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Secrets, Lies & Erisa: The Social Ethics Of Misrepresentations And Omissions In Summary Plan Descriptions, 40 J. Marshall L. Rev. 731 (2007), Alison Mcmorran Sulentic

UIC Law Review

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Concerning Demonstration Programs For Integrated Systems Of Care Family Advocacy Programs For Mental Health Juvenile Justice Populations, And, In Connection Therewith, Making An Appropriation., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

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Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, And Survival By Meredith M. Gadsby (Book Review), Daryl Cumber Dance

English Faculty Publications

The folk will tell you that salt can either save you or destroy you. Toni Cade Bambara's Velma of The Salteaters realized that her survival depended on learning "the difference between eating salt as an antidote to snakebite and turning into salt, succumbing to the serpent." The lesson of similar folk wisdom is the subject of Meredith M. Gasby's Sucking Salt, where she propses as a new framework for the examination of Caribbean women's writing the survival techiniques implied in "sucking salt," techiniques suggested in her aunt's reflections on people she knew. Tantie expounded: "Little salt won't kill …

Preserving The Seeds Of Gender Fluidity: Tribal Courts And The Berdache Tradition, Andrew Gilden

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article outlines the particular cultural characteristics giving rise to traditional berdachism, the means by which American policies fostered their decline, and the Navajo tribal courts' re-infusion of these characteristics into contemporary jurisprudence. By tracking the interplay between the traditional values of child autonomy, gender equality, and tribal collectivism, the rise, fall and potential reemergence of the berdache tradition can be analyzed as resulting from shifts in its determinative cultural elements.

Cheating (Shpargalka), Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Morits, Iunna Petrovna, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

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Repatriation Of Cultural Objects To Indigenous Peoples: A Comparative Analysis Of U.S. And Canadian Law, Elizabeth M. Koehler

The International Lawyer

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International Transportation Law, Mark J. Andrews, James H. Bergeron, Leendert Creyf, Catherine Erkelens, Lorraine B. Halloway, Kenneth E. Siegel

The International Lawyer

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Fencing Out The Neighbors: Legal Implications Of The U.S.-Mexico Border Security Fence, Marta Tavares

Human Rights Brief

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Book Review: A Review Of Modern British Family Law In Once Accessible Volume By Mary Welstead And Susan Edwards, Robert E. Rains

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

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Ending The Silence: Thai H-2a Workers, Recruitment Fees, And The Fair Labor Standards Act, Andrea L. Schmitt

Washington International Law Journal

Increasing numbers of Thai workers are coming to the United States using “H-2A” temporary agricultural worker visas. Compared with their Latin American counterparts, Thai H-2A workers are more vulnerable to poor working conditions and other abusive employment practices for two reasons. First, the workers often pay large recruitment fees to labor recruiters in Thailand, and they therefore arrive with a much weightier debt burden. This debt, combined with conditions inherent in the H-2A system, puts intense pressure on workers to remain silent. Second, Thai workers are more culturally and linguistically isolated in rural U.S. communities than their Latin American counterparts. …

Islamic Finance In A Global Context: Opportunities And Challenges, Theodore Karasik, Frederic Wehrey, Steven Strom

Chicago Journal of International Law

Despite this scope and imprint on the global economy, Islamic finance remains poorly understood at both the theoretical and practical level. Moreover, despite a number of recent optimistic trends, Islamic finance faces several ideological and structural challenges to full integration in the globalized economy. This Article aims to illuminate these challenges and provide a general overview of contemporary Islamic financial theories and practices. The first section concentrates on the size of the world's Muslim population, the size of Muslim economies, and concepts of Islamic finance itself. The second section examines Muslim beliefs related to contemporary corporate finance. The third section …

Eugene Jolas’S Multilingual New Occident, Ania Spyra

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Judges As Humans: Interdisciplinary Research And The Problems Of Institutional Design, Chad M. Oldfather

Faculty Publications

The article takes up the question of how best to put the increasing amount of interdisciplinary scholarship on courts and judges to work in service of institutional design and reform. The analysis focuses on the analysis from a recent book, Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior, by Lawrence Baum. The book provides an appropriate vehicle for this analysis because of what might be called its multi-interdisciplinarity. In it, Baum, a political scientist, draws on social psychology to critique political science models of judicial behavior.

