Torn Between Two Selves: Should Law Care More About Experiencing Selves Or Remembering Selves?,
2014
University of Colorado Law School
Torn Between Two Selves: Should Law Care More About Experiencing Selves Or Remembering Selves?, Peter H. Huang
Publications
Based upon psychological research and neuroscience studies about subjective well-being, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics Daniel Kahneman poses a riddle about which of these two selves should count: experiencing selves or remembering selves. Our remembered emotions (memories) are usually rosier than our experienced emotions, and people are motivated by their predicted emotions, which tend to coincide with their emotional memories. This Article advocates that law should care more about experiencing selves than remembering selves if and when experiences result in chronic health or stress consequences that either (1) societies care about more than people do (because of externalities, public bads, …
Health Care, Title Vi, And Racism's New Normal,
2014
University of Colorado Law School
Health Care, Title Vi, And Racism's New Normal, Dayna Bowen Matthew
Publications
No abstract provided.
Solitary Confinement, Public Safety, And Recdivism,
2014
University of Michigan Law School
Solitary Confinement, Public Safety, And Recdivism, Shira E. Gordon
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
As of 2005, about 80,000 prisoners were housed in solitary confinement in jails and in state and federal prisons in the United States. Prisoners in solitary confinement are generally housed in a cell for twenty-two to twenty-four hours a day with little human contact or interaction. The number of prisoners held in solitary confinement increased 40 percent between 1995 and 2000, in comparison to the growth in the total prison population of 28 percent. Concurrently, the duration of time that prisoners spend in solitary confinement also increased: nationally, most prisoners in solitary confinement spend more than five years there. The …
Why Motives Matter: Reframing The Crowding Out Effect Of Legal Incentives,
2014
Cornell Law School
Why Motives Matter: Reframing The Crowding Out Effect Of Legal Incentives, Emad H. Atiq
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Legal rules and regulations are routinely rationalized by appeal to the incentives they create. This Note examines an important but misunderstood fact about incentives - namely, that they often "crowd out" the natural motivations that citizens have to engage in socially valued behavior, such as a sense of civic duty, a commitment to personal growth, and charity towards others. The "crowding out effect" of incentives has traditionally been viewed as problematic because of cases where it renders incentives counter-productive - when fear of legal sanction or desire for financial reward substitutes for other forms of motivation in agents, this often …
Rethinking The Character And Fitness Inquiry,
2014
University of Connecticut School of Law
Rethinking The Character And Fitness Inquiry, Leslie Levin
Faculty Articles and Papers
The bar’s character and fitness inquiry seeks to protect the public. As part of this inquiry, bar applicants are required to produce detailed information about their past histories. The rationale for this inquiry is that this information can be used to identify who will subsequently become a problematic lawyer. Bar applicants bear the burden of providing their “good” character even though there is little evidence that past conduct predicts who will become a problematic lawyer. This article looks at psychological and other research that attempt to identify factors that might predict future misconduct in the work place. It also reports …
Feeling Another's Pain: Sympathy And Psychology Saga Style,
2014
University of Michigan Law School
Feeling Another's Pain: Sympathy And Psychology Saga Style, William I. Miller
Articles
Progress is hardly a given in the humanities or the suspect sciences. In many ways we are not quite as astute as our grandparents, and they not as much as theirs, and so forth in an infinite entropic regress. Would I trade Montaigne or Stendhal’s psychological acumen for even the best work that comes from social psychology departments? In this short essay I want to show just how good some medieval people, medieval Icelanders to be exact, were at understanding the mental and emotional states of others, and if of others then presumably, though not necessarily, also of themselves. And …
'Friend To The Martyr, A Friend To The Woman Of Shame': Thinking About The Law, Shame And Humiliation,
2014
New York Law School
'Friend To The Martyr, A Friend To The Woman Of Shame': Thinking About The Law, Shame And Humiliation, Michael L. Perlin, Naomi Weinstein
Articles & Chapters
This paper considers the intersection between law, humiliation and shame, and how the law has the capacity to allow for, to encourage, or (in some cases) to remediate humiliation, or humiliating or shaming behavior. The need for new attention to be paid to this question has increased exponentially as we begin to also take more seriously international human rights mandates, especially – although certainly not exclusively – in the context of the recently-ratified United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a Convention that calls for “respect for inherent dignity,” and characterizes "discrimination against any person on the …
All His Sexless Patients: Persons With Mental Disabilities And The Competence To Have Sex,
2014
New York Law School
All His Sexless Patients: Persons With Mental Disabilities And The Competence To Have Sex, Michael L. Perlin, Alison Lynch
Articles & Chapters
With the growth in the field of mental disability law over the past 50 years, very few topics involving persons with mental illness remain taboo or off limits to scholars and judges who face these issues daily. However, discussions of the question of whether persons with mental disabilities have a right to voluntary sexual interaction often touches a raw nerve in conversations about mental disability law, even with those who are practicing in the field, and the discomfort people feel in examining this topic is exacerbated when discussing individuals who are institutionalized.
