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The Comprehensibility Of Plain Language And Non Plain Language Minnesota Civil Jury Instructions, Kathryn J. Apostal

Theses and Dissertations

A substantial volume of research (e.g., Charrow & Charrow, 1979; Elwork, Sales & Alfini, 1977, 1982) suggests that jurors do not understand the often-convoluted language of standard jury instructions. Some states have recently simplified their instructions, but others continue to debate whether change is beneficial. This study was designed to investigate whether "plain language" jury instructions lead to improved comprehension. College students listened to either new, plain language Minnesota jury instructions or older Minnesota jury instructions addressing the same topics. Participants then took a written comprehension test covering legal rules contained in the instructions. Participants also completed a Nelson-Denny vocabulary …

Also, Too And Moreover In A Novel By Dorothy L. Sayers, Stephen H. Levinsohn

Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session

When Dorothy Sayers uses also in her novel The Documents in the Case, this indicates that the material that is added is at least as important as that to which it is added. She uses moreover, as Blakemore (1987) has observed, to indicate that the material that is added provides further evidence for a recently stated conclusion. Too is the 'elsewhere' additive. Sayers uses it when the information that is added confirms or contradicts a previous utterance or assumption. She also uses it when the material concerned is of lesser or greater importance than that to which it …

Language And Formalities In Commercial Contracts: A Defense Of Custom And Conduct, David V. Snyder

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Tax Shelters, Tax Law, And Morality: Codifying Judicial Doctrines, Ellen P. Aprill

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Recognition Of Indigenous Peoples' And Community Traditional Knowledge In International Law, Rosemary J. Coombe

St. Thomas Law Review

Today I want to explore some of the international law-making efforts with respect to indigenous and traditional environmental knowledge. My work over the past three years has involved the study of the ongoing efforts underway to implement state obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity ("CBD"), and the related efforts of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to recognize, protect, and compensate for the contributions of indigenous and traditional communities' knowledge, innovations, and practices to the preservation and maintenance of biological diversity. This is a fascinating process of international lawmaking and an increasingly important field of global politics, which may …

Exercising Self-Determination Without Jeopardising The Rights Of The Others: The Catalan Model, Puig I. Scotoni

St. Thomas Law Review

I have entitled my remarks "Exercising self-determination without jeopardising the rights of the others: the Catalan model."' This is because present day Catalan nationalism strives to make the interests of Catalonia compatible with those of Spain and the European Union. In my opinion, such political restraint and flexibility is one of the most remarkable aspects of the Catalan model.

Indigenous Autonomy And Its Problems: A Vision From The Russian Far East, Petra Rethmann

St. Thomas Law Review

This essay discusses one vision of self-determination among Luoravetlan women and men in the Chukotka peninsula in the Russian Far East. Self-determination can have many meanings, but the one this essay emphasizes is based on tradition: on the intricate connections between humans, animals, and land, with shared premises, close kin groups, and local production relations. Contemporary Luoravetlan women and men argue that self-determination is bound to fail if it does not take serious the complex interrelations between people and the land in which their social understandings are rooted, and through which their core institutions and values are ensured. This essay …

Ethnicity And The Jury System, Ashton Wesley Welch

Ethnic Studies Review

Discrimination in the jury system has been a matter of constitutional and ethical concern at least since the mid-nineteenth century. Ethnic and linguistic minorities have been disadvantaged by the use of the peremptory challenge, statutory requirements, and administrative practices which compromised the Sixth Amendment provision for a jury of one's peers with its implication for juror impartiality. Attacks on the discriminatory applications of those systems and practices resulted in reduction, as gradual as it was, of the exclusionary practices. Batson vs Kentucky made the Sixth Amendment guarantee more reachable for ethnic and linguistic minorities.

A Law Culture Diagnostic, James R. Elkins

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Multivalent Metadata : Exploiting The Layers Of Meaning In Digital Resources, Alison M. Anderson

Theses : Honours

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web was due in part to the simplicity of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It is anticipated that the next generation of web technology, coined the Semantic Web, by Tim Berners-Lee (1989, p. 1), will be driven by the Extensible Markup Language (XML). The XML suite of technologies provides a framework for the application of metadata, and hence semantic information, to web resources. Advantages of a semantic web include improved sharing and reuse of resources, enhanced search mechanisms and knowledge management. The knowledge or meaning contained in digital information may vary according to …

Ethics, Ethnicity, And Dementia: A "Culture-Fair" Approach To Bioethical Advocacy In Dementing Illness, Ramon Valle

Georgia Law Review

The aims of this discussion are to twofold. The first is to apply what Post et al. term a cultural lens to bioethical decisionmaking processes in dementing illness.' The second is to assist the ethical advocate to develop a cultural analysis strategy for application of ethical decisionmaking processes within ethnically diverse populations. An assumption made here is that, as human inventions, ethical systems are an extension of culture, taking their imprint from the ethnocultural systems from which they emerge.' It is true that ethical systems and their principles can be widely shared across cultures. Modern bioethics, as promulgated within the …

Children At Risk: The Sexual Exploitation Of Female Children After Divorce, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 2001-2002, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

No abstract provided.