I argue that analyses such as Baum's are important not only for their …

The Underlying Causes Of Divergent First Amendment Interpretations, Scott C. Idleman

Faculty Publications

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International Legal Updates, Natalie Huls, Art Steele, Mihir Mankad, Huwaida Arraf, Courtney Nicolaisen, Miya Saika Chen

Human Rights Brief

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Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Elizabeth J. Rushing, Linda Frautschi, Jaime M. Gher, Anne Heindel, Angela Edman

Human Rights Brief

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From Muse To Poet: Paratextual Practices Of Women Poets In Cuba At The End Of The Nineteenth-Century, Catharina Vallejo

Decimonónica

One of the foundations of Western thought is the structure of binary oppositions based in abstract conceptualizations. This process includes the expression of generic qualities as universalized notions. With respect to women, these qualities are generally contracted into “Woman.” Luce Irigaray describes this “Woman” as “having been misinterpreted, forgotten, variously frozen in show-cases, rolled up in metaphors, buried beneath carefully stylized figures, raised up in different realities . . . ” (144). Women and writing have often been symbolic of each other as objects of the process of conceptualization. Aníbal González proposes that in many nineteenth-century texts the struggle for …

A Tribute To Roger Groot, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

A Tribute to Roger Groot

A Tendency To Incite: Applying Kenneth Burke's Pentad To Cohen V. California, Corinne Griffiths

Student Work

Paul Robert Cohen was arrested and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment in 1968 for wearing a jacket which read "Fuck the Draft" into a California courthouse. Appealing to the United States Supreme Court, Cohen claimed that his First Amendment rights to freedom of expression had been violated. In a landmark decision, the Court found that states cannot universally criminalize the use of expletives in public, with five justices in the majority opinion and four justices dissenting. This paper examines the link between communication theory and jurisprudence by using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad to compare the two opinions as competing dramas.

Reviews, Matthew J. Marohl

Intersections

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Purity Lost: The Paradoxical Face Of The New Transnational Legal Body, Oren Perez

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

Modern international law seems to be in disarray. The classic doctrines of international law, with their focus on sovereignty, state consent, custom and treaty, do not provide a satisfactory explanation for many of the practices and institutional structures that fill the global legal universe. The contemporary legal terrain is characterized by overlapping jurisdictions, inconsistent doctrinal interpretations and competing worldviews. But what are the social implications of the deepening fragmentation and increasing complexity of the global legal system? Some observers see these phenomena as a new global risk, which requires urgent collective response. Global constitutionalisation is put forward in this context …

"Public-Private" Health Law: Multiple Directions In Public Health, Nan D. Hunter

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Legislation As Intervention: A Survey Of Cultural Competence Policy In Health Care, Darci L. Graves, Robert C. Like, Nataly Kelly, Alexa Hohensee

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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If It Walks Like A Duck And Quacks Like A Duck, Shouldn't It Be A Duck: How A Functional Approach Ameliorates The Discontinuity Between The Primary Significance Tests For Genericness And Secondary Meaning, Vanessa Bowman Pierce

New Mexico Law Review

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F1 And Center Of Gravity Interplay In The Maintenance Of Phonological Height Within A Statistical Model Of A Communal Grammar: The Case Of Foodo [Atr] Acoustics, Colleen G. Anderson

UTA Working Papers in Linguistics - Archive

This paper presents the notion of an idealized or communal grammar as a statistical model of mode, mean or median as emerging from a representative number of a population, rather than in individual speech, per se. Like other languages with a 9-vowel Cross Height Vowel Harmony (CHVH) system, the most reliable correlate of ATR is F1; [+ATR] vowels have lower F1 values than their [-ATR] counterparts, while F2 differences show considerable variation across speakers. F1, however, fails to maintain phonological height differences as the [+ATR] mid vowels of level 3 overlap in acoustic space with the [-ATR] high vowels of …

Fenomena Percampuran Kod Dalam Iklan Perniagaan Bahasa Cina Di Malaysia / Lau Su Kia, Su Kia Lau

Student Works (2000-2009)

This research was conducted to study the phenomenon of code mixing in Malaysian Chinese business advertisements. Specifically, it aimed to identify the English lexical items and their characteristics mixed into the title and descriptive sentences and the factors leading to the emergence of the mixture of such English lexical items being into local Chinese commercial advertisements. The data were collected from four Chinese newspapers in Malaysia, namely China Press, Guang Ming Daily, Nanyang Siang Pau and Oriental Daily. A total of 100 titles and descriptive sentences of Chinese commercial advertisements mixed with various English lexical items were selected for analysis. …

Foreword: The Politics Of Health Law: Any Tipping Points In View?, Frances H. Miller

Western New England Law Review

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Field-Based Science Education With A Community Service Learning Focus, William Robertson

Departmental Papers (TE)

Field-based program of studies for future teachers provides opportunities for powerful learning through a dialectical union of reflection and action. Methods courses in academic disciplines are linked with seminars and coursework on community partnerships, critical pedagogy and culturally responsive education. This article illustrates the processes of planning, implementation and evaluation of this approach, highlighting the impacts of community service learning on parents, families, students, and schools with a focus on validating native language literacy, increasing parental involvement and providing conceptually correct science education. The project indicates that two-way dual language programs with a strong parent engagement component can help improve …

A Tribute To Roger D. Groot: Always Mr. Groot, J. Amy Dillard

All Faculty Scholarship

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