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Law School Record, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Spring 2023), Law School Record Editors Apr 2023

Good With Words: Speaking And Presenting, Patrick Barry Jan 2021

Good With Words: Speaking And Presenting, Patrick Barry

Books

Suppose you were good with words. Suppose when you decided to speak, the message you delivered—and the way you delivered it—successfully connected with your intended audience. What would that mean for your career prospects? What would that mean for your comfort level in social situations? And perhaps most importantly, what would that mean for your satisfaction with the personal relationships you value the most?

This book is designed to help you find out. Based on an award-winning course and workshop series at the University of Michigan taken by students training to enter a wide range of fields—law, business, medicine, social …


The Overlapping Web Of Data, Territoriality And Sovereignty, Jennifer Daskal Jan 2020

The Overlapping Web Of Data, Territoriality And Sovereignty, Jennifer Daskal

Contributions to Books

Provides a framework to better understand Global Legal Pluralism and the current international state of law.


Equips practitioners, theorists, and students with deeper insights and analytical tools to describe the conflict among legal and quasi-legal systems.

Analyzes global legal pluralism in light of legal theory, constitutionalism, conflict of laws, international law, commercial transactions, and as it affects indigenous polities, religious orders, and citizenship.


The Santa Clara, 2019-04-11, Santa Clara University Apr 2019

The Santa Clara, 2019-04-11, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


The Santa Clara, 2019-04-04, Santa Clara University Apr 2019

The Santa Clara, 2019-04-04, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume I, 1876-1914 Feb 2019

Chinese Immigration-Exclusion Pamphlets, Volume I, 1876-1914

Chinese Pamphlets

Seventeen pamphlets published between 1876 and 1914 that set forth the pros and cons of Chinese immigration into the United States, including arguments as to why the Chinese should be excluded. Those claims were in part that the Chinese being non-assimilative, undesirable, destructive to competition and hence the need to protect American labor and White citizens. The Chinese were blamed for the spread of slavery, criminal activities, highbinders (assassins), opium smoking, leprosy and other imported evils and the overall corruption of California.


2019 - Japanese Pamphlets Inventory - Draft Feb 2019

2019 - Japanese Pamphlets Inventory - Draft

Japanese-American Pamphlet Inventory

An inventory of a series of pamphlets published from 1906 through 1925 focused on the presence of Japanese in America, the perception by some that Japan was taking steps to take over America, the great lengths gone to deprive Japanese residing in the United States of land either by purchase or lease and even citizenship, the depiction of Japanese as inferior humans in terms of intellect and morals standing, agreement and laws enacted to limit the ability of Japanese to participate in the economy, anti-Japanese organizations, speeches before various legislative bodies in opposition to the Japanese, Japanese responses to the …


1897 - History Of California, Volume 3, Theodore Henry Hittell Jan 2019

1897 - History Of California, Volume 3, Theodore Henry Hittell

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

Hittell dedicated the first portion of Volume 3 to early mining times in California including Pioneer mines, miners and mining appliances, Northern California mines, Southern California mines, gold distribution and gold rushes, struggles for organization and order, evolution of mining laws, and the lynch-law in the mines. Hittell wrote at considerable length about the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856, progress made in San Francisco, city debts, land sales, bank failures of 1855, growth of the State of California, People's Party reform, squatters, Land Commission Act, Joaquin Murieta and his banditti, Californian Filibusters, discovery of Humboldt Bay, Yosemite, …


1889 - Sixty Years In California, William Heath Davis Jan 2019

1889 - Sixty Years In California, William Heath Davis

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The author, who arrived in Alta California in 1831, wrote about his extended experience as it related to the manners and customs of the people, their methods of trade, of social and political history of the Mexican government and of its successor, the Territory and then State of California, The book covers 60 years of history of events and life in California; the personal, political and military, under the Mexican Regime, during the quasi-military government of the Territory by the United States, and after the Admission of California into the Union. While the 63 chapters cover a broad and detailed …


1901 - The Transition Period Of California From A Province Of Mexico In 1846 To A State Of The American Union In 1850 Jan 2019

1901 - The Transition Period Of California From A Province Of Mexico In 1846 To A State Of The American Union In 1850

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

A detailed description of events that transpired from 1846 when to 1850 when California became a state of the United States of America. The author gives a brief account of peoples already living in California and events preceding the war with Mexico. He discusses efforts by other countries to get a foothold in California, the war with Mexico, the treaty, the conventions held to establish California first as a territory and then as a state.


