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La Estrella Bocarriba, Raul Aguiar

Science Fiction Novels

Tells of Lilith's entrance into the world of the Sorcerers, a conversion effected largely through her dangerous attraction to Aquiel, the leader of the group, with whom she falls in love.

Getting The Insider's Story Out: What Popular Film Can Tell Us About Legal Method's Dirty Secrets, Rebecca Johnson, Ruth Buchanan

Articles & Book Chapters

In this paper, the authors seek to use the insights gained by viewing and thinking critically about a range of Hollywood films to better illuminate the disciplinary blindspots of law. Both law and film are viewed as social institutions, engaged in telling stories about social life. Hollywood films are often critical of law and legal institutions. Law is dismissive of its representation within popular culture. However, the authors argue that law disregards cinematic cynicism about itself at its peril and that there is much to learn by taking cinematic portrayals of law very seriously---not as representations of the truth of …

Of Bulldogs And Soapy Sams: The Common Law And Evolutionary Theory, Allan C. Hutchinson, Simon Archer

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

The Utility Of The Ali/Unidroit Project On Principles And Rules Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Janet Walker

Articles & Book Chapters

This article considers the important role that could be played by transnational rules of civil procedure in facilitating transnational litigation and in reducing the incidence of forum shopping.

The Past And Future Of Canadian Generalist Law Journals, Bruce Ryder

Articles & Book Chapters

The author reviews the history and evolution of Canadian university-based generalist journals. The growth in the number of these journals grew steadily from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, and then stopped abruptly. The driving force behind the establishment of these journals were local and pedagogical: they were adjuncts of students' legal education. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, most generalist journals had outgrown their original mission. They became significant venues for the publication of legal scholarship and reformulated their aims and procedures to set high scholarly standards. All of the existing university-based generalist law journals now have …

Class Actions: The Canadian Experience, Garry D. Watson

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Of Butterflies And Bitterness?: Legal Fictions In Corporate And Securities Law, Mary G. Condon

Articles & Book Chapters

The theme of fictions in law in the context of corporate and securities law raises some intriguing issues, and I am particularly grateful for the opportunity it gives me to rethink some of my previous work on corporate law. At one level, the topic of fictions in law is an obvious one for an Anglo-American corporate lawyer. One of the first principles of Anglo-American corporate law that students learn is that the corporation is best understood as a legal fiction. The principle is otherwise known as the doctrine of the separate legal personality of the corporation. This is the idea …

The Role Of Judges In Legal Theory And The Role Of Legal Theorists In Judging (Or 'Don't Let The Bastaraches Grind You Down, Allan C. Hutchinson

Articles & Book Chapters

What is the future of law reviews? And does it matter? These are important questions, at least to legal academics and the students who run them. Whether the world would be any worse off if law reviews ceased to exist or, more realistically, if the number of law reviews was significantly reduced is moot at best. In this regard, the central challenge to law reviews is provided by the Internet. Its capacity to revolutionize the rarefied culture of law reviews and legal scholarship is profound and presents opportunities and threats that many have only begun to imagine or realize. Nevertheless, …

Re-Imagining International Human Rights Education In Our Time: Beyond Three Constitutive Orthodoxies, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Shedrack C. Agbakwa

Articles & Book Chapters

This article seeks to show that both the conceptualization and practice of international human rights education within the mainstream human rights community has been shaped and framed, with mostly negative consequences, by at least three constitutive orthodoxies: a heaven-hell binary distinction between an all but "perfect" West and an all but "hellish" Third World, a consequent unidirectional traffic of human rights teaching from the West to the rest, and a reliance on the abolitionist paradigm of human rights education. It starts by mapping these orthodoxies, and proceeds thereafter to challenge them as fundamentally problematic and as capable of frustrating the …

Thirwall's Law + Trade, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes.

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (2001, February). Re: My stock market research [Unpublished memorandum with charts on real rates of return, the stock market and new corporate investment, and actual and warranted price–earnings ratios].

• Shaikh, A., PhD. (n.d.). Exchange rate dynamics [Unpublished chart].

A Fisheries Model For Managing The Oyster Fishery During Times Of Disease, John M. Klinck, Eric N. Powell, John N. Kraeuter, Susan E. Ford

CCPO Publications

Setting the yearly allocation for a fished stock is always an uncertain endeavor. Populations suffering significant mortality from disease require particularly careful management. Disease mortality is not a standard component of Fisheries models, however. Here, we develop a model for the management of fished oyster populations in which disease mortality is a controlling influence. The model requires a quantitative estimate of abundance by size class, some knowledge about growth rates to establish the size range recruiting into the fishery, and an estimate of the anticipated natural mortality rate. The latter is of considerable consequence because small changes in mortality rate …

Comparison Of Statistical And Model-Based Hindcasts Of Subtidal Water Levels In Chesapeake Bay, Kathryn Thompson Bosley, Kurt W. Hess

CCPO Publications

Subtidal water levels in Chesapeake Bay, which can have amplitudes as large as 1 m at Baltimore, are an important component of total water levels. The most importance forcing mechanisms for these variations are surface winds over the Bay and coastal subtidal water levels. Two methods for hindcasting subtidal water levels in the Bay were developed: statistical prediction (based on multiple linear regression) and a barotropic numerical circulation model-based prediction. The hindcast water levels were compared with the observed values at three key locations (Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel (CBBT) in the lower bay near the mouth, Solomons Island at midbay, …

The Law-Making Role Of The Supreme Court Of Canada: Rapporteur's Synthesis, Peter W. Hogg

Articles & Book Chapters

The adoption of the Charter of Rights in 1982 thrust a new role on the Supreme Court of Canada. The Court was required to resolve issues that would formerly have been regarded as matters of policy for the legislative bodies. This article shows that the new policy-making role of the Court has carried over into non-Charter fields, such as federalism, evidence, administrative law, torts, and family law.

