Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, mentions Law Meme, a collaborative Weblog run out of the Yale Law School. It’s going in my rotation.
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What Part of Congress Shall Make No Law Don’t You Understand?
February 21, 2002 – 12:00 am
Yikes, Ginger Stampley at What She Really Thinks reports on a man attempting to have Texas’ no-fault divorce law overturned. Like Ginger, I’ve been through an amicable divorce where my ex and I agreed the marriage wasn’t working. If you want to bullyrag people in your faith community over divorce, fine. It’s your pulpit and [...]
Three Strikes Law Did Not Reduce Crime in California
August 23, 2001 – 12:00 am
The Sentencing Project released a report on the effect of the Three-Strikes Law in California.[ pdf ] The report Aging Behind Bars: “Three Strikes” Seven Years Later, examines a wide range of data and concludes that the law has not contributed to the reduction of crime in California to any significant extent – contrary to [...]
Juries, Judges, and Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study
August 8, 2001 – 12:00 am
This is the paper to which NPR and the NY Times referred in recent stories about the continuing debunking of the myth of over-generous juries in civil litigation. [ pdf ] This article, the first broad-based analysis of punitive damages in judge-tried cases, compares judge and jury performance in awarding punitive damages and in setting [...]
Silicon Valley needs the lawyers, even if it hates them
May 8, 2000 – 12:00 am
[ via Cafe con Leche ] Here in the Valley we clutch our copies of Chairwoman Rand’s Little Red Book, rail against institutions as collectivist, and litigation as a pox on the land. However, we really do love our lawyers.