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From Bards To Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want From Ancient Times To The World Wide Web, Stephen Maurer

Stephen M. Maurer

Copyright theorists often ask how incentives can be designed to create better books, movies, and art. But this is not the whole story. As the Roman satirist Martial pointed out two thousand years ago, markets routinely ignore good and even excellent works. The insight reminds us that incentives to find content are just as necessary as incentives to make it. Recent social science research explains why markets fail and how timely interventions can save deserving titles from oblivion. This article reviews society’s long struggle to fix the vagaries of search since the invention of literature. We build on this history …

How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

No abstract provided.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 26: What We Know About Police Crime, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features a presentation by Phil Stinson at the Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University on November 4, 2015.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 25: Violence By School Resource Officers, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features an interview of Phil Stinson on WURD AM900 Radio in Philadelphia, PA on October 28, 2015.

The Economics Of Shale Gas Development, Charles F. Mason, Lucija A. Muehlenbachs, Sheila M. Olmstead

Charles F Mason

No abstract provided.

Happy Halloween Song For My Grandchildren, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

No abstract provided.

Noble Learning Resource Center - A Community Learning Space, Christine Willis

Christine Willis

Criminalizing The State, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud, Associate Professor, Osgood Hall Law School speaks about political theory and criminal law, asking the underexplored question of whether the state, as opposed to its individual members, can intelligibly and legitimately be criminalized, with a specific focus on the possibility of its domestic criminalization. He identifies the core objections to the criminalization of states, for example, objections to the condemnation and punishment of the state, as a result of a suitably ‘criminal’ process of public accountability, for the culpable perpetration of legal wrongs. He then investigate ways in which these objections can be challenged.

Islamic Legal Theory And The Legitimacy Of Secular Positive Law: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient For The Islamic Legal Maqsad ('Ultimate Objective') Of Hifz Al-Din ('Preserving Religion')?, Andrew March, Mohamad Al-Hakim, Michael Giudice, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, examines some treatments of the meaning and extension of the Islamic legal purpose (maqad) of protecting religion (hifz al-din), with an eye towards Islamic legal theorists’ explicit or implicit encounter with modern liberal and secularist understandings of what it means to “protect religion.”

Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim, York University, Philosophy.

Crime And The Distribution Of Security, Victor Tadros, Susan Dimock, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Victor Tadros, University of Warwick, speaks about a theory of criminalization and constraints on conduct. He considers the application of the harm principle and suggests that in addition to this harm constraint a wrongfulness constraint and a punishment constraint could also be considered. He also investigates the principles that govern decisions around the criminalization of conduct.

Emergency Powers And Constitutional Theory, Victor V. Ramraj, François Tanguay-Renaud, Michael Guidice

François Tanguay-Renaud

Drawing on the experiences of aspiring constitutional orders in Southeast Asia (East Timor, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand) with emergency powers, Victor V. Ramraj, National University of Singapore, seeks to shift the attention of constitutional theorists away from parochial debates, towards an understanding of constitutional theory and emergency powers that extends beyond the familiar domain of liberal democracies.

respondent: François Tanguay-Renaud Osgoode

Contra Politanism: Against The Moral Teleology Of Political Forms, Jacob T. Levy, Stefan Sciaraffa, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Jacob T. Levy, Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory Professor of Political Science Associate member, Department of Philosophy, McGill University, talks about forms of political organization, moral purposes, and the influence of social technologies.

Respondent: Stefan Sciaraffa, McMaster University

Four Concepts Of Validity: Further Reflections On The Inclusive/Exclusive Positivism Debate, Will Waluchow, Leslie Green, Michael Guidice, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Wil Waluchow, McMaster University, discusses four concepts of legal validity and how these might help understand the role of constitutional moral tests for legal validity.

Respondent: Les Green Osgoode Hall Law School/Oxford University

Books Are Dead: Long Live Books!, Douglas Pepper, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

Douglas Pepper, VP at Random House Canada and Publisher at Signal/McClelland & Stewart, speaks about the publishing industry and the future of books and reading.

