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Being Pragmatic About Forensic Linguistics
(Journal of Law and Policy, 2013)
This article aims to provide some legal context to the Authorship Attribution
Workshop (“conference”). In particular, I want to offer some pragmatic observations on what courts will likely demand of forensic linguistics ...
A Normalized Scoring Model for Law School Competitions
(Green Bag 2D, 2013)
Although the focus in this Article is moot court scoring, one can envision many other instances of law school assessment in which such a normalization problem arises. Law review competitions also involve different sets of ...
Reconceptualizing the Burden of Proof
(Yale Law Journal, 2013)
The preponderance standard is conventionally described as an absolute probability threshold of 0.5. This Essay argues that this absolute characterization of the burden of proof is wrong. Rather than focusing on an absolute ...
Is High-Altitude Mountaineering Russian Roulette?
(Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2013-02-22)
In their respective memoirs, mountaineers David Roberts and Ed Viesturs express a fundamental
disagreement over the risks associated with climbing high-altitude (8000m) peaks.
(Viesturs and Roberts, 2006, Roberts, 2005). ...