New journals from Berkeley Electronic Press.Berkeley Electronic Press The Berkeley Electronic Press is a new publisher dedicated to publishing quality-ranked peer-reviewed academic research quickly in electronic format. It publishes a large number of electronic journals in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences. (BEP BEP Black Eyed Peas (band) BEP Brevet d’Études Professionnelles (French: vocational qualification) BEP Business Entry Point BEP Break-Even Point BEP Bit Error Probability BEP Bureau of Engraving & Printing ; Berkeley, CA) has begun the production of two new online journals, including "Review of Law & Economics" and "International Commentary on Evidence." "Review of Law & Economics" will be produced four times a year in association with the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE). The new title publishes theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary research in law and economics-related topics and "explores the various understandings that economic approaches shed on legal institutions," BEP said. The journal focuses on the application to legal issues of new insights developed in economic disciplines such as microeconomics microeconomics Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final and game theory, finance, econometrics, decision theory, political economy and public choice, behavioral economics Behavioral Economics A field of economics that studies how the actual decision-making process influences the decisions that are reached. Notes: The two most important questions in this field are: , social psychology and evolutionary biology. Also produced quarterly, "International Commentary on Evidence" is a peer-reviewed journal peer-reviewed journal Refereed journal Academia A professional journal that only publishes articles subjected to a rigorous peer validity review process. Cf Throwaway journal. on evidence law and theory. Its purpose is to "promote scholarly communication about the law of evidence without regard to political or academic boundaries." Articles address evidentiary issues in more than one jurisdiction and covering such topics as economics, psychology, philosophy and history. Content includes articles focusing on one major topic for each issue. The "Crawford v. Washington Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court decision that reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United " issue includes articles on the uses of history in Crawford v. Washington, the right to confrontation after the decision, reassessing confrontation after the decision, and general perspectives. An annual subscription costs $35 for individuals and $175 for institutions. |
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