Law Scholars Research Articles

Under the microscope: examining academic-based variations in university scholars’ online academic self-presentation

ABSTRACT This study utilises descriptive and empirical data to explore variations in scholars’ online self-presentation across academic departments and institutions. Drawing from 5,000 university-issued web pages of U.S.-based academics, the research employs qualitative analysis and natural language processing techniques to explore content patterns. The findings highlight notable patterns, such as Full Professors emphasising their publications, while Adjunct Professors focus on teaching and professional experience. Several departmental signatures were revealed, with Law scholars crafting detailed, formal narratives while Computer Scientists opt for concise presentations. These variations illuminate how organisational context shapes the ways scholars construct and project their professional identities online.

Constituent Power in Socialist Regimes

Abstract The twenty-first century has witnessed the global resurgence of constituent power—the power to make a constitution—in both academic debate and the practice of constitutional adjudication and design. Comparative constitutional law scholarship on this power has largely focused on democratic settings. Little academic attention has been paid to the constiuent power in socialist regimes. To fill in this gap, this Article explores the design and practice of the constituent power in both former and current socialist regimes. It identifies three paradigms of the socialist constituent power. In the revolutionary paradigm, the power is used at the founding moment after a communist revolution to establish the legal foundation for a socialist state. In the Soviet, post-revolutionary paradigm, constitutent power is a power of the ordinary legislature used for the replacement of an existing by another socialist constitution. In the contemporary reformist paradigm, the socialist constituent power is still vested in an ordinary legislature but its design and practice integrate ideals and practices of democratic constituent power, including public engagement in constitutional reforms, as the consequence of the people’s struggle for their constituent power and the global diffusion of the idea of the popular constituent power. The reformist paradigm is illustrated by a case-study of Vietnam, using original resources. This study has implications for understanding the Soviet legacies and contemporary dynamics of constituent power in the socialist regimes, and for the comparative study of constituent power.

The boundaries and goals of legal scholarship within health of the public research

This article explains, maps, and critically explores the tasks and aims of legal scholarship within, to use the phrase of the Academy of Medical Sciences, transdisciplinary ‘health of the public’ research. It does so with a view to explaining what legal scholarship can bring to, and also how it may be shaped by, such research. The article considers developments in understandings and focus of public health law scholarship, especially as these have gained renewed force with The Lancet–O’Neill Commission on the legal determinants of health. It presents roles for legal analysis in relation to questions of law as a practice, as well as a discipline that works through social sciences and humanities methods and approaches. In evaluating legal scholarship’s place within health of the public research, the article leads to an argument that greater attention should be given to the incorporation of questions concerning values and social justice. These are important – and more widely acknowledged – issues, and ones that are key to the rigour of research agendas that aim directly to promote goals of creating healthier, fairer societies.

AI Powered Legal Assessments: Evaluating Advocate Skills Through Scenario Based Simulations

This study introduces a brand-new interactive web tool that mimics actual legal situations to improve young advocates' hands-on training. The application creates a thorough and engaging learning environment by integrating multiple cutting-edge technologies. There are fewer practical experiences and more theoretical components to the current system for evaluating law scholars. One of the few methods they may currently demonstrate their legal expertise is through MootCourt. We employ a number of strategies, like incorporating an interactive chatbot, automated file management, and a case scheduling mechanism, to enhance exposure and allow them to hone their legal knowledge in a risk-free setting. The case scheduling system efficiently manages and distributes case time to maximize courtroom operations. Advocates can easily organize and submit legal papers with the help of automated file management. In order to improve the standard of legal education and preparation, the suggested solution seeks to provide a stable, controlled AI-driven chatbot for dynamic client and opposing advocate interactions, a case scheduling system for effective judicial management, and an automated file management system for seamless document handling in a risk-free setting that mimics real-world legal practice. This creative method bridges the crucial gap between academic understanding and real-world experience by giving young advocates a risk-free environment in which to hone their abilities.

Critique of Abdul Wahab Khallaf's Views on Corruption, Collusion, and Nepotism in the Perspective of Fiqh Siyasah

This research examines Abdul Wahab Khallaf’s views on corruption, collusion, and nepotism in the context of dhoruroh (emergency) and compares them with the basic principles of Islamic law. This research uses a qualitative method with a comparative study approach of fiqh siyasah and qowaidhul fiqhiyyah. The results show that corruption, collusion, and nepotism can be avoided through preventive, repressive, and investigative strategies. Khallaf’s view that actions that are usually prohibited can be allowed in an emergency sparked debate among contemporary Islamic law scholars and academics. This research found that his view is incompatible with the basic principles of Islamic law on justice and integrity. Therefore, this study recommends more effective strategies to prevent corruption, collusion, and nepotism in leadership, such as a broader and more comprehensive application of the laws of fiqh siyasah and qowaidhul fiqhiyyah.

