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The Insanity Defense In The Twenty-First Century: How Recent United States Supreme Court Case Law Can Improve The System, Julie E. Grachek

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Bridges, Girl Scouts Of Gateway Council

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

No abstract provided.

Voices Raised, Issue 13, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

Women’s Center Newsletter

Included in this issue: Hope for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse; Stop Hate Week; Love Your Body Month; UD Alumna Leads Women's Engineering Program; Students appreciate friendly campus; Love Yourself, Invest in Yourself; Do employers use Facebook to check employees?; When was the last time you offended another member of the UD community?

Lpe Center News, October 2006

Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center: Newsletters

In this issue:

• November Webcast to Focus on Pathogens

• Webcast Archive Has Been Created/Trouble-Shooting Webcast Connections

• USGS Program Measures and Monitors Water Quality

• Center for Conservation Incentives Works to Create Partnerships

A House Divided? What Social Science Has To Say About The Culture War, David E. Campbell

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Religious Tests In The Mirror: The Constitutional Law And Constitutional Etiquette Of Religion In Judicial Nominations, Paul Horwitz

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Time To Overturn Turney, Paul A. Lafata

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Changing Corporate Behavior Through Environmental Management Systems, David W. Case

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

National Security And The Endangered Species Act: A Fresh Look At The Exemption Process And The Evolution Of Army Environmental Policy, Jason C. Wells

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Embryo Donation: The Government Adopts A Cause, Jaime E. Conde

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The disposition of cryopreserved supernumerary embryos has become a divisive issue that puts to test the tenets of the "culture of life" promoted by the Vatican and President George W. Bush. The Bush administration has spent millions of dollars to promote "embryo adoptions" while imposing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. On the other hand, contemporary Catholic moral theologians and philosophers disagree on the question of the morality of embryo "rescue" or "adoption" because the Church strongly opposes in vitro fertilization, the donation of gametes and embryo cryopreservation, as evidenced recently during the Italian fertility law referendum. …

Observations On The Folly Of Using Student Evaluations Of College Teaching For Faculty Evaluation, Pay, And Retention Decisions And Its Implications For Academic Freedom, William Arthur Wines, Terence J. Lau

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Research on student teaching evaluations is vast. An examination of this research demonstrates wide disagreements but also substantial consensus of authority for the proposition that student evaluations should be used only with extreme care, if at all, in making personnel decisions. A number of reasons cause administrators to use teaching evaluations for personnel decisions. The literature, however, is virtually unanimous in its condemnation of norming student evaluations in order to rank classroom performances. Current cases on academic freedom indicate some retrenchment by the Circuits from broader pronouncements in earlier Supreme Court cases. This paper concludes that the use of non-validated …

Teed Off About Private Club Discrimination On The Taxpayer's Dime: Tax Exemptions And Other Government Privileges To Discriminatory Private Clubs, Jennifer Jolly-Ryan

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Innocence Quarterly [Fall 2006], Northern California Innocence Project

Northern California Innocence Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Unitariness And Myopia: The Executive Branch, Legal Process, And Torture, Cornelia Pillard

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: War, Terrorism and Torture: Limits on Presidential Power in the 21st Century. Convened by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Indiana University School of Law- Bloomington, prominent legal scholars, human rights advocates and government lawyers gathered in Bloomington on October 7, 2005.

Iii. Plaintiff's Paradise Lost: Diversity Of Citizenship And Amount In Controversy Under The Class Action Fairness Act Of 2005, Cameron Fredman

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Linking Adolescent Family And Peer Relationships To The Quality Of Young Adult Romantic Relationships: The Mediating Role Of Conflict Tactics, Lisa J. Crockett, Brandy A. Randall

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study examined the associations between the quality of adolescents’ peer and family relationships and the quality of their young adult romantic relationships. Adolescents (N = 253) completed self-report measures of their family and peer relationships in grades 10–12; 7 years later, they reported on connectedness, discord, and the conflict tactics used by both partners in their current romantic relationships. Family relationship quality in adolescence predicted the levels of connectedness, discord, and specific conflict behaviors youth reported in their adult romantic relationships. The use of discussion to resolve conflict mediated the association between adolescent family relationships and the level of …

Inaugural Speech: A United Professional, Takin' Care Of Business., Jimmy Williamson

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

Commandeering And Its Alternatives: A Federalism Perspective, Neil S. Siegel

Faculty Scholarship

This inquiry argues that current Tenth Amendment jurisprudence causes net harm to federalism values under certain circumstances. Specifically, New York v. United States and Printz v. United States protect state autonomy to some extent by requiring the federal government to internalize more of the costs of federal regulation before engaging in regulation, and by addressing any accountability problems that commandeering can cause. But anticommandeering doctrine harms state autonomy in situations where the presence of the rule triggers more preemption going forward. Preemption generally causes a greater compromise of federalism values than does commandeering by eroding state regulatory control.

While it …

Religion And Politics: The Catholic Contribution, James L. Heft S.M.