Although this often appears to be a difficult …
Development And Initial Findings Of An Implementation Process Measure For Child Welfare System Change,
2014
University of South Florida
Development And Initial Findings Of An Implementation Process Measure For Child Welfare System Change, Mary I. Armstrong, Julie S. Mccrae, Michelle Graef, Tammy Richards, David Lambert, Charlotte Lyn Bright, Cathy Sowell
Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications
This article describes a new measure designed to examine the process of implementation of child welfare systems change. The measure was developed to document the status of the interventions and strategies that are being implemented and the drivers that are being installed to achieve sustainable changes in systems. The measure was used in a Children’s Bureau-supported national effort to assess the ongoing implementation of 24 systems-change projects in child welfare jurisdictions across the country. The article describes the process for measure development, method of administration and data collection, and quantitative and qualitative findings.
Pulling On The Thread Of The Insanity Defense,
2014
Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Pulling On The Thread Of The Insanity Defense, R. George Wright
Villanova Law Review (1956 - )
No abstract provided.
The Costs Of Changing Our Minds,
2014
Duke Law School
The Costs Of Changing Our Minds, Nita A. Farahany
Faculty Scholarship
This isn’t quite a draft yet – it’s a concept paper. You’ll see after the first 10 pages a good bit of text in brackets, which are primarily notes for me, but it’ll give you a sense of the content of those sections. I’d like to talk through the concept – the “duty” to mitigate emotional distress damages and how courts have struggled with it, as a foray into a broader dichotomy that I see in a number of areas of law that suggest an implicit value in “cognitive liberty.” This is a smaller version of a broader book project …
Ripples Against The Other Shore: The Impact Of Trauma Exposure On The Immigration Process Through Adjudicators,
2013
Barry University School of Law
Ripples Against The Other Shore: The Impact Of Trauma Exposure On The Immigration Process Through Adjudicators, Kate Aschenbrenner
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Immigration is currently a hot topic; discussion of immigration reform and the problems in our current system appear in the news virtually every day. There is widespread consensus that our current immigration system is “broken,” but there is little agreement on why and even less on what should be done to fix it. These are difficult and important questions, involving many complex interrelated factors. While I do not hope and cannot aim to answer them completely in this Article, I will argue that in doing so we must consider an often overlooked and generally understudied issue: the effects of trauma …
The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies -- The Washington Supreme Court Rule On Standards And Its Implications,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies -- The Washington Supreme Court Rule On Standards And Its Implications, Justice Sheryl Gordon Mccloud, Justice Susan Owens, Marc Boman, Joanne Moore
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
G Forces: Gideon V. Wainwright And Matthew Adler's Move Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
G Forces: Gideon V. Wainwright And Matthew Adler's Move Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Janet Moore
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Dark Medicine: How The National Research Act Has Failed To Address Racist Practices In Biomedical Experiments Targeting The African-American Community,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
Dark Medicine: How The National Research Act Has Failed To Address Racist Practices In Biomedical Experiments Targeting The African-American Community, Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Do We Have It Right This Time? An Analysis Of The Accomplishments And Shortcomings Of Washington's Indian Child Welfare Act,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
Do We Have It Right This Time? An Analysis Of The Accomplishments And Shortcomings Of Washington's Indian Child Welfare Act, Karen Gray Young
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Securing Food Justice, Sovereignty & Sustainability In The Face Of The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma),
2013
Seattle University School of Law
Securing Food Justice, Sovereignty & Sustainability In The Face Of The Food Safety Modernization Act (Fsma), Eve Kerber
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Driving While License Suspended - Third Degree, A Framework For Requesting Alternative Sentences,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
Driving While License Suspended - Third Degree, A Framework For Requesting Alternative Sentences, Sahar Fathi
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
No abstract provided.
About The Authors,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
Table Of Contents,
2013
Seattle University School of Law
