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International Human Rights Protection Against Psychiatric Political Abuses, George J. Alexander

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No abstract provided.

Race And Property Values In Entrenched Segregation, Margalynne J. Armstrong

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The Telecommunications Act Of 1996: Codifying The Digital Divide, Allen S. Hammond Iv

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The Trials Of Two Centuries: Lizzie Borden Meets O.J. Simpson, Gerald F. Uelmen

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Reflections On Whiteness And Latina/O Critical Theory, Stephanie M. Wildman

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The Intellectual Property Renaissance In Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law Could Be Unimportant On The Internet, Eric Goldman

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Contracts For Grownups, William J. Woodward Jr.

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"Sale" Of Law And Forum And The Widening Gulf Between "Consumer" And "Nonconsumer" Contracts In The Ucc, William J. Woodward Jr.

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The Realist And Secured Credit: Grant Gilmore, Common-Law Courts, And The Article 9 Reform Process, William J. Woodward Jr.

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Otto Kaus And The Crocodile, Gerald F. Uelmen

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The Jurisprudence Of Yogi Berra, Gerald F. Uelmen

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Nine Guidelines And A Reflection On Internet Copyright Practice, Howard C. Anawalt

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Wards Cove Packing Or Not Wards Cove Packing? That Is Not The Question: Some Thoughts On Impact Analysis Under The Age Discrimination In Employment Act, Mack Player

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Tribal Courts And The Federal Judiciary: Opportunities And Challenges For A Constitutional Democracy, Frank Pommersheim

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The Context Of Employment Discrimination In Japan, Allen Madison

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This article compares employment practices and laws regarding discrimination in Japan to those in the United States. Then it compares the cultural contexts in which discrimination and related regulation exist in each country. The article concludes that the Japanese laws are effective in the context of Japanese culture and that they are more likely to change Japanese attitudes about age, race, and gender in making hiring and promotion decisions than laws in the United States.

Urban Public Library Directors: Who Are They? Where Did They Come From?, Ken Haycock, L. Mccallum

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Nondisclosure As A Contract Remedy: Explaining The Advance-Notice Puzzle, John T. Addison, John B. Chilton

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Prior theoretical work predicts an underprovision of advance-notice contracts stemming from their enforcement costs. In the present model, it is rather the fundamental inability of workers to alienate their right to quit taken in conjunction with parameters central to job separation decisions that jointly determine the mix of notice and no-notice contracts observed in equilibrium. Not all equilibrium contracts are efficient, but there is no underprovision of notice. Mandating notice cannot improve on joint value and indeed may reduce it. Furthermore, although a mandate can be merely redistributive, there are cases in which it harms all parties.

Dirt Behind Our Ears, By Pfc. Arthur N. Wilkins, Steven D. Smith

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A review of Dirt Behind Our Ears, by PFC. Arthur N. Wilkins.

Guide To Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865, By Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Steven D. Smith

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This is a review of the title book, Guide To Louisiana Confederate Military Units, 1861-1865, by Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., as well as a review of an additional book, Military Record of Louisiana, by Napier Bartlett.

Empire Forgotten: The United States's Colonization Of Puerto Rico, Ediberto Román

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This Article tells a story of two countries: the first, a world power through its noble proclamations concerning human rights, led the charge for the recognition of a people's right to choose their political and socio-economic future; the second, because of its domination by the first, has been unable to have its people choose their political and socio-economic future. 10 In analyzing this relationship, this Article demonstrates how the United States, by denouncing imperialism while at the same time quietly enjoying its benefits, resembles the "colonizer who refuses."

How Will We Regulate Genetic Enhancement, Maxwell J. Mehlman

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Genetic enhancement technologies present difficult and novel regulatory issues, including the problem of measuring and comparing risks and benefits and dealing with the impact of these technologies on social values. This Article describes and evaluates the potential approaches that may be taken to regulate these technologies. The author concludes that a variety of approaches will be necessary, involving self-regulation, government restrictions on access and use, licensing, and a national lottery.

The Politics Of Establishing An International Criminal Court, Michael P. Scharf

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Any substantive evaluation of the plan for an international criminal court requires first an understanding of the political currents that underlie the competing proposals. This piece briefly explores the politics of creating a permanent international criminal court. In particular, this comment examines three related issues: (1) the need for an international criminal court, (2) the political obstacles involved in creating such an institution, and (3) the prospects for success in light of these obstacles.

The Case For A Permanent International Truth Commission, Michael P. Scharf

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This Article presents the case for the establishment of a permanent international truth commission as an adjunct to a permanent international criminal court or domestic prosecutions. Such a commission would be available to countries in the aftermath of situations involving grave humanitarian or human rights crimes. From the experience of the several international and national truth commissions established to date, this Article seeks to distill a framework for a pro- posed permanent international truth commission which would avoid the major problems that afflicted its predecessors. A draft statute for a permanent international truth commission is appended at the end of …

Quick Computation Of Spatial Autoregressive Estimators, R. Kelley Pace, Ronald Barry

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Spatial estimators usually require the manipulation of n² relations among n observations and use operations such as determinants, eigenvalues, and inverses whose operation counts grow at a rate proportional to n³. This paper provides ways to quickly compute estimates when the dependent variable follows a spatial autoregressive process, which by appropriate specification of the independent variables can subsume the case when the errors follow a spatial autoregressive process. Since only nearby observations tend to affect a given observation, most observations have no effect and hence the spatial weight matrix becomes sparse. By exploiting sparsity and rearranging computations, …

Model-Driven Simulation Of World-Wide-Web Cache Policies, Ying Shi, Edward Watson, Ye Sho Chen

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The World Wide Web (WWW) has experienced a dramatic increase in popularity since 1993. Many reports indicate that its growth will continue at an exponential rate. This growth has created a tremendous increase in network loads and user response times. The complexity and diversity of many WWW documents (e.g., texts, images, video, audio, etc.) and the diversity of user requested WWW information require sophisticated WWW cache management strategies. Several popular WWW cache algorithms perform rather poorly and lack mathematical or empirical foundations. As a result, WWW system administrators and browser users are forced to arbitrarily define certain important cache parameters. …

The Puzzling Purposes Of Statutes Of Limitation, Tyler T. Ochoa, Andrew Wistrich

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One hundred years ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. asked, "What is the justification for depriving a man of his rights, a pure evil as far as it goes, in consequence of the lapse of time?" A century later, we are still searching for a satisfactory answer to that question. The purpose of this Article is to press that inquiry further.

The law of limitation of actions is the set of legislatively and judicially created legal rules-including the classification of claims, the duration of limitation periods, the applicable principles of accrual and tolling, and the like-that determine whether a claim is …

How Their Audiences Knew Them: Forgotten Media And The Circulation Of Poetry By Women, Paula R. Feldman

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Democracy, Citizenship, And Indian Law Literacy: Some Initial Thoughts, Frank Pommersheim

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The Validity Of The Qualitative Measures Of Teaching Performance Scale As A Measure Of Teacher Effectiveness, J. Len Gusthart, Ivan M. Kelly, Judith E. Rink

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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the Qualitative Measures of Teaching Performance Scale (QMTPS; Rink & Werner, 1989) and teacher effectiveness in producing student achievement. The QMTPS focuses primarily on variables related to teacher clarity and task presentation. Nine middle school generalist (classroom) teachers were asked to teach volleyball forearm pass and serve over eight lessons as part of their normal curriculum. Students were pre- and post tested on the serve and forearm pass using the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (1969) volleyball tests. All lessons were videotaped and were coded using …

Risk-Utility Balancing In Design Defect Cases, David G. Owen

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