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The Effects Of Administrative Factors On Police Officer Job Performance, Irick Anthony Geary Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

The topic of police management and its effect on officer arrest rates is an important issue that has not received the level of attention it deserves. There is an abundance of available training and a push for better trained police executives. In the present study the relationship between police administrative factors and officer arrest rates are addressed using data from a national probability sample of police departments.

The study uses ordinary least squares regression to analyze the independent relationship between police administrative factors, as measured by the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, and officer arrest rates, as measured by …

Introduction: The Virtues And Vices Of Skeptical Environmentalism, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss

Faculty Scholarship

Introduction Extract:

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg' is the most talked about environmental book in recent memory. Lomborg's central thesis is relatively straightforward: "Our doomsday conceptions of the environment are not correct." To the contrary, in recent decades humanity's lot has "improved in terms of practically every measurable indicator." Lomborg is not the first author to make this argument,4 but his book is the first to spark such a maelstrom of public attention. Its publication ignited controversy and debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Lomborg himself, an associate professor of statistics …

Property Rights, Pesticides, & (And) Public Health: Explaining The Paradox Of Modern Pesticide Policy, Andrew P. Morriss, Roger E. Meiners

Faculty Scholarship

The lesson of DDT's rise and fall is that property rights play a critical role in checking public policy abuses. Respect for property rights requires public actors to obtain property owners' consent before they take actions (e.g. pesticide spraying) that affect the property owners. When property rights are respected, spillover impacts are minimized. Public policies imposed without consent, even if done with good intentions, may produce bad effects. Those effects may result in the policy being rightly abandoned, but may also spur other policies that produce more bad effects. Only by consistent respect for property rights, by both governments and …

Principles For Water, Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle, Terry L. Anderson

Faculty Scholarship

Water issues are often contentious. How much water can one individual use? What must the water quality of water returned from use be? How much water must be allocated to uses such as maintaining sufficient instream flows for aquatic species? For the last century, the United States has largely such answered questions through command and control regulatory schemes rather than through markets and common law dispute resolution processes. The choice of regulation by institutions over other mechanisms has meant a reliance on centralized decisionmaking and a rejection of both the market's more decentralized institutions and the common law.

Recently, water …

The Lawyers' Role In Selecting The President: A Complete Legal History Of The 2000 Election, Lynne H. Rambo

Faculty Scholarship

This Article presents the factual and legal history of Bush v. Gore, in the detail that is warranted for a case of this magnitude and complexity. Part One sets forth the legal framework within which the case unfolded, acquainting the reader with the breadth of Florida and federal law that governed the controversy. Part Two reviews what happened--the factual and legal developments from the time Gore requested manual counts in four Florida counties through the Supreme Court's decision ending the statewide recount the Florida Supreme Court had ordered--and focuses on the attorneys' arguments at each stage. Part Three then …

Evaluation Of Measurement Strategies To Increase The Reliability Of Emg Indices To Assess Back Muscle Fatigue And Recovery, C. Larivière, A. Bertrand Arsenault, D. Gravel, D. Gagnon, P. Loisel

Études primaires

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Discovery: The Student Journal Of Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food And Life Sciences - Volume 3 2002, Several Authors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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Letter From The Dean, Gregory J. Weidemann

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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Expression Patterns Of Novel Wound-Inducible Plant Genes In Medicago Truncatula, Mandy M. Cox, Kenneth L. Korth

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Terpenoids are an important class of defensive compounds that can accumulate in plants after pathogen infection or injury by chewing insects. Clones encoding putative terpene synthases and an oxidosqualene synthase, isolated from insect-damaged Medicagotruncatula leaves, were selected from an expressed sequence tag (EST) database. The cDNA clones were used as radiolabeled probes to analyze gene expression in leaves treated by known factors that can trigger a defense response in plants. Transcript levels for all of the genes examined increased in response to artificial wounding, insect herbivory, and methyl jasmonate (meJA) treatments, whereas salicylic acid (SA) and glucose oxidase (GOX) had …

