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The News Media And The “Clash Of Civilizations”, Philip Seib

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Section 1: Moot Court, Roper V. Simmons, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

No abstract provided.

Hollins Columns (2004 Oct 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Sports teams better than ever in last seasons
• Students' political interest increases
• Creation of center affords new opportunities
• New and improved ADA back on campus
• HUUYA brings new religious views to campus
• New class of 2008 officers have high hopes
• Life in the not-so-express lane
• That's the way I've always heard it should be
• Dear Editors: Apathy isn't the main problem
• Dear Editors: Freya still active on campus
• Dear Editors: It's like, peace and love dude!
• New soccer coach makes welcome improvements
• Anna Copplestone named Athlete of the Week

…Of Cabbages And Kings. October, 2004, Emeriti Society, University Of The Pacific

Emeriti Newsletter: "...Of Cabbages and Kings"

"...Of Cabbages and Kings" is the newsletter of the University of the Pacific Emeriti Society. Read more about the Emeriti Society of Pacific by clicking here.

Networker 2004 Fall Issue, Commission For Women

The Networker

No abstract provided.

Mgm V. Grokster, Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

This brief makes three aguments against copyright liability for Grokster. First, Petitioners’ request to close down offending technology is not supported by clear statutory authority. While the Court has power to create common law, in an area, such as this, where Congress has enacted detailed statutes, the Court’s common law power is minimal. Title 17 U.S.C. § 1201(c)(2) does not delegate authority for the Court to promulgate new common law. Second, In the absence of congressional action, the Copyright Clause of the Constitution sets the default position as a public right of access to copyrightable and patentable subject matter. The …

The Newsletter (Fall 2004), Pam Mccann, Maine Speakout Project

Newsletter / Maine Speakout Project (2004)

No abstract provided.

The Elusive Common Good: Religion And Civil Society In Massachusets: 1780-1833, Johann N. Neem

History Faculty and Staff Publications

In 1810, Theophilus Parsons, the Federalist chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, argued that the state need not recognize voluntary churches, calling the idea "too absurd to be admitted." In contrast, the modern idea of civil society is premised on the right of individual citizens to associate and for their institutions to gain the legal privileges connected with incorporation.' Federalists did not share this idea. They believed that in a republic the people's interests and the state's interests were the same, since voters elected their own rulers. Private groups threatened the Federalists' vision by dividing the population. The freedom …

The Birth Of A Nation As American Myth, Richard Salter

Journal of Religion & Film

The Birth of a Nation was one of the most important films of all time, both for its technical and aesthetic achievements and for its enduring legacy of racism. This paper uses Bruce Lincoln's approach to myth as a form of discourse and Robert Bellah's notion of civil religion to show how Birth might be understood as a mythic component of American civil religion. From this perspective, Birth serves as a paradigmatic story of American origins rooted in ideas of white supremacy. At the end of the article Oscar Micheaux's work, Within our Gates, is used to briefly demonstrate filmic …

Bönker, Müller, & Pickel's “Towards A New Paradigm In Transitology Postcommunist Transformation And The Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches" - Book Review, Boyka Stefanova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Fall 2004, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction, Kim Lane Scheppele

All Faculty Scholarship

Constitutional ethnography is the study of the central legal elements of polities using methods that are capable of recovering the lived detail of the politico-legal landscape. This article provides an introduction to this sort of study by contrasting constitutional ethnography with multivariate analysis and with nationalist constitutional analysis. The article advocates not a universal one-size-fits-all theory or an elegant model that abstracts away the distinctive, but instead outlines an approach that can identify a set of repertoires found in real cases. Learning the set of repertoires that constitutional ethnography reveals, one can see more deeply into particular cases. Constitutional ethnography …

Generic Constitutional Law, David S. Law

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

This paper seeks to articulate and explore the emerging phenomenon of generic constitutional law, here and in other countries. Several explanations are offered for this development. First, constitutional courts face common normative concerns pertaining to countermajoritarianism and, as a result, experience a common need to justify judicial review. These concerns, and the stock responses that courts have developed, amount to a body of generic constitutional theory. Second, courts employ common problem-solving skills in constitutional cases. The use of these skills constitutes what might be called generic constitutional analysis. Third, courts face overlapping influences, largely not of their own making, that …

Creating Rights In The Age Of Global Governance: Mental Maps And Strategic Interests In Europe, Francesca Bignami

ExpressO

This Article takes a first step towards developing a positive theory of rights in institutions of global governance through a study of the European Commission, one of the oldest and most powerful international organizations in existence today. I draw on the extensive political science theory on the European Union, in particular historical institutionalism, to explain the constellation of rights that European citizens are guaranteed today in their relations with their executive branch. Rights against government were created in three phases, each of which was the product of a strategic move by one or more European institutions to preserve authority in …

Iwu News Advisory, Leslie Boelter

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Judges As Cosmopolitan Transnational Actors, Paul Schiff Berman

Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law

No abstract provided.

Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

Managerial Knowledge As Property: The Role Of Universities, Raza Mir, Ali Mir, Nidhi Srinivas

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

Sexual Orientation: Testing The Universality Of International Human Rights Law, Holning Lau

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Director Of Amnesty International To Speak On Human Rights, Taylar Kuzinar

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Fabricating Community: Local, National And Global In Three Indian Novels, Paul Sharrad

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Reviews Bill Ashcroft's 'Postcolonial Transformations' arguing for a postcolonial consideration of spaces of negotiation beyond the textual in an era of globalisation. Taking the figure of textiles, this argument is illustrated using Amitav Ghosh's 'The Circle of Reason', Raja Rao's 'Kanthapura', and Rohinton Mistry's 'A Fine Balance'. Mention is also made of K.S. Maniam's 'The Return' and M.G. Vassanji's 'The Gunny Sack'.

Institutionalizing Gender And Sexuality In A Call-In Radio Advice Program: A Characterization Of Loveline, Meagan P. Storey

English Theses & Dissertations

Previous studies of advice characterized it as a discourse in which authority is afforded to the giver by virtue of being asked for advice. As an authoritative discourse, advice sets the standards by which interlocutors base their judgments of normalcy. The consequences of these judgments are multiplied when advice is given as part of public, institutional talk, such as with radio call-in programs. This thesis examines how the authoritative discourse of global advice (public, commercial advice) is used to construct and normalize human experiences, specifically gender and sexuality. This study is based on an analysis of ten audio-taped episodes, each …

Reflections On The Contemporary Religious "Revival" Religion, Secularization, Globalization, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Constructions Of Female Identities In Mary Gordon's The Other Side And Maureen Howard's Before My Time, Neli Gogovska

Theses and Dissertations

In Women's Time Kristeva designates three broad currents of feminist struggle: first, the suffragist movement declaring a universalist view of women's experience regardless of class, age, and cultures; second, the phase of difference, that she regards as "returning to an archaic (mythic) memory as well as cyclical or monumental temporality of marginal movements" (355); and third, a trend that she wholeheartedly supports for their concept that "the dichotomy of man and woman as an opposition of two rival entities is a problem of metaphysics" (366).

This thesis discusses Howard and Gordon as proponents of the second phase because they write …

“Disposable” Labourer Vs. Active Learner: Learning For Foreign Contingent Workers, Romee Lee

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper argues for the need to conceptualize foreign contingent workers as legitimate adult learners. By looking critically at adult learning for these workers we can begin to discuss the importance of supported adult learning. This focus contributes to the formation of a just society where every group of learners’ communicative actions are supported and not infringed upon by oppressive structural power.

Mormon Growth And Practices: Christian Theological Reflections, Patrick R. Keifert

Faculty Publications

Mormonism, despite its manifest departures from orthodox Christian faith, models practices of relating faith and everyday life that can be significantly instructive for Christian congregations.

Comparative Constitutional Reasoning: The Law And Strategy Of Selecting The Right Arguments, Taavi Annus

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

Singing With Pride, Buffalo Gay Mens Chorus

Programs

The contemporary American teLevision industry may give the mistaken impression of having invented the gay sensibility with Queer as Folk and Six Feet Under. It might come as a surprise to a contemporary-driven media that American and European film narratives about gays before the nineties do have a history and include such classics as Suddenly Last Summer, Midnight Cowboy, Cruising, Death in Venice, Prick Up Your Ears, Taxi zum Klo, and many others. And gay art films from other cultures have far outpaced the American mainstream's need not to be shocked by nontraditional sexual behavior with the more recent portrayals …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 31, No. 2 (June 2004)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• WORK-BASED WELFARE AS RITUAL: UNDERSTANDING MARGINALIZATION IN POST-INDEPENDENCE-LITHUANIA - Arunas Juska & Richard Pozzuto
• MAKING TANF WORK: ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING, STAFF BUY-IN, AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION - Frank Ridzi
• LEGISLATIVE CASEWORK: WHERE POLICY AND PRACTICE MEET - Larry Ortiz, Cindy Wirz, Kelli Semion, & Ciro Rodriguez
• "WON'T BE WEIGHTED DOWN": RICHARD WRIGHT JR.'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE - Kevin Modesto
• DIGITAL DIVIDE IN COMPUTER ACCESS AND USE BETWEEN POOR AND NON-POOR YOUTH - Mary Keegan Eamon
• BATTERED AND ON WELFARE: THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION - Judy L. Postmus …

Should Law Professors Teach Public Choice Theory?, Guido Pincione

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article argues that various philosophically interesting objections to the use of public choice theory in legal education are misguided. Some writers hold that public choice theory, being descriptive, cannot help law students develop the interpretive skills needed by judges and lawyers. I reply that this objection rests on the false assumption that public choice theory lacks resources to accommodate rule following. Others object that public choice theory fosters cynicism and uncooperative attitudes. This rests on an unduly restrictive conception of the theory of rationality presupposed by public choice analysis. The public-choice focus on efficiency has also been disputed. In …