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The Adversarial System, Three Lemons, And Cocaine: The Role Of Confirmation Bias, Curtis E.A. Karnow Oct 2014

The Adversarial System, Three Lemons, And Cocaine: The Role Of Confirmation Bias, Curtis E.A. Karnow

Curtis E.A. Karnow

A short note on confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance as it affects decision making by lawyers and judges.


Ethically Ambiguous Negotiation Tactics (Eants): What Are The Rules Behind The Rules?, John Wade May 2014

Ethically Ambiguous Negotiation Tactics (Eants): What Are The Rules Behind The Rules?, John Wade

John Wade

This paper will briefly discuss the following: • A catalogue of the EANTs in use in negotiation and litigation. • How common are these behaviours amongst lawyers? • What are the attempted controls (or not) of these EANTs in different cultures?---market isolation, law, and “ethics”? • Focussing on attempted ethical controls, what are the five (often overlapping) historic schools of “ethics”? • Which school of “ethics” do various written codes of law societies predominantly reflect? –answer: pragmatism and self interest. • If the epidemic of EANTs needs to be reduced, should pragmatism and self interest be taught and modelled more …


Tell Us A Story, But Don't Make It A Good One: Resolving The Confusion Regarding Emotional Stories And Federal Rule Of Evidence 403, Cathren Page Feb 2014

Tell Us A Story, But Don't Make It A Good One: Resolving The Confusion Regarding Emotional Stories And Federal Rule Of Evidence 403, Cathren Page

Cathren Page

Abstract: Tell Us a Story, But Don’t Make It A Good One: Resolving the Confusion Regarding Emotional Stories and Federal Rule of Evidence 403 by Cathren Koehlert-Page Courts need to reword their opinions regarding Rule 403 to address the tension between the advice to tell an emotionally evocative story at trial and the notion that evidence can be excluded if it is too emotional. In the murder mystery Mystic River, Dave Boyle is kidnapped in the beginning. The audience feels empathy for Dave who as an adult becomes one of the main suspects in the murder of his friend Jimmy’s …