Stonehill Alumni Magazine Winter/Spring 2019, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations Jan 2019

Stonehill Alumni Magazine Winter/Spring 2019, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

  • Searching for More Good Following her mother’s wise advice, Mary Latham ’09 took a tragic time in her life and turned it into a mission, capturing stories of human kindness. BY LAUREN DALEY 05
  • Thirty Years Later... Still Unsolved In her new book, former crime reporter and Associate Communication Professor Maureen Boyle searches for answers to the New Bedford Highway serial killings. BY TRACY PALMER
  • Mr. Stonehill Francis X. Dillon ’70, Stonehill’s longest serving vice president, reflects on his 44-year career upon his


Richmond Law Magazine: Winter 2019, University Of Richmond Jan 2019

Richmond Law Magazine: Winter 2019, University Of Richmond

Richmond Law Magazine

'If not you, who?'

A Common Cause

Mass Appeal


The Santa Clara, 2018-05-10, Santa Clara University May 2018

The Santa Clara, 2018-05-10, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


An Unseen Light, Aram Goudsouzian, Charles W. Mckinney, Jr. Apr 2018

An Unseen Light, Aram Goudsouzian, Charles W. Mckinney, Jr.

Civil Rights

In An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee, eminent and rising scholars present a multidisciplinary examination of African American activism in Memphis from the dawn of emancipation to the twenty-first century. Together, they investigate episodes such as the 1940 "Reign of Terror" when black Memphians experienced a prolonged campaign of harassment, mass arrests, and violence at the hands of police. They also examine topics including the relationship between the labor and civil rights movements, the fight for economic advancement in black communities, and the impact of music on the city's culture. Covering subjects as diverse as politics, …


Black Bone, Bianca L. Spriggs, Jeremy D. Paden Feb 2018

Black Bone, Bianca L. Spriggs, Jeremy D. Paden

Civil Rights

The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh. Though Appalachia's people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with stereotypes. Author Frank X Walker coined the term "Affrilachia" to give identity and voice to people of African descent from this region and to highlight Appalachia's multicultural identity. This act inspired a group of gifted artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region.

After years …


Richmond Law Magazine: Winter 2018, University Of Richmond Jan 2018

Richmond Law Magazine: Winter 2018, University Of Richmond

Richmond Law Magazine

Features:

Quarreling Over the Orange

Flight Path

‘The executive power shall be vested in a president’


Clark Memorandum: Fall 2017, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society Oct 2017

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2017, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum


1866 - Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs For 1866 Apr 2017

1866 - Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs For 1866

US and Indian Relations

Detailed report on the efforts by the US government to civilize, educate and provide moral training to the original inhabitants. This largely involved placing the Indians on reservations, teaching them agricultural and homebuilding skills, training them in proper dress and customs of the white man and providing opportunities for education.


1868 - Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs For 1868 Apr 2017

1868 - Report Of The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs For 1868

US and Indian Relations

Detailed report on the efforts by the US government to civilize, educate and provide moral training to the original inhabitants. This largely involved placing the Indians on reservations, teaching them agricultural and homebuilding skills, training them in proper dress and customs of the white man and providing opportunities for education.


Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 58 Number 1, Spring 2017, Santa Clara University Apr 2017

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 58 Number 1, Spring 2017, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

24 - BIG WIN FOR A TINY HOUSE Turning heads and changing the housing game. By Matt Morgan.

28 - $100 MILLION GIFT TO BUILD John A. ’60 and Susan Sobrato make the largest gift in SCU history. Now see the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation that will take shape—and redefine the University. Illustration by Tavis Coburn.

