How to Choose a Constitutional Theory

How to Choose a Constitutional Theory

How to Use Decision Theory to Choose Among Mechanisms

We extend a recently introduced approach to the positive problem of game theory, Predictive Game Theory (PGT Wolpert (2008)). In PGT, modeling a game results in a probability distribution over possible behavior profiles. This contrasts with the conventional approach where modeling a game results in an equilibrium set of possible behavior profiles. We analyze three PGT models. Two of these are b...

How to Choose a Mentor?

Mentorship programs have been found to be of great use in all career fields, especially medicine. Given that the practice of medicine is best learnt by a hands-on training, a mentorship program can prove invaluable for the young clinician scientist. A structured super-speciality training program can help in both, acquisition of clinical and research skills, as well as career growth. How to cite...

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture

Constitutional theorists and other constitutional commentators make heavy use of a paradigm that mistakes certain aspects of our current constitutional decisionmaking process for inherent parts of our constitutional structure and ignores other important aspects of that process entirely. These distortions and elisions raise concerns about the accuracy of much descriptive constitutional commentar...

The right to choose how to die: a constitutional analysis of state laws prohibiting physician-assisted suicide.