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A Review Of Installation, Operation And Maintenance Of Internal Combustion Engine (Ice) Powered Lighting Sets In A Developing Country, Oladele Peter Kolawole Dr.

Oladele Peter Kolawole Ph.D

This review presents the important of constant power supply as a great measure of developed economy. Nation with epileptic power supply was considered as developing or under develop nation trying to prolong her development. The risk of losing potential investors is a possibility. Nigeria was used as a case study of a developing country facing an extreme electricity shortage for many years. This deficiency was discovered to be multi-faceted, with causes that are financial, structural, and socio-political, none of which are mutually exclusive. The purpose of this paper is to inform the concern authority of developing nations understand the risks …

The Ministerial Exception And The Limits Of Religious Sovereignty, Ian C. Bartrum

Ian C Bartrum

This paper explores the scope of independent religious sovereignty in the context of the ministerial exception.

Constitutional Discourse In The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill Debate, Alexander F. A. Rabanal

Alexander F. A. Rabanal

No abstract provided.

Combatting Fraud And White Collar Crimes: Lessons From Nigeria., Professor Ben C Osisioma

Prof Ben Chuka Osisioma

Nigeria has paid dearly for ethical lapses and competency deficiencies in public and private life. Fraud is systemic in Nigeria with the ordinary citizen being compelled to be either a liar, a cheat or an outright thief. Fraud has stultified growth and national development, subverted the nation’s values and norms, generated a culture of illegality and impunity in public service, and frittered away the promise of the nation’s future. Today, the nation faces the trauma of a State whose date with destiny has been put on hold, for reasons that are completely self made, and completely avoidable. Any remedial measure …

Job Creation In The Tuna Industry Of The Solomon Islands- A Tentative Strategic Analysis, Deogratias Harorimana Sr

Dr Deogratias Harorimana

The principal objective of this paper is to review the current Tuna Fisheries Policies in the Solomon Islands with a view to proposing strategies that will maximize Job creation while at the same time address the issues that currently exist in this sector. Although the Tuna Industry’s contribution to GDP is quite significant, the Solomon Island Government (SIG) gets little or close to nothing out of it in the form of revenue and Job creation with the majority of vessels being foreign owned and fishing license fees amongst the lowest in the Pacific. SOLTAI which is partly owned by the …

Holy Mackerel! How A Small Country Of Fishermen Pushed The Boundaries Of Free Press, Ryan M. Mott

Ryan M Mott

This paper is about the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative (“IMMI”), a legislative proposal enacted by the Icelandic parliament on June 16th, 2010.

The IMMI was designed to promote transparency in reaction to an economic crisis and failed gag order that shook Icelanders’ faith in their government.

The parliament set out to create the most journalist-friendly nation in the world, a “media haven,” and did so by grabbing some of the most protective media statutes in the world.

The reformations include, inter alia, protection for the reporter’s privilege and source anonymity, protection for third-party communicators between reporters and sources, whistleblower protection, …

Letter To Madid, David D. Butler

David D. Butler

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Maritime Piracy: Changes In U.S. Law Needed To Combat This Exceptional Threat To National Security, Daniel L. Pines

Daniel L Pines

Many articles have recently been written on maritime piracy. Most of these articles focus on the problem through the prism of the international community and international law. The few articles that view the matter through U.S. eyes tend to examine it as a distant economic or geo-political concern. Yet, for the United States, the true threat posed by piracy is not to our economy or geo-politics; it is to our national security. Just as terrorists exploited aviation hijacking in the 9/11 attacks, a similar terrorist threat looms via piracy. This article therefore seeks to explore the parameters offered by U.S. …

Book Review On Gordon Mathews. Ghetto At The Center Of The World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong., Leung-Sea, Lucia Siu

Prof. SIU Leung-sea, Lucia

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Update: Organization Of American States, Jillian Blake

Jillian Blake

No abstract provided.

Environments, Externalities And Ethics: Compulsory Multinational And Transnational Corporate Bonding To Promote Accountability For Externalization Of Environmental Harm, Matthew A. Susson

Matthew A Susson

Developing nations often look to their bounty of natural resources or willing labor as a means of attracting international investors. While national and local governments frequently perceive the arrival of a multinational corporate presence as a boon to their economy, the potential for government instability, ineffectiveness or corruption may facilitate environmentally exploitive corporate practices. Furthermore, residents of the subject nation may be left without proper legal recourse. Legislators have made various efforts in both the United States and abroad to propound Corporate Codes of Conduct to address such concerns, but despite laudable intentions, features of the increasingly global economy “accentuate …

The Prosecution Of Piracy Under The Offenses Clause, James J. Woodruff Ii

James J. Woodruff II

The United States has had a long, storied history dealing with piracy. While it has had success in getting convictions under the Offenses Clause against pirates who attacked U.S. flagged shipping, prosecution under the clause does have its limits. This article examines the use of the Offenses Clause in the recent prosecutions by the United States of crimes on the high seas.

