Judicial Cincinnati: The Humble Heroism of Originalist Justices

Female Justices, Feminism, and the Politics of Judicial Appointment: A Re-Examination

In recent years, feminists in the United States have consistently advocated for the appointment of more female justices to the Supreme Court. Given the records of Justices O'Connor and Ginsburg on the Court and broader empirical findings below the Supreme Court level showing a relationship between a judge's gender and her voting behavior, feminists have argued that, from a feminist perspective,...

Foreseeing Greatness - Measurable Performance Criteria and the Selection of Supreme Court Justices Symposium: Empirical Measures of Judicial Performance

The Spatiality of (In)justices

Nursing heroism in the 21st Century'

BACKGROUND The Vivian Bullwinkel Oration honours the life and work of an extraordinary nurse. Given her story and that of her World War II colleagues, the topic of nursing heroism in the 21st century could not be more germane. DISCUSSION Is heroism a legitimate part of nursing, or are nurses simply 'just doing their job' even when facing extreme personal danger? In this paper I explore the pl...

'Heroism' in Warfare

The willingness of people to risk their lives fighting on behalf of their nation (which we call heroism) is a background assumption in the study of war, thus of international relations, but also an evolutionary puzzle. We use two computer simulations to explore the possibility that heroism could have evolved as a domain specific form of altruism, selected through humans’ ancient past as a conse...