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A European Solution To America’S Basketball Problem: Reforming Amateur Basketball In The United States, Jaimie K. Mcfarlin, Joshua Lee Aug 2014

A European Solution To America’S Basketball Problem: Reforming Amateur Basketball In The United States, Jaimie K. Mcfarlin, Joshua Lee

Jaimie K. McFarlin

The system of amateur and collegiate basketball in America is flawed, as every year, thousands of young men and women pursue their basketball dreams under the shadow of a multi-million dollar, predatory business model. Integral to telling the history of the NCAA and AAU organizations are recruiting horror stories and other examples of young talents who were taken advantage of by unscrupulous actors, both of which continue today. The commercialization and professionalization of amateur basketball has fed an ecosystem of exploitation in which private actors and institutions capitalize on the American mantra of "amateurism." The European system of amateur athletics …


The Military Response To Criminal Violent Extremist Groups: Aligning Use Of Force Presumptions With Threat Reality, Geoffrey S. Corn Mar 2013

The Military Response To Criminal Violent Extremist Groups: Aligning Use Of Force Presumptions With Threat Reality, Geoffrey S. Corn

Geoffrey S. Corn

Debates over the permissible authority to use force against emerging non-state threats are consistently dictated by a binary legal paradigm: either armed conflict is recognized permitting status based targeting or law enforcement conduct based use of force norms must be respected. This paradigm has driven an expansion of the threats characterized by states as falling within the scope of non-international armed conflicts, a trend that has produced substantial controversy. At the same time, in many states organized criminal groups are creating unprecedented challenges to government authority by utilizing widespread and indiscriminate violence to sow the seeds of chaos and demonstrate …