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This article provides a thorough analysis of contemporary sexual harassment case law in Israel and presents the first systematic study of all reported court opinions on sexual harassment that have been issued following the enactment of The Prevention of Sexual Harassment Law in 1998, 222...
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Prof. Adam Kolber's theory on punishment calibration is a novel and interesting way to approach the problem of personality differences among prisoners and the questions those differences raise for classical retributivist and consequentialist punishment theories. However, there are problems of...
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The legal and economic analysis presented here empirically tests the theoretical framework advanced by Kugler, Verdier, and Zenou (2004) and Buscaglia (1997) and moves further by focusing on the identification of the institutional mechanisms that have proven to affect the levels of organized...
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This essay address the Israeli Supreme Court decision holding that the use of physical force by the General Security Service (GSS) in the course of its interrogations of terror suspects was unauthorized by Israeli law. The Court ruled that, in the absence of explicit enabling legislation, the...
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One of the most influential arguments in contemporary philosophy and cognitive science is Chomsky's argument from the poverty of the stimulus. In this response to an essay by Chandra Sripada, I defend an analogous argument from the poverty of the moral stimulus. I argue that Sripada's criticism...
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Current rules in most U.S. jurisdictions prohibit judges from becoming involved in plea negotiations and limit the judges' role to reviewing a plea bargain once it is presented by the parties. The enclosed article surveys three systems that provide for more significant judicial involvement -...
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Ambiguity-aversion is a person's rational attitude towards the indeterminacy of the probability that attaches to his future prospects, both favorable and unfavorable. An ambiguity-averse person increases the probability of the unfavorable prospect, which is what criminal defendants typically do...
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The article discusses the death penalty in Puerto Rico as a means of state violence by the United States over Puerto Rico. In light of this, the author recounts the Puerto Rican colonial experience through a legal lens, beginning with the first organic law of Puerto Rico and the Insular Cases....
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