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The Key To Acquiring The Language Of Law, Science, And Technology In The Esl College Classroom, Patricia George-Hunter

Journal of English Learner Education

Since vocabulary plays a significant role in second language acquisition, expansive vocabulary targets should be set and pursued. This paper explores the results of introducing affixes to develop vocabulary and increase motivation for beginner to intermediate-level English language learners (ELLs) pursuing academic disciplines in law, science, and technology at a New York City community college. Participants included 23 ELLs with diverse linguistic, educational, and sociocultural backgrounds enrolled in an online synchronous Integrative Language Seminar (ILS) designed to develop all areas of English language proficiency. Pre‑, post‑, delayed tests, questionnaires, and post‑intervention interviews were conducted and analyzed to establish the language …

Press Release: Elisabeth Haub School Of Law At Pace University Honored Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. During Social Justice Week, Shannon Thyberg

Social Justice Week

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, in partnership with New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and other dignitaries, on Wednesday honored the life and legacy of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., a retired Marine and Westchester County corrections officer, with the dedication of the Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Social Justice Reading Room.

The original article can be viewed here

As Above So Below: Vesting Pore Space Ownership With The Rights Of The Surface Estate, Shane D. Puente

Arkansas Law Notes

In 2023, the United States emitted an estimated total of 4,807 million metric tons (“MMTs”) of Carbon dioxide, with only a 0.2% decrease in 2024. These figures are simply not up for debate. What is often debated, however, is how (and if) the U.S. should be tackling these carbon emissions. Many would argue that the U.S. must increase its reliance on renewable energy and decrease its consumption of fossil fuels, which are major contributors of Carbon Dioxide and other Green House Gas (“GHG”) emissions. Others would argue that the best way to limit carbon emissions is to implement some form …

A Core Proposal For Budget Caring - Will The E.U. Adopt A Progressive Corporate Tax?, Domenico Imparato, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

Articles

On 16 July 2025, the European Commission unveiled its proposed EU budget for the 2028–2034 period, representing a nearly EUR two trillion fiscal commitment for the bloc’s taxpayers – both individual and corporate. As leaked by some media outlets in the days leading up to the official announcement, the EU budget would introduce a new mechanism known as the ‘Corporate Resource for Europe’ (CORE). In the Commission’s proposal, CORE is described as a ‘financial contribution’ from the corporate sector, intended to become part of the European Union’s system of own resources. In practical terms, however, it would function as a …

Formalism In Jewish Law, Chaim Saiman

Faculty Publications

Scholars differ as to the degree to which Jewish law is formalistic. This chapter aims to make sense of the debate surrounding formalism in Jewish law by distinguishing between three types of legal formalism: classic formalism, modern formalism, and detail-following formalism. Viewed through the lens of modern formalism, Jewish law is likely less formalistic than commonly assumed as it is not primarily concerned with constraining decision makers. Nor is Jewish legal discourse typified by its unified conceptual schemas that proceed from abstract concepts to bottom-line decisions in the way that classical formalism proceeds. This chapter introduces an alternative framing termed …

Why Aviation Fuel Remains Untaxed: Legal Barriers To Aviation Fuel Taxation, Giedre Lideikyte Huber

Pace Environmental Law Review

Aviation fuel remains largely untaxed worldwide, despite the sector’s growing contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. This article examines the legal foundations of this exemption and argues that it results less from fiscal necessity than from historical international law and institutional inertia. The Chicago Convention (1944), subsequent ICAO policy instruments, and a dense network of air service agreements have collectively constrained states’ ability to tax aviation fuel, a stance reinforced by the delegation of aviation emissions to ICAO under the Kyoto Protocol. A comparative analysis of the European Union, Switzerland, and the United States shows that domestic frameworks replicate these …

Environmental Tax Incentives: Lessons From The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (So Far), Genevieve A. Tokić

Pace Environmental Law Review

In 2022, the United States enacted the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”), which President Biden touted as the most significant action the U.S. Congress has ever taken on clean energy and climate change. It is the primary governmental effort taken to date in furtherance of the United States’s commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (“GHGs”) under the Paris Climate Agreement. The primary tools used by the IRA are tax incentives, implemented through changes to the Tax Code that expand existing tax credits and, in some cases, create new ones. An additional important feature of the IRA is the introduction of a …

Understanding Output-Based Pricing Systems, Wei Cui

Pace Environmental Law Review

In recent years, Canada has implemented a distinctive carbon pricing regime, known as “output-based pricing systems” (OBPS), to incentivize emission reductions for large industrial facilities. This regime has come under heightened scrutiny as a more general carbon tax, the federal fuel charge, was cancelled in 2025 due to political controversy. However, OBPS regimes have received no prior economic analysis; commentators have mostly criticized the weakness of the emission trading markets within them. This article argues that OBPS should be viewed as primarily implementing a carbon tax with an intensity-based exemption. OBPS further introduces emissions trading into this carbon tax regime, …