Flexible Integration Methods of Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the Formation of Legal Framework on the Science, Technology and Innovation

INTRODUCTION. Southeast Asia possesses substantial resources and a favorable geographical position, enabling participation in global value chains, which provides a significant impetus for the region’s technological development. However, ASEAN member states face challenges such as brain drain, delays in technology commercialization due to underdeveloped patent systems, and cultural-legal gaps. For these reasons, this study investigates ASEAN’s flexible integration methods to ensure the free movement of researchers and innovations, develop the patent system, and improve mechanisms for funding science, technology, and innovation.MATERIALS AND METHODS. The research is based on ASEAN agreements, legal acts, strategic and official documents related to the legal regulation of science, technology, and innovation. Additionally, international agreements in the field of patent law and legally significant indicators from the WIPO database were analyzed. The study also considers publications by Russian and international scholars (primarily ASEAN nationals) in international and integration law. General scientific and specialized legal methods, including legal positivist, systemic-legal, comparativelegal, and historical-legal methods, were used.RESEARCH RESULTS. The evolution of ASEAN’s legal acts in the regulation of science, technology, and innovation demonstrates that the region avoids directly replicating EU models. Instead, it combines the gradual implementation of measures to ensure the free movement of researchers and technology exchange, adapted to the national specificities of member states. The flexibility of integration measures is also confirmed by the member countries’ right to opt out of specific joint initiatives.DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS. Since 1997, ASEAN has encountered cultural and legal gaps among member states in forming unified legislation in science, technology, and innovation. As a result, in 2010, a decision was made to focus on the economic foundation of technological development rather than the socio-cultural aspects. Consequently, in 2012, ASEAN agreement on the movement of natural persons was signed, and measures for the mutual recognition of qualifications were introduced. National patent systems were harmonized with international standards, which accelerated the registration of technological patents within ASEAN. While it also led to an increase in patents filed by foreign entities. A solution emerged through the establishment of a specialized body – the ASEAN IP Academy. Academy proposes improvements to national patent systems and trains scientific and technological personnel to file patents under the new rules. Thus, Southeast Asian countries, striving to develop their own technological markets, employ ASEAN’s flexible integration methods to balance embedding their economies into global technological value chains with fostering their own innovation potential based on mediumand high-level technologies from global leaders.

Transformations to the Religious Clauses Under the Roberts Court

ABSTRACTThis essay surveys the doctrinal transformations to the meaning and scope of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment as they have been interpreted by the Roberts Court, from its first sitting in 2005 to this article's publication in 2025. Grounded in the proposition that scholarship seeking to document and analyze any shifts in the Court’s religious liberty jurisprudence must take into account the judicial politics that has shaped the Court’s current membership and ideological commitments, it begins by examining how various scholars of law, religion, and politics have sought to contextualize the Roberts Court's judicial behavior in relation to the emergence of the conservative legal movement in American law and politics. Following this, separate sections identify major scholarly conversations taking place regarding the Court’s treatment of the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause respectively.

Application of Shia Islamic Law in Contemporary Legal Systems

Despite the growing interest among comparative legal scholars in Islamic law, the application of Shia Islamic law remains an overlooked area within the field of comparative law. This article addresses this gap by offering a classification of contemporary national legal systems according to their incorporation of Shia Islamic law. The analysis begins with secular legal systems in countries with significant Shia populations and progresses to those jurisdictions where Shia Islamic law is officially recognised. Through this examination, I define the historical, cultural, and political contexts influencing the application of Shia Islamic law and assess how and to what extent these states implement Shia Islamic rulings, incorporating case studies to illustrate varying degrees of application.

