Religion and the Burger Court

The Concept of "Religion" in the Supreme Court of Israel

Has the Burger Court Dealt a Death Blow to the Presumption of Malice in Virginia?

The hostility of the burger court to mental health law reform litigation.

In recent years, many courts (and especially the federal courts) have become the focus for the pursuit of goals of major institutional reform in cases brought by advocates for prisoners, mental patients, students, and others.2 These advocates turned to the courts because the legislative and executive branches were unwilling to devote larger shares of scarce resources to improving conditions at ...

Equations and Burger ’ s Equation

Class Meeting # 24: Transport Equations and Burger’s Equation In these notes, we introduce a class of evolution PDEs known as transport equations. Such equations arise in a physical context whenever a quantity is “transported” in a certain direction. Some important physical examples include the mass density flow for an incompressible fluid, and the Boltzmann equation of kinetic theory. We discu...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making in the Area of Religion, 1987-2011

There are many views on how human decision makers behave. In this work, the Justices of the United States Supreme Court will be viewed in terms of constrained maximization and cognitivecybernetic theory. This paper will integrate research in such fields as law, political science, psychology, economics and decision making theory. It will be argued that due to its heavy workload, the Supreme Cour...