LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

LW 1200. How Lawyers Think: An Introduction to American Legal Thought. 4 Hours. Introduces students to legal analysis by exploring the history of American legal thought. Perhaps more than any other, American society is governed by lawyers. Explores how innovations in legal theory both emerged from and helped shape policy responses to some of America’s biggest governance challenges, including ec...

This paper examines the concept of constituent power and constitutional form in Jürgen Habermas’ legal philosophy. It argues that a concept of constituent power needs to be embedded in a constitutional theory that can explain the difference between legitimate law and a mere wielding of power. Theories operating with assumptions of a pre-legal and unbound constituent power are either pre-modern ...

This paper constructs a political equilibrium in which firms and unions bargain over wages and workers and capitalists lobby the government for taxation, labor market regulation and immigration policy. The main findings are the following. It is in the native workers’ interests to ban firms’ direct recruitment from abroad. Otherwise, the ruling elite captures the surplus of the labor unions by t...

Aim Two major challenges in legal decision making arise from the usually high complexity of the cases and from the high level of uncertainty caused by incomplete or missing information. In most cases it is not possible to apply Bayesian probability calculus, and legal standards prohibit the application of fast-and-frugal heuristics. Based on a connectionist approach to decision making, Simon (2...

Legal discourse is different from most other professional discourses, in that the nature and context of its interpretation, whether spoken or written, is very often different from those of other discourse contexts. Whereas in most professional and disciplinary contexts interpretation of discourse is largely hearer or reader based, in that there is some freedom for variable interpretations, of c...

This paper discusses some features of evidentiary reasoning in law, more specifically the introduction of “alternative suspects” by defence solicitors, within the framework of a first principle (or model) based decision support system for crime investigation. We introduce some observations from legal reasoning and legal doctrine to argue that the existing approach may not be able to capture som...

commercial companies are principally governed by majority rule. notwithstanding, mere application of this decision-making rule does not prevent conflict of interests between shareholders. such a conflict can be observed in three distinct hypotheses: 1- abuse committed by majority shareholders; 2- abuse committed by minority shareholders; 3- abuse committed by holders of equal shares. regardless...

Data mining technology allows large volumes of data to be exploited for discovering previously unknown,possibly useful knowledge. The speed and extent of developments in information technologies have increased the power and potential of data mining.However, the privacy of personally sensitive information is not respected generally in the process,which creates ethical and legal problems in some ...