public policy

Mannequins

January 05, 2009 04:01

Last month, Rick Montgomery wrote an interesting article, “Behavioral Economics Is Moving from Theory to Policy,” for the Kansas City Star.  Here are some excerpts. * * * As the economy sinks and investors buckle over, the behavior buffs are rising up. From the lesser-appointed corners ...

Water rebates — a new twist on enforcement

Dianne Saxe
December 09, 2008 22:44

Violations of a municipal sewer by-law are normally punished by prosecution. This requires a municipality to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a violation has occurred. In addition, the defendant has an opportunity to escape punishment by proving that it used due diligence. The maximum fines...

Water rebates — a new twist on enforcement

December 09, 2008 22:44

Violations of a municipal sewer by-law are normally punished by prosecution. This requires a municipality to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a violation has occurred. In addition, the defendant has an opportunity to escape punishment by proving that it used due diligence. The maximum fines...

nazi-image

December 05, 2008 06:01

Courtney Yager of CNN has an interesting piece on the work of Harvard University psychiatrist Robert Lifton, who has studied the psychology of genocides and found that situational factors can lead any human to partake in genocides.  Yager discusses the work of other social scientists who have come ...

Exxon Valdez Cleanup

November 26, 2008 04:01

Yesterday, Adam Liptak published a nice article , “From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money,” in the New York Times.  In it he explores the dubious role of Exxon on the legal scholarship regarding punitive damages. * * * Two years after Exxon was hit with a ...