Digital Commons Network^™

Damage Evolution And High-Rate Response Of High-Strength Concrete Under Triaxial Loading, Brett Williams

Mechanical Engineering Research Theses and Dissertations

The research presented in this study focuses on understanding fundamental mechanisms that drive material response under dynamic loading conditions. The objectives of the research were to: (1) to understand damage initiation and propagation in the bulk geomaterial under a variety of loading conditions and (2) to systematically investigate the strain rate effects on the triaxial compressive response of cementitious materials through the development of an innovative, first of its kind large-diameter (50 mm) triaxial Kolsky bar system.

The triaxial compressive response of high-strength concrete is needed to understand pressure-dependent material behavior, which is important for modeling extreme loading events. However, …

The Rural Texas Sheriff, Andrew L.B. Davies, Valeria Liu, Elisa Torossian

Deason Center Reports

The Rural Texas Sheriff reports on a focus group conducted in conjunction with the Deason Center's 2019 Rural Criminal Justice Summit. The report places rural Texas sheriffs and their agencies in a national context. It also offers insight into the focus group's perceptions of rural law enforcement and jail management. With first-hand accounts of these sheriffs’ experiences, the report offers a compelling look at the personal and professional lives of Texas’ rural sheriffs.

Care, Collectivity, And Disabled Futurity, Madison Whitaker

Art History Theses and Dissertations

How does care manifest in contemporary art? How do artists visualize kinship? These are some of the questions guiding this thesis. In considering the depiction of care in contemporary art, there is a limited application of the concept. Understood through the scope of feminist discourse on the sexual division of labor, care becomes restrained the context of familial obligation according to the nuclear family structure, such as in the case of parental obligation. This characterization of care implies that it is a burden upon the care provider and functions to exploit labor, especially on the part of women. However, this …

Time’S Up: A Call To Eradicate Ncaa Monopsony Through Federal Legislation, Ashley Jo Zaccagnini

SMU Law Review Forum

Few traditions are as near and dear to the hearts of Americans as college athletics. The institution holds a special place in society because it reflects the ultimate convergence of those values that uniquely define the United States: loyalty, competitiveness, and pride. However, the notion of basic fairness seems to have been excluded along the way, as the commercialization of college athletics gave way to total dominance over the industry by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NCAA promulgates sports rules and organizes collegiate-level championships, but its most influential role involves promoting “amateurism,” or the notion that student-athletes are …

The Bridwell Quarterly. Issue 11, Spring 2021, Michelle Ried

Bridwell Library Publications

No abstract provided.

Constructing A Tower Of Babble: An Examination Of Purpose In Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, Griffin S. Rubin

SMU Law Review Forum

“Purpose” is a key component of modern Establishment Clause jurisprudence. While the Supreme Court has expanded the role purpose plays in various areas of constitutional analysis over the last half-century, the Court seemingly continues to muddy the waters as to purpose’s proper place in Establishment Clause cases. This Comment focuses on the function and operation of purpose in Establishment Clause cases in order to probe the complications and obstacles inherent to this area of constitutional law. By constructing and applying an analytical framework that examines modern Establishment Clause cases through the lenses of “conceptions of purpose,” “evidence of purpose,” and …

The Uncertain Future Of The Fair Housing Act: Hud’S Recent Changes To The Disparate Impact Standard, Leah Powers

SMU Law Review Forum

In 2013, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published its Disparate Impact Final Rule in which it sought to formalize its longstanding interpretation of disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by setting forth a three-part burden-shifting framework. HUD subsequently revisited its disparate impact standard following the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Inclusive Communities and published a Proposed Rule on August 19, 2019. On September 24, 2020, HUD published a new Final Rule substantially altering the disparate impact standard laid out by the 2013 Rule.

This Comment will analyze the similarities and differences between the disparate …

Masdar City: A Study Of Energy, Infrastructure, And Technological Hope, Aaron D'Eramo

SMU Journal of Undergraduate Research

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been a major supplier of fossil fuel for the world economy for decades, which has allowed the country to thrive economically. But global concerns over ecological destruction and climate change is prompting the UAE’s leaders to pursue alternative sources of energy. From this ecological fear, Masdar City was born, an ambitious project that hopes to create the world’s first “zero-carbon” emission city. The project’s goal is to utilize energy in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable system without sacrificing modern lifestyles. This case study will utilize theory on energy and infrastructures to analyze the …

The Court Is In Recession: On The Implications Of The Covid-19 Pandemic For Indigent Defense Spending, Andrew L. B. Davies, Victoria M. Smiegocki, Hannah E. Hall

Other Deason Center Publications

What is the likely effect of the recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic on indigent defense budgets in the United States? To look forward, we look backward. We examine data on county-level spending on indigent defense in Texas during the Great Recession of 2007–2009. Redistributive policies—those which use taxpayer funds to support individuals who themselves pay little or no tax—are particularly susceptible to cuts during times of fiscal stress. Yet our analysis shows indigent defense policy, measured in terms of spending and access to counsel rates, was generally stable through the Great Recession years, even in counties hit hardest. …

The Official Mind’S View Of Empire, In Miniature: Quantifying World Geography In Hansard’S Parliamentary Debates, Jo Guldi

History Faculty Publications

For many scholars who are not themselves historians of political thought, the major use of official records is as a benchmark for studying other kinds of development. Official records of modern political bodies are widely available in digitized form and provide one of the primary sources with which digital historians have trained their methods. This article applies the process of "reducing" textual expressions to regular form to investigate how British members of Parliament talked about empire in extremely general terms: which places did they mention, how much, and in what context. Reducing parliamentary speech to regular occurrences makes it possible …

