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Camas, Fall-Winter 1998

Camas

Essays / Rick Bass -- Claiming Ground / Laura Bell -- The Name of Those Sands / Tiffany Trent -- First Person / Rachel Wray -- Reflections / Roger Poirier, Emily Miller, Terry Ryan, Leeann Drabenstott -- Essays / Dave Strohmaier -- Interview / David Quammen -- Northern Rockies News -- Book Reviews -- Famous Last Words

Richmond Music Journal (1998-10)

Richmond Music Journal

No abstract provided.

Psychiatric Evidence In Criminal Trials: To Junk Or Not To Junk?, Christopher Slobogin

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law, Language, And Lenity, Lawrence M. Solan

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Market Reaction To Seasoned Equity Offerings: The Relevance Of Leverage, Growth Opportunities, And Corporate Structure, Mojib U. Ahmed

Theses and Dissertations in Business Administration

Empirical work on the market's reaction to seasoned equity offerings has rarely considered the impact of the issuing firm's leverage level or its corporate structure. This work is an attempt to include these parameters in order to better understand the market's reaction to such issue announcements.

The current finance literature recognizes the fact that leverage plays an important role in assessing the value of the firm. Leverage has both negative and positive impacts on the value of a firm (McConnell and Servaes, 1995), and thus, has both negative and positive impacts on the market's reaction to seasoned equity offerings. This …

Moratorium On The Death Penalty For Juveniles, Victor L. Streib

Law and Contemporary Problems

Streib offers a sketch of the sentences and actual executions in the juvenile death penalty system for the past quarter-century. The ABA's moratorium calls for the complete prevention of the execution of offenders under age 18 at the time of their crimes.

The Execution Of The Innocent, Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau

Law and Contemporary Problems

Radelet and Bedau discuss the continuing and regular incidence of American trial courts sentencing innocent defendants to death, which was one of the problems that gave rise to the ABA's moratorium on capital punishment.

The American Bar Association And Federal Habeas Corpus, Larry W. Yackle

Law and Contemporary Problems

Yackle evaluates the ABA's claims touching federal habeas corpus in death penalty cases. Neither the Supreme Court nor the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 embrace the ABA's policy for habeas corpus.

The Quality Of Justice In Capital Cases: Illinois As A Case Study, Leigh B. Bienen

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bienen uses Illinois as a case study of injustice in capital cases. The quality of justice in the trial and appeal of capital cases in Illinois is of a very low standard.

Appendix: American Bar Association Resolution

Law and Contemporary Problems

The ABA's resolution and report regarding its moratorium on capital punishment is offered.

The Rhetoric Of Neutrality And The Philosophers’ Brief: A Critique Of The Amicus Brief Of Six Moral Philosophers In Washington V. Glucksberg And Vacco V. Quill, Richard Church

Law and Contemporary Problems

Church discusses the amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in the companion assisted suicide cases of "Washington v. Glucksberg" and "Vacco v. Quill," in which six philosophers offer their views. The philosophers' charge--that prohibiting physician-assisted suicide can only be based on impermissible sectarian religious or ethical premises--can be raised against their "neutral" liberal argument itself.

Sentenced For A “Crime” The Government Did Not Prove: Jones V. United States And The Constitutional Limitations On Factfinding By Sentencing Factors Rather Than Elements Of The Offense, Benjamin J. Priester

Law and Contemporary Problems

Priester argues that the Constitution does restrict the power of the legislature by requiring that certain facts be proved as elements of the offense. He notes the Supreme Court's missed opportunity in "Jones v. United States" to adopt the test proposed by Justice Scalia.

Bargaining Around The Trips Agreement: The Case For Ongoing Public-Private Initiatives To Facilitate Worldwide Intellectual Property Transactions, J. H. Reichman, David Lange

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

The Trips Agreement And Intellectual Property Protection In China, Zheng Chengsi

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

The S&L Crisis Revisited: Exporting An American Model To Resolve Thailand’S Banking Problems, Alvin K. Lim

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

Privacy And The Press: The Impact Of Incorporating The European Convention On Human Rights In The United Kingdom, Les P. Carnegie

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

What It Takes To Be Great: Aristotle And Aquinas On Magnanimity, David A. Horner

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Self-Interest, Politics And The Environment—A Response To Professor Schroeder, Donald T. Hornstein

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

The Legislation Of Unintended Consequences, Rena I. Steinzor

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

The Colby Echo (1998-10-01), Colby College

The Colby Echo

Published by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present.