Pedagogy For Revolution Against Education For Capital: An E-Dialogue On Education In Capitalism Today, Peter Mclaren, Glenn Rikowksi

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This dialogue between Peter McLaren (UCLA) and Glenn Rikowski (University of Central England, Birmingham) was conducted by e-mail during January - February 2001. References added.

Handbook, University Of South Florida Faculty Handbook, 2001, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Faculty handbook for the University of South Florida.

Excerpt, Liberal Arts Requirements, University Of South Florida Undergraduate Catalog, 2001-2002, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

An excerpt from the 2001-2002 Undergraduate Catalog for the University of South Florida about Liberal Arts requirements.

Guidelines, University Of South Florida College Of Arts And Sciences Mission And Program Requirements, 2001, University Of South Florida. College Of Arts And Sciences

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Mission statement and program requirements for the University of South Florida's College of Arts and Sciences.

Legal Services Corporation V. Velazquez: The Supreme Court's Missed Opportunity To Clarify The Viewpoint Discrimination Doctrine's Role In Subsidized Speech Cases, Jeffrey Vanhooreweghe

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Direct Democracy Is Not Republican Government, Steven William Marlowe

Seattle University Law Review

This Article will initially explain the examples of direct democracy in the states of Washington and Oregon. It will then analyze the United States Constitution's Guarantee Clause. Finally, this Article will argue that state initiative and referendum provisions are inconsistent with a republican form of government and that laws passed through the use of this process are unconstitutional.

Response To Matthew W. Finkin And Catherine Barnard, Lynn Duggan

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: New Rules for a New Game: Regulating Employment Relationships in the 21st Century, held at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.

Social Networks And Contraceptive Dynamics In Southern Ghana, Mark R. Montgomery, Gebre-Egziabher Kiros, Dominic K. Agyeman, John B. Casterline, Peter Aglobitse, Paul C. Hewett

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

There is accumulating evidence that social diffusion processes affect the pace of the adoption of modern contraception in societies undergoing fertility transition. In settings where mortality has declined and many other social and economic changes are underway, decisions about contraception are fraught with uncertainty and risk. In such circumstances, couples may rely on other persons for information and guidance. In this paper, we examine the influence of informal social networks on the contraceptive behavior of reproductive-age women, using longitudinal data collected in six communities in southern Ghana. Our results confirm the hypothesis that adoption of modern contraception is strongly affected …

The Police Officer As Survivor: The Psychological Impact Of Exposure To Death In Contemporary Urban Policing, Vincent E. Henry

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

All human encounters with death, whether they involve a casual contact with the death of another person or the realistic threat of one's own demise, have important psychological consequences that result in new modes of adaptation, thought and feeling. In the course of their duties, contemporary urban police officers frequently encounter the deaths of others and some participate in mortal combat situations that credibly threaten their own lives. The psychological dimensions of police officers' professional exposures to the deaths of others are to a large extent shaped by the specific duties and responsibilities prescribed by their formal task environment, while …

American "Road Rage": A Scary And Tangled Cultural-Legal Pastiche, Robert F. Blomquist

Nebraska Law Review

I. Introduction

II. Popular Media Accounts ... A. Early Stories: 1988–1995 … B. Later Stories: 1996–2000 ... 1. 1996 … 2. 1997 … 3. 1998 … 4. 1999 … 5. 2000

III. Legal Media Accounts

IV. Lawyerly Deployment

A. Law Reviews ... 1. 1998 … 2. 1999 … 3. 2000 … B. Legislative Materials ... 1. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Opening Statements by Committee Members ... 2. Congressional Road Rage Hearings: Key Witness Testimony ... C. Judicial Opinions ... 1. 1997 … 2. 1998 … 3. 1999 … 4. 2000

V. Conclusion

The Article 1 Revision Process, Kathleen Patchel, Boris Auerbach

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Emergence Of Dialogic Identities: Transforming Heteroglossia In The Marquesas, F.P., Kathleen C. Riley

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Te 'Enana 'the people' of the Marquesas, French Polynesia, have been engaged for some time in the dialogic negotiation of their heteroglossic identity. Based on an ethnographic study of language socialization in the Marquesas, this dissertation examines how communicative forms are acquired within a changing socio-cultural matrix, as well as on how cultural habits and beliefs are produced and reproduced via verbal interaction.

My first two months of fieldwork were spent in Tahiti (the capital of French Polynesia), living and studying the language use and cultural patterns of an 'enana family. Subsequently, I spent ten months in a village in …

Poetry And The Practice Of Law, Tim Nolan

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Haunting The Corpus Delicti: Rafael Campo’S What The Body Told And Wallace Stevens’ (Modernist) Body, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” …

Vytis, Volume 87, Issue 1 (January 2001), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

America's Divided Mind / By Matthew David Ross, Matthew David Ross

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Soil Types And Their Relation To Mississippian And Historic Period Site Selection, Lainie Shanks Luse

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.