Edinburgh Statutes regarding the Degree

Choking on Statutes Revisited: A History of Legislative Preemption of Common Law Regarding Child Custody

In 1982, Professor (later Dean, and still later Judge) Guido Calabresi, published a book entitled A Common Law for the Age of Statutes.' The book deservedly achieved wide recognition in the academic world, netting 1,253 citations in a recent Westlaw search.2 Surprisingly, acceptance by the intended audience, i.e., the judiciary, was significantly more mutedonly nineteen citations of the book co...

Further Results regarding the Degree Kirchhoff Index of Graphs

Let G be a connected graph with vertex set V.G/. The degree Kirchhoff index of G is defined as S .G/D P fu;vg V.G/ d.u/d.v/R.u;v/, where d.u/ is the degree of vertex u, and R.u;v/ denotes the resistance distance between vertices u and v. In this paper we obtain some upper and lower bounds for the degree Kirchhoff index of graphs. We also obtain some bounds for the Nordhaus-Gaddum-type result fo...

Court responses to Tarasoff statutes.

Twenty-three states have enacted Tarasoff statutes applicable to psychiatrists. Since the first such statute was enacted in California in 1985, a significant number of courts in states with this and similar statutes have reviewed Tarasoff-type claims. This article reviews courts' analyses in 76 such cases. There were five basic categories identified, including cases that (I) did not reference t...

The Political Economy of Takeover Statutes

Assessing Compensation Statutes For The Wrongly Convicted

As the discovery of wrongful convictions grows, so does concern in the legal community and public sphere about actual innocence. Though research on miscarriages of justice has grown tremendously, most has focused on the factors contributing to wrongful convictions, with relatively little attention paid to the post-release struggles of exonerees. Specifically, social scientists have not yet exam...