Cultural differences in control: How Thailand's order-centric legal mentality shapes its constraining lower-court practices

How to Order a Beer Cultural Differences in the Use of Conventional Gestures for Numbers

How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories.

It is widely recognized that language plays a key role in the transmission of human culture, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms by which language simultaneously encourages both cultural stability and cultural innovation. This paper examines this issue by focusing on the use of language to transmit categories, focusing on two universal devices: labels (e.g., shark, woman) and ge...

Legal Representation in the Chinese Criminal Court

Constraining light colored particles with event shapes.

Using recently developed techniques for computing event shapes with soft-collinear effective theory, CERN Large Electron Positron Collider event shape data are used to derive strong model-independent bounds on new colored particles. In the effective field theory computation, colored particles contribute in loops not only to the running of alphas but also to the running of hard, jet, and soft fu...

Directing Retribution: On the Political Control of Lower Court Judges

The sentencing decisions of trial judges are constrained by statutory limits imposed by legislatures. At the same time, judges in many states face periodic review, often by the electorate. We develop a model in which the effects of these features of a judge’s political landscape on judicial behavior interact. The model yields several intriguing results: First, if legislators care about the prop...