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• Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases by Daniel G. Saunders, Ph.D. (Revised 2007)

  
  Battered Women, Battered Children, Custody Abuse — Authority: 143
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice . Permalink Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Risk Factors, and Safety Concerns (Revised 2007) Daniel G. ...
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• Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases by Daniel G. Saunders, Ph.D. (Revised 2007)

  
  Family Court Crisis-Abusers Getting Custody..!! — Authority: 143
  Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] A Human Rights Issue-Custodial Justice . Permalink Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases Child Custody and Visitation Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: Legal Trends, Risk Factors, and Safety Concerns (Revised 2007) Daniel G. ...
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• Do Initial Allocations of Property Rights Matter?

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 605
  If the last two years of American economic life have demonstrated anything, it is that property rights are not static.  Sometimes things that were once private property become public property (see, e.g., Motors, General).  Sometimes things that were once public property become private property, then become public ...
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• Climategate

  
  An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy — Authority: 422
  Given all the fuss today about “The Wave” (which appears to me to be a bunch of people dressed in blue protesting about the fact that there has been no discernible change in the Earth’s temperature for almost 15 years), I thought I’d put up this video from Jon Stewart who gets to the core of the issues in his ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Choosing Greater Good

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Im feeling exceptionally motivated at this moment, exhausted from a long day, anxious about having to come up with just the right words to convey what I hope to here, and yet ready to stay up all night at my computer if necessary to share with you a simple but profound motivation technique that has saved my life--the ...
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• The Value of Control in Emerging Markets

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 517
  Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from Anusha Chari and Paige Ouimet , Assistant Professors of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Linda Tesar , Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. Foreign acquisitions extend the boundaries of the firm across national borders. ...
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• Thinking Words (part 1)

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 511
  (image from make-noise.com ) I’d like to present a brief lesson in contemporary linguistic research with the goal of showing that we live in a marvelous age of quick and ready research tools freely available to even the most humble of internet users. Hence, a little effort goes a long way. My point is that when ...
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• Properties of the United States Code Citation Network

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 466
  “Properties of the United States Code Citation Network”MICHAEL JAMES BOMMARITO, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – Department of Political Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor – Center for Study of Complex SystemsDANIEL MARTIN KATZ, ...
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• PM’s daughter Upinder wins Infosys prize for social sciences

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Upinder Singh, 50, history professor at Delhi University who is also the second daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is the joint winner of the inaugural Infosys Prize for social sciences.“Yes! Upinder Singh is the prime minister’s daughter. But we have not highlighted her parentage ...
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• 5 Indian scientists, experts win Infosys prizes for research

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Bangalore, Nov 30 (IANS) Infosys Science Foundation of the IT bellwether Monday named three top Indian scientists and two academic experts as winners of its prestigious Infosys Prize 2009 for outstanding contributions to scientific research in four disciplines.The winner in Physical Sciences is Thanu Padmanabhan of ...
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• CEO Equity Incentives and Accounting Irregularities

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 517
  David F. Larcker is the Director of the Corporate Governance Research Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In our forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research paper, Chief Executive Officer Equity Incentives and Accounting Irregularities , we examine the relationship between chief executive ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• The end of cap-and-trade: Global warming e-mails should torpedo ridiculous tax scheme

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Surprise: Hacked e-mails have revealed that sober, empirical, fact-loving scientists at the heart of global-warming research behave like a crazed group of Delta girls engaged in a flame war to paint the Kappas as a bunch of nasty skanks. It may not be the biggest scandal since Watergate. But what appeared to be a ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Online Psycholinguistics Experiments (repost)

  
  The Lousy Linguist — Authority: 511
  NOTE : Given this blogs recent surge in popularity (props to Language Log , Language Hat , and something called EastSouthWestNorth blog) I decided to update and repost this because I believe in increasing the use of online methodologies for linguistic research and I hope to send some of you good folks reading this ...
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• The Law of Attraction: Science, Faith, and the Cult of Positive Thought. Part 1.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  The popular book and movie, The Secret , has spread its message deep into our culture. For the rare reader who is not already familiar with The Secret , it has a simple message which it calls the Law of Attraction. The message is that whatever you think about (wealth, or poverty, happiness or misery, love or ...
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• The Limits of Private Ordering

  
  The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — Authority: 517
  Beth Young is a lecturer at Harvard Law School and a senior research fellow at The Corporate Library. This post is based on a paper prepared for the Council of Institutional Investors and the Shareowner Education Network; the paper is available here . The views and opinions expressed in the paper are those of Ms. ...
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• Empirical Legal Studies Today

  
  Conglomerate — Authority: 606
  Im back from the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at USC (at which I presented this paper ) - always one of the best conferences around.  Love the precision timing of the talks, the interesting papers, and I think youll find that it is one of the relatively rare conferences where lots of panels have lots of ...
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• Highlighting the Atkins Scholarship

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  In the preceding post , Adam Liptak noted scholarship by John Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, andChristopher Seeds," An Empirical Look at Atkins vs. Virginia and its Application in Capital Cases ."  Heres the abstract: InAtkins vs. Virginia, the Supreme Court declared that evolving standardsof decency and the Eighth ...
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