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International Animal Rights: Speciesism And Exclusionary Human Dignity, Kyle Ash

Animal Law Review

The primary goal of this paper is to act as a heuristic device, to suggest an unconventional but practical perspective on the evolution of international law. Upon surveying discourse on the history of international law, texts of treaties, and declarations and writings of influential philosophers of law and morality, an antiquated perspective of humanity is apparent. A convention in international law, and a reflection of a common idea which feeds the foreboding trend of how humans relate to the planet, treats humanity as distinctively separate from the Earth’s biodiversity. Though environmental law is beginning to recognize the necessity of conserving …

A Review Of Animal Rights: Current Debates And New Directions, Laura Ireland Moore

Animal Law Review

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Looking For A Nexus Between Trust, Compassion, And Regulation: Colorado's Search For Standards Of Care For Private, Non-Profit Wildlife Sanctuaries, Katherine A. Burke

Animal Law Review

In 2004, the Colorado legislature amended its wildlife statutes, formally recognizing the existence of private, nonprofit wildlife sanctuaries under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW). Opponents to the 2004 amendments and CDOW staff have repeatedly expressed concerns that private sanctuaries should not be authorized in the absence of regulations and enforcement mechanisms sufficient to protect the animals and the people who come into contact with them. In implementing the sanctuary statute, CDOW has followed a familiar pattern, relying on the accreditation program of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AZA) to provide the basis of …

Data Matching, Data Mining, And Due Process, Daniel J. Steinbock

Georgia Law Review

The Article concerns the governmental use of computerized data matching (comparison of records) and data mining (profiling),which increasingly are aimed at locating potential terrorists. The most striking aspect of virtually all anti-terrorist data matching and data mining decisions is the total absence of even the most rudimentary procedures for notice, hearing, or other opportunities for meaningful participation before, or even after, the deprivation is imposed. The Article evaluates under Fourth Amendment and due process standards a variety of law enforcement activities data matching or data mining might instigate. After reviewing these activities' potential effects on private, governmental, and accuracy interests, …

A Penny For Their Thoughts: Draft Resistance At The Poston Relocation Center, Eric L. Muller

Faculty Publications

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15th Annual Forum On Affordable Housing & Community Development Law: 2006 Michael Scher Award Given To William C. Kelly, Nestor M. Davidson, Leonard A. Zax

Faculty Scholarship

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Housing First' For The Chronically Homless: Challenges Of A New Service Model, Nestor M. Davidson

Faculty Scholarship

Increasingly in recent years, policymakers have focused their efforts on ending chronic homelessness and, in particular, on individuals grappling with mental illness, substance abuse, and similar challenges. Central to this effort has been the rise of a new model of service provision called Housing First. Housing First reverses the long-standing practice of conditioning housing on compliance with treatment plans or other service requirements, instead providing immediate independent living for chronically homeless individuals with dual or multiple diagnoses and only then making intensive services available. This Commentary reviews this important policy shift and explores some conceptual and practical challenges in moving …

Sexuality And Sovereignty: The Global Limits And Possibilities Of Lawrence Symposium: Legal Rights In Historical Perspective: From The Margins To The Mainstream, Sonia K. Katyal

Faculty Scholarship

In the summer of 2003, the Supreme Court handed gay and lesbian activists a stunning victory in the decision of Lawrence v. Texas, which summarily overruled Bowers v. Hardwick. At issue was whether Texas' prohibition of same-sex sexual conduct violated the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In a powerful, poetic, and strident opinion, Justice Kennedy, writing for a six-member majority, reversed Bowers, observing that individual decisions regarding physical intimacy between consenting adults, either of the same or opposite sex, are constitutionally protected, and thus fall outside of the reach of state intervention. Volumes can be written about the …

Ingando Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation And Political Indoctrination In Post-Genocide Rwanda Note, Chi Adanna Mgbako

Faculty Scholarship

This Note, based primarily on interviews with ingando participants, government officials, journalists, and genocide survivors conducted in Rwanda in January 2004, evaluates the merits and limits of government-run ingando solidarity camps as a means of fostering reconciliation in the complicated social landscape of post-genocide Rwanda. Focusing on ingando for ex-combatants, ex-soldiers, students, and released genocidaires, this Note argues that much of the ingando project is focused on the dissemination of pro-RPF ideology, a dangerous undertaking in a country in which political indoctrination and government-controlled information were essential in sparking and sustaining the genocide. Furthermore, a successful reconciliation program must take …

Religious Lawyering Critique, The Aals Presentations, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

