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Gender Bias: Continuing Challenges And Opportunities, Rebecca Korzec
Gender Bias: Continuing Challenges And Opportunities, Rebecca Korzec
All Faculty Scholarship
In 1873 the U.S. Supreme Court denied Myra Bradwell the right to practice law, holding "the paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign office of wife and mother." Now, just slightly more a century later, two women sit on the Supreme Court, and almost half of all law students and law school faculty are women.
Jon O. Newman And The Abortion Decisions: A Remarkable First Year, Andrew D. Hurwitz
Jon O. Newman And The Abortion Decisions: A Remarkable First Year, Andrew D. Hurwitz
NYLS Law Review
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Rethinking Fairness: Principled Legal Realism And Federal Jurisdiction, Aviam Soifer
Rethinking Fairness: Principled Legal Realism And Federal Jurisdiction, Aviam Soifer
NYLS Law Review
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Interpreting U.S. Treaties In Light Of Human Rights Values, Lori Fisler Damrosch
Interpreting U.S. Treaties In Light Of Human Rights Values, Lori Fisler Damrosch
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Jon Newman’S Theory Of Disparagement And The First Amendment In The Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin
Jon Newman’S Theory Of Disparagement And The First Amendment In The Administrative State, Edward L. Rubin
NYLS Law Review
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The Dimension Of The Supreme Court, Paul H. Edelman
The Dimension Of The Supreme Court, Paul H. Edelman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Lawrence Sirovich introduced two novel mathematical techniques to study patterns in recent Supreme Court decisions. One of these methods, information theory, has never been applied previously. The other method, singular value decomposition, is closely related to other methods that have previously been employed.
In this paper I give an explication of these two methods and evaluate their use in the context of understanding the Supreme Court. I conclude that information theory holds some promise for furthering our understanding but singular value decomposition, as applied by Sirovich, is …