36 - CUT & PASTE CONSERVATION We can alter wild species to save them. So should we? By Emma Marris. Illustrations by Jason Holley.

44 - INFO OFFICER IN CHIEF From his office overlooking the White House, Tony Scott J.D. ’92 set …


Emigres: Lost In A Sea Of Ignorance, Ronald C. Griffin Jan 2017

Emigres: Lost In A Sea Of Ignorance, Ronald C. Griffin

Faculty Books and Book Contributions

In EMIGRES: Lost in a Sea of Ignorance, Prof. Griffin states that austerity grips western nations, where governments spend paltry sums on welfare, refugees, and migrants. In his essay, Griffin parses a trove of knowledge about welfare and what's being done for needy people. There is a recounting of an Irish case, a report on spectacles in the US, and a narrative about the troubles in Europe stirred-up by Syrian refugees.


International Arbitration: Demographics, Precision And Justice, Susan Franck, James Freda, Kellen Lavin, Tobias A. Lehmann, Anne Van Aaken May 2015

International Arbitration: Demographics, Precision And Justice, Susan Franck, James Freda, Kellen Lavin, Tobias A. Lehmann, Anne Van Aaken

Contributions to Books

ICCA Congress Series No. 18 comprises the proceedings of the twenty-second Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), held in Miami in 2014. The articles by leading arbitration practitioners and scholars from around the world address the challenges, both perceived and real, to the legitimacy of international arbitration.

The volume focusses on the twin pillars of legitimacy: justice, in procedure and outcome, and precision at every phase of the proceedings. Contributions on justice explore issues related to diversity, fairness and whether arbitral institutions can do more to foster legitimacy – based on the responses of nine international arbitral …


Impact: Collected Essays On The Threat Of Economic Inequality., New York Law School. Impact For Public Interest Law And The Racial Justice Project. Jan 2015

Impact: Collected Essays On The Threat Of Economic Inequality., New York Law School. Impact For Public Interest Law And The Racial Justice Project.

Racial Justice Project

On April 17, 2015, the Impact Center for Public Interest Law at New York Law School hosted a symposium entitled "Tackling Economic Inequality" to bring together policymakers, advocates, academics, and community members to explore some of the causes and solutions to this growing problem. The essays collected in this volume, written by leading social justice advocates, are published to stimulate continued conversation on this critically important issue.


Volume 88, Issue 2 (2014) Sep 2014

Volume 88, Issue 2 (2014)

Obiter Dicta

No abstract provided.


The Santa Clara,2014-02-20, Santa Clara University Feb 2014

The Santa Clara,2014-02-20, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 56 Number 1, Fall 2014, Santa Clara University Jan 2014

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 56 Number 1, Fall 2014, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

14 - HEARING THE CRY OF THE POOR: The Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador by Ron Hansen M.A. ’95. Their murder in November 1989 marked a turning point in the country’s civil war. What do they have to say to us now?

25 - THE OPEN WINDOW by Lucía Cerna. A first-person account by the housekeeper in the Jesuit community at the University of Central America. She witnessed the killing of six Jesuits by government soldiers, and telling the truth about that night cost her dearly.

29 - WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR? By Mary Jo (Hull) Ignoffo ’78. The …


The Santa Clara, 2013-10-31, Santa Clara University Oct 2013

The Santa Clara, 2013-10-31, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.


Unshared Bounty: How Structural Racism Contributes To The Creation And Persistence Of Food Deserts. (With American Civil Liberties Union)., New York Law School Racial Justice Project. Jun 2012

Unshared Bounty: How Structural Racism Contributes To The Creation And Persistence Of Food Deserts. (With American Civil Liberties Union)., New York Law School Racial Justice Project.

Racial Justice Project

No abstract provided.


The Cross Examiner, Seton Hall University School Of Law Mar 2012

The Cross Examiner, Seton Hall University School Of Law

Newspapers

No abstract provided.


Motions 2011 Volume 48 Number 1, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association Sep 2011

Motions 2011 Volume 48 Number 1, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.