Regulatory Technology (Regtech) - Construction Of A New Regulatory Policy And Model, G. A. Walker

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Will Harmful Interference Bring Gps Down?, Paul B. Larsen

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Introduction To Aviation Law By Timothy M. Ravich, Paul S. Dempsey

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Hello Don, This Is Charles, Donald R. Andersen

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Trump’S Twitter Tension: Is Social Media A Modern Restriction On Government Employees?, Caylee Phillips

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Nono From Coco: The Contentious Relationship Between Luxury Brands And Resale, Caylee Phillips

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Claim Splitting In The New World Of Several Liability And Personal Jurisdiction, Jonathan M. Hoffman

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

General aviation accident litigation has recently become more complicated, with multiple lawsuits filed in multiple venues to litigate the same crash. An informal poll at the Air Law Symposium indicated that a large percentage of the attendees had been involved in such cases.

Two primary forces likely give rise to these multiple lawsuits. First, with the demise of joint and several liability, plaintiffs are often forced to sue more defendants and for defendants to add more third-party defendants. Second, the more rigorous personal jurisdiction standards articulated by the United States Supreme Court in the past decade have tightened both general …

Tsai Today (2021), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law, Tsai Center For Law, Science And Innovation

Tsai Today

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

On The Broadness Of The Fourth Amendment, Janine Kim

SMU Law Review

This Article considers the role of property rights in defining Fourth Amendment searches. Since United States v. Jones in 2012, the Supreme Court has relied on both privacy and property to determine whether a Fourth Amendment search has occurred. But recently, many of the Justices have expressed increasing skepticism about not only the effectiveness but also the appropriateness of safeguarding privacy. The 2018 case of Carpenter v. United States, which ruled that an individual’s cell site location information is protected under the Fourth Amendment, saw all four dissenters urging a larger role for property rights in the analysis of a …

Biology And Illegitimacy, Douglas Nejaime

SMU Law Review

This symposium Essay examines how biological parenthood, which in the twentieth century served as a mechanism by which to repudiate “illegitimacy” and to protect nonmarital parent–child relationships, today serves to justify new forms of illegitimacy and to separate unmarried parents from their children.

In the second half of the twentieth century, courts and legislatures renounced the discriminatory regime of illegitimacy, in which the children of unmarried parents enjoyed few rights to support or inheritance. They did so by raising the legal status of biological parenthood—extending rights to unmarried biological fathers and their children. Today, though, the vindication of biological ties …

Federal Jurisdiction As Statutory Interpretation: A Majordomo Purposivist Perspective, Martin H. Redish, Andrew F. Rodheim, Nicholas Roosevelt

SMU Law Review

The study of federal jurisdiction has traditionally involved little more than a combined examination of judicial doctrine and policy. Under this approach, scholars study how the Supreme Court has decided to shape the jurisdiction of the federal courts, and the policies the Court believes jurisdictional doctrine should reflect. Hardly ever have scholars studied the legislative purposes sought to be achieved by federal jurisdiction. It is important to recall, however, that for the most part, modern federal jurisdiction law grows out of a network of congressional statutes—which, in turn, grow out of policy choices made not by unrepresentative judges but by …

Front Matter

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reforming State Bail Reform, Shima Baughman, Lauren Boone, Nathan Jackson

SMU Law Review

We are waist-deep in the third wave of bail reform. Scholars, policy makers, and the public have realized that the short period of detention before trial creates ripple effects on a defendant’s judicial fate and has lasting impacts on our system of mass incarceration. Over 200 proposed bail bills are pending throughout the states. This is not the first period of bail reform in America—two previous waves of bail reform in the 1960s and 1980s have both ended in increased pretrial detention for defendants. Some of the recent efforts in the third wave of bail reform have also increased detention …

Power And Procedure In Texas Bail-Setting, Amanda Woog, Nathan Fennell

SMU Law Review

As advocates’, lawyers’, and legislators’ bail reform efforts intensify in Texas and throughout the country, we consider the limits of pretrial procedural protections when judges do not follow the law, access to courts is limited, and people do not have quality assistance of counsel. Given this reality in most bail-setting courts in Texas, formal procedural requirements, like mandating that bail-setting magistrates consider certain factors when making initial bail decisions, do not achieve their promise. More than a procedural or legal problem to be addressed, we consider the nation’s addiction to pretrial detention as one that was created by—and must be …

Let’S Move Criminal Justice Reforms Upstream: A Perspective From The Bench, Bridget Mccormack

SMU Law Review

“[S]ometimes it feels like this. There I am standing by the shore of a swiftly flowing river and I hear the cry of a drowning man. So I jump into the river, put my arms around him, pull him to shore and apply artificial respiration. Just when he begins to breathe, there is another cry for help. So I jump into the river, reach him, pull him to shore, apply artificial respiration, and then just as he begins to breathe, another cry for help. So back in the river again, reaching, pulling, applying, breathing and then another yell. Again and …

Front Matter

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Kisor’S Chaos: Conflicting Meanings Of The Clean Air Act’S “Applicable Requirements” In The Fifth And Tenth Circuits, Marissa Corry

SMU Law Review

“Although [the administrative state] [is] . . . unrecognized by the Constitution, it has become the government’s primary mode of controlling Americans, and it increasingly imposes profound restrictions on their liberty.” As this statement suggests, administrative agencies wield immense power and influence over the everyday lives of American citizens. In recent years, concern about the extensive power of the administrative state has led courts, policymakers, and the public to advocate for enhanced constraints on administrative agencies.

One such constraint is allowing courts to determine the meaning of a statute or regulation instead of deferring to an agency’s interpretation of such …