Religion & Law

Editors: Irrational Green Exuberance
Crying wolf only works for so long.

Leonard on "The Interpreter" (and irrational behavior)
Adam Leonard has a very nice post entitled Explaining Irrational Behavior on Brains. Here is a taste: Michael S. Gazzaniga is a pioneering neuroscientist in split-brain research who is currently Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the...

Kramer on Heterosexuality and Title VII
Zak Kramer (Arkansas-Little Rock) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece in the Northwestern University Law Review: Heterosexuality and Title VII. Here's the abstract: There is a double standard at work in employment discrimination cases....

Shredding The 1990s
Goodbye paper storage, hello electronic storage.          I loved the 1990s. I got engaged, got married, had three kids, wrote a best-selling book, graduated from law school, made money due to the (fun but) irrational exuberance of the stock market, and learned a lot about running high-tech companies...

Shiller's Subprime Solution
In his 2005 book Irrational Exuberance, Yale economist Robert Shiller predicted the once unthinkable, and now unfortunate present: the boom and bust in real estate that would have grave consequences both in the U...

A Teachable Moment: Avoiding the Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior in Legal Research
"Sway helped me recognize an aspect of irrational behavior in my experimental work in physics. Sometimes I have jumped into some research that didn't feel quite right . . . but some irrational lure, such as the hope of quick...

Zicam
allegedly damaging ones sense of smell and taste.

Heinz Mixed Cereal for Babies May Contain Ochratoxin A
Heinz Mixed Cereal for Babies May Contain Ochratoxin A

Pillows in Cribs
CPSC Warns of Dangerous to Babies