Disappointing Doctrine

Why Have Climate Negotiations Proved So Disappointing?

Empirical Doctrine

We can observe and measure how legal decision makers use formal legal authorities, but there is no way to empirically test the determinative capacity of legal doctrine itself. Yet discussions of empirical studies of judicial behavior sometimes conflate judges’ attention to legal rules with legal rules determining outcomes. Doctrinal determinacy is not the same thing as legal predictability. The...

Defensive Equity Investing : Appealing Theory , Disappointing Reality

Executive summary. Conventional wisdom maintains that investors can improve their portfolio's performance during bad times by shifting their equity exposure defensively toward less-cyclical, lower-beta sectors. This paper investigates the strengths and weaknesses of defensive equity investing by focusing on the historical performance of defensive sectors during two periods: U.S. equity bear mar...

Disappointing experiences with blister-calendar packs.

Bacterial relapse due to persisters o r reinfection, and delayed hypersensitivity reaction are all possibilities, none being excluded by the biopsy. Waters & Ridley l comment that BT lesions could represent a late reversal reaction, not necessarily a relapse, in a BL patient who had taken 12 years of DDS. On the other hand, neither of our cases had any clinical features of a reversal reaction, ...

The Doctrine of Signatures.

‘The Doctrine of Signatures’ started with the idea that God has marked everything he created with a sign (signature). The sign showed the purpose for the creation of the item. The ‘Doctrine of Signatures’ was promulgated by the writings of Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), a shoemaker in Görlitz, Germany, who had a profound mystical vision in which he saw a relationship between God and man that caused h...