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Using Neuroscience to Understand Stress and Improve Mediation
March 5, 2019
People involved in conflict generally, and in mediation specifically, encounter many events that initiate the physiologic stress response. What is this response and what triggers it? How does the stress response impact judgment, decision-making, and memory? What can mediators do to minimize the deleterious effects of the stress response? Learning the answers to these questions can help to make a more effective mediator. Mediation creates many stress triggers. Participants may feel unprepared...
March 5, 2019
People involved in conflict generally, and in mediation specifically, encounter many events that initiate the physiologic stress response. What is this response and what triggers it? How does the stress response impact judgment, decision-making, and memory? What can mediators do to minimize the deleterious effects of the stress response? Learning the answers to these questions can help to make a more effective mediator. Mediation creates many stress triggers. Participants may feel unprepared...
Two Most Important Skills for Success in School and Beyond?
March 4, 2019
That's the conclusion from this important opinion piece in the New York Times - The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know - that reports how the College Board, the non-profit organization that administers the SAT, sought to answer the following question: "Of all the skills tested by the SAT that correlate with success in college and beyond, which two are the most important?" The answer: mastering computer science and developing an understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Why computer science? The College...
March 4, 2019
That's the conclusion from this important opinion piece in the New York Times - The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know - that reports how the College Board, the non-profit organization that administers the SAT, sought to answer the following question: "Of all the skills tested by the SAT that correlate with success in college and beyond, which two are the most important?" The answer: mastering computer science and developing an understanding of the U.S. Constitution. Why computer science? The College...
Chatbots are Coming to Lexis Advance, to Help Guide Your Legal Research
March 2, 2019
“What if legal research was more human, more like a conversation, the kinds we have among ourselves?” With that tantalizing...
March 2, 2019
“What if legal research was more human, more like a conversation, the kinds we have among ourselves?” With that tantalizing...
New Study about Consumer Arbitration
March 1, 2019
I just published a new study about the prevalence of consumer arbitration agreements: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol52/52-online-Szalai.pdf. Because of the expansive, permissive (and in many respects, flawed) legal framework for arbitration created by the Supreme Court, together with the ease of generating contracts through online transactions, arbitration agreements have exploded in American society. Conservatively, based on publicly-available data from just a few companies,...
March 1, 2019
I just published a new study about the prevalence of consumer arbitration agreements: https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol52/52-online-Szalai.pdf. Because of the expansive, permissive (and in many respects, flawed) legal framework for arbitration created by the Supreme Court, together with the ease of generating contracts through online transactions, arbitration agreements have exploded in American society. Conservatively, based on publicly-available data from just a few companies,...
What Does the Big 4’s Legal Tech Push Mean for Law Firms?
February 26, 2019
As the Big 4 accounting companies are starting to invest more heavily in legal tech, will law firms need to stay on their...
February 26, 2019
As the Big 4 accounting companies are starting to invest more heavily in legal tech, will law firms need to stay on their...
Changing the Game: How Data Analytics Is Upending Baseball
February 25, 2019
As with most other industries, data analytics is becoming the litmus test for big deals in professional baseball as well. “The analytics group has made its mark,” said Wharton statistics professor Abraham (Adi) Wyner, who is also chair of the undergraduate program in statistics. He is also a host of the Wharton Moneyball program on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM. Wyner drew a parallel between how valuation is done for corporate M&A deals, keeping in mind the net present...
February 25, 2019
As with most other industries, data analytics is becoming the litmus test for big deals in professional baseball as well. “The analytics group has made its mark,” said Wharton statistics professor Abraham (Adi) Wyner, who is also chair of the undergraduate program in statistics. He is also a host of the Wharton Moneyball program on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM. Wyner drew a parallel between how valuation is done for corporate M&A deals, keeping in mind the net present...
How Do We Learn to Work with Intelligent Machines?
February 24, 2019
The path to skill around the globe has been the same for thousands of years: train under an expert and take on small, easy...
February 24, 2019
The path to skill around the globe has been the same for thousands of years: train under an expert and take on small, easy...
Runners Get A Wellbeing Boost From Participating In Organised Races
February 24, 2019
A recent study suggests it’s worth a go – Marzena Cypryańska and John Nezlek report in The Journal of Positive Psychology that recreational runners were happier and more satisfied with life during weeks in which they had taken part in an organised race. The pair believe this is because the main aim for most people who take part in (non-elite) organised races is simply to complete the course (which virtually all entrants do). Therefore “no one loses, no matter how long they take to finish”...
February 24, 2019
A recent study suggests it’s worth a go – Marzena Cypryańska and John Nezlek report in The Journal of Positive Psychology that recreational runners were happier and more satisfied with life during weeks in which they had taken part in an organised race. The pair believe this is because the main aim for most people who take part in (non-elite) organised races is simply to complete the course (which virtually all entrants do). Therefore “no one loses, no matter how long they take to finish”...
Conference on Data Science and Law
February 23, 2019
Prof. Elliott Ash (ETH-Zurich) passed along information on a conference submission deadline extension for the Conference on Data Science and Law, hosted by ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, on 7-8 June 2019. The conference’s submission deadline is now: 12 Feb. 2019. An excerpted conference description and related information follow. “Interest is growing among scholars from a variety of disciplines and across the globe in research at the intersection of data science and law. In recent years,...
February 23, 2019
Prof. Elliott Ash (ETH-Zurich) passed along information on a conference submission deadline extension for the Conference on Data Science and Law, hosted by ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, on 7-8 June 2019. The conference’s submission deadline is now: 12 Feb. 2019. An excerpted conference description and related information follow. “Interest is growing among scholars from a variety of disciplines and across the globe in research at the intersection of data science and law. In recent years,...
People With Advantageous Personality Traits Have More Nerve-Fibre Insulation (Myelination) In Key Brain Areas
February 23, 2019
Researchers are getting closer to understanding the neurological basis of personality. For a new paper in the Journal of Personality, Nicola Toschi and Luca Passamonti took advantage of a recent technological breakthrough that makes it possible to use scans to estimate levels of myelination in different brain areas (until fairly recently this could only be done at postmortem). Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibres and speeds up information processing in the brain...
February 23, 2019
Researchers are getting closer to understanding the neurological basis of personality. For a new paper in the Journal of Personality, Nicola Toschi and Luca Passamonti took advantage of a recent technological breakthrough that makes it possible to use scans to estimate levels of myelination in different brain areas (until fairly recently this could only be done at postmortem). Myelin is a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibres and speeds up information processing in the brain...