Seven Ways Of Looking At The Climate Crisis, Bridget J. Crawford

Pace Environmental Law Review

This essay introduces the symposium issue of the Pace Environmental Law Review featuring seven works written in connection with the March 2025 conference on “Taxation, the Environment, and Climate Change.” This essay identifies and explores three common themes in the articles: (1) the role of taxation in environmental protection, (2) the tax law’s impact on human behavior, and (3) the optimal design for tax laws to mitigate climate change. This essay also sketches a few possible directions for future scholarship at the intersection of taxation and environmental law. It concludes by emphasizing the need for lawyers, lawmakers, policymakers, and advocates …

A Shield For Whom? The Disastrous Hidden Toll Of Section 230 On Children, Dominic Roschival

University of Cincinnati Law Review

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Judging Bankruptcy Without Distress, Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld

University of Cincinnati Law Review

In Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the United States Supreme Court rejected the bankruptcy plan of OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma, which purported to settle claims against both Purdue (the bankruptcy debtor) and Purdue’s individual owners and managers, all members of the Sackler family who had not themselves filed for bankruptcy (the Sackler Release). Concluding that the United States Bankruptcy Code does not authorize settlement of claims against non-debtors without claimant consent, the Harrington Court appeared set to stem the tide of “bankruptcy without distress,” a flourishing practice in which solvent non-debtors (like the Sacklers) would settle their liabilities within the …

Should We Watch The Watcher Or The Watched? The Transparency Debate In Auditor Regulation, Sarah Williams

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Death & Taxes: Preserving The Second Amendment From "Absolute Obliteration" With Congress' Powers Of Taxation?, Christian Ketter

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Brief Of Amicus Curiae Lindsay And Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellant, John A. Meiser, Meredith Holland Kessler

Court Briefs

No. 25-5641
Roderick E. Theis, II v. InterMountain Education Service District Board of Directors

On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
No. 2:25-cv-00865-HL

From the Introduction

The First Amendment promises religious believers, of all faiths, the right “to participate on equal terms” in public life. Rosenberger v. Rector & Visitors of Univ. of Va., 515 U.S. 819, 852–53 (1995) (Thomas, J., concurring). The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected the idea that individuals sacrifice those rights by accepting government employment. See, e.g., Pickering v. Bd. of Educ. of Twp. High Sch. Dist. 205, …

Cardozo Law News Briefs: October 24, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the October 24, 2025 Cardozo Law News Brief include:

Professors Reinert, Codrington III, Ingber, Vishnubhakat, Roth, Wansley, Rona, and Zelinsky were featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, TIME, Washington Post, HuffPost, ABC News, CNN, and Wall Street Journal on topics such as ICE enforcement, Voting Rights Act challenges, Amazon Web Services outages, and Tesla’s self-driving technology.

Faculty news includes:

• Professor Rebecca Ingber discussed U.S. military strikes on podcasts and will speak at International Law Weekend 2025.

• Professor Young Ran (Christine) Kim presented her book The International Tax Revolution …

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Interest Rates, Venture Capital, & Financial Stability, Hilary J. Allen

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

As central banks tightened interest rates during 2022 and 2023, important debates arose regarding the relationship between monetary policy and financial stability. This Article illuminates one path through which the prolonged period of accommodative monetary policy from 2009-2021 impacted financial stability: it traces how easy money and yield-seeking behavior in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic led to a bubble in the venture capital industry, which in turn spawned a crypto bubble as well as a run on the VC-favored Silicon Valley Bank. This Article uses this account to illustrate the importance of proactive financial regulation …

Classification Of The Armed Conflicts In The Near East, Marco Sassòli

International Law Studies

This article explores the proper classification of Israel’s current conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah as international or non-international armed conflicts. It discusses the different possibilities of how the international humanitarian law of international or non-international armed conflict applies to those conflicts and whether and to what extent the international humanitarian law of military occupation applies to the conduct of Israel Defence Forces in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. It also explains why the proper classification of the conflicts still matters and is not only an intellectual exercise for scholars or students. While every conflict has its specifics, the article deals …

Forfeiture Takings, Police Power, And Necessity Destruction, Shelley Ross Saxer

University of Miami Law Review

Civil forfeiture laws allow law enforcement to seize property when there is probable cause it has been used or possessed in violation of legal rules, often before an owner has a chance to contest the government’s seizure in court. In the criminal context, forfeiture is typically an in personam action that requires a criminal conviction and is part of a defendant’s sentence. In the civil context, however, forfeiture is an in rem proceeding brought against the property derived from or used to commit an offense––not against the person who committed the offense. As such, a civil forfeiture may not require …

Money And Federalism, Dan Awrey

Duke Law Journal

The United States is the only country in the world in which both federal and state governments possess independent and yet overlapping authority for bank chartering, regulation, and supervision. The roots of this unique "dual" banking system can be traced back to the Constitution, written almost a century before banks rose to the apex of the financial system and became the dominant source of money. Beginning with the landmark Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, this system has been a wellspring of jurisdictional conflict. Yet over time, this highly fragmented and hotly contested system has also produced strong …

