A model balancing cooperation and competition explains our right-handed world and the dominance of left-handed athletes

An overwhelming majority of humans are right-handed. Numerous explanations for individual handedness have been proposed, but this population-level handedness remains puzzling. Here we use a minimal mathematical model to explain this population-level hand preference as an evolved balance between cooperative and competitive pressures in human evolutionary history. We use selection of elite athletes as a test-bed for our evolutionary model and account for the surprising distribution of handedness in many professional sports. Our model predicts strong lateralization in social species with limited combative interaction, and elucidates the rarity of compelling evidence for "pawedness" in the animal world.Comment: 5 pages of text and 3 figures in manuscript, 8 pages of text and two figures in supplementary materia

Hardball in City Hall: Public Financing of Sports Stadiums

Roger I. Abram’s article on public financing of sports stadiums is an unedited portion of Chapter 9 from Abram’s forthcoming book, Playing Tough: The World of Sports and Politics, published by University Press of New England (2013)

Law and the Chicken: An Eggs-aggerated Curriculum Proposal

For decades, legal educators have debated two important curricular issues: How do we introduce law students to the study of law

The New Nova Curriculum: Training Lawyers For The Twenty-First Century

Periodically, law faculty rethink the nature of legal education

The Lawyer as an Artist

The lawyer as an artist. It must seem oxymoron