Symposium Introduction: The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What\u27s Right

I wrote The Myth ofMoral justice,\u27 primarily, as a moral critique of the legal system. In examining the rituals and practices of the law under moral criteria-its obsessive focus on zero-sum contests, its dedication to cold rules and procedural technicalities over human emotion, its failure to acknowledge the spiritual pain of those who come before it, its inability to create an atmosphere where apologies, reconciliation, and the restoring of moral balance to relationships is possible, its preference for judicial economy over truth, its privileging of secrets and indifference to lies, and its failure to promote an atmosphere of mutual caring and connection by not imposing a duty to rescue-the book is an indictment of the legal system for smugly believing that the correct legal result is necessarily consistent with the right moral outcome

Poetic License: Learning Morality from Fiction in light of Imaginative Resistance

Imaginative resistance (IR) is rejecting a claim that is true within a fictional world. Accounts that describe IR hold that readers exit a fiction at points of resistance. But if resistance entails exiting a fiction, then learning morality from fiction doesn’t occur. But moral learning from fiction does occur; some such cases are instances of accepting a norm one first denied. I amend current solutions to IR with poetic license. The more poetic license granted a work, the more flexible one is regarding perceived falsehoods. Instead of exiting the fiction, one has the chance to stay engaged and possibly learn norms she previously denied

Welcoming Remarks

Welcoming remarks and overview of the program of the Symposium

Some explicit formulas for the Brownian bridge, Brownian meander and Bessel process under uniform sampling

We show that simple explicit formulas can be obtained for several relevant quantities related to the laws of the uniformly sampled Brownian bridge, Brownian meander and three dimensional Bessel process. To prove such results, we use the distribution of a triplet of random variables associated to the pseudo-Brownian bridge together with various relationships between the laws of these four processes

On the law of a triplet associated with the pseudo-Brownian bridge

We identify the distribution of a natural triplet associated with the pseudo-Brownian bridge. In particular, for $B$ a Brownian motion and $T_1$ its first hitting time of the level one, this remarkable law allows us to understand some properties of the process $(B_{uT_1}/\sqrt{T_1}, u\leq 1)$ under uniform random sampling

Improving the Delivery of Key Work Supports: Policy & Practice Opportunities at a Critical Moment

Examines the consequences of a lack of coordination and seamless service delivery across support programs. Outlines policy, procedural, and data utilization options and best practices to expedite receipt of benefits across programs, as well as challenges