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To Err Is Human, To Apologize Is Humane
September 14, 2014
Conflict is a natural and inevitable part of being human. At home or in the workplace, different opinions, perspectives, and values intersect to create interactions that are challenging and taxing to navigate, even at the highest levels of leadership. For example, CEOs rate conflict management skills as their most important area for professional development. Handling conflict can become even more challenging when we are the offending party. When we are responsible for hurting someone, we often...
September 14, 2014
Conflict is a natural and inevitable part of being human. At home or in the workplace, different opinions, perspectives, and values intersect to create interactions that are challenging and taxing to navigate, even at the highest levels of leadership. For example, CEOs rate conflict management skills as their most important area for professional development. Handling conflict can become even more challenging when we are the offending party. When we are responsible for hurting someone, we often...
Anna Nicole Smith’s Twenty Year Battle Finally Ends
September 13, 2014
After nearly twenty years of contentious debate in the courtroom, a federal judge recently ruled Anna Nicole Smith’s estate would not receive millions of dollars from the estate of E. Pierce Marshall, the son of Anna Nicole’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Judge Carter ruled that there was “just no evidence before the court that justifies awarding sanctions against Pierce Marshall’s estate.” The judge further added it is time for this suit to no longer “drag its weary length...
September 13, 2014
After nearly twenty years of contentious debate in the courtroom, a federal judge recently ruled Anna Nicole Smith’s estate would not receive millions of dollars from the estate of E. Pierce Marshall, the son of Anna Nicole’s late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. Judge Carter ruled that there was “just no evidence before the court that justifies awarding sanctions against Pierce Marshall’s estate.” The judge further added it is time for this suit to no longer “drag its weary length...
Unbundling Efficient Breach
September 13, 2014
Current law and economics scholarship analyzes efficient breach cases monolithically. The standard analysis holds that breach is efficient when performance of a contract generates a negative surplus for the parties. However, by simplistically grouping efficient breach cases as of a single kind, the prior literature overlooks some important factors that meaningfully distinguish types of efficient breach, such as effects of the breach on productive and allocative efficiency, restraints on the incentive...
September 13, 2014
Current law and economics scholarship analyzes efficient breach cases monolithically. The standard analysis holds that breach is efficient when performance of a contract generates a negative surplus for the parties. However, by simplistically grouping efficient breach cases as of a single kind, the prior literature overlooks some important factors that meaningfully distinguish types of efficient breach, such as effects of the breach on productive and allocative efficiency, restraints on the incentive...
Visualizing Employment by Law School
September 13, 2014
We looked at the schools in the top 50 of the U.S. News 2014 rankings, and plotted the percentages of each school’s graduates...
September 13, 2014
We looked at the schools in the top 50 of the U.S. News 2014 rankings, and plotted the percentages of each school’s graduates...
The iPhone Effect – When Mobile Devices Intrude on Our Face-to-Face Encounters
September 13, 2014
You've probably experienced this. You're in the middle of telling your friend a story when his eyes flick across to his phone. Perhaps he even picks it up, checks the screen. "Sorry, go on," he says. But your flow is interrupted. And you know his mind is at least half elsewhere. Shalini Misra and her team approached 100 pairs of people (109 women; average age 33) in cafes across Washington DC and neighbouring districts. They asked them to chat for ten minutes at a table in the cafe about a trivial...
September 13, 2014
You've probably experienced this. You're in the middle of telling your friend a story when his eyes flick across to his phone. Perhaps he even picks it up, checks the screen. "Sorry, go on," he says. But your flow is interrupted. And you know his mind is at least half elsewhere. Shalini Misra and her team approached 100 pairs of people (109 women; average age 33) in cafes across Washington DC and neighbouring districts. They asked them to chat for ten minutes at a table in the cafe about a trivial...
Ethical Challenges Associated with the Development and Deployment of Brain Computer Interface Technology
September 13, 2014
"Ethical Challenges Associated with the Development and Deployment of Brain Computer Interface Technology" by Paul McCullagh, Gaye Lightbody, Jaroslaw Zygierewicz, and W. George Kernohan. Abstract Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology offers potential for human augmentation in areas ranging from communication to home automation, leisure and gaming. This paper addresses ethical challenges associated with the wider scale deployment of BCI as an assistive technology by documenting issues associated...
September 13, 2014
"Ethical Challenges Associated with the Development and Deployment of Brain Computer Interface Technology" by Paul McCullagh, Gaye Lightbody, Jaroslaw Zygierewicz, and W. George Kernohan. Abstract Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology offers potential for human augmentation in areas ranging from communication to home automation, leisure and gaming. This paper addresses ethical challenges associated with the wider scale deployment of BCI as an assistive technology by documenting issues associated...
Free Research Reports for Lawyers and Others in the Legal Industry
September 12, 2014
TechnoLawyer Library houses our growing collection of free research reports in PDF format. Reports of this caliber usually...
September 12, 2014
TechnoLawyer Library houses our growing collection of free research reports in PDF format. Reports of this caliber usually...
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Future of Jobs (via Pew Research)
September 12, 2014
Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating vast areas of our work and personal lives by 2025, but they are divided on whether these advances will displace more jobs than they create.
September 12, 2014
Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating vast areas of our work and personal lives by 2025, but they are divided on whether these advances will displace more jobs than they create.
Thinking Through Causation
September 12, 2014
In an interesting review essay, Andrew Gelman (Columbia) discusses the all-important move from describing what to assessing what if or why. Obviously, inference is more complex than description. Gelman considers two broad classes of inferential questions. One involves "forward causal inference." That is, what might happen if we do X? A second is "reverse causal inference," or what causes Y? Equally interesting are Gelman's thoughts on what characterizes persuasive inferential claims. “The most...
September 12, 2014
In an interesting review essay, Andrew Gelman (Columbia) discusses the all-important move from describing what to assessing what if or why. Obviously, inference is more complex than description. Gelman considers two broad classes of inferential questions. One involves "forward causal inference." That is, what might happen if we do X? A second is "reverse causal inference," or what causes Y? Equally interesting are Gelman's thoughts on what characterizes persuasive inferential claims. “The most...
MED-ARB: The Best of Both Worlds or Just A Limited ADR Option? (Part Two)
September 12, 2014
Concerns with Med-Arb The two most important concerns with med-arb are the inherent potential for “coercion” and the risk...
September 12, 2014
Concerns with Med-Arb The two most important concerns with med-arb are the inherent potential for “coercion” and the risk...