Life and Creative Path of the Patriarch of Ukrainian Jurisprudence – Vasyl Yakovlevych Tatsiy (1940–2022): on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the scientist

In the process of writing a scientometric article about Academician V. Tatsiy, we have carefully analyzed more than 150 scientific professional articles on the figure of the leader of modern jurisprudence. The lion’s share of scientific works came directly from the pen of the Honored and Honorary Rector of the Yaroslav the Wise NSU. The material in this work can be a good basis for citations and writing new scientific works about V. Tatsiy. Within the framework of the scientometric paradigm, it should be noted that the scientific works about V. Tatsiy written by V.I. Borisov are quite powerful, and they are characterized by a special atmosphere of adopting the work of the leader as a strategist and founder of the science of criminal law. It should be noted that a large cohort of criminal law scholars of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs (KNIA) is directly related to the staff of Yaroslav the Wise National University, and in some respects, as it is supposed to be, in order for a student to be better than his teacher, especially with regard to criminological developments, KNIA, as a police university, occupies a leading position thanks to such scholars as O.M. Litvinov, Y.V. Orlov and many other well-known personalities. V. Tatsiy was rightly proud of Kharkiv jurisprudence, Kharkiv law school, which is unthinkable without Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs. It is a shame that today the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine has suffered serious damage from the shelling of Russian aggression, of which V. Tatsiy was president for many years. Any word of Vasyl Tatsiy was marked by special simplicity, wisdom, and inspiration. He has always inspired faith and hope in thousands of lawyers and continues to live today in the souls and hearts of grateful students and all those who are interested in this great figure of modern jurisprudence. It is said that a person lives as long as the memory of him or her lives. That is why, on the occasion of the glorious 85th anniversary of Vasyl Tatsiy, the staff of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs expresses its sincere feelings of respect and gratitude for his great/high contribution to the benefit of legal science and the people of Ukraine. We express our sincere respect to V.Y. Tatsiy for the standard/ example/example of life and scientific activity, humanity and education, highly intellectual service to the Ukrainian people. We wish all of us, in this difficult time of the Russian-Ukrainian war, creative inspiration and new great achievements for the benefit of Ukraine’s bright future and the long-awaited peace that is so lacking now.

The Harmonizati­on of Public and Private Foundations of Criminal Proceedings in the Rulings of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

The key issue for procedural law scholars, regardless of the topic of their research, is a search for balance between publicity and dispositivity in criminal proceedings. Many doctrinal positions regarding the nature and interconnection of the public and the dispositive foundations of criminal proceedings are reflected in the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on various aspects, stages and proceedings of criminal cases. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation stresses the following: the necessity of maintaining the balance between the constitutionally protected values, public and private interests, public interests and rights and lawful interests of criminal proceedings’ participants; the requirement of reaching this balance should act as one of the criteria of determining the powers of persons carrying out the criminal proceedings, alongside the requirements of effective implementation of the public functions of justice, optimization of the court load and procedural economy; the subjects should be guaranteed a right to participate in resolving the public-legal task regarding criminal infringements; it is inadmissible that the interests of public authority should be viewed separately from the individual interests, rights and liberties of a specific person; the public character of proceedings in different categories of criminal cases should allow for the inclusion of elements of dispositivity; public-legal goals of criminal proceedings include the private interest of protecting the rights and lawful interests of crime victims, as well as the protection of an individual against unlawful and unsubstantiated accusation, conviction, restriction of their rights and liberties. The analysis of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and of legislation allows the authors to state that a balance between public and private legal interests could be ensured by observing the following conditions: procedural effectiveness; economy of the use of court protection means, transparency of the administration of justice, as well as the exclusion of protraction and unjustified resumption of court proceedings.

Nemzetiszocialista jogátadás magyar szemszögből

The academic relations between Hungarian and German law scholars between 1920 and 1944 (especially since 1933) have not yet been comprehensively analysed by either German or Hungarian legal historians. This article focuses on the reactions of Hungarian private law scholars to the National Socialist intention to transfer law, be it enthusiastic, reserved, rejecting or even silently accepting, as well as the presentation of the development of contemporary jurisprudence on the basis of archival sources, especially in the areas of family, inheritance, commercial and civil procedural law. The question of the extent to which German legal influence played a role in shaping theory and practice in Hungary and where – despite the similarities – nationally specific legal solutions can be found is investigated.

