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12/29/2016: Doing The Right Thing/Doing The Wrong Thing, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

12/29/2016: Doing The Right Thing/Doing The Wrong Thing, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Doing the Right Thing/Doing the Wrong Thing“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 20, 2016: Faithless Calls For Faithless Electors, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 20, 2016: Faithless Calls For Faithless Electors, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Faithless Calls for Faithless Electors“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 10, 2016: The Businessman’S Economy, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 10, 2016: The Businessman’S Economy, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Businessman’s Economy“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 7, 2016: Mark Lilla Discovers The Necessity Of Truth, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 7, 2016: Mark Lilla Discovers The Necessity Of Truth, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Mark Lilla Discovers the Necessity of Truth“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


December 4, 2016: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 2016

December 4, 2016: The Supreme Court And Politics, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Supreme Court and Politics“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


1911 Triangle Factory Fire — Building Safety Codes, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah M. Robinson Dec 2016

1911 Triangle Factory Fire — Building Safety Codes, Paul H. Robinson, Sarah M. Robinson

All Faculty Scholarship

Can a crime make our world better? Crimes are the worst of humanity’s wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes do more than anything else to improve our lives. As it turns out, it is often the outrageousness itself that does the work. Ordinary crimes are accepted as the background noise of our everyday existence but some crimes make people stop and take notice – because they are so outrageous, or so curious, or so heart-wrenching. These “trigger crimes” are the cases that this book is about.

They offer some incredible stories about how people, good and bad, change the world around …


November 30, 2016: More Paranoia: "Millions" Of Illegal Voters, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 30, 2016: More Paranoia: "Millions" Of Illegal Voters, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “More Paranoia: "millions" of illegal voters“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 27, 2016: Perfect Paranoia—-Jill Stein’S Recount, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 27, 2016: Perfect Paranoia—-Jill Stein’S Recount, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Perfect Paranoia—-Jill Stein’s Recount“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 19, 2016: The Hypocrisy Of The Congressional Republican Party, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 19, 2016: The Hypocrisy Of The Congressional Republican Party, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Hypocrisy of the Congressional Republican Party“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 16, 2016: The End Of The Spritual Thirst For Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 16, 2016: The End Of The Spritual Thirst For Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The End of the Spritual Thirst for Democracy“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 13, 2016: It Was Jobs, Heroin And Disconnection—Not Racism, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 13, 2016: It Was Jobs, Heroin And Disconnection—Not Racism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “It Was Jobs, Heroin and Disconnection—Not Racism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 10, 2016: Don’T Forget That The Game Is Still Rigged, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 10, 2016: Don’T Forget That The Game Is Still Rigged, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Don’t Forget that the Game is Still Rigged“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 6, 2016: “Nobody Believes The Numbers Anyway", Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 6, 2016: “Nobody Believes The Numbers Anyway", Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Nobody Believes the Numbers Anyway“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


November 2, 2016: What Comey Did, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 2016

November 2, 2016: What Comey Did, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “What Comey Did“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


Wage-Setting Institutions And Corporate Governance, Matthew Dimick, Neel Rao Nov 2016

Wage-Setting Institutions And Corporate Governance, Matthew Dimick, Neel Rao

Journal Articles

Why do corporate governance law and practice differ across countries? This paper explains how wage-setting institutions influence ownership structures and investor protection laws. In particular, we identify a nonmonotonic relationship between the level of centralization in wage-bargaining institutions and the level of ownership concentration and investor protection laws. As wage setting becomes more centralized, ownership concentration within firms at first becomes more, and then less, concentrated. In addition, the socially optimal level of investor protection laws is decreasing in ownership concentration. Thus, as wage-setting institutions become more centralized, investor protection laws become less and then more protective. This explanation is …


October 27, 2016: Republicans About To Practice Supreme Court Shutdown, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2016

October 27, 2016: Republicans About To Practice Supreme Court Shutdown, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Republicans About to Practice Supreme Court Shutdown“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


October 10, 2016: No, Trump Was Not Advocating Sexual Assault, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 2016

October 10, 2016: No, Trump Was Not Advocating Sexual Assault, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “No, Trump Was Not Advocating Sexual Assault“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 29, 2016: A Nihilistic Election, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2016

September 29, 2016: A Nihilistic Election, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “A Nihilistic Election“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 22, 2016: An Open Letter To Fred Barnes, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2016

September 22, 2016: An Open Letter To Fred Barnes, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “An Open Letter to Fred Barnes“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


September 21, 2016: You Have A Moral Obligation To Vote For Hillary Clinton, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 2016

September 21, 2016: You Have A Moral Obligation To Vote For Hillary Clinton, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “You Have a Moral Obligation to Vote for Hillary Clinton“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 26, 2016: The Murder Rate Is Down, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 26, 2016: The Murder Rate Is Down, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Murder Rate is Down“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 18, 2016: America Would Not Ban The Burkini, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 18, 2016: America Would Not Ban The Burkini, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “America Would Not Ban the Burkini“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 15, 2016: The Hottest July In Recorded History, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 15, 2016: The Hottest July In Recorded History, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Hottest July in Recorded History“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 10, 2016: What They’Re Doing To Bill Mckibben, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 10, 2016: What They’Re Doing To Bill Mckibben, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “What They’re Doing to Bill McKibben“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


August 3, 2016: And One More Thing-The Candidates Are Too Old, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 2016

August 3, 2016: And One More Thing-The Candidates Are Too Old, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “And One More Thing-The Candidates Are Too Old“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 31, 2016: It’S Materialism, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2016

July 31, 2016: It’S Materialism, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “It’s Materialism“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 25, 2016: Trump, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2016

July 25, 2016: Trump, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Trump“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 16, 2016: The Future Of Democracy In The Islamic World, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2016

July 16, 2016: The Future Of Democracy In The Islamic World, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “The Future of Democracy in the Islamic World“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


July 8, 2016: Lack Lives Matter So Much That The Police Are Needed, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2016

July 8, 2016: Lack Lives Matter So Much That The Police Are Needed, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Black Lives Matter So Much that the Police are Needed“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.


June 22, 2016: Purposeful Obfuscation On Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 2016

June 22, 2016: Purposeful Obfuscation On Gun Control, Bruce Ledewitz

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Blog post, “Purposeful Obfuscation on Gun Control“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.