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Law Students' Perspectives On Interdisciplinary Education: A Qualitative Study, Kellie Lockemer

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The purpose of this study was to explore law school students’ perspectives on interdisciplinary social work education. For this qualitative study, a purposive sample of current law students (n = 11) were invited to participate in a survey to give their perspectives on their current education and thoughts on interdisciplinary education. The results showed that, although the clinic work was helpful, most law students did not think traditional law classes helped prepare them for client interactions. The students also expressed an openness and desire for more trainings on client interactions. This study’s findings suggest a need for interdisciplinary trainings to …

Understanding The Utilization Of Community-Based Services In Late Old Age: A Participatory Approach For Connecting Through The Communication Ecology, Carrie Leach

Wayne State University Dissertations

As the pool of eligible recipients continues to grow, understanding service system utilization and barriers can help ensure very old adults can access support from their communities when needed. Mounting research demonstrates that investment in community-based services to ensure seniors remain independent translates to saved government dollars. As a contributing researcher of a multi-year county-wide older adult needs assessment in Monroe County, Michigan, data collected from 1,870 people revealed a communication disjuncture between seniors and service providers. In response, officials convened a post assessment working group that focused on communication and outreach. Along with members of the Community Advisory Group …

Global Lawmakers: International Organizations In The Crafting Of World Markets: Book Review, Melissa (M.J.) Durkee

Scholarship@WashULaw

Susan Block-Lieb and Terence Halliday gradually build up an empirically grounded, meticulously realized argument that individual lawmakers matter. When one allows facts to inform theory rather than the other way around, the authors show, what becomes clear is that individual lawmakers are not just governmental delegates, but a whole variety of professionals, industry association representatives, and others with some stake in the lawmaking process. These actors work not just through formal processes, but also through an array of informal ones. Most importantly, their presence matters to the content of the legal norms that take hold around the world.

The book …

Financial Counseling For Low- And Moderate-Income Employees: An Assessment Of Engagement And Outcomes, Mathieu Despard Phd, Msw, Yingying Zeng Msw, Msp, Sophia Fox-Dichter Msw

Social Policy Institute Research

Employee financial wellness programs (EFWPs) are gaining in popularity as a strategy to address workers' financial challenges and goals beyond offering health and retirement benefits. Most workers say they are stressed about their finances¹ and a third are less productive at work because of this stress.² Although employers are increasingly interested in offering EFWPs, little research has been conducted concerning these workplace financial products and services.

Government Respect For Human Rights And Their Relation To Shadow Economic Activity, Christopher Gahagan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Shadow economic activity can have detrimental effects on many aspects of a society including trust in government policies, quality of public institutions, government revenues, and economic growth. Empirical studies have generally employed a rational actor approach and focused on economic factors. Most studies in this literature claim that when individuals do not receive the right economic stimuli from the government, it damages the relationship between individuals and the state and citizens opt to move into the shadow economy. A small but growing body of research, however, suggests that certain political factors can also lead to shadow economic activity because of …

Protection Against Sexual Violence In The Workplace: Ngo Programs For Access To Justice For Female Migrant Workers In Thailand, Shah Bano

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Sexual violence in the workplace amongst female migrant worker is an under-discussed issue, due to lack of reporting, that needs to be explored in more detail. This paper examined the role of NGOs in providing protection to FMW who are survivors of sexual violence, in Thailand, who want to seek justice. This study used qualitative approach by interviewing 3 people from local NGOs and 3 people from international NGOs working in Thailand that provide services to FMW who have faced sexual violence, to deal with the culturally biased and highly patriarchal criminal justice system. The study shows that regardless of …

บทบาทและความรับผิดชอบของผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายไทยตามหลักสากลว่าด้วยมาตรการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงิน, พรภัทร์ รอดโพธิ์ทอง บุญถนอม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเรื่องบทบาทและความรับผิดชบของผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายไทยตามหลักสากล ว่าด้วยมาตรการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงิน มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาบทบาทหน้าที่ของผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายที่อาจส่งผลต่อการปรับใช้มาตรฐานสากล รวมถึงมาตรการ ระเบียบปฏิบัติ และนโยบายกฎหมายระหว่างประเทศว่าด้วยเรื่องการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงินในส่วนที่เกี่ยวข้องกับผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมาย เพื่อวิเคราะห์ความจำเป็นและความเหมาะสมในการหาแนวทางปฏิบัติของผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายในการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงินให้มีประสิทธิภาพมากยิ่งขึ้น โดยการค้นคว้าเอกสารวิชาการ กฎหมาย แลระเบียบต่างๆประกอบกับการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลจากการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกและการสนทนากลุ่ม เพื่อวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลและหาแนวทางสรุป ผลการวิจัยพบว่าประเทศไทยยังมีความบกพร่องด้านกรอบของกฎหมายตามข้อแนะนำที่ 22 ในส่วนของการกำหนดให้ผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายมีหน้าที่ในการรู้จักตัวตนของลูกความ การตรวจสอบเพื่อทราบข้อเท็จจริง อันจะนำไปสู่การรายงานธุรกรรมที่น่าสงสัย ส่งผลให้มาตรฐานของประเทศไทยอาจไม่สามารถดำเนินการได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพและไม่ทัดเทียมมาตรฐานสากล ซึ่งในการพิจารณากำหนดหน้าที่ดังกล่าว ประเทศไทยจำต้องพิจารณาความเหมาะสมระหว่างสิทธิเสรีภาพของข้อมูลส่วนบุคคลกับหน้าที่การรายงานธุรกรรมและการคำนึงถึงประโยชน์สาธารณะหรือความรับผิดชอบต่อสังคมภายใต้จริยธรรมแห่งวิชาชีพ ดังนั้นการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงินได้อย่างเบ็ดเสร็จนั้น ผู้วิจัยเห็นว่าประเทศไทยควรตรากฎหมายให้ผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายมีหน้าที่ต้องรายงานตามมาตรฐานของ FATF ในส่วนของสภาทนายความควรกำหนดบทบาทหน้าที่ให้ชัดเจนและมีการขึ้นทะเบียนให้ครอบคลุมทุกประเภทของผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมาย เพื่อกำกับดูแลคุณภาพและยกระดับมาตรฐานวิชาชีพ ขณะที่ผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายต้องตระหนักถึงคุณธรรมและจริยธรรมและมีอุดมการณ์ในการให้บริการทางกฎหมาย คำนึงถึงประโยชน์สาธารณะและความรับผิดชอบต่อสังคม และควรมีความรู้ความเข้าใจในความเสี่ยงและความเปราะบางของวิชาชีพที่อาจถูกใช้เป็นเครื่องมือในการฟอกเงิน ทั้งนี้บทบาทหน้าที่ดังกล่าว มิได้เพียงแต่เพื่อแสดงให้เห็นถึงความรับผิดชอบต่อสังคมเท่านั้น แต่เป็นมาตรการที่ผู้ประกอบวิชาชีพกฎหมายได้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการป้องกันและปราบปรามการฟอกเงินอย่างมีประสิทธิภาพและยั่งยืนต่อไป

The Calm After The Storm: 45 Years Of The Aba Young Lawyers Division’S Disaster Legal Services Program, Andrew Jack Vansingel

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Community Lawyering And The Immigration Project: An Ethnographic Study Of Charlotte Alvarez, Kathryn Jefferson

Outstanding Ethnographic Research Projects

Charlotte Alvarez, executive director of the Immigration Project, spends a majority of her time dealing with the consequences of immigration reform on her clients and community. She lives in Bloomington-Normal and splits her time working in the Normal, Champaign, and other satellite offices throughout the state. In addition to immigration, Alvarez is concerned with raising her child bilingually and biculturally. She wants her daughter to grow up being able to communicate with her paternal grandparents and to feel comfortable with both sides of her heritage. Her organization, the Immigration Project works in central and southern Illinois to provide legal services …

Consumer Satisfaction With Aging & Disability Resource Connection Of Oregon: Round 6, Diana L. White, Allyson Stodola

Institute on Aging Publications

This report describes findings from the sixth consumer satisfaction survey conducted with consumers or family members who are served by the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) of Oregon, focusing on Call Center staff (or Information, Referral and Assistance; IR&A) and recipients of options counseling services. The Institute on Aging at Portland State University directed the project, partnering with Washington State University Social & Economic Research Center, who conducted the telephone survey between February 27 and April 5, 2019.

