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"First Woman To Lead R.I. State Police Attributes Her Achievement In Part To Portuguese-American Ancestry", Sabrina Brum, Iplws Ric Jul 2017

"First Woman To Lead R.I. State Police Attributes Her Achievement In Part To Portuguese-American Ancestry", Sabrina Brum, Iplws Ric

Elected and Appointed Officials Project

Institute intern Sabrina Brum '19 interviewed Col. Ann C. Assumpico, 13th Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police for the IPLWS Elected and Appointed Officials Project and authored this news article, published on July 7, 2017 by O Jornal/The Herald News of Fall River. The IPLWS is grateful for the assistance of the Rhode Island College's Office of Communications and Marketing.


Germany's Government-Civil Society Development Cooperation Strategy: The Dangers Of The Middle Of The Road, Susan N. Engel Jan 2017

Germany's Government-Civil Society Development Cooperation Strategy: The Dangers Of The Middle Of The Road, Susan N. Engel

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has been busy since the late 2000s studying the way aid donors manage their relations with development civil society organisations (CSOs). More than studying these relations, they have made some very detailed suggestions about how CSOs should be organised and how donor governments should fund and otherwise relate to them. This came out of the debate about aid effectiveness, which was formally aimed at improving both donor and recipient processes. Donors have quietly dropped many of the aspects related to improving their own performance and yet a number have created new interventionist …


What Makes A Social Order Primitive? In Defense Of Hart’S Take On International Law, David Lefkowitz Jan 2017

What Makes A Social Order Primitive? In Defense Of Hart’S Take On International Law, David Lefkowitz

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The widespread antipathy to Hart's description of international law as a simple or primitive social order, one that lacks a rule of recognition and therefore does not qualify as a legal system, rests on two misunderstandings. First, the absence of a division of labor in identifying, altering, applying, and enforcing law is as much, if not more, central to Hart's understanding of what makes a society primitive as is the absence of any secondary rules at all. Second, it is primarily in terms of the presence of such a division of labor and the implications it has for the ontology …