Judgment Enforcement

Corruption, Social Judgment and Culture: An Experiment∗

Modern societies rely on both formal and social mechanisms to enforce social norms of behavior. Formal enforcement mechanisms rely on monetary or other tangible incentives while social enforcement mechanisms rely on some form of social judgment involving informal sanctions. We experimentally investigate the extent to which social observability and the possibility of social judgment affect indiv...

Errors in Shooting Judgment and Performance by Law Enforcement Personnel during a Stressful Training Scenario

Police trainees who were ready to graduate from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) volunteered to participate in an exercise designed to evaluate their survivability. In a highly stressful interactive scenario, which included a hostage situation during a staged domestic dispute, performance was evaluated for a range of responses, including: weapon malfunction, shooting judgment...

The Enforcement of International Judgments and Awards

Enforcement of Non-Monetary Foreign Judgments in Australia

Under Australian conflict of law rules, courts can enforce foreign judgments for a sum of money, but not judgments that order a party to do or not to do an action. The article argues that the rule against enforcement of non-monetary judgments is no longer relevant in the modern world. It begins by setting out the Australian law on enforcement of foreign judgments and identifying the policies un...

The Public Policy Exception to Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Cases of Copyright Infringement