Brookings County 4-H Special Foods Recipes, Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota State University

South Dakota Community Cookbook Collection

No abstract provided.

Demutualization Of Financial Exchanges: Business As Usual?, Caroline Bradley

Articles

No abstract provided.

Developmental Psychology As A Human Enterprise, Sheldon H. White

Heinz Werner Lectures

Child Study: Exploring New Contexts and Possibilities of Human Development, Developmental Psychology as a Science of Personal and Societal Design

Topologically Pure Extensions, Peter Loth

Mathematics Faculty Publications

A proper short exact sequence 0→H →G→K→0 (*) in the category of locally compact abelian groups is said to be topologically pure if the induced sequence 0→nH→nG→nK→0 is proper short exact for all positive integers n. Some characterizations of topologically pure sequences in terms of direct decompositions, pure extensions and tensor products are established. A simple proof is given for a theorem on pure subgroups by Hartman and Hulanickl. Using topologically pure extensions, we characterize those splitting locally compact abelian groups whose torsion part is a direct sum of a compact …

Morality, Religion, And Public Bioethics: Shifting The Paradigm For The Public Discussion Of Embryo Research And Human Cloning, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Public ethics bodies play a major role in the development of public policies that govern scientific research and health care.' Their tasks include weighing the ethical ramifications of forms of research, educating the public about the research and its likely benefits, and recommending directions for institutional practices and legal policies. Much debate about public ethics bodies has concerned the mode and level of their ethical reasoning. Should public ethics bodies develop substantive moral arguments on issues that are subject to widely divergent moral and religious interpretations, such as the status of the human embryo? To develop such arguments would, of …

Women Writing Auto/Biography: Anna Banti’S Artemisia And Eunice Lipton’S Alias Olympia, Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

Neat definitions of biographical and autobiographical writing have been challenged in the twentieth century. This essay offers a comparative study of two texts which may be classified as autobiography or biography or both, and which, because of their blurred generic boundaries, bring to light several theoretical questions about life writing.

To Judge Through Verse: The Sonnets Of Lope De Vega's La Circe And His Engagement With Literature, Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

Examines the literary style of Lope de Vega based on the collection of poetry 'La Circe.' Linguistic and intellectual qualities of poetry; Artistic portrayal of female beauty; Concern on ethical literary behavior.

Pablo Neruda And The Construction Of Past And Future Utopias In The Canto General, Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

Presents information on the poetry collection 'Canto General,' by Pablo Neruda. Elements of 'Canto General'; Significance of the first poem of the collection 'Amor Am é rica'; Description of the construction of a future utopia; Basic principles of Neruda for human interaction, government and self-fulfillment.

State Of The University Address 2001, David A. Caputo Ph.D.

State of the University Addresses

No abstract provided.

No Simple Pieces - Curricular Coherence, Row Combination, Classroom Vocalization, And The Trio From Schoenberg's Suite For Piano, Op. 25, Mark Sallmen

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

During his essay "Composition with Twelve Tones" (1941), Schoenberg points to the compositional skill required to manage the relationship between the Trio's canonic voices:"The Trio of this Menuet is a canon in which the difference between the long and short notes helps to avoid octaves. The possibility of such canons and imitations, and even fugues and fugatos, has been overestimated by analysts of this style. Of course, for a beginner it might be as difficult to avoid octave doubling here as it is difficult for poor composers to avoid parallel octaves in the 'tonal' style. But while a tonal composer …

Volume 15, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Driving The Stake Into The Comparative Bad Faith Defense And Reverse Bad Faith Claims, Greg Munro

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article reviews case law precedent from Montana and California that exposes holes in the legal theory of comparative fault in insurance bad faith.

The Insurer's Reservation Of Rights Letter And The Duty To Defend, Greg Munro

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article examines the specific body of law and standard of care that has developed around the reservation of rights letters and the duty to defend.

Just Between Us -- Aba Considers New Ethical Rules, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article briefly describes one of the proposed rule revisions (Model Rule 1.6) to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct that will be presented to the ABA House of Delegates in July 2001 by the Ethics 2000 Commission.

Front Matter

Animal Law Review

Front Matter contains title page, masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for Animal Law Review Volume 7, Issue 1.

Will The Heavens Fall? De-Radicalizing The Precedent-Breaking Decision, Paul Waldau

Animal Law Review

This article offers an extended analogy for the purpose of posing basic questions about proposals for granting legal rights to some nonhuman animals. The analogy is drawn from the precedent-breaking eighteenth century English case Somerset v. Stewart, which liberated an African slave. The article argues that one can identify features of the eighteenth century debate which illuminate features of today's debate over proposed uses of centrally important legal concepts for some nonhuman animals. Using the comparison for the limited task of highlighting the complex cultural backdrop in each situation, the article suggests that the comparison helps one see the nature …

Recovery Of "Non-Economic" Damages For Wrongful Killing Or Injury Of Companion Animals: A Judicial And Legislative Trend, Sonia S. Waisman, Barbara R. Newell

Animal Law Review

The emotional bond between humans and their animal companions can be as strong as that experienced between two people, and animal companions are often looked upon and treated as members of the family. When they are wrongfully killed or injured, however, the legal system traditionally has not adequately recognized this important relationship. Instead, recovery has been limited to the market value of the animals. It is time for state laws to explicitly acknowledge the significance of the human-animal companion relationship and codify recovery for such non-economic injuries as emotional distress and loss of companionship. This article examines why damages for …