Anti-corruption laws aim to bolster public integrity by punishing attempts illegitimately curry favor with government decision-makers. These laws, however, can generate risks of their own. This article examines one such risk: that firms subject scrutiny under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) may attempt influence prosecutors exploiting shared political leanings or related socio-cultural...

In forecasting and decision making, people can and often do represent a degree of belief in some proposition. At least two separate constructs have been identified to capture such degrees of belief: likelihood and support. This paper explores the support or justification that evidence affords propositions, with subjects using belief functions to communicate degrees of support. Legal situations ...

How do people reason about complex bodies of legal evidence? The story model of juror decision-making posits that people construct stories to determine guilt. But the story model does not model how evidence items relate to elements within the story, how the credibility and reliability of the evidence (e.g., witness testimony) is assessed, or how this affects story evaluation. Recent empirical w...

This is a report from the Legal Environment of Digital Curation workshop held at Glasgow University on November 23, 2007. The event provided an overview of legal considerations for nonlegal professionals who work with data, focusing especially on intellectual property rights and licensing, data protection, freedom of information and privacy, and data as evidence. The workshop was organised in c...

The use of erection measurement studies is proliferating in the assessment and treatment of sexual deviants. Because of the nature of sexual offense, there are many inherent legal complications with the implementation of this technology, specifically its use as evidence. The authors present data from a study of 185 sex offenders in an attempt to illustrate the appropriate utility of erection me...

Introduction ........................................................................................610 I. Business and Technological Realities in the World of Biotechnology ...........................................................................611 II. Reach-Through Patent Claims .................................................616 III. Fundamental Legal Framework for Treatment of ReachThr...