The system might be worth saving if it provided an outlet for people's desire for vengeance by punishing wrongdoers and giving satisfaction to victims. But in practice, individual wrongdoers are not punished. Either insurance or a large enterprise pays the damage awards, or else the victim doesn't bother to sue because the injurer has no money. And, while plaintiffs' lawyers no doubt gain satis...

The purpose of the study was to examine Work-life balance and marital adjustment among lawyers. This assessed relationship between work-life also domains adjustment. looked at differences in lawyers by age gender. Finding effect Balance on Marital Adjustment another goal study. has a major impact balance, according findings, which showed strong association Work interference with personal life (...

Efficiency considerations have played an increasing role in the development of legal doctrine over the last decades. Our paper investigates the consequences of the efficiency doctrine for the long run allocation of human resources between the legal profession and other professional activities. It is argued that a short run pursuit of the efficient scope of legislation may create an inefficient ...

This study examined whether lawyers' attributions of responsibility for mental illnesses affect their decisions about involuntary treatment. A survey that was mailed in 2003 to Illinois lawyers involved in involuntary commitment elicited recommendations for involuntary treatment for characters presented in vignettes. The survey also sought respondents' attributions of personal responsibility fo...

A major goal of the Cognitive Infocommunication approach is to develop applications in which human and artificial cognitive systems are made to work more effectively. A critical step in this process is improving our understanding of human–human interaction so that it may be modeled more closely. Our work addresses this task by examining the role of entrainment – the propensity of conversational...

Philosophy and justice have always had a rocky relationship. Socrates, remember, was put to death for teaching young people to question received wisdom on matters of public importance. 2 Yet his pupil Plato dared to maintain that philosophers possessed ways of thinking that could help answer our most puzzling questions about the nature of both truth and justice. This is our paradox: Sometimes o...

irresponsible for his crime. Upon this the lawyers and the doctors have once more joined issue, though there appear to be signs that, with the exception of the rigid, high and dry variety, the lawyers are somewhat more disposed than formerly to recognise that psychology may, after all, be a real aid to the administration of justice. The fact that the MedicoLegal Society is steadily growing in n...