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Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me, Meredith A.G. Stange
Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
This past semester we all taught during an unprecedented worst-case scenario, moving our courses online at the literal drop of a hat. Although I know my experience is not unique, from March to the end of the semester in May, I felt like I was just treading water. I realized that feeling unsure of myself, feeling disconnected from my students, and feeling like I was just treading water really was not me. In fact, I had not felt this way in the classroom since my first few years of teaching. Those were days I did not want to revisit because, …
State Prisons Turning Into De Facto Mental Health Institutes: A Comparative Look At The Illinois And Nebraska State Prison Systems, Margaret Kramer
State Prisons Turning Into De Facto Mental Health Institutes: A Comparative Look At The Illinois And Nebraska State Prison Systems, Margaret Kramer
Northern Illinois Law Review Supplement
This Comment discusses the systems of approaching mental health in Nebraska and Illinois state prison systems. Starting with how prison systems became some of the largest de facto mental health institutes in the country after deinstitutionalization happened on a national scale. It will then provide the guidelines and regulations in place for both Nebraska and Illinois. This Comment will then discuss what regulations would be most beneficial and how some of these can help in continuing after an individual is released from prison.
Voting Like A Duck: Reflecting On A Year Of Legal Writing Voting Rights, Meredith A.G. Stange
Voting Like A Duck: Reflecting On A Year Of Legal Writing Voting Rights, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
Over the years, in various legal writing forums, I have heard that legal writing professors should try to “look like ducks.” This means we should publish, teach doctrinal courses, and otherwise do everything we can to make ourselves look like the tenure-track, non-legal writing faculty. The theory is that the more we look like tenure-track faculty, the harder it will be to treat those of us who are not tenure track differently. This has always bothered me because it seems to minimize the work that legal writing professors do and makes it seem that in order to have value, we …
Localizing Environmental Federalism, Sarah Fox
Localizing Environmental Federalism, Sarah Fox
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
Local environmental action has gained attention and importance in the face of inaction by the federal government and many states. By taking action when other levels of government are not, these local governments are fulfilling an important federalism function. Environmental federalism theory has long highlighted the potential for local governments to play this gap-filling function, and to fulfill other federalism values. To date, however, environmental federalism theory has not examined closely the legal basis for local governmental action, and the vulnerabilities that surround that local authority. In many states, local authority is easily, and often, preempted by the state. Given …
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Tax Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 438. 1848-1870. 1 reel microfilm. Personal and real property rolls, land rolls, for Chickasaw County, Palo Alto, and Houston, Mississippi.
Tippah County (Mississippi) Legal Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Tippah County (Mississippi) Legal Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 102. 1866-1868. 0.02 cubic feet. Contains indictment, summons, order for transcript.
Cobb (Joseph B.) Estate Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Cobb (Joseph B.) Estate Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 377. 1858-1861. 0.08 cubic feet. Photocopies from the Lowndes County Courthouse of the estate papers of Joseph B. Cobb, humorist and author of Mississippi Scenes. Among the topics are a rebellion on one of Cobb's plantations and the hiring of dogs to catch run-away Cobb slaves. Cobb was a Unionist and a Whig.
Leake County (Mississippi) Justice Of The Peace Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Leake County (Mississippi) Justice Of The Peace Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 220. 1896-1902. 0.12 cubic feet. Records of Justice of the Peace W. P. White of Leake County, Mississippi, including receipts, correspondence regarding debts, summons and advertising materials.
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Board Of Police Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries
Chickasaw County (Mississippi) Board Of Police Minutes, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 437. 1863-1865. 1 reel microfilm. Records of the Chickasaw County Board of Police concern road construction and other county jurisdictional matters.
Winston County (Mississippi) Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Winston County (Mississippi) Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 133. 1838-1907. 0.04 cubic feet. Circuit Court minutes, 1838-1841; "Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers and Widows," 1907, which lists name, state of enlistments, company, regiment, age, year of enlistment, and category (soldier, widow, servant). Photocopies.
North Mississippi Probate And Chancery Court Records Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
North Mississippi Probate And Chancery Court Records Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 352. 1836-1971 (Bulk dates: 1836-1911). 0.66 cubic feet. Probate and Chancery Court records, tax receipts, estate expense reports, and other legal documents, most from Itawamba County, 1836-1911, as well as miscellaneous other material dating from 1911-1971. Pontotoc, Calhoun, and Tishomingo counties are also represented, and there is some material concerning Limestone County, Alabama. Finally, there is one photocopy of Civil War letter from Thomas Whitesides to James Bullard, 4/27/1861. Donated by Randy Sparks, 1980-81.
