Herbert M. Kritzer’s research while affiliated with University of Minnesota and other places

... Canadian researchers argued that the elevated risk for sole practitioners reflects regulatory surveillance, sanctioning, and enforcement behaviour (Arnold and Hagan 1992). In the United States, researchers highlighted sole practitioners' limited resources and differences in the propensity of clients of different sized practices to complain to an external regulator (Levin 2004;Kritzer and Vidmar 2018). Isolation from peers and the profession, and the emotional and psychological burden of dealing with multiple stressors alone may exacerbate other vulnerabilities (Baron 2015). ...

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Vulnerability to legal misconduct: a profile of problem lawyers in Victoria, Australia

... Moreover, the voting system that we obtain by the relaxation is used in some real parliamentary elections [23], and is called of Straight-party voting (SPV) or straightticket voting [24,25]. SPV was used very much until around the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. ...

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Multi-Winner Election Control via Social Influence

... Inspired by a long tradition of ethnographic courtroom work (e.g., Clair, 2020;Conley & O'Barr, 1990;Walenta, 2020) we investigated why cases ended up in the magistrates' courts, and how people made sense of the courts as a space, a process, and an actor in the broader "life of the dispute" (Griffiths, 1998;Weeks, 2013). As such, we triangulated observations, interviews, and textual analysis of court documents to build an in-depth understanding of the role and appeal of the law and courts in a context where people are stereotypically cast as "law avoiders" (Kritzer, 2002). ...

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“Maybe we should take the legal ways”: Citizen engagement with lower state courts in post‐war northern Uganda

... Critical theory makes direct links between individual thinking and actions and the social and historical context in which they occur (Fook & Gardner, 2013;Hick, Fook, & Pozzuto, 2005). It casts Western democratic societies as sustaining significant racial and economic inequality through dominant ideology and seeks social justice and emancipation (Brookfield, 2014;Gray & Webb, 2008). When drawing on critical theory, educators pay particular attention to the complexity of relations of power and their functioning, which has a number of implications for university education, in which one of the main responsibilities of a critical teacher is to understand how students feel and think as a starting point for curriculum development (Shor, 1996). ...

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Strengthening the Signature Pedagogy of Social Work: Conceptualizing Field Coordination as a Negotiated Social Work Pedagogy

... In this part, we consider the problem on a variation of the straight-party voting system (also called straight-ticket voting) in which the voters can vote for a party instead of candidates [30,31]. This model is used in many real elections [32,33]. ...

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Multi-Winner Election Control via Social Influence: Hardness and Algorithms for Restricted Cases

... Despite the fact that today there is no unified approach to the definition of "professional responsibility" from the point of view of applicability to the legal profession, nevertheless, this concept is used both in regulatory documents and in research (Dumitrescu, 2015;Grishchenko, 2003;Kritzer, 2016). Based on a generalized approach, for the purposes of this study, the professional responsibility of a legal representative is considered as a sanction provided for by the legislation, expressed in the form of a civil legal obligation of a lawyer (or other legal representative, carrying out his/her professional activities within the framework of the assigned qualification) to compensate for losses caused to third parties due to improper provision of legal assistance. ...

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Lawyers’ Disciplinary, Corporate, and Professional Liability in the EU: Applicability to the Russian Legal System

... These surveys and their findings are consequential. Decades of research reveal that public opinion shapes judicial practices, especially when there is legal ambiguity, evolving societal values, or judicial elections (Johnson & Strother, 2021;Kritzer, 2016;Rachlinski & Wistrich, 2017). However, survey methodologies and scope are often limited, measuring singular constructs or reporting aggregate public sentiment, such as the percentage of respondents agreeing with a statement. ...

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Public opinion about judicial roles and considerations: A latent profile analysis

... Obviously, the net effect on the total number of trials will depend on the distribution of W. However, a decrease in the number of suits proceeding to trial is possible. This finding is important, because some of the available experimental or empirical evidence about the impact of fee-shifting (Anderson and Rowe, 1995;Hughes and Snyder, 1995;Kritzer, 2001, Helmers et al., 2019 reports an increase in settlement rates upon the adoption of the English rule, which our model rationalizes, contrary to Bebchuk's (1984) or Nalebuff's (1987). Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. ...

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Litigation and settlement under loss aversion

... For medical doctors we rely on the data presented in Studdert, Bismark, Mello, Singh and Spittal (2016) as well the data presented by the Federation of State Medical Boards. For lawyers we use data presented by Kritzer and Vidmar (2015). For real estate agents, we rely on data provided by Nguyen-Chyung and Shelef (2016) and for accountants we use data from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA). ...

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Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions

... While there is considerable variability (a fact that might warrant consideration of scheduled damages or providing more guidance to juries on previous similar awards), jury awards are quite predictable for purposes of estimating average awards in a large population-and are also comparable to the estimated statistical value of life using other approaches economists commonly employ (Cohen & Miller, 2003;. 9 There is also generally a consistent relationship between monetary damages and the corresponding pain and suffering award-although this relationship might vary by the type of injury (Kritzer et al., 2014) Further discussion of these issues is contained in Cohen (2016) and Cohen (2020). ...

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Pain, suffering, and jury awards: A study of the cost of wrongful convictions