Would Adr Have Saved Romeo And Juliet?, Pam Marshall

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Like many disputes, Romeo and Juliet is a story with no winners; the outcome is destined to be lose-lose. Disputes are an inevitable part of human interaction and people need to learn effective and reasonable ways of dealing with their disputes. The question is how can this be done in a way that leaves people intact. The article compares and contrasts two modes for resolving disputes: adjudication and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). The article looks at what happens when disputes arise-how do problems become "disputes" and what do people do about them? The role of lawyers as dispute creators as …

American Vincentians In 1877–1878: The Maller Visitation Report (2), John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

In 1877, Mariano Maller, the provincial of Spain, was sent on an extraordinary visitation to investigate alleged mismanagement of the American province. This translation of his report is continued from the first issue of volume 18. Maller describes the history of the houses he visits and assesses finances, works, individuals, and the province as a whole. The recommendations he left with the confreres at many of the houses are included. He also suggests naming a new provincial.

Saint Louise De Marillac: Bibliography To Present Day, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

This bibliography on Louise de Marillac includes everything published about her in English through 1999. Books include biographies and translations of Louise’s letters and writings. There are also articles in encyclopedias and in the respective journals of the Congregation and the Daughters of Charity, Annals of the Congregation of the Mission, Echoes of the Motherhouse, and Echoes of the Company. Vincentian Heritage articles are also included. Small entries in lives of saints, newspaper articles, and nonprint audio-visual items are excluded.

Exchange-Rate Policies In Central Europe And Monetary Union, Lucjan Orlowski

WCBT Faculty Publications

Looks at the relationship between exchange-rate and monetary policies in transition economies (TEs) in central Europe bent on becoming part of the European Union. Review of practiced targets of monetary policy in response to the requirements of monetary union; Question of whether or not candidates will resort to a final currency devaluation; Suggestions for adjustments in short- and long-term monetary policy.

Poetry, Prose, And Pushkin's Egyptian Nights, Ludmila Lavine

Faculty Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

A Photon Counting Imager, Kevin L. Albright, R. Clayton Smith, Cheng Ho, S. Kerry Wilson, Jeffery Bradley, Alan Bird, Don E. Casperson, Miles Hindman, Rob Whitaker, James Theiler, Robert Scarlett, William C. Priedhorsky

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

The Remote Low Light Imaging (RULLI) system responds to individual photons using a modification to conventional image intensifier technology and fast timing electronics. Each photon received at the detector is resolved in three dimensions (X, Y, and time). The accumulation of photons over time allows the system to image with very low light levels, such as starlight illumination. Using a low power pulsed laser and very fine time discrimination, three dimensional imaging has been accomplished with a vertical resolution of five cm.

What Juries Can't Do Well: The Jury's Performance As A Risk Manager, W. Kip Viscusi, Reid Hastie

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Can juries handle complex cases? One way to frame this question in behavioral science terms is to ask: What tasks can juries perform well and what tasks will they perform poorly? Our basic precept is that the legal system should ask juries to perform tasks that they are good at performing and should not require juries to carry out tasks that they cannot perform well. A second guiding theme in our approach to the issue of jury competency is that the most relevant, most useful analyses of jury performance are based on empirical observations and data, not on rational analyses …

Psychiatric Evidence In Criminal Trials: To Junk Or Not To Junk?, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article begins, in Part I, with a brief review of the past four decades" of psychiatric and psychological testimony in criminal trials (henceforth referred to simply as "psychiatric testimony"). Although this review cannot be called comprehensive, it does make clear that, contrary to what the popular literature would have us believe, psychiatric innovation is neither at an all time high nor the prevalent form of opinion testimony by mental health professionals. At the same time, such "nontraditional" expert opinion from clinicians, on those rare occasions when it does occur, has changed over the past few decades in both content …

The Endangered Species Act And Private Property: A Matter Of Timing And Location, J.B. Ruhl

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

For all the controversy surrounding the effect of the Endangered Species Act ("ESA") on private property, precious little information has accompanied the heated calls for strengthening or weakening the law's land use proscriptions. Preservationist groups and property rights groups alike depend on staking out higher moral ground and producing "poster child" stories of imperiled species or property owners. The Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS"), which implements the ESA for most of the listed endangered and threatened species, has compiled reams of data on its administrative functions' in support of its recent efforts through administrative (in lieu of legislative) reform to …

Validation Of Waimss Incident Duration Estimation Model, Wei Wu, Pushkin Kachroo, Kaan Ozbay

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

This paper presents an effort to validate the traffic incident duration estimation model of WAIMSS (wide area incident management support system). Duration estimation model of WAIMSS predicts the incident duration based on an estimation tree which was calibrated using incident data collected in Northern Virginia. Due to the limited sample size, a full scale test of the distribution, mean and variance of incident duration was performed only for the root node of the estimation tree, white only mean tests were executed at all other nodes whenever a data subset was available. Further studies were also conducted on the model error …