Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decisionmaking

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Some Suggestions for Modeling Legal Decision-making

Some legal and technical issues related to water-spreading weirs

Indigenous flood harvesting method for irrigation in Khorasan, which are called water-spreading weir are constructed and operated by farmers without any cost to the government. Although, the benefits of water-spreading weirs are clear for many experts and the authorities as well, this method receives a little attention by governmental soil and water conservation services. This problem and a few...

“Calling People to do Good Deeds” and “Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong” [Amr Bil Ma'ruf and Nahi 'Anil Munkar] and its Effect on Institutionalization in the Legal System of Islamic Republic of Iran

The holy Quran has put “calling people to do good deeds” [or calling people to an act of benevolence] besides and prior to “commanding rightand forbidding wrong”, [or commanding beneficence and forbidding maleficence]. However in many interpretive and jurisprudential books, no sufficient effort has been made to elaborate the difference features between these two and their results, whose  manife...

Judicial Decisionmaking and Litigation Expenditure

Recent years have borne witness to a striking increase in expenditures on legal services.’ Various critics of the U.S. legal system have accordingly argued that amounts currently spent on or in anticipation of disputes are socially excessive, and several writers have attempted to address the issue through economic analysis.’ Much of the economic literature has centered on the choice between lit...

The Political Economy of Education, Financial Literacy, and the Racial Wealth Gap

Much of the framing around wealth disparity, including the use of alternative financial service products, focuses on the poor financial choices and decisionmaking on the part of largely Black, Latino, and poor borrowers, which is often tied to a culture of poverty thesis regarding an undervaluing and low acquisition of education. This framing is wrong—the directional emphasis is wrong. It is mo...