Three Essays On The Economics Of Public Libraries, Amir Borges Ferreira Neto

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation explores empirical issues concerning public libraries in the United States. In particular, it analyzes the direct and indirect effects to and from public libraries, on different issues such as charitable donations, labor market outcomes, institutions and technical efficiency. Chapter 1 discusses the economics of public libraries and its relevance. In addition, it provides an outline of the dissertation and its main contribution to the literature. Chapter 2, analyzes the determinants of donations to public libraries testing the crowding effect from government funding of public libraries. I find suggestive results of a crowd in effect with an inverted U …

Building Bridges: Examining Race And Privilege In Community Economic Development: Introductory Overview, Priya Baskaran, Renee Hatcher, Lynnise E. Pantin

Faculty Scholarship

The country has been in economic recovery since the Great Recession in 2007. Home prices have since stabilized after the mortgage and foreclosure crisis that followed the Recession. In late 2017, the federal government passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, leading to a surge in corporate earnings. As of the time of this writing, major stock indicators are at all-time highs, and interest rates are low. But corporate indicators and interest rates do not paint the entire picture. Most of the economic recovery is in affluent, predominately white parts of the country, while distressed areas inhabited by people of …

Public Officials' Defense Of Bribery As A Culturally Acceptable Behavior In Ghana, Agyena Osei Joseph

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The prevalence of bribery in Ghana has increased significantly since the mid-2000s and has received considerable attention in both local and international media, as well as among empirical researchers. Although researchers have examined factors that influence the giving and acceptance of bribes in Ghana, limited theoretical research exists concerning the ways public officials in Ghana defend their corrupt behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine ways bribees in Ghana defend their illegal actions, using Sykes and Matza’s neutralization theory. Data were collected from telephone interviews with 11 Ghanaian public officials who have served sentences for bribery; their statements …

The Working Public’S Perceptions Of Service Dogs: A Phenomenological Investigation Of Gatekeepers’ Experiences, Angela M. Dial

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to capture the essence of the working public’s experiences with, and perceptions of service dogs. The population for the study was the working public of Kentucky, who through their employment, have experienced first-hand the phenomenon. A phenomenological framework informed the research design. In-depth, unstructured interviews were conducted to obtain data. Interview transcriptions were analyzed according to suggestions from Moustakas (1994) and Hycner (1985) regarding phenomenological research. The results of this research study naturally formed into five themes. Findings showed prevalent misunderstandings, confusion and lack of knowledge regarding service dogs, including how to identify a …

Three Essays On Urban Consumer Service Firms: Evidence From Yelp, Josh Matti

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation explores questions related to consumer services using Yelp data from the Phoenix area. Chapter 1 explores competition. Competition is a key feature of the market process assumed to improve market outcomes. But how strong is the relationship between competition and positive consumer experiences, and how does the relationship vary across space? This chapter explores these questions by exploiting Yelp data from thousands of restaurants in the Phoenix area. After controlling for restaurant characteristics, census tract level demographics, census tract fixed effects, and sub-industry fixed effects, the results are consistent with spatial competition positively affecting consumer experiences. Chapter 2 …

Trial By Water: Reflections On Superstorm Sandy, Thomas Maligno, Benjamin Rajotte

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Disaster Legal Tech: Strategies For Providing Legal Information To Survivors, Jeanne Ortiz-Ortiz, Jessica Penkoff

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prescribing The Impossible: State Ideals Of Intensive Parenting, Francesca Vescia

Sociology Honors Projects

The state is a powerful force in private life; families that challenge its framework face erasure or sanction. From what ideals do these families deviate? This paper investigates that question in relation to childrearing. Through a content analysis of three court-approved parenting courses for separating or divorcing parents, I explore what constitutes proper parenting in the eyes of the state. Drawing from the literature on ideologies of family and self, I find courses 1) make efforts to explicitly challenge dominant ideologies of family and parenting while implicitly naturalizing them and 2) grapple to reconcile the logics of intensive parenting and …

Offset: How The Government Improperly Takes Money From The Disabled, Carmen Reinicke

Capstones

The US Department of Education is supposed to use its computers to match its borrowers who now suffer from total permanent disabilities based on Social Security or Veteran Administration rolls. If the borrower has been disabled for more than five consecutive years, then deductions for unpaid student loans are supposed to cease.

A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, a federal agency that reviews government work, shows that the program, now a computerized system that matches Social Security numbers, fails to identify thousands of individuals who deserve student debt relief.