The Children Are Not for Sale: Stamping Out the Monetized Sharenting Entertainment Industry and Rehabilitating Parental Rights

Saving the children is once again on the sociopolitical docket, and the legislature has an opportunity to enact legislation that might actually save children. A pertinent child welfare concern shared by psychologists, child advocates, and the Federal Government today is an increasing youth mental health crisis and overwhelming evidence that social media use is a primary cause. Meta has even joined the cause, launching a public relations campaign voicing its openness to congressional reform. Additionally, the bipartisan “Kids Online Safety Act,” is pending in both the Senate and House of Representatives as parallel bills S.1409 and H.R. 7891, respectively. This is a bipartisan effort to pass evidence-based regulation aimed at protecting children by supporting parental rights. Despite this progress, there is one extremely big gap in this piece of legislation that runs the risk of undermining it entirely, a generational gap. Children who were raised on the internet are now parenting on the internet. When a parent posts pictures, videos, or publicly discusses their child in detail online, this is called “sharenting.” In practice, sharenting can refer to a range of content. Some forms include high levels of child participation, such scripted skits with their parents. Others involve passive participation, such as parent incorporating filming into their daily routines. Online posts divulging stories with identifiable information or repurposing of already existing photos of the child is a common form of sharenting. Scholars in law and psychology problematize excessive sharenting for contributing to harm already associated with general childhood internet use: reputational harm, privacy risks, vulnerability to harassment and cyberbullying, or simply amplified general embarrassment. Although those sound like harms a parent would intuitively avoid, the unregulated rollout of the internet is likely to blame for the public’s unhealthy relationship with it. As technology rapidly developed over the past several decades, the social role of the internet has been a loose cannon. Sociological shifts in internet use impacted different age demographics at different developmental moments. For example, the Millennial generation ranges from people born in roughly 1981 through 1996, and Generation Z (“Gen Z”) ranges from people born in 1997 through 2012. At-home computer use increased in the 1990s at a fast pace with two percent of American households having internet access in 1992 and twenty-six percent in 1998. By 2007, sixty-four percent of teens ages 12-17 reported to engage in some form of content creation, ranging from blogs to online communities to publishing works of art. That same year, Facebook started incorporating user data into a user-targeted advertising structure and YouTube introduced in-video advertisements and its paid Partner Program. The average teen’s diary and locker room discussion became a marketplace overnight without any real means of understanding the implications of this shift. This same cohort is now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Many still use social media as a form of diary or group discussion, but now the topics of discussion include their children. Although this narrative thread is not the only explanation for the proliferation of sharenting, a successful legislative agenda that aims to protect children’s online safety needs to take the history of the internet into account. An unregulated internet helped create a generation of parents primed to share an unsafe amount of information about their family life and seamlessly transitioned into an infrastructure that facilitates monetizing that habit. Increasingly, parents who post pictures and videos of their kids are gaining lucrative mass followings for the content they post. Parents can profit off of this following by teaming up with a given social media platform to get a share of related ad revenue from the platform, or get paid directly by companies to discuss their products in their family posting. Parents can also use a subscription model in which followers pay to get bonus content, though Meta announced efforts to crack down on this specific method in response to criticism that its predominant content and clientele sexualize children. When follower counts start reaching the thousands or millions, children can turn into an online celebrities. Child-rearing is becoming a form of self-expression in an era in which online self-expression is a viable career option, all while more and more commerce is online. The result is a new entertainment industry in which parents combine their parental liberties and freedom of expression to commodify their parent-child relationship: the Monetized Sharenting Industry.

EU law scholarship: the Italian tradition

Abstract This article discusses the Italian contribution to European Union (EU) law scholarship, highlighting its distinguishing features and evolution over time. It takes three main steps. First, it reconstructs the historical emergence and consolidation of Italian scholarship on EU law. Secondly, it examines the fundamental themes explored by this scholarship. Finally, it analyses the concepts and theories used by Italian legal scholarship to understand the legal dimension of the European integration process.

EFFORTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION IN ADDRESSING CYBER THREATS

Objective: This study aims to examine the protective measures provided by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) for civil aviation in accordance with various relevant agreements in the cyber domain, including international agreements such as the Protocol on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts at Airports Serving Civil Aviation, annexed to the Montreal Convention of 1987, as well as regional agreements, in particular the European Commission Implementing Regulation No. 2019/1583. In addition, the study will clarify IATA's strategy for addressing cyber threats, emphasizing the need for cooperation between States and various governmental and non-governmental organizations. Theoretical Framework: The study is based on the main legal foundations directly and indirectly related to the cyber domain, which provide essential guarantees for the protection of the principle of air navigation safety against threats it may face, such as attacks on air traffic control networks and ticketing systems. This protection is supported by one of the most important active mechanisms for the protection of civil aviation: The International Air Transport Association (IATA). Method: A qualitative research approach will be used, focusing primarily on all international legislation related to the protection of civil aviation from cyber threats. Subsequently, IATA's efforts to address potential cybercrime threats to civil aviation will be examined. Results and Discussion: The research findings will highlight the extent to which IATA is contributing to the protection of civil aviation from cyber threats. It will also highlight the need for international and regional cooperation within the IATA framework to maintain the security of civil aviation in different countries. Research Implications: The findings of this research have significant implications for various stakeholders, including international law scholars, policy makers, civil aviation security officials, and individuals who use civil aircraft. The thorough analysis of the topic confirms that this is one of the most important studies contributing to the development of strategies to protect civil aircraft from cybercrime. Originality/Value: This study is considered to be one of the most important recent works dealing with the cyber threats that civil aviation may face. Through the analysis of international and regional agreements, it highlights the need for international cooperation to protect civil aviation from cyber threats.

