Chris Guthrie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Guthrie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Guthrie |
| SIGNATURE | GUTHRIE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiation and Bargaining
Heuristics and Biases in Bankruptcy Judges
Do specialized judges make better decisions than judges who are generalists? Specialized judges surely come to know their area of law well, but specialization might also allow judges to develop better, more reliable ways of assessing cases. We assessed this question by presenting a group of specialized judges with a set of hypothetical cases designed to elicit a reliance on common heuristics that can lead judges to make poor decisions. Although t…
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Guardians
Guardianship is among the least-noticed, least-discussed institutions of the working legal system. For the most part, guardianship is an arrangement that concerns minors who come into a bit of property, or (at times) a lot of it. Guardianship is also an arrangement for managing the affairs of those deemed insane or incompetent. In guardianship proceedings, courts (exercising the parens patriae power of the state) appoint "substitute parents" for …
The Road Less Taken
The existence of annulment prior to the mid-nineteenth century is easily explained. Until 1857, England was a "divorceless society." Accordingly, the only way an unhappy spouse could escape marriage was by seeking an annulment-a declaration that the marriage had never validly existed-from an ecclesiastical court operated by the Catholic Church. According to one family law scholar, "annulments [in those times] performed what we would think of as t…
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Guardians
Guardianship is among the least-noticed, least-discussed institutions of the working legal system. For the most part, guardianship is an arrangement that concerns minors who come into a bit of property, or (at times) a lot of it. Guardianship is also an arrangement for managing the affairs of those deemed insane or incompetent. In guardianship proceedings, courts (exercising the parens patriae power of the state) appoint "substitute parents" for …
The Road Less Taken
The existence of annulment prior to the mid-nineteenth century is easily explained. Until 1857, England was a "divorceless society." Accordingly, the only way an unhappy spouse could escape marriage was by seeking an annulment-a declaration that the marriage had never validly existed-from an ecclesiastical court operated by the Catholic Church. According to one family law scholar, "annulments [in those times] performed what we would think of as t…
Adoption in the Progressive Era
The history of adoption law and practice has received scant attention from legal scholars and historians. Most of what little scholarship there is focuses on the history of adoption to the mid-nineteenth century, when the first adoption statutes emerged in the United States. Although the enactment of these statutes has been hailed as "an historic moment in the history of Anglo-American family and society" and "the most far-reaching innovation of …
Heuristics and Biases in Bankruptcy Judges
Do specialized judges make better decisions than judges who are generalists? Specialized judges surely come to know their area of law well, but specialization might also allow judges to develop better, more reliable ways of assessing cases. We assessed this question by presenting a group of specialized judges with a set of hypothetical cases designed to elicit a reliance on common heuristics that can lead judges to make poor decisions. Although t…
Negotiation and Bargaining
Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Grossman (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law library (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)