fulfilling its role in support of the academic agenda of the University of North Florida.

Ole Miss Art Department To Host Annual Christmas Auction Dec. 4, Emily Boling

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- Over 80 pieces of local art will go home with the highest bidder at The University of Mississippi Department of Art's 18th annual Christmas Auction slated for Dec. 4 at Off Square Books in downtown Oxford.

Singing The 'Blues':, Peter Lee

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. -- The University of Mississippi is happily singing the "blues": Foresight by a librarian many years ago has led to Ole Miss being home to the world's largest collection of blues recordings.

Information Sheet On The Work And Decisions Of Siev (N° 3 - October 1998), Roberto Lovera C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

The China Mission, Hugh O'Donnell

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

The Congregation Of The Mission In Vietnam, Gérard Tran Cong Du C.M., Alexis Hau C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Presence Of The Vincentians In West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Stefanus Prio Oetomo C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Vincentian Bibliography

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Présence Des Prêtres De La Mission Dans L’Ouest De Kalimantan, Indonésie, Stefanus Prio Oetomo C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Table Générale Des Articles De Vincentiana 1991-1998, Emeric Amyot D'Inville C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

La Congrégation De La Mission Au Viet-Nam, Gérard Tran Cong Du C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

Line Drawing, Doctrine, And Efficiency In The Tax Law, David A. Weisbach

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Equal Rights, Special Rights, And The Nature Of Antidiscrimination Law, Peter J. Rubin

Michigan Law Review

Despite the continued belief held by most Americans that certain characteristics should not form the basis for adverse decisions about individuals in employment, housing, public accommodations, and the provision of a wide range of governmental and private services and opportunities, antidiscrimination laws have increasingly come under attack on the ground that they provide members of the group against whom discrimination is forbidden with "special rights." The "special rights" objection has been voiced most strongly, but not exclusively, against laws that seek to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This line of attack has not always been effective, but …

A Theory Of Customary International Law, Eric A. Posner, Jack L. Goldsmith

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Theories Of Judgment And Decision Making In Legal Scholarship: A Literature Review, Donald C. Langevoort

Vanderbilt Law Review

Nearly all interesting legal issues require accurate predictions about human behavior to be resolved satisfactorily. Judges, policy- makers, and academics invoke mental models of individual and social behavior whenever they estimate the desirability of alternative rules, policies, or procedures. Contemporary legal scholarship has come to recognize that if these predictions are naive and intuitive, without any strong empirical grounding, they are susceptible to error and ideological bias. Something more rigorous is thus expected when normative claims are advanced, and the place of the social sciences has expanded in legal discourse to satisfy this expectation.'

Three branches of the social sciences-economics, …

Inertia And Preference In Contract Negotiation: The Psychological Power Of Default Rules And Form Terms, Russell Korobkin

Vanderbilt Law Review

In The Problem of Social Cost,' the foundational article of the law and economics movement, Ronald Coase suggested that when transaction costs are zero, the initial allocation of a legal entitlement is irrelevant to its eventual ownership. Assuming no transaction costs, the Coase Theorem predicts that if party A values an entitlement more than does party B, A will keep the entitlement if it is initially allocated to him, and he will buy it if it is originally allocated to B. This powerful insight depends on the behavioral assumption that an individual's valuation of entitlements does not depend on ownership; …

Behavioral Economics, The Economic Analysis Of Bankruptcy Law And The Pricing Of Credit, Robert K. Rasmussen

Vanderbilt Law Review

Bankruptcy has been a fertile ground for the economic analysis of law. A significant portion of bankruptcy scholarship during the past fifteen years applies the basic assumptions of standard economic theory to the problems caused by financial distress. This scholarship begins with the premise that people make choices in a rational manner in order to maximize their individual utility. It applies this axiom to questions ranging from when do individuals file for bankruptcy to how bankruptcy laws affect firms' investment decisions. As it has in most other areas of law (especially private law), law and economics has both reshaped our …

Can There Be A Behavioral Law And Economics?, Samuel Issacharoff

Vanderbilt Law Review

The emergence of the modern law and economics analysis generally is dated to the early 1960s with the publication of seminal work by Ronald Coase' and subsequently by Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed. These articles laid the foundation for the relation between legal rules, wealth maximization, and transaction costs, which provided the pivotal application of economic analysis to legal problems. However, the current sweep of law and economics would have been inconceivable without Gary Becker's insight into the application of neoclassical comparisons of marginal utility to the stuff of everyday life. Becker's analysis of routine decision making in terms of …

The Growing Pains Of Behavioral Law And Economics, Thomas S. Ulen

Vanderbilt Law Review

We are at the beginning of behavioral law and economics. We now see only dimly the outlines of the elaborate theory of decision making that is to come. We are like the independent scholars who examined the various parts of a very large animal and then tried to put together their reports to describe that animal; we each have bits and pieces of the elephant but no clear image of the entire beast. But we should not despair. We must remember that this behavioralist discipline is, as scholarly developments go, young. Indeed, the conventional law and economics model, to which …

Comment: The Future Of Behavioral Economic Analysis Of Law, Jennifer Arlen

Vanderbilt Law Review

Behavioral economic analysis of law presents an important challenge to conventional law and economics, strengthened in part by the fact that conventional law and economics is itself a behavioral approach to law. Indeed, conventional law and economics can be viewed as the first widely-adopted behavioral approach to law. A central contribution of Ronald Coase's pathbreaking article was the claim that one cannot determine the effect of a law by simply looking at the law itself--at the conduct the law requires. Instead, one must determine how people will respond to the law.' Legal rules, he argued, do not dictate behavior-they simply …

Putting Rational Actors In Their Place: Economics And Phenomenology, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law Review

The model of human behavior that is used in microeconomics is both normative and descriptive. As a normative model, it is an historical successor to the medieval concept of grace and the Renaissance concept of virtue. As a descriptive model, it is a theory of human psychology. Economists tend to deemphasize this point be- cause psychology is a notoriously "soft" science, and economists aspire to the "hard" sciences' precision. Nonetheless, any model that states the way human beings behave under specified circumstances is necessarily a theory of the way the human mind functions, and thus be- longs in the category …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1998, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1998 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1998.