The Second Coming Of Intellectual Property Rights In China, Peter K. Yu

Faculty Scholarship

This Article traces the development of intellectual property rights in China since the country’s reopening in the late 1970s. Part I provides a brief history of the Chinese intellectual property system and examines the various intellectual property disputes between China and the United States in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. This Part argues that the contemporary Chinese intellectual property system was not developed until intellectual property rights reemerged in China in the late 1970s. Part II discusses the causes of the piracy and counterfeiting problem in China. By focusing on the significant political, social, economic, cultural, and ideological …

Legal Services Provision Through Multidisciplinary Practice- Encouraging Holistic Advocacy While Protecting Ethical Interests, Stacy L. Brustin

University of Colorado Law Review

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Unfinished Stories, Oliver Houck

University of Colorado Law Review

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Better Off Dead: Abatement, Innocence, And The Evolving Right Of Appeal, Rosanna Cavallaro

University of Colorado Law Review

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Improving The Quality Of Care In Nursing Homes: Class Action Impact Litigation, Kimberly L. Intagliata

University of Colorado Law Review

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Does Literature Work As Social Science? The Case Of George Orwell, Richard A. Epstein

University of Colorado Law Review

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The Unnecessary Alternate Juror, Mary Kaluk Lanning

University of Colorado Law Review

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A New Prescription For Abortion, Heather A. Smith

University of Colorado Law Review

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The National Energy Policy: Assessing Energy Policy Changes, Gary C. Bryner

University of Colorado Law Review

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Sustaining Geographies Of Hope: Cultural Resources On Public Lands, Sandra B. Zellmer

University of Colorado Law Review

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Uncertain Waters And Contested Lands: Excavating The Layers Of Colorado's Legal Past, Tom I. Romero, Ii

University of Colorado Law Review

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Lessons On The Limits Of Constitutional Language From Colorado: The Erosion Of The Constitution's Ban On Business Subsidies, Dale A. Oesterle

University of Colorado Law Review

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A Regulatory Minefield: Can The Department Of Interior Say "No" To A Hardrock Mine?, Christine Knight

University of Colorado Law Review

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Challenging A Tradition Of Exclusion: The History Of An Unheard Story At Harvard Law School, Luz E. Herrera

Faculty Scholarship

In a series of lectures at Harvard University, Professors Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres posited that people of color are the "miner's canary" in American society. Guinier and Torres argue that pursuing color blindness policies is dangerous because it ignores racial differences that affect every aspect of our society. According to Guinier and Torres, like the miner's canary that uses a call of distress to warn the miner of the hazardous atmosphere in the mine, the critiques people of color offer our institutions are warning signals to alert us to the presence of more systemic problems. Instead of relegating the …

Disputants' Decision Control In Court-Connected Mediation: A Hollow Promise Without Procedural Justice, Nancy A. Welsh

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Deborah Hensler suggests in the lead article of this Symposium issue that the courts' embrace of facilitative, interest-based mediation may have been ill-conceived. She argues that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that litigants are more satisfied with mediation than with adjudicative alternatives such as arbitration and trial. She also urges that there is sufficient evidence to show that litigants prefer processes that vest decision control in third parties. Both of these assertions are subject to challenge,' but this Comment will focus upon the significance of giving decision control to the disputants in consensual processes.

Using available research, this …

The Rio Grande Silvery Minnow And The Endangered Species Act, Sean O'Connor

University of Colorado Law Review

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An End To Gene Patents? The Human Genome Project Versus The United States Patent And Trademark Office's 1999 Utility Guidelines, Mary Breen Smith

University of Colorado Law Review

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Full Circle Evaluations, Corporation, Management, Male Corporate Heirarchy, Edward S. Adams

University of Colorado Law Review

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Activism Is Not A Four-Letter Word, Rebecca L. Brown

University of Colorado Law Review

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Do Liberals And Conservatives Differ In Judicial Activism?, The Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook

University of Colorado Law Review

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Conservatives And The Seven Sins Of Judicial Activism, William P. Marshall

University of Colorado Law Review

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