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Law And The Art Of Modeling: Are Models Facts?, Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Law And The Art Of Modeling: Are Models Facts?, Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In 2013, the Supreme Court made the offhand comment that empirical models and their estimations or predictions are not 'findings of fact" deserving of deference on appeal. The four Justices writing in dissent disagreed, insisting that an assessment of how a model works and its ability to measure what it claims to measure are precisely the kinds of factual findings that the Court, absent clear error cannot disturb. Neither side elaborated on the controversy or defended its position doctrinally or normatively. That the highest Court could split 5-4 on such a crucial issue without even mentioning the stakes or the …
Towards A Declaratory School Of Government Recognition, Joshua Downer
Towards A Declaratory School Of Government Recognition, Joshua Downer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Recognition of governments has historically been a political matter. Governments could choose to recognize or not to recognize any other government, free from the auspices of international law. However, in the wave of prodemocracy optimism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a group of international legal scholars declared the existence of a universal democratic entitlement, which implied that recognition of governments had legal significance. These scholars, known collectively as the Manhattan school, are generally regarded as having vastly overstated the legal implications of the shift toward democratic governance. While it is true that there is scant evidence of a …