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Forum: On Estimating Disparity and Inferring Causation: Sur-Reply to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Staff

Using an econometric method for causal inference, a regression discontinuity-style design, we found no evidence that Booker or its progenyincreased

Forum: Inflation Indicators

Bell and Alappat are thus not evidence of the PTO’s intransigence, but of the inherent randomness of a process that spreads hundreds of thousands of

Forum: Losers’ Rules

among decisionmakers of different races or genders—federal discrimination law lurches in the opposite direction, often ignoring or trivializing evidence

Prosecuting Gender-Based Persecution: The Islamic State at the ICC

Parts. Part I details what is known about Islamic State’s crimes against Yazidi women by drawing on evidence unearthed by journalists, advocacy

Nondelegation at the Founding

messy, precluding any kind of categorical conclusion. But when fairly evaluated, there is almost no evidence unambiguously supporting the proposition that

Forum: Prove It! Judging the Hostile-or-Warlike-Action Exclusion in Cyber-Insurance Policies

issue has two important facets: who and why. An insurer ordinarily must show by a preponderance of the evidence that an exclusion applies. With respect to

Forum: Implementing Aggregation in Law: The Median Outcome Rule

preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, and distortion of litigants’ incentives. This Essay does not seek to contribute to the debate over whether, and

Forum: Noticing Genocide

never be disputed in any ICTR proceeding, the notice will prevent all further testimony and evidence of the genocide—in effect truncating the judicial

Jill Lepore

about whether scientific evidence is admissible in court to illustrate how the law renders historical evidence invisible. Frye v. United States established o…

Forum: Recycling Electrons, Undermining Justice

present evidence demonstrating clear patterns of behavior and showing who knew what and when. The recent revisions to the discovery rules missed the