Ross (Holt Edgar) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
Ross (Holt Edgar) Papers, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 43. 1916-1966. 1 cubic foot. Lawyer and representative for labor unions, of Mississippi and New Orleans. Correspondence, articles, poems and speeches by Ross (1897-1968), newspaper clippings, photos, and other papers, chiefly relating to Ross' efforts in behalf of the International Longshoremen's Association, International Hod Carriers', Building, and Common Laborers' Union, American Federation of Labor, and Congress of Industrial Organizations, together with material on Ross' trip to the Trade Union Congress, Blackpool, Britain, 1944, and a trip to Puerto Rico to review labor problems. Correspondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alfred A. Force, Robert S. Green, William Green, Joseph V. Moreschi, …
Lowndes County (Miss.) Courthouse Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
Lowndes County (Miss.) Courthouse Records, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 72. 1821-1929. 5 reels microfilm. Court records microfilmed from the Lowndes County Court house. Poll books, 1876-1902; record of slaves brought into Lowndes County, 1837-1845; Record of apprentices, bonds, indentures, 1866-1870.
Nelson (L. E.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Nelson (L. E.) Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 66. 1836-1943. 1 reel microfilm. Collection of L. E. Nelson, clergyman and lawyer of Jackson, Mississippi. Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction period in Jackson. These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.
Pontotoc County (Mississippi) Land Roll, Mississippi State University Libraries
Pontotoc County (Mississippi) Land Roll, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 409. 1889. 1 reel microfilm. Law
Atkinson Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
Atkinson Collection, Mississippi State University Libraries
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MSS. 30. 1838-1925. 2.66 cubic feet. Correspondence (1861-1906) and legal papers (1838-1917) of the Martin and Bates law firm, relating to civil cases in Chickasaw and Calhoun Counties, Mississippi, 11 volumes (1851-1908) of court dockets from Chickasaw and Pontotoc Counties, Mississippi, account book (1903), printed material, and Bates family genealogical material. Includes 40 letters (1877-1901) from Georgia Supreme Court Justice, William A. Little, pertaining to sale or rental of his Chickasaw County property. Persons represented include Thomas Nelson Martin (1807-1886), senior partner, newspaper editor, and Mississippi State senator, and William Stowt Bates (1830-1928), junior partner, probate judge of Pontotoc County, …
Environmental Gentrification, Sarah Fox
Environmental Gentrification, Sarah Fox
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
Gentrification is a term often used, much maligned, and difficult to define. A few general principles can nonetheless be distilled regarding the concept. First, gentrification is spurred by rising desirability of an area for housing or commercial purposes. Second, this rising desirability, following basic supply-and-demand principles, leads to higher property values and rents in an uncontrolled market. Third, gentrification leads to a shift in the demographics of a neighborhood. This shift can change not only the socioeconomic and racial composition of the area but also the community’s character, as residential and commercial options begin to reflect the preferences of the …
Amor Y Esperanza: A Latina Lesbian Becomes A Law Professor, Elvia R. Arriola
Amor Y Esperanza: A Latina Lesbian Becomes A Law Professor, Elvia R. Arriola
College of Law Faculty Publications
Writing about my presence in the legal academy is about identifying the act of resistance in simply being myself as a Latina lesbian who was trying to develop as a feminist legal theorist when I thought about law teaching as a career in the late 1980s. Now recently retired, I can be grateful that I became a law professor at a time when fairly serious efforts were being made to diversify law faculties with the hiring of more women and racial and ethnic minorities. But in 1991, when I entered the academy as an assistant professor, not many law professors …
Admissions In Sec Enforcement Cases: The Revolution That Wasn't, David Rosenfeld
Admissions In Sec Enforcement Cases: The Revolution That Wasn't, David Rosenfeld
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
In 2013, the SEC departed from its long-standing policy of settling enforcement matters on a no-admit/no-deny basis, and for the first time began to require admissions when settling certain cases. The new admissions policy was greeted with considerable concern by many who thought it would lead to fewer settlements, more litigation, and a decline in the effectiveness of SEC enforcement. After more than four years, a full assessment of the policy is in order. The SEC continues to report record enforcement numbers and has touted the admissions policy as a great success. However, this Article empirically demonstrates that the SEC …
Home Rule In An Era Of Local Environmental Innovation, Sarah Fox
Home Rule In An Era Of Local Environmental Innovation, Sarah Fox
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
As 2016’s national election made clear, striking ideological differences between cities and their surrounding states exist in many parts of the country. One way in which this divide manifests itself is in state governments passing laws with the sole purpose of outlawing particular local conduct. For instance, recent state legislation has prohibited local governments from establishing a minimum wage, from prohibiting the use of plastic bags, and from protecting the rights of transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their identified gender. These state actions do not create substantive law; instead, they merely curtail the grant of authority—known as home …
An Empirical Critique Of Jcar And The Legislative Veto In Illinois, Marc D. Falkoff
An Empirical Critique Of Jcar And The Legislative Veto In Illinois, Marc D. Falkoff
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
This Article collects and analyzes nearly four decades’ worth of data concerning the legislative oversight of administrative agency rulemaking in Illinois. Its chief purpose is to assess the efficacy of the state’s legislative veto scheme. In particular, the Article focuses on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (“JCAR”), a bipartisan legislative committee that is authorized to review rules produced by administrative agencies in the executive branch. Since late 2004, JCAR has possessed veto power over agency rulemaking, meaning the committee may permanently stop implementation of new rules upon the vote of three-fifths of its twelve members. For even longer, the …
Indigenous Justice In Ecuador, Luis Ángel Saavedra
Indigenous Justice In Ecuador, Luis Ángel Saavedra
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
This articles discusses the challenges and tensions encountered between indigenous and national systems of justice in Ecuador. The article highlights some of the major issues surrounding indigenous systems, namely, how crime should be dealt with, as well as how indigenous justice has been negatively portrayed in the media. The article suggests that indigenous communities know how to structure their justice systems the best; thus, the national justice system should work with them in a collaborative effort.
