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Pick a Number, Any Number: State Representation in Congress After the 2000 Census
(California Law Review, 2002)
In this essay, Professors Edelman and Sherry explain the mathematics behind the allocation of congressional seats to each state, and survey the different methods of allocation that Congress has used over the years. Using ...
The Law and Large Numbers
(Constitutional Commentary, 2002)
Can mathematics be used to inform legal analysis? This is not a ridiculous question. Law has certain superficial resemblances to mathematics. One might view the Constitution and
various statutes as providing "axioms" for ...
On Legal Interpretations of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
(Journal of Legal Studies, 2002)
There has been a spate of interest in the application of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
to issues in the law. This theorem holds that a majority vote among a suitably large
body of voters, all of whom are more likely than not ...