Applying AAPL Ethics and Mission in Forensic Treatment.

The increased visibility of the patients' rights movement in medicine in recent years has left the erroneous impression that patients and their physicians are on equal footing in the physician-patient relationship. The reality is that vulnerability of patients in this relationship leaves them at the mercy of health care professionals. This is most acute in psychiatry, where patients reveal aspects of their inner being to their psychiatrist, including strange beliefs they would never disclose to their closest friends and family members, whereas psychiatrists, in contrast, reveal close to nothing of themselves to patients. Additionally, distortions of reality can strip patients of social mores and basic humanity and sometimes cause them to commit crimes. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) scholars have espoused the values of treating evaluees professionally and with compassion and respect while upholding their dignity and humanity. These worthy forensic psychiatric writings, however, have unfortunately not always transitioned into the clinical treatment of forensic patients. Reports of patient abuse by staff in psychiatric hospitals, including forensic psychiatric hospitals, remain rampant. Using real-life examples, I apply forensic psychiatric ethics to patient care and offer suggestions of practices and policies that would enhance treatment of patients and decrease the potential for patient abuse in psychiatric hospitals.

The Legal Framework of the World Trade Organization from the Perspective of Game Theory in International Law

Game theory in international law is one of the new and innovative perspectives in the field of philosophy of international law. The difference of this perspective is that instead of mere theorizing, it seeks a logical and practical explanation of international legal rules and structures. In this perspective, the rules of game theory are used for scientific reasoning and expressing theoretical frameworks. Game theory was first proposed in 1944 by mathematician John von Neumann and accompanied by economist Oscar Morgenstern in the field of economic issues.But since then, it has gradually entered other scientific fields, including international relations, sociology and other scientific disciplines. In recent years, and for the first time in international law, two great thinkers, Jack Goldsmith and Eric Pasner, have used this theory to explain how and why international customs are formed. This has attracted the attention of international law scholars as a new approach. This article seeks to explain the legal structure of the World Trade Organization from the perspective of this theory. The authors believe that their findings will lead to a better understanding of the legal structure of this organization. To this end, first, the rules required by game theory are introduced and briefly explained, and then, from the perspective of the aforementioned materials, cases and agreements from the entire WTO collection are examined and logically proven, which are generally applicable to the entire legal structure of this organization.

해양레저스포츠 규제에 관한 소고 - 허가·등록 및 해양관리계획 등 행정법적 문제를 중심으로

Scholars of marine leisure sports and researchers, officials, and businesspeople who suggest measures to promote them all claim that the development of marine leisure sports is being hindered by regulatory-centered legal systems. In particular, the most discussed regulations are the various permits, licenses, and registration systems that correspond to entry regulations related to marine leisure sports, and since they are closely related to general administrative laws and regulations such as permission for use of public waters and permission for use of natural parks, the burden seems to be increasing. In addition, looking at the recently implemented ｢Marine Leisure Tourism Promotion Act｣, this law only contains slogans for simple support and promotion efforts, and does not present a correct understanding of regulations and a direction for deregulation based on them. However, considering the risks and dangers that inevitably accompany the use of the ocean for leisure or sports, it seems fundamentally proportional from a safety law perspective that it is subject to greater regulation than that on land. The problem is not the regulation itself, but the fact that the concepts of the permit and registration system based on relevant positive laws are not properly understood in the marine leisure sports field is considered to be one of the causes of the problem. ① The pilot license should be designed to resolve overlapping issues and unreasonable unlicensed penalties. ② The water leisure business registration system should not be operated in a positive manner, such as a permit. ③ The term ‘registration’ in the water leisure laws should be understood in various ways as a concept of various administrative laws, and should be understood and operated so that the significance of the negative method can be highlighted. ④ In the establishment of a marine space plan that includes marine leisure sports, marine leisure sports, water leisure activities on the sea surface, and especially in the case of natural parks or natural conservation areas, whether they affect the protection of various environments, ecosystems, and species diversity pursued under the natural park laws or natural environment protection laws, should be implemented through a cost-benefit analysis through risk assessment and communication. In addition, this plan should move in the direction of recognizing legal binding force in the ‘consultation on the suitability of marine space,’ but there is a diagnosis from maritime administrative law scholars that it is still just an ‘inductive plan.’ This is because there is no legal basis to prevent or force the government or local government from using or developing marine space without the consent of the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries after consultation. In this regard, the administrative plan confirmation procedure under administrative law and the discussion on its concentrated effectiveness should be applied. ⑤ The issue of ‘abandoned boats’ should be the subject of environmental law discussion, and in the future, it should be developed into a discussion on state responsibility and its limitations under safety law.

