How Reasonable Is the Reasonable Man?: Police and Excessive Force

The “Reasonable Man” and other legal standards

In the common law of negligence, an individual breaches the duty of due care if she fails to act as would a “reasonable man” under the circumstances. A natural question, first posed by Rubinstein [8], is whether the “reasonable man” can be derived from the views of actual agents. Rubinstein introduced an axiomatic model and showed that there does not exist a non-dictatorial aggregation method w...

Why Upwinding Is Reasonable

How to determine whether a traffic management practice is reasonable

As part of the wider debate over net neutrality, traffic management practices of Internet Service Providers have become an issue of public concern. An increasing number of vendors offer network equipment to implement a variety of traffic management practices using packet classification and packet filtering. The Federal Communications Commission has asked for public input on whether such traffic...

Standing up for what is reasonable.

Alcohol Breath Testing: Is There Reasonable Doubt?

The Alcohol breath test (ABT), commonly known by its commercial name as the “Breathalyzer,” is a device made popular in the United States and used by law enforcement agencies throughout the world to assess and determine the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of individuals suspected of driving under the influence (DUI). 2, 3 With increased popularity of the automobile in the late 19 century, tra...