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July 24, 2008: Christians Captured By Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz
July 24, 2008: Christians Captured By Capitalism, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Christians Captured by Capitalism “ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
Dear President Bush: Leaving A Legacy On The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
Dear President Bush: Leaving A Legacy On The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
University of Richmond Law Review
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April 18, 2008: Modern Arbitrariness, Bruce Ledewitz
April 18, 2008: Modern Arbitrariness, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Modern Arbitrariness
The Chicago School Virus, Spencer Weber Waller
The Chicago School Virus, Spencer Weber Waller
Spencer Weber Waller
The Chicago School of Law and Economics is a leading example of a highly successful legal ideology. As one recent commentator has noted: "[T]he basic characteristic of the Chicago School is the belief that free markets and the price mechanism are the most effective and desirable ways for a society to organize production and economic life in general." The Chicago School of Law and Economics applies these insights to legal questions and views the creation and enforcement of legal rules primarily in terms of how legal rules and institutions promote allocative efficiency and wealth maximization.
While much ink has been …
An Empirical Investigation Of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation, And The Chevron Doctrine In Environmental Law, Jason J. Czarnezki
An Empirical Investigation Of Judicial Decisionmaking, Statutory Interpretation, And The Chevron Doctrine In Environmental Law, Jason J. Czarnezki
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
How do courts evaluate decisions of statutory interpretation made by government agencies that deal in environmental law? While research on judicial decisionmaking in environmental law has primarily focused on the D.C. Circuit, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the influence of ideology, only recently have legal scholars begun to consider the role of legal factors in judicial decisionmaking in environmental law. With special attention paid to how courts implement the Chevron doctrine, this Article empirically and doctrinally analyzes environmental law cases decided in the United States Courts of Appeals over a three-year period (2003-05) to investigate what factors, including ideological, legal, …
The Great Attributional Divide: How Legal Policy Debates Are Shaped By Divergent Views Of Human Nature, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson
The Great Attributional Divide: How Legal Policy Debates Are Shaped By Divergent Views Of Human Nature, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson
Adam Benforado
This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes and behavior with reference to people's dispositions (i.e., personalities, preferences, and the like), and the more accurate situationist approach, which bases attributions of causation and responsibility on unseen influences within us and around us. Given that situationism offers a truer picture of our world than the alternative, and given that attributional tendencies are largely the result of elements in our situations, identifying the relevant elements should …