The Second Amendment's Catholic Problem, Jared Danaher

Duke Law Journal

After New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, history is the touchstone of Second Amendment analysis. Thus, this Note explores an understudied part of America's long and complicated history with weapons: Catholic disarmament. By undertaking a detailed historical analysis of three Catholic disarmament measures in the late colonial United States, this Note attempts to determine what the history means for present day firearms law. It concludes that even though courts frequently cite America’s history of Catholic disarmament, they rarely use it in a historically accurate way. Modern courts use Catholic disarmament to justify weapons bans on people …

Sticker Shock Due Process, Alex Dougherty Neumann

Duke Law Journal

To address undesirable conduct like infringing a copyright or placing a robocall, legislatures have created statutory causes of action that enable plaintiffs to file private suits. Instead of needing to prove actual damages from a defendant's conduct, many statutory causes of action allow a plaintiff to pursue a predefined damages amount per statutory violation. The damages are known as statutory damages, and their elegance lies in how they scale linearly, or one-to-one, with every violation by a defendant. But in the digital age, where automated technologies can generate millions of violations without human oversight, courts are now confronting monstrous aggregate …

Just Cause Protection Under Manager Discrimination, Joseph Pickens, Aaron Sojourner

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

“Just cause” policies aim to discourage the arbitrary firing of employees. Recent efforts at passing such laws in the U.S. have been motivated by deterring discrimination. This paper presents a framework to study the effects of just cause when managers engage in taste-based discrimination. The framework generates predictions on whether just cause will ease achievement and retention of stable employment by exploiting the timing of separations around a probationary period. Since probationary periods are a typical feature of protections, the approach is generalizable. We test predictions using New York City’s 2021 just cause law for fast-food employees. Using a synthetic …

Unflexed Muscle: Sec Enforcement And Officer Sox Section 302 Certifications, Marc I. Steinberg, A.B. Steinberg

University of Miami Law Review

This Article represents the first work to analyze the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) neglect in its enforcement of the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO) Sarbanes-Oxley certification requirement. The Article addresses the appropriate construction of the statute’s reach, the enforcement proceedings instituted by the SEC under this provision, and the Commission’s failure to fulfill its legislative directive to adequately enforce this statute and Rule 13a-14 promulgated thereunder. In its implementation of the CEO and CFO certification requirement, the SEC has brought relatively few enforcement actions during over a two-decade period. Its enforcement with respect to CEOs …

Personal Jurisdiction And The Declaration Of Independence, Ryan C. Williams

Duke Law Journal

The Declaration of Independence accuses King George III of having "obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers." But despite the seemingly natural resonance of this particular charge with the legal profession, legal scholars have given remarkably little attention to the controversy that provoked this particular complaint. This Article traces the colonists' complaint to a somewhat surprising and unexpected source—a dispute about personal jurisdiction.

During the late eighteenth century, administrative officials responsible for overseeing Britain's North American possessions sought to eliminate the use of the custom of foreign attachment by colonial court systems. …

More Than Words: Using Land Use Rules To Fight Climate Destruction, Edward Sullivan

Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy

It is now unlikely that meaningful federal legislation on climate destruction will be advanced in a second Trump administration. If “no action” is the alternative for the federal government, it will be up to the states to develop measures to counteract this challenge. These measures — in response to a trend in Supreme Court rulings that restrict or deny federal environmental action without explicit congressional approval – could include, among other things, new air and water quality standards, fishing restrictions, and changes to water allocations in our rivers. Yet these potential changes may be themselves limited by federal actions that …

Stare Decisis After The Rejection Of Lockstepping In State Constitutional Law: An Ohio Perspective, Jonathan L. Entin

ConLawNOW

State constitutions contain numerous rights-protecting provisions that are analogous to provisions of the United States Constitution. But lawyers and courts often ignored state constitutions. Even when courts interpreted state constitutions, they often followed an approach known as lockstepping: state constitutional rights were viewed as having the same meaning as analogous federal provisions, even when the state provisions had different wording and were adopted for different purposes at different times than their federal analogues. In recent decades, however, commentators and judges have claimed that state constitutions might afford greater protection to individual rights than the U.S. Constitution. The growth of the …

Ownership Rights To Produced Water In The New Age Of Energy, Timothy Naegele

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Analyzing The Invocation Of The Force Majeure Clause Defense In Natural Gas Contract Dispute, Lindsay Kirkland

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Liability In The Pipeline: The Expanding Scope Of Pfas Litigation And Regulation, Rebecca Huckabay

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Walking On Sunshine: A Survey Of Oklahoma Concurrent Land Use Law And How Accommodation Can Fill In Gaps Revealed By Emerging Solar Energy, Nick Halbroeder

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.