Confidential Sources: The Public Interest In Keeping Secrets, Brian Rogers, Kevin Donovan, Gail C. Cove, Jamie Cameron, Julian Sher

Jamie Cameron

"Confidential sources: The public interest in keeping secrets What is different about confidential newsgathering sources? Why is it in the public interest to protect these sources, and when is it more important to know who they are? How do shield laws work in the US, and who should set the rules for confidential sources -- the courts or the legislatures?"

Us Military Cargo Drop In Syria: A Time Bomb On War On Terror, Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba

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Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 21: Police Crime: Grand Juries, Juries And Conviction Of Officers, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features an interview of Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Phil Stinson on the Kelley and Company radio show from 710 KNUS News Talk Radio in Denver, Colorado on December 9, 2014.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 20: Constitutional Torts, Section 1983, And Police Misconduct: Presentation At 2014 Asc Conference, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

The purpose of this study is to explore whether being named as a party-defendant in federal civil rights litigation is correlated with other types of police misconduct. As part of a larger study of police officers who were arrested during the years 2005-2011, the names of each officer arrested (N = 5,545) were cross-checked against the master name index in the federal court Public Access to Courts Electronic Records (PACER) system. The findings indicate that more than one-fifth of the arrested officers (22.2%, n = 1,232) were named as a party-defendant in one or more federal court civil actions pursuant …

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 22: Research On Crimes Committed By Sworn Police Officers, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features an interview of Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Phil Stinson by Steve Kendall on the WBGU TV public affairs show NW Ohio Journal.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 23: Police Shootings In Albuquerque, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features an interview of Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor Phil Stinson on the NPR radio show Here and Now that originally aired on January 15, 2015.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 24: Police Crime In America: Phil Stinson At Porcfest 2015, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

This episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features the presentation of Phil Stinson at Porcfest, the Porcupine Freedom Festival of the Free State Project in Lancaster, New Hampshire on June 27, 2015. The audio recording was produced by Vibrant Works and is used by permission from the Free State Project.

Police Integrity Lost Podcast Episode 19: Gun-Involved Police Crime Arrests, Philip M. Stinson

Philip M Stinson

Hard statistics on police officers arrested for crimes related to on-duty shootings. In this episode of the Police Integrity Lost, Bowling Green State University criminal justice Professor Phil Stinson discusses his data on gun-involved police crime arrests.

Faith Doesn't Justify Discrimination Against Women, Eric Segall

Eric J. Segall

No abstract provided.

On The Strategic Use Of Border Tax Adjustments As A Second-Best Climate Policy Measure, Charles F. Mason, Edward B. Barbier, Victoria Umanskaya

Charles F Mason

No abstract provided.

Todd Swanstrom On "Rebound" Neighborhoods, Todd Swanstrom

Todd Swanstrom

Lunch -- Keynote Speakers -- Devon W. Carbado And Russell K. Robinson, Ucla School Of Law, Devon W. Carbado, Russell K. Robinson

Russell K Robinson

No abstract provided.

Ex Ante Cost Benefit Analysis Of Community-Based Drr Interventions In The Caribbean, Meenakshi Jerath, Juan Pablo Sarmiento

Meenakshi Jerath

Women Managers And The Gender-Based Gap In Access To Education: Evidence From Firm-Level Data In Developing Countries, Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam

Mohammad Amin

A number of studies explore the differences in men and women’s labor market participation rates and wages. Some of these differences have been linked to gender disparities in education attainment and access. The present paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the relationship between the proclivity of a firm having a top woman manager and access to education among women relative to men in the country. We combine the literature on women’s careers in management, which has mostly focused on developed countries, with the development literature that has emphasized the importance of access to education. Using firm-level data for 73 …

Are Large Informal Firms More Productive Than The Small Informal Firms? Evidence From Firm-Level Surveys In Africa, Mohammad Amin, Asif Islam

Mohammad Amin

Using data for over 500 informal or unregistered firms in seven countries in Africa, this study explores how labor productivity varies between small and large informal firms. We find robust evidence that small informal firms have higher labor productivity than large informal firms. Thus, even though poor performance of informal firms is typically attributed to their small size vis-à-vis registered or formal sector firms, incremental increases in the size of informal firms does not necessarily imply a narrowing of the formal-informal firm productivity gap.

The Debate On China’S Grand Strategy, Lukas K. Danner

Dr. Lukas K. Danner

No abstract provided.