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Chicago On Vertical Restrictions, Frank H. Easterbrook Jan 2007

Chicago On Vertical Restrictions, Frank H. Easterbrook

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Fair Use V. Fair Access, Randal C. Picker Jan 2007

Fair Use V. Fair Access, Randal C. Picker

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The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule Jan 2007

The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule

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Legal and constitutional theory has focused chiefly on the risk that voters and legislators will trust an ill-motivated executive. This Article addresses the risk that voters and legislators will fail to trust a well-motivated executive. Absent some credible signal of benign motivations, voters will be unable to distinguish good from bad executives and will thus withhold authority that they would have preferred to grant, making all concerned worse off We suggest several mechanisms with which a well-motivated executive can credibly signal his type, including independent commissions within the executive branch; bipartisanship in appointments to the executive branch, or more broadly …


Government Secrecy Vs. Freedom Of The Press, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2007

Government Secrecy Vs. Freedom Of The Press, Geoffrey R. Stone

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Sex, Violence, And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2007

Sex, Violence, And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone

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The Anti-Formalist, David A. Strauss Jan 2007

The Anti-Formalist, David A. Strauss

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Tribute To Bernard Meltzer, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

Tribute To Bernard Meltzer, Saul Levmore

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Use Of Statistical Evidence To Address Police Supervisory And Disciplinary Practices: The Chicago Police Department's Broken System, Craig B. Futterman, H. Melissa Mather, Melanie Miles Jan 2007

Use Of Statistical Evidence To Address Police Supervisory And Disciplinary Practices: The Chicago Police Department's Broken System, Craig B. Futterman, H. Melissa Mather, Melanie Miles

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Wealth Without Markets? (Reviewing Yochai Benkler, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom (2006)), Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2007

Wealth Without Markets? (Reviewing Yochai Benkler, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom (2006)), Lior Strahilevitz

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Judge Richard Posner On Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, Bernard E. Harcourt Jan 2007

Judge Richard Posner On Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, Bernard E. Harcourt

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Paying Ceos In Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson Jan 2007

Paying Ceos In Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson

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A Theory Of Deception And Then Of Common Law Categories, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

A Theory Of Deception And Then Of Common Law Categories, Saul Levmore

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Judging Deception, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

Judging Deception, Saul Levmore

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Parental Leave And American Exceptionalism, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

Parental Leave And American Exceptionalism, Saul Levmore

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Erp Systems Facilitating Xbrl Reporting And Regulatory Compliance, Phillip Kloeden Jan 2007

Erp Systems Facilitating Xbrl Reporting And Regulatory Compliance, Phillip Kloeden

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Today, the global economic environment requires that information is readily available across the supply chain (SC) and value chain and that the information is available in a costeffective manner. The information must be accurate, credible, timely, cost-efficient, reliable, traceable, pertinent, and possess data transparency. The information must be available to members within a particular organization, its vendors and customers, and outside governmental and regulatory agencies. All associated stakeholders and stockholders are entitled to the availability of trustworthy financial information to aid them in decision making, therefore, the controls regarding the data are critical for the compilation of the data. The …


On The Most Wanted Folkman Graph, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Xu Xiaodong Jan 2007

On The Most Wanted Folkman Graph, Stanislaw Radziszowski, Xu Xiaodong

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We discuss a branch of Ramsey theory concerning edge Folkman numbers. Fe(3; 3; 4) involves the smallest parameters for which the problem is open, posing the question \What is the smallest order N of a K4-free graph, for which any 2-coloring of its edges must contain at least one monochromatic triangle?" This is equivalent to finding the order N of the smallest K4-free graph which is not a union of two triangle-free graphs. It is known that 16 is less than or equal to N (an easy bound), and it is known through a probabilistic proof by Spencer that N …


Development Of An Intermodal Network For Freight Transportation Analysis, Aaron Falzarano, Sai Ketha, J. Scott Hawker Jan 2007

Development Of An Intermodal Network For Freight Transportation Analysis, Aaron Falzarano, Sai Ketha, J. Scott Hawker

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This paper describes a process for creating an intermodal freight transportation network within ArcGIS. In this process, ArcGIS Network Analyst is used to create an intermodal network and conduct optimal route analysis for various network attributes. In particular, the paper demonstrates how users can integrate highway, rail, waterway, and transit facility data from sources such as the National Transportation Atlas Database, as well as discusses existing database limitations to network analyses. We illustrate this network development using a case study that analyzes freight traffic along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.