One might think about the relationship between law practice and religion in different ways, depending on how one views either the professional norms or religious belief and observance. Some of the most recent academic literature on "religious lawyering" is premised on a highly critical view of the profession's norms and a claim that religious convictions that bear on the practice of law are incompatible with, and preferable to, aspects of the professional norms. My purpose here is to identify, and raise some questions about, both this critique and this suggestion, and to show how they are in tension with other …

Medical Malpractice And The Tort System In Illinois (Report To The Illinois State Bar Association, May 2005), Neil Vidmar

Faculty Scholarship

A report to the Illinois State Bar Association of a study examining the incidence, frequency, size of verdicts and other aspects of the medical malpractice system in Illinois. The study looked at statewide data where available, concentrating on Cook and DuPage counties, and Madison and St. Clair counties. The study concludes that the Illinois tort system does not appear to be the cause of the undisputed fact that doctors' liability insurance premiums showed dramatic rises.

Rights, Performatives, And Promises In Karl Olivecrona’S Legal Theory, Martin P. Golding

Faculty Scholarship

Karl Olivecrona (1971) maintains that "right" is a "hollow word," and so also for some other legal terms. "Right," he says, "has no conceptual background." He arrives at this position after an examination of metaphysical and naturalistic accounts, including American legal realism. Some of Olivecrona's arguments will be evaluated here. His position is influenced by Hagerstrom's theory of legal language, but he argues that Hagerstrom fails to account for how such terms as "right," "duty," etc. function in legal discourse and why they are useful. A parallel approach is also found in Olivecrona's book The Problem of the Monetary Unit …

The Efficacy Of Writing Course Placement At An Iowa Community College, Kristine D. Owens

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of writing course placement at an Iowa community college. The following questions were addressed: What indicators, separately or in combination, resulted in an appropriate or inappropriate student writing placement? (a) To what extent did the COMPASS test result in an appropriate placement? (b) To what extent did the self-directed essay result in an appropriate placement? (c) To what extent did a student's preference result in an appropriate placement?

This study was important to understand how the “directed self-placement” model, adapted from Royer and Gilles (1998, p. 1), impacted the institution's …

Out Under The Big Blue Sky| Creating A New Theatrical Work By Expanding On The Documentary Theatre Form, Laramie Dean Carlsen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Personal Propaganda Project| Seeking An Audience, Timothy Marion Nielson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Non-Directive Female-Pejorative Language (Ndfpl): The Effects Of Indirect Pejorative Language On Females' Perception And Thought, J. Leah Morris

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Intuitive Parenting Repertoire Utilization By Caucasian-American And Mandarin Chinese Mothers With Two- And Four-Month-Old Infants, Candace M. Crosby

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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A Participatory Methodology For Ethnographic Arts -Based Research: Collaborative Playwriting And Performance As Data Collection Analysis And Presentation, Jillian Dean Campana

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Passive Decisions And Potent Defaults, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, Andrew Metrick

Faculty Publications

Default options have an enormous impact on household choices. Such effects have now been extensively documented in the literature on 401(k) plans (Madrian and Shea 2001; Choi et al. 2002b, 2004). Defaults have been shown to affect participation, savings rates, rollovers, and asset allocation. For example, Choi et al. (2004) study three firms that use automatic enrollment. When employees at these firms are automatically enrolled in their 401(k) plan, only a tiny fraction opt out, producing participation rates exceeding 85 percent regardless of tenure. But when employees at these firms were not automatically enrolled, participation rates were significantly lower, ranging …

Assessment Of The Needs Of Hiv Positive People In Montana, Senna Lee Towner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Secret Place: An Experiment In Discovery And Creativity, Jennifer Davis Sorensen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Art Of Forgiveness, Carrie Benedict

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Witnessing Interparental Violence As A Child And Adulthood Attitudes Toward Aggression And Violence, Diana E. Marchetti

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Investigating And Reconceptualizing Recreation Specialization: Flow As A Developmental Influence, Joshua G. Whitmore

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Rational-Emotive Instruction As Support For Individual Growth Towards Multicultural Competence, Stacy Miller

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Between Facts And Utopia: Habermas And Benhabib From Deliberative Democracy To Democratic Deficits, Drew Robert Du Bois

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Everyday Mindfulness And Mindfulness Meditation: Overlapping Constructs Or Not?, Brian L. Thompson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Effects Of Outdoor Education On Childrens' And Adolescents Self Constructs, Jennifer French Thompson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Ethnographic Survey Of Contemporary Concepts Of Health And Illness Among Individual Chippewas And Crees, Eli S. Suzukovich

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Differences In Patient Recovery And Depressive Symptoms Between Clinical And Non-Clinical Cardiac Rehabilitation Settings, Heidi A. Schrock

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.