Thank you very much Dean. I am delighted to be back at the Law School this afternoon. As I look around the room, I see people from my past and present. I was a student of Professor Gorman and Professor Lesnick in the early 1970s. A few years later, I worked with individuals who are in the audience from the State Department of Education in Harrisburg. Richard Mandell' was part of the interviewin...

O presente trabalho parte de uma análise econômica do Direito à luz das concepções propugnadas por Richard Posner, com um recorte específico sobre o Penal, estabelecendo forma breve as interações, bem como divergências, levantadas pela aludida teoria e denominada Política Criminal Atuarial. Para tanto, serão considerados os conceitos utilizados Posner em sua tentativa construir a partir pressup...

Suresh Naidu and Eric A. Posner is at Columbia University. University of Chicago.

Seven-year-olds completed a Posner cued attention task, under both neutral and affectively charged conditions. Compared to the traditional (affect-neutral) Posner task, performance in the affective Posner task was marked by dramatic decreases in reaction times (RTs), an increase in errors, an increased validity effect (difference in RTs to the cued vs. uncued trials), and increased electrocorti...