Intermodal Transportation Network Custom Evaluators For Environmental Policy Analysis, J. Scott Hawker, Aaron Falzarano, Sai Ketha Jan 2007

Intermodal Transportation Network Custom Evaluators For Environmental Policy Analysis, J. Scott Hawker, Aaron Falzarano, Sai Ketha

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We are leveraging the power of GIS-based transportation network analysis to provide tools for public policy analysts to understand the environmental impact trade-offs of intermodal transportation networks that integrate truck, rail, and inter-coastal waterway modes of transportation. We will describe the environmental policy analysis problem, the intermodal network model, and the creation of environmental network attributes and custom attribute evaluators. We will describe what drove our choice to use C# and the Microsoft .NET framework to design and develop evaluators that access external data from relational databases and that have their own evaluator configuration user interfaces. We will conclude with …


Using Off-Campus Student-Designed Experiments To Aid In Student Learning, George Sutherland Jan 2007

Using Off-Campus Student-Designed Experiments To Aid In Student Learning, George Sutherland

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In an upper level undergraduate elective course in vehicle dynamics, the author has developed some off-campus experimental-based assignments that involve the students (in pairs) designing the experiments and providing their own measuring tools and test vehicle to get results that they can compare with their calculated predictions. The students are free to design their own procedure or do some investigation and use an industry-standard approach. The students typically find that their experimental results vary considerably from their predictions. While this can be due to simple student implementation errors, it is typically a result of more complex issues. This leads to …


Dominant Nuclear Outflow Driving Mechanisms In Powerful Radio Galaxies, Dan Batcheldor, Clive Tadhunter, Joanna Holt, Raffaella Morganti, Christopher P. O'Dea, David J. Axon, Anton Koekemoer Jan 2007

Dominant Nuclear Outflow Driving Mechanisms In Powerful Radio Galaxies, Dan Batcheldor, Clive Tadhunter, Joanna Holt, Raffaella Morganti, Christopher P. O'Dea, David J. Axon, Anton Koekemoer

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In order to identify the dominant nuclear outflow mechanisms in Active Galactic Nuclei, we have undertaken deep, high resolution observations of two compact radio sources (PKS 1549-79 and PKS 1345+12) with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Not only are these targets known to have powerful emission line outflows, but they also contain all the potential drivers for the outflows: relativistic jets, quasar nuclei and starbursts. ACS allows the compact nature (< 0.′′15) of these radio sources to be optically resolved for the first time. Through comparison with existing radio maps we have seen consistency in the nuclear position angles of both the optical emission line and radio data. There is no evidence for bi-conical emission line features on the large-scale and there is a divergance in the relative position angles of the optical and radio structure. This enables us to exclude starburst driven outflows. However, we are unable to clearly distinguish between radiative AGN wind driven outflows and outflows powered by relativistic radio jets. The small scale bi-conical features, indicative of such mechanisms could be below the resolution limit of ACS, especially if aligned close to the line of sight. In addition, there may be offsets between the radio and optical nuclei induced by heavy dust obscuration, nebular continuum or scattered light from the AGN.


Themes And Symbols In Asl Poetry: Resistance, Affirmation, And Liberation, Karen Christie, Dorothy Wilkins Jan 2007

Themes And Symbols In Asl Poetry: Resistance, Affirmation, And Liberation, Karen Christie, Dorothy Wilkins

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This paper analyzes themes and symbols in a number of works of poetry in American Sign Language. In particular, the expression of themes of resistance to oppressive elements of the dominant (hearing) culture and affirmation of the values of Deaf American culture will be identified and described in various poetic works. For analysis, definitions of resistance and affirmation are borrowed from Durr and Grcevic (1999) and Durr (1999/2000) who applied these concepts to the works of Deaf artists striving to represent the Deaf experience. Our analysis confirms that there exists a thriving tradition of ASL poetic works which can be …


The Case For A More Rigorous Approach To Teaching Spreadsheet And Database Applications, M. Pamela Neely, Thoms Pray Jan 2007