The Justifications For Nondegradation Programs In U.S. Environmental Law, Robert L. Glicksman

Robert L. Glicksman

The concept of non-regression is not one that is familiar to environmental law in the United States. Nevertheless, Congress and federal agencies have adopted programs to prevent degradation of existing high quality environments and to prevent revisions of individual emissions restrictions by making them more lenient. The first programs are known as nondegradation or anti-degradation programs. The others preclude “backsliding” by prohibiting slippage in performance by regulated entities complying with regulations that are later loosened. The nondegradation and anti-backsliding programs differ from the non-regression principle in that their justifications are not rooted in a commitment to the protection of individual …

Retro Is Back: Padilla Meets Gideon, Daniel Sylvester

Daniel Sylvester

No abstract provided.

From Start To Finish: A Historical Review Of Nuclear Arms Control Treaties And Starting Over With The New Start, Lisa M. Schenck, Robert A. Youmans

Lisa M Schenck

This article provides a historical review of nuclear arms control agreements from 1925 to 2011, describing how these agreements helped diminish the nuclear arms threat and build up. As this article explains, nuclear arms control agreements can be segmented into distinct periods reflecting different approaches to the nuclear arms threat, with each stage addressing different focused objectives. As negotiations evolved throughout history, the United States and Soviet Union undertook a nuclear arms race, each striving to gain a military advantage over the other by building more and more nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. Accordingly, a debate evolved …

The Right To Remain Silent: Addressing A Government Attorney Client Privilege In The Context Of A Grand Jury Subpoena, Matan Shmuel

Matan Shmuel

This article presents a resolution for the circuit split over whether a federal agency can invoke the attorney client privilege in a federal grand jury investigation. This article analyzes the current state of the law across each circuit and provides a resolution of the conflict for the supreme court to consider. The resolution involves a balancing test which weighs three competing factors: public need for the information; government need in confidentiality; and grand jury interest in the information. The solution is intended for the supreme court to consider when this issue hits the court

The Role Of The Judge In Endangered Species Act Litigation: District Judge James Redden And The Columbia Basin Salmon Saga, Michael C. Blumm, Aurora Paulsen

Michael Blumm

After rejecting three federal biological opinions (BiOps) for favoring federal Columbia Basin hydroelectric operations over salmon protected by the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Judge James A. Redden has retired, passing oversight of the litigation to a new federal judge. This complex case, which concerns the accommodations the world’s largest hydropower system must give to the region’s signature natural resource, has now spanned nearly twenty years and five different BiOps. For his part, Judge Redden worked closely with the parties in an attempt to arrive at improvements in salmon survival. In this managerial role, he acted perhaps as the archetypical federal …

Postjudgment “Water Interest”: Lifting The Headgate To Let Appropriate Compensation Flow For Unlawful Diversions, Jeffrey T. Matson

Jeffrey T Matson

Irrigators overdraw many Western streams to the detriment of tribal and environmental uses; these conflicting interests regularly battle in state and federal court over water allocation. This article profiles United States v. Bell (Bell) —the latest such skirmish among warring parties in the Truckee and Carson River basins of northern Nevada. In Bell, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit faced persistent excessive irrigation diversions by the Truckee Carson Irrigation District (TCID) in violation of applicable federal court decrees, administrative Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAPs), and the Congressional Settlement Act of 1990. The Court discussed an unprecedented …

Capturing Ultrasmall Emt Zeolite From Template-Free Systems, Eng-Poh Ng Dr.

Eng-Poh Ng

No abstract provided.

The Sustainable Corporation: Lessons From Avatar, Norm Borin

Norm A. Borin

This article uses the fictitious company RDA from the movie Avatar as a textbook case of corporate non-sustainability. We provide a list of mistakes RDA made and provide parallel corporate examples in our own society in the areas of stakeholder analysis, corporate governance and systems thinking using the triple bottom line. For each area we present a framework that companies could use to operate in a more sustainable manner.