Link: https://medium.com/@careinicke/offset-how-the-government-improperly-takes-money-from-the-disabled-8928cd556f93

Community Support Systems For Reentering Young Adults, Samantha Staffin

Honors Scholar Theses

Young adults reentering into society after incarceration encounter a variety of obstacles that make their transition particularly difficult. Recidivism is a threat that becomes increasingly present in an environment that has negative societal pressures. In consideration of this, the presence of a healthy community support system is crucial for this population. In depth interviews were conducted with seven young adult participants of the Reentry Program at Our Piece of the Pie, Incorporated (OPP) to determine the quality of their current community support systems. Based on the information collected from interviews, it is evident that the full needs of the population …

Project Renew Worcester, Danni Yue, Amy Zhang, Jing Han, Omid Ashrafi, Yiming Xu

School of Professional Studies

n The client for this capstone project is RENEW Worcester which is a fledgling solar power project whose main goals are to bring renewable energy in the form of solar power into local, primarily low-income communities and are committed to the mission of making the transition off of fossil fuels to clean, renewable power. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts, they are a local chapter of Co-op Power which is a consumer-owned sustainable energy cooperative (co-op) made up of numerous different local chapters all over the New England area as well as the state of New York. The problem that we will …

China’S Belt And Road Initiative And Asean’S Maritime Cluster, Hans-Dieter Evers, Thomas Menkhoff

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

This paper centres around China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and makes a case for further examining the possible effects of the complementary ‘Maritime Silk Road’ on Southeast Asia’s maritime clusters with reference to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Port development with “Chinese engagement” from Port Klang in Malaysia to Sri Lanka to Gwadar in Pakistan to some Gulf state ports to Piraeus in Greece provides a string of valuable pearls in the form of harbours from which adjoining areas can be serviced through feeder vessels or railway lines by Chinese government-linked companies. Whether China’s heavy investments in land and maritime …

The Relevance Of Fatf's Recommendations And Fourth Round Of Mutual Evaluations To The Legal Profession, Laurel S. Terry, Llerena Robles, Jose Carlos

Faculty Scholarly Works

More than two hundred countriesin the world have agreed to abide by the anti-money laundering ("AML") recommendations developed by the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF"), which is an intergovernmental organization. This Article focuses on the potential impact on the legal profession of FATF's fourth round of mutual evaluations. During these mutual evaluations, which currently are underway, FATF-affiliated countries examine each other's compliance with the FATF Recommendations and recommend follow-up action. This Article first presents the legal profession-related results from the completed Mutual Evaluation Reports. A number of these FATF Reports recommend changes that include requiring lawyers to report suspicious client …

Breaking The Silence: Holding Texas Lawyers Accountable For Sexual Harassment, Savannah Files

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

Following the 2017 exposure of Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo movement spread rapidly across social media platforms calling for increased awareness of the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault and demanding change. The widespread use of the hashtag brought attention to the issue and successfully facilitated a much-needed discussion in today’s society. However, this is not the first incident prompting a demand for change.

Efforts to bring awareness and exact change in regards to sexual harassment in the legal profession date back to the 1990s. This demonstrates that the legal profession is not immune from these issues. In fact, at least …

2018 December, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for December of 2018.

Friends Of The Libraries Newsletter, Fall 2018, Friends Of The Libraries

Friends of the Libraries Newsletter

A twenty-seven page newsletter that details news of the Friends of the Libraries group including the winners of the Library Student Assistant Awards, a new member joining the Friends group, Photo Contest winners, Wright Brothers' propeller restoration, and more

Spartan Daily, November 14, 2018, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2018

Volume 151, Issue 36

Lanthorn, Vol. 53, No. 13, November 12, 2018, Grand Valley State University

Volume 53, July 9, 2018 - June 10, 2019

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Re: Dhs Docket No. Iceb-2018-0002; Rin 1653-Aa75, 0970-Ac42; Comments In Response To Proposed Rulemaking: Apprehension, Processing, Care, And Custody Of Alien Minors And Unaccompanied Alien Children, Katherine Kaufka Walts Jd, Diane Geraghty

Center for the Human Rights of Children

No abstract provided.

Local Governance Of Immigrant Incorporation: How City-Based Organizational Fields Shape The Cases Of Undocumented Youth In New York City And Paris, Stephen P. Ruszczyk

Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

City-based organizations and governments play an important role in incorporating undocumented immigrant youth. This article investigates how localities sociopolitically incorporate these immigrants by examining the governance constellations and institutional logics of the organizational field that manages undocumented youth. Comparing sets of municipal and civil society organizations in different national settings, I use the two cases of New York City and Paris to ask how the ‘city-based organizational field of immigrant incorporation’ shapes citizenship experiences of undocumented youth. Data come from multi-level longitudinal ethnography over 8 years with two dozen undocumented youth and with organizations in each city as well as …