Evidence and Legal Theory1

Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory1

Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, we ...rst document that the recent increase in income inequality in the United States has not been accompanied by a corresponding rise in consumption inequality. Much of this divergence is due to di¤erent trends in within-group inequality, which has increased signi...cantly for income but little for consumption. We then develop a simple framework...

Coherence, Evidence, and Legal Proof

Autonomous Agents, AI and Chaos Theory1

Agent theory in AI and related disciplines deals with the structure and behaviour of autonomous, intelligent systems, capable of adaptive action to pursue their interests. In this paper it is proposed that a natural reinterpretation of agent-theoretic intentional concepts like knowing, wanting, liking, etc., can be found in process dynamics. This reinterpretation of agent theory serves two purp...

Legal Advice and Evidence Disclosure

This paper examines how the advice that lawyers provide to their clients affects the disclosure of evidence and the outcome of adjudication, and how the adjudicator should allocate the burden of proof in light of these effects. Despite lawyers’ expertise in assessing the evidence, their advice is found to have no effect on adjudication, if the lawyers follow disclosure strategies that are undom...

Hyperplane arrangements and K-theory1

Abstract. We study the Z2-equivariant K-theory of M(A), where M(A) is the complement of the complexification of a real hyperplane arrangement, and Z2 acts on M(A) by complex conjugation. We compute the rational equivariant Kand KO-rings of M(A), and we give two different combinatorial descriptions of a subring Line(A) of the integral equivariant KO-ring, where Line(A) is defined to be the subri...