This paper develops a theory of the interaction between appropriative conflict and economic growth. Appropriative conflict, as measured by the diversion of resources, is viewed as the cost of securing effective property rights. We identify conditions under which conflict rises or falls as the rate of economic growth improves. The main implication of the analysis is that if the quality of proper...

This article aims to determine current political identity of the U.S. Supreme Court by analyzing process appointment its recent Justices and their ideology. The Author claims that ideology politics play decisive role on Court’s jurisprudence, but it was Anthony Kennedy’s retirement in 2018 which defined direction adjudication for years come. analysis shows important President Senate indirect in...

The last several decades have seen a proliferation of specialized courts, including within the family court system, that deviate from the adversarial model, and that rely on therapeutic jurisprudence and other problem-solving techniques. Whether and how traditional family courts can incorporate the best practices of these specialized courts is a largely understudied area. Drawing from ethnograp...

Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital (Formerly Police Surgeon, Calcutta, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Medical College, Calcutta) During my tenure of office, for nearly 10 years, as police surgeon of Calcutta and professor of medical jurisprudence of both the medical colleges in Calcutta, no other subject presented so many difficulties and peculiarities as the determin...

The plenary power doctrine sharply limits the judiciary’s power to police immigration regulation—a fact that has preoccupied immigration law scholars for decades. But scholars’ persistent focus on the distribution of power between the courts and the political branches has obscured a second important separation-of-powers question: how is immigration authority distributed between the political br...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

Alcohol-related amnesia—alcohol blackout—is a common claim of criminal defendants. The generally held belief is that during an alcohol blackout, other cognitive functioning is severely impaired or absent. The presentation of alcohol blackout as scientific evidence in court requires that the science meets legal reliability standards (Frye, FRE702/Daubert). To determine whether “alcohol blackout”...