University of Dayton Law Review

A public lecture given at the University of Dayton Sept. 22, 2006

The Evolution And Misinterpretation Of The Establishment Clause: Is Teaching Intelligent Design In Public Schools A Governmental Endorsement Of Religion Prohibited By The First Amendment?, Mark Hilliard

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

It's Not Just A Job, It's A Calling: The Redemption Of Soldiering As Religious Vocation In Saving Private Ryan, Marc T. Newman

Journal of Religion & Film

Filmic depictions of the warrior have decayed over the last few decades, driven by a focus on Vietnam – the bad war in which soldiering was hell. When Spielberg decided to revisit WWII in Saving Private Ryan, he recaptured the idea of the good soldier whose mission was a Calling. This essay examines how western culture came to its fallacious, bifurcated understanding of Calling, then explores the definition of Calling, identifies Calling's key features, and then uses these theories to examine the character of Private Jackson, the Christian sniper from the film Saving Private Ryan.

Where Are The News Media Role Models? A Study Of Skepticism Of The Mainstream News Media Among Communications Graduate Students, Lindsey J. Hugelier

Masters Theses

Recent research has shown that the consequences of news media skepticism can lead the public to disbelieve facts, have differing opinions about important issues, and to choose non-mainstream media sources to receive information. These reactions can be dangerous for the news media industry. It is important to gauge if communications graduate students, potential future media professionals, mistrust the mainstream news media. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between skepticism of the mainstream news media and news choices of communications graduate students. The author surveyed 76 communications graduate students at Grand Valley State University. Results showed that …

First Year Resident Assistant Retention At Grand Valley State University, Karl Rishe

Masters Theses

The following study investigated the perceptions of resident assistants at Grand Valley State University in regards to retention rates of first year resident assistants. The study looked for links between cognitive dissonance about the resident assistant position and the intent to return to the position the following year. The study was qualitative by nature, asking a series of questions to first-year resident assistants concerning job responsibilities, perceptions of the position before applying and while in the position, and their relationship with their supervisor.

There were few studies found that addressed resident assistant retention or how the perception of the resident …

On Restructuring The Nyse: Might A Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient?, Stephen F. Diamond, Jennifer W. Kuan

Faculty Publications

This spring the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (NYSE) completed an historic restructuring. On March 7, 2006, the NYSE completed its merger with Archipelago Holdings Inc. (Archipelago), a publicly traded electronic trading platform. As a result, the old NYSE itself will become the New York Stock Exchange LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE Group, Inc. (NYSE Group). The former members, or seat holders, of the NYSE will receive one of three forms of consideration: all cash, all stock in NYSE Group, or a package of cash and stock. Then, NYSE Group will allow those former members to offer their …

"No One At The Bridge", Jeffery J. Lester

Theses

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In Search Of An Effective Monitoring Board Model: Board Reforms And The Political Economy Of Corporate Law In China, Chao Xi

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Increasing economic globalization has fueled lively debates on the similarities of and differences between national corporate governance systems. Central to the debates are the key questions of whether different corporate governance systems will converge towards a single and standard model, and if yes, what are the barriers to the convergence of different national systems. The board governance system, for example, is a major corporate governance difference between countries. Broadly speaking, two models of board systems have developed in advanced economies. They are the dual board system (predominant in some continental jurisdictions, such as Germany and Netherlands) and the unitary board …

Dialogue: October 2006, Staff And Writers Of Dialogue

Dialogue

Editorial

03 Dialogue: An Introduction, an Apology, and a Challenge, Robert Zandstra

Letter

06 An Open Letter Concerning the Michigan Proposed, Elementary Education Standards, Jo-Ann Van Reeuwyk

Review

12 The Drawings of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sara Bakker; 13 Memory, Truth, and South Africa: The PoetnJ of Ingrid de Kok, Robert Zandstra

Advice

22 10 Steps to Becoming a Famous Writer, Erica Boonstra

Essay

29 Anxiety of Art and Entropy, Gabriel J. Kruis

Poetry

07 With the Yellow Sea, Tom Mazanec; 14 in the sultry half-light, annreilly; 14 st einstein, Gabriel J. Kruis; …

How Useful Is Gramsci's Theory Of Hegemony And Domination To The Study Of African States?, Daniel Kendie

African Social Science Review

Having investigated the relevance of the operative assumptions of Gramsci's theory of hegemony and domination to African realities, the paper proposes that scholars attempt to devise and articulate a more appropriate theory and methodology. It also proposes that the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods be examined as they relate to the theory of hegemony and domination in Africa, in an integrated form, especially in the interest of studying long-term social change.

Review Article: The Archaeology Of Infancy And Childhood: Integrating And Expanding Research Into The Past, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Blogger's Blog: Exploring The Definition Of A Medium, Danah Boyd

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph of Introduction]

While blogging is piquing the interest of mainstream media, youth, academic researchers, and entrepreneurial Silicon Valley, only a fraction of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know what the term means. Reports on how many people read blogs vary (Rainie 2005, Comscore 2005), but even in the United States, less than 50% of Internet users read blogs and many do not even know when they do (Buchwalter 2005). Numerous tools have been built to support blogging and people have extended those tools to do a wide variety of things that may or may …