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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
February 4, 2018
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history....
February 4, 2018
Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing by four at the Patriots' one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Critics called it the dumbest play in history....
Force Overtime? Or Go for the Win?
February 4, 2018
Most other National Football League teams behave this way, too. In research to be published in the forthcoming issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we examined every instance over a recent 10-year period in which N.F.L. teams faced a choice in the final minutes between kicking an extra point to tie the game or going for a 2-point conversion to win. The teams overwhelmingly chose to avoid the risk of immediate defeat: Of the 47 times teams faced this situation, they opted...
February 4, 2018
Most other National Football League teams behave this way, too. In research to be published in the forthcoming issue of The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we examined every instance over a recent 10-year period in which N.F.L. teams faced a choice in the final minutes between kicking an extra point to tie the game or going for a 2-point conversion to win. The teams overwhelmingly chose to avoid the risk of immediate defeat: Of the 47 times teams faced this situation, they opted...
Safety, Satisfaction, and Settlement in Domestic Relations Mediations: New Findings
February 4, 2018
Researchers and mediators have long been concerned about coercion, intimidation, and safety threats that could occur in mediation for cases where previous violence between the parties has occurred. Most of the research focuses on screening tools to identify parties at risk. When parties screen positive for intimate partner violence (IPV), some proceed to mediation and some do not, depending on the policies of individual mediation programs. But this misses a step: Some cases may benefit from mediation...
February 4, 2018
Researchers and mediators have long been concerned about coercion, intimidation, and safety threats that could occur in mediation for cases where previous violence between the parties has occurred. Most of the research focuses on screening tools to identify parties at risk. When parties screen positive for intimate partner violence (IPV), some proceed to mediation and some do not, depending on the policies of individual mediation programs. But this misses a step: Some cases may benefit from mediation...
Avvo Acquired by Internet Brands
February 3, 2018
2018 has started with a bang in the world of legal directories, with the massive news that US online lawyer giant Avvo has been acquired by Martindale-Hubbell owner, Internet Brands. Announced today – January 11 2018 – Avvo will join Internet Brands’ expanding portfolio of online legal products, which as well as Martindale Hubbell (acquired in 2013) incudes Nolo (acquired 2011), Total Attorneys, Lawyers.com, Attorney Locate, and AllLaw.com. The Avvo acquisition is the culmination of a remarkable...
February 3, 2018
2018 has started with a bang in the world of legal directories, with the massive news that US online lawyer giant Avvo has been acquired by Martindale-Hubbell owner, Internet Brands. Announced today – January 11 2018 – Avvo will join Internet Brands’ expanding portfolio of online legal products, which as well as Martindale Hubbell (acquired in 2013) incudes Nolo (acquired 2011), Total Attorneys, Lawyers.com, Attorney Locate, and AllLaw.com. The Avvo acquisition is the culmination of a remarkable...
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize the Practice of Law. Part One. [VIDEO]
February 3, 2018
Studies have shown that physicians are correct in their diagnoses about 50% of the time. The increasing sophistication and utilization of artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve medicine by aggregating patient information and data, which will allow for more accurate diagnoses more often. A similar application of artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve a number of other fields as well. See Ross Fishman, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,...
February 3, 2018
Studies have shown that physicians are correct in their diagnoses about 50% of the time. The increasing sophistication and utilization of artificial intelligence has the potential to drastically improve medicine by aggregating patient information and data, which will allow for more accurate diagnoses more often. A similar application of artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize and improve a number of other fields as well. See Ross Fishman, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data,...
Constitutional Judicial Decisions: A Comparative Frame
February 2, 2018
Empirical assessments of judicial decisions are nothing new and includes well-plowed terrain. While assessing the influences on a judge's decision remains an inherently difficult research task, the degree of difficulty increases, in general, for constitutional cases. Moreover, when one considers the constitutional context from a comparative perspective, the difficulties mount exponentially. In Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Voting, Benjamin Alarie (Toronto) and Andrew James Green (Toronto) summarize...
February 2, 2018
Empirical assessments of judicial decisions are nothing new and includes well-plowed terrain. While assessing the influences on a judge's decision remains an inherently difficult research task, the degree of difficulty increases, in general, for constitutional cases. Moreover, when one considers the constitutional context from a comparative perspective, the difficulties mount exponentially. In Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Voting, Benjamin Alarie (Toronto) and Andrew James Green (Toronto) summarize...
The Blurring of the Public/Private Distinction or the Collapse of a Category? The Story of Investment Arbitration
February 2, 2018
Guillermo Jose Garcia Sanchez, Associate Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and Affiliated Scholar at the University of Houston’s Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, has published “The Blurring of the Public/Private Distinction or the Collapse of a Category? The Story of Investment Arbitration,” Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming. In his article, Professor Garcia Sanchez responds to another research paper discussing a perceived lack of distinction between public...
February 2, 2018
Guillermo Jose Garcia Sanchez, Associate Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and Affiliated Scholar at the University of Houston’s Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, has published “The Blurring of the Public/Private Distinction or the Collapse of a Category? The Story of Investment Arbitration,” Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming. In his article, Professor Garcia Sanchez responds to another research paper discussing a perceived lack of distinction between public...
Lewis on the Effect of Personality on Tort Litigation
February 1, 2018
Richard Lewis has posted to SSRN Humanity in Tort: Does Personality Affect Personal Injury Litigation?. The abstract...
February 1, 2018
Richard Lewis has posted to SSRN Humanity in Tort: Does Personality Affect Personal Injury Litigation?. The abstract...
Applying the Lessons of International Commercial Arbitration to International Commercial Mediation: A Dispute System Design Analysis
February 1, 2018
S.I. Strong, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, has published “Applying the Lessons of International Commercial Arbitration to International Commercial Mediation: A Dispute System Design Analysis,” Book chapter in Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes (Oxford University Press, Catharine Titi and Katia Fach Gomez , eds.) 2018 Forthcoming; University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-01. Here...
February 1, 2018
S.I. Strong, Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law, has published “Applying the Lessons of International Commercial Arbitration to International Commercial Mediation: A Dispute System Design Analysis,” Book chapter in Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes (Oxford University Press, Catharine Titi and Katia Fach Gomez , eds.) 2018 Forthcoming; University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-01. Here...
Adequate Counsel and Time to Consider Settlement Terms Defeats Claims of Fraud and Duress
January 31, 2018
A recent case out of the Northern District of Illinois, Washington v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, No. 17 CV 2343 (behind paywall), tackles, among other things, fraud and duress in the context of enforcing a settlement agreement. Washington worked for the defendant. After a dispute arose between the parties, they entered into a settlement agreement. Washington now seeks to declare the settlement agreement unenforceable on a number of grounds. First, Washington alleged fraud on the part...
January 31, 2018
A recent case out of the Northern District of Illinois, Washington v. Board of Education of the City of Chicago, No. 17 CV 2343 (behind paywall), tackles, among other things, fraud and duress in the context of enforcing a settlement agreement. Washington worked for the defendant. After a dispute arose between the parties, they entered into a settlement agreement. Washington now seeks to declare the settlement agreement unenforceable on a number of grounds. First, Washington alleged fraud on the part...
