Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's

rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should [...]

Research showing that transgender people experience disproportionately negative police interactions raise a host of questions about the perceptions of police that guide their

decisions and attendant actions. One potential driver of these disparities is whether police perceive a person's gender as normative or not. [...]

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Clarke and Newman extended environmental criminology ideas with the EVIL DONE framework to better explain terrorist target selection

and vulnerability. Though widely cited, the framework has limited empirical validation. [...]

Medical Law International, Ahead of Print. The United Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) decision inAbbasi and another v Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Haastrup

v King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust[2025] UKSC 15 is explored in this case commentary. [...]

Journal of Law &Empirical Analysis, Ahead of Print. In a decades-long series of decisions, the Delaware courts constructed a doctrinal infrastructure that encouraged two procedural

protections for minority shareholders in freezeout transactions: approval by a special committee of independent directors (“SC”... [...]

Child sexual abuse (CSA) cases rely on attorneys, judges, and jurors having an accurate understanding of complex abuse dynamics, including sexual grooming. While sexual grooming

is widely used in research and legal contexts, little is known about how attorneys understand and use the construct. [...]