Sexual harassment is perceived to be a major impediment to female labor force participation. Using novel data on all workplace sexual harassment precedent in US Circuit Courts from 1982-2002, we exploit the random assignment of US appellate judges and the fact that a judge’s gender and party of appointment predict decisions in sexual harassment cases to demonstrate the causal impact of pro-plai...

The purpose of this essay is to give a succinct and accessible summary of why I believe that compensation in tort suits should be based not on probability of causation but rather on years (or quality-years) of life lost. I only consider cases in which the plaintiff claims that a hazardous exposure some years in the past is the cause of a current medical illness, such as cancer or heart disease....

This study examined the effectiveness of the opposing expert safeguard against unreliable expert testimony and whether beliefs about experts as hired guns and general acceptance mediate the effect of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions. We found strong evidence that the presence, but not the content, of opposing expert testimony affected jurors’ trial judgments and that these effects w...

Land dispute cases often occur in the community, one of which is issuance double land certificates, namely a state where piece has been registered into two or more certificates by BPN Jambi, occurred case decision No. 88 / Pdt.G 2021 PN Jember. The research was conducted to determine and analyze defendant's liability for unlawful acts against use double-certified land. using normative doctrinal...

The case begins when someone buys a building from Defendant 1(Director of PT. Indojaya Pan Pratama). price is paid through the company’s manager on behalf defendant1. plaintiff house by installment with contract that has been off, certificate land and it will be made. According to contract, after off plaintiff, company hand in certificate, but fact defaults. research used juridical normative me...

In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the story of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by measuring how well they cohere when accounting for the evidence. We show that this gives rise to a formalized comparison between rival cases that...

A: Abandonment of a patient may result in civil liability for the physician. Abandonment is usually defined as "the unilateral severance of the professional relationship without reasonable notice at a time when there is still the necessity of continuing medical attention." 1 Proof of actionable abandonment requires a showing that the physician failed to provide "an adequate medical attendant" a...