The Case For A More Rigorous Approach To Teaching Spreadsheet And Database Applications, M. Pamela Neely, Thoms Pray

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Although most schools offer and/or require a course in spreadsheet and database applications, the amount of meaningful learning derived from the class varies widely, due in part to a lack of rigor in adjunct instructor led classes. The approach described in this paper involves a combination of demonstration and hands-on practice using two term-long cases to be used in an introductory course in spreadsheet and database applications. These cases, packaged together with slides emphasizing theory, hands-on quizzes and exams that foster critical thinking, can be used across the multiple sections that are taught to maintain consistency within the course and …


Graph Reconstruction Numbers, Mcmullen Brian, Stanislaw Radziszowski Jan 2007

Graph Reconstruction Numbers, Mcmullen Brian, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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Proposed in 1942, the Graph Reconstruction Conjecture posits that every simple, finite, undirected graph with three or more vertices can be reconstructed up to isomorphism to the original graph, given the multiset of subgraphs produced by deleting each vertex along with its incident edges. Related to this Reconstruction Conjecture, existential reconstruction numbers, 9rn(G), concern the minimum number of vertex-deleted subgraphs required to identify a graph up to isomorphism. We discuss the resulting data from calculating reconstruction numbers for all simple, undirected graphs with up to ten vertices. From this data, we establish the reasons behind all high existential reconstruction numbers …


A Cancer On The Republic: The Assault Upon Impartiality Of State Courts And The Challenge To Judicial Selection, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 2007

A Cancer On The Republic: The Assault Upon Impartiality Of State Courts And The Challenge To Judicial Selection, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

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Of Montreal And Kyoto: A Tale Of Two Protocols, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2007

Of Montreal And Kyoto: A Tale Of Two Protocols, Cass R. Sunstein

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Causes Of Popular Dissatisfaction With The Administration Of Justice In The Twenty-First Century, Robert Stein Jan 2007

Causes Of Popular Dissatisfaction With The Administration Of Justice In The Twenty-First Century, Robert Stein

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We are here today to celebrate and be challenged by a remarkable speech delivered by Dean Roscoe Pound on August 29, 1906. 1 We meet in the city where Dean Pound gave his historic address. On that occasion, Dean Pound was not Dean of the Harvard Law School, which he later became, but rather was the 36-year-old Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law. 2 He was a well- educated man, having both a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law and a PhD in Botany from the University of Nebraska, 3 but he was not very …


Crime, Criminal Justice, And Criminology In The Netherlands, Michael Tonry, Catrien Bijleveld Jan 2007

Crime, Criminal Justice, And Criminology In The Netherlands, Michael Tonry, Catrien Bijleveld

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Determinants Of Penal Policies, Michael Tonry Jan 2007

Determinants Of Penal Policies, Michael Tonry

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Unmitigated Punishment: Adolescent Criminal Responsibility And Lwop Sentences, Barry C. Feld Jan 2007

Unmitigated Punishment: Adolescent Criminal Responsibility And Lwop Sentences, Barry C. Feld

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For more than a century, youth crime policies have oscillated between periods of more lenient treatment and harsher punishment. Justice officials and the public alternatively attributed high crime rates either to ";soft"; rehabilitative policies and advocated ";tougher"; sanctions, or to excessively harsh penalties that failed adequately to treat youths. A century ago, Progressive reformers combined a more modern construction of childhood with a more scientific conception of social control to create a judicial-welfare alternative and to remove children from the adult criminal process. 2 They used juvenile courts to assimilate, ";Americanize,"; and control ";other people's"; children.


A Century Of Juvenile Justice: A Work In Progress Or A Revolution That Failed?, Barry C. Feld Jan 2007

A Century Of Juvenile Justice: A Work In Progress Or A Revolution That Failed?, Barry C. Feld

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A century ago, Progressive reformers adopted a more modem construction of childhood as a developmental period of innocence, dependence, and vulnerability. They embraced a more scientific understanding of social control - positive criminology - and tried to identify the causes of crime and to treat, rather than to punish, offenders. Reformers combined the new vision of childhood with new insights into criminality to create a judicial-welfare alternative to the adult criminal process. Jurisdiction over dependent as well as delinquent children reflected juvenile courts' broader role as a child-saving welfare agency and not simply a "junior" criminal court.'