Teaching Judges, Juries, and Lawyers

Judges, Juries, and Scientific Evidence

Quilt Judges and Juries: Hard Questions

Punitive Damages: How Judges and Juries Perform

A substantial recent literature has documented the inability of jurors to make sound decisions with respect to punitive damages, particularly for health, safety, and environmental torts. Included in this literature are experimental studies documenting the better performance of judges than jurors for the same case scenarios. Recent research by Eisenberg et al. (2002) has suggested, however, that...

The neurobiology of opinions : can judges and juries be impartial ? ∗

In this article we build on neuroscience evidence to model belief formation and study decision-making by judges and juries. We show that physiological constraints generate posterior beliefs with properties that are qualitatively different from traditional Bayesian theory. In particular, a decision-maker will tend to reinforce his prior beliefs and to hold posteriors influenced by his preference...

Mentally Retarded Persons Offences; Causes of Crime and Prevention from the Perspective of Police Officers, Lawyers and Judges

This study aims to identify and prioritize the most serious crimes committed by mentally retarded people, causes and factors to prevent the commission of a crime from the perspective of police officers, lawyers and judges are doing... -member , which included set high standards seventh. Results: Results of this study showed that Lowest and the most frequent crimes committed by mentally retarded...