The Tort of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress in the Private Employment Sector

Employer abuse, worker resistance, and the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress.

TORT LAW—What Happened to Duty in Wyoming? Negligent Supervision of Minors, Loss of a Sibling’s Consortium, Duty to Inspect One’s Premises, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress; Hendricks v. Hurley, 184 P.3d 680 (Wyo. 2008)

The Future of Emotional Harm

Why should tort law treat claims for emotional harm as a second-class citizen? Judicial skepticism about these claims is long entrenched, justified by an amalgam of perceived problems ranging from proof difficulties for causation and the need to constrain fraudulent claims, to the ubiquity of the injury, and a concern about open-ended liability. To address this jumble of justifications, the law...

The justice and therapeutic promise of science-based research on criminal evil.

Forensic science research intended to standardize the distinction of the worst criminal behavior, specifically the Depravity Scale, has been the topic of academic and public discussion in the Journal and elsewhere. Some early impressions have been published without substantive attention to the goals of this research and the application of the results. In a recent article in the Journal, for exa...

Analyzing the impact process of banks and private institutions on macroeconomic indicators

Banks are among the main sectors of any country's economy. Nowadays, one of the questions raised about Iran's economy is whether the expansion of banks and nongovernmental credit institutions has led to achieving the goals of increasing competitiveness, efficiency, and overall economic growth.  The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the expansion of banks and nongovernmental credi...