Ecuadoran Government Will Modify Laws To Favor Mining, Luis Ángel Saavedra
Ecuadoran Government Will Modify Laws To Favor Mining, Luis Ángel Saavedra
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
It has become customary for large transnational mining companies to pressure governments to modify national legislation to suit company interests. However, this was not expected to happen in Ecuador since its Constitution specifically protects the rights of nature and is very clear on the control the state must have of extractive activities as well as on the state's share of earnings from this industry. This is to the dismay of environmental and human rights organizations, who view the policy reforms as unconstitutional.
What Are The Implications Of Mexico's Climate Change Law?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor
What Are The Implications Of Mexico's Climate Change Law?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor
Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports
Mexico's Congress in April passed a landmark climate change law after three years of debate and revisions, Reuters reported. The bill's mandates require that 35 percent of Mexico's energy come from renewable sources by 2024 and carbon emissions must be 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, among other requirements. What will be the effects of Mexico's new climate law? Will the energy sector be able to meet the increased demand for renewable power? How do other Latin American countries' future energy plans compare with Mexico, and are they likely to adopt similar legislation? Does the law's passage reflect pessimism …
El Salvador's Government Sends General Water Law Into Legislative Pipeline, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar
El Salvador's Government Sends General Water Law Into Legislative Pipeline, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
For the million or so residents of greater San Salvador whose faucets run dry on a regular basis, the message they received in late April from the Administración de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (ANDA) was a familiar one: "It's going to be a while." Because of technical problems, the pumping station that supplies those homes is only operating at about half capacity right now, according to ANDA, El Salvador's state water regulator. Las Parvas, as the plant is called, draws water from the Río Lempa, El Salvador's largest river, and supplies between 45% and 60% of greater San Salvador's drinking water. …
Law To Promote Renewable Energy In Argentina, Evwind
Law To Promote Renewable Energy In Argentina, Evwind
Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports
This article briefly describes a policy introduced in May 2012 proposing the creation of a national institute focusing on renewable energy development in Argentina.
What Are The Implications Of Mexico's Climate Change Law?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor
What Are The Implications Of Mexico's Climate Change Law?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor
Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports
Mexico's Congress in April passed a landmark climate change law after three years of debate and revisions, Reuters reported. The bill's mandates require that 35 percent of Mexico's energy come from renewable sources by 2024 and carbon emissions must be 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, among other requirements. What will be the effects of Mexico's new climate law? Will the energy sector be able to meet the increased demand for renewable power? How do other Latin American countries' future energy plans compare with Mexico, and are they likely to adopt similar legislation? Does the law's passage reflect pessimism …
Peruvian Government Targets Informal Mining, Elsa Chanduví Jaña
Peruvian Government Targets Informal Mining, Elsa Chanduví Jaña
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
The rescue of nine Peruvian miners who were trapped underground for seven days in a horizontal shaft at La Cortada copper mine in the Cabeza de Negro area of the coastal department of Ica, 300 km south of Lima, shone the spotlight once again on informal and illegal mining, undertaken without security measures and outside the law. President Ollanta Humala has decided to stop such activities.
Mexican Congress Approves Far-Reaching Environmental Legislation, Carlos Navarro
Mexican Congress Approves Far-Reaching Environmental Legislation, Carlos Navarro
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
The Mexican Congress made a bold statement this month by approving comprehensive legislation to reduce greenhousegas emissions and take other actions to help the country address global climate change. The ambitious plan—approved 12810 in the Chamber of Deputies and ratified unanimously in the Senate in April—only awaits the signature of President Felipe Calderón. The president has been an outspoken advocate of measures to address climate change, so his signature is virtually guaranteed. With the law's passage, Mexico would become the second nation to enact legally binding emissions restrictions. Great Britain is the only other country to take such a step.
Panamas Indigenous Protestors Block Roads In Dispute To End Mineral Exploitation On Their Lands; Clashes Leave One Dead', Louisa Reynolds
Panamas Indigenous Protestors Block Roads In Dispute To End Mineral Exploitation On Their Lands; Clashes Leave One Dead', Louisa Reynolds
NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America
Anger against President Ricardo Martinelli's administration boiled over on Jan. 30, as members of the GnãbeBuglé indigenous tribe protested after the Asamblea Nacional (AN) took initial steps toward lifting a mining moratorium on their territories. The Coordinadora por la Defensa de los Recursos Naturales y el Derecho del Pueblo Gnãbe Buglé, which has called for all mining and hydroelectric projects on indigenous lands to be halted, decided to block a stretch of the InterAmerican Highway that joins Panama's western province of Chiriquí with Costa Rica. The next day, the protest had spread to the provinces of Boca del Toro and …