Historical change of scientific paradigms and the composition of the offence

Relevance. In the last decade, the focus of scientific research has shifted from specific issues to fundamental and interdisciplinary ones. For this reason, scholars in criminal law increasingly turn to fundamental categories, traditionally including crime and the elements of a crime. Modern discussions on the elements of a crime (its essence, structure, characteristics, etc.) necessitate a return to the origins of this category's formation and an analysis of the determinants that influenced changes in its content.The purpose of this study is to justify the dependence of the content of the fundamental category of "elements of a crime" on the scientific paradigm.Objectives: To analyze and compare the historical shifts in scientific paradigms and the modifications of the category of "elements of a crime" in criminal law science; to identify the specific features of understanding the elements of a crime in a given historical period.Methodology. The study is based on the historical method, which made it possible to establish a connection between the prevailing scientific paradigm at a certain stage in the development of criminal law science and the understanding of the elements of a crime. Additionally, other general scientific methods were used, including analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction.Results. The study has proven that with the development of the theory of knowledge, specifically with changes in modes of thinking, the concept of the elements of a crime has also evolved.Conclusion. The historical changes in types of thinking (the prevailing philosophical method of cognition) initially led to the transfer of the elements of a crime from the procedural to the substantive domain. Later, it facilitated the integration of subjective and objective aspects within it and ultimately transitioned from a set of subjective and objective characteristics of a real phenomenon to an informational model that describes a complexly structured crime.

An Empirical Study on the Modeling Analysis of Financial Institutions' Tortious Conduct from the Perspective of Legal Dogmatics

The application of criminal law methods to model and regulate relevant behaviors in civil cases has been one of the hot topics in the research of criminal law scholars in China in recent years. However, due to the solidification of research models and the limited theoretical breakthroughs, current scholars still study the characteristics of financial crimes based on the temporal and spatial characteristics of crimes in criminology, while ignoring the common sense that law constrains behavior. Based on this, this paper proposes an abstract model named the Morohusi C. Y. HU Model, and takes the recent illegal real estate securitization case of Shenfangli as an example to identify and evaluate the suspected financial criminal behavior of the Shenfangli platform. Through detailed analysis, the financial behavior analysis module in the model concludes that its capital flow has a bottom-up pyramid-shaped characteristic, and calculates its profit amount in detail; while the financial behavior evaluation module in the model suggests possible convictions, namely, the combined punishment of the crimes of illegally absorbing public deposits and organizing and leading pyramid selling activities. Therefore, criminal law modeling research based on behavior analysis has certain universality, and can establish different specific application models according to specific cases.

A structured dataset of the federalist society’s public engagements

Background The Federalist Society, a leading conservative legal organization, has played a significant role in shaping the American judiciary for decades. Despite its influence, comprehensive empirical data on the organization remains scarce. We address this gap by systematically documenting 20,205 public events hosted by the Society from 1984 to 2024, with substantive coverage from 2007 onward. Methods Following ethical best practices in data collection and ownership, we gathered event metadata—including titles, dates, locations, sponsors, topics, and speakers—via web scraping from the Federalist Society’s archives. The dataset is structured to facilitate analysis of event trends, co-speaking networks, and thematic shifts over time. To ensure data integrity, we performed validation, deduplication, and cleaning, resulting in a well-structured, high-quality dataset. Conclusions This dataset provides an empirical foundation for examining the Federalist Society’s role in legal discourse. It is a resource for scholars in law, political science, sociology, gender studies, network science, and computational social science, enabling investigations into key themes of discussion, event participation patterns, demographic diversity, professional backgrounds, and more. Researchers can use it to study institutional influence, legal networks, and the evolution of conservative legal thought.