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Laborious Law, Bas De Gaay Fortman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

Inaugural Address at Utrecht University, on the occasion of accepting the Chair in Political Economy of Human Rights 21 MAY 2001

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Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory To An Analysis Of Amnesty Legislation, William W. Burke-White

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Is Evolutionary Analysis Of Law Science Or Storytelling?, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In recent years, some legal scholars have argued that legal scholarship could benefit from a greater reliance on theories of human behavior that arise from biological evolution. These scholars contend that reliance on biological evolution would successfully combine the rigor of economics with the scientific aspects of psychology. Complex legal systems, however, are uniquely human. Law has always been the product of cognitive processes that are unique to humans and that developed as a response to an environment that no longer exists. Consequently, the evolutionary development of the cognitive mechanisms upon which law depends cannot be rigorously modeled or studied …

Berle And Means Reconsidered At The Century's Turn, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

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Trends. Death Penalties For Purveyors Of Death? Not For Many Terrorists, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the nuances surrounding the use of the death penalty in terrorism cases.

Of Duncan, Peter And Thomas Kuhn, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Chapter One: Migration And Radicalization In The Age Of Covid-19, Gabriel Rubin

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

How do we flatten the radicalization curve? How do we quell the millions of people disaffected by their new societies or by the changes to their old ones? In 2020, with covid-19 running rampant, trends regarding migration and radicalization took a backseat. But migration and the reactions it causes in host societies a critically important issues for our post-pandemic world. As migrants move to new lands, they are subjected to accusations of being radicals and criminals, and are blamed for extremist nationalist violence on the part of their hosts. The politics of migration have pulled some democracies into illiberalism and …

The Theory Of Law As Literature, Dennis Patterson

Buffalo Law Review

Book review of Guyora Binder & Robert Weisberg's Literary Criticisms of Law

What's So Special About American Law?, William Ewald

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Do My Rights Get In The Way Of My Freedom? An Examination Of The Role Of Rights In A Society Of Empowered People, John H. Morris Jr.

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.

Introduction To The Symposium On Conflicts Of Rights, Claire Oakes Finkelstein

All Faculty Scholarship

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State Accountability For Violations Of Intellectual Property Rights: How To "Fix" Florida Prepaid (And How Not To), Mitchell N. Berman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.