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The U Visa Unveiled: Immigrant Crime Victims Freed From Limbo, Jessica Farb Jan 2007

The U Visa Unveiled: Immigrant Crime Victims Freed From Limbo, Jessica Farb

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


International Legal Updates, Matthew Solis, Jennifer Jaimes, Rukayya Furo, Ari Levin, Morgan E. Rog, Mahreen Gillani, Alex Cheng Jan 2007

International Legal Updates, Matthew Solis, Jennifer Jaimes, Rukayya Furo, Ari Levin, Morgan E. Rog, Mahreen Gillani, Alex Cheng

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Rwanda’S Troubled Gacaca Courts, Christopher J. Le Mon Jan 2007

Rwanda’S Troubled Gacaca Courts, Christopher J. Le Mon

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Elizabeth J. Rushing, Linda Frautschi, Jaime M. Gher, Anne Heindel, Angela Edman Jan 2007

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

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Danger Of Future Dangerousness In Death Penalty Use, Brian Sites Jan 2007

The Danger Of Future Dangerousness In Death Penalty Use, Brian Sites

Faculty Scholarship

In spite of thousands of years of science, humankind is distinctly unable to predict the future. And yet, the judicial system is called upon to do just so daily. In bail considerations, judges predict flight risk. In parole hearings, officials contemplate the likelihood of reoffense. And in three states, a defendant convicted of a capital crime will live or die based on what a judge and jury thinks he will do in an unknown future. It has been observed that “what separates the executioner from the murderer is the legal process by which the state ascertains and condemns those guilty …


Ap-Ls Teaching Techniques: Deliberating The Benefits Of Learning Through Focus Groups, Garrett Berman, Judith Platania Jan 2007

Ap-Ls Teaching Techniques: Deliberating The Benefits Of Learning Through Focus Groups, Garrett Berman, Judith Platania

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

This article describes how students in an undergraduate legal psychology class utilized focus group research (i.e., a jury simulation exercise) to assist in planning strategies for trial. In addition to conducting the focus group, students were responsible for providing an analysis of the results, and preparing their team for trial. Ultimately, students reported the focus group exercise helped them develop trial strategies, understand the role of trial consultants, and gain a better understanding of scientific jury selection. Rationale, course objectives, and a description of the activity are outlined, as well as suggestions for including this exercise in an upper-level legal …


Celebrity Hearings, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jan 2007

Celebrity Hearings, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Famous People

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.


Drive Safe - Drive Smart, Poplar Creek Public Library District Jan 2007

Drive Safe - Drive Smart, Poplar Creek Public Library District

Safety

Bibliography and photograph of a display of government documents from Poplar Creek Public Library District, Illinois.


Women's History Month: Government Resources For Gender Studies, University Of South Alabama Jan 2007

Women's History Month: Government Resources For Gender Studies, University Of South Alabama

Women

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from the University of South Alabama.


American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Is This Field Riding The "Internet Wave" Into A Regulatory Abyss?, Archie A. Alexander Iii Jan 2007

American Diagnostic Radiology Moves Offshore: Is This Field Riding The "Internet Wave" Into A Regulatory Abyss?, Archie A. Alexander Iii

Journal of Law and Health

Recent trends in the American workplace are suggesting that outsourcing is becoming more commonplace, and currently no job or its work product may be safe from outsourcing. American blue-collar workers are certainly not surprised by these trends because they have experienced outsourcing related job losses since the early 1970s. Even those white-collar jobs traditionally considered immune to outsourcing pressures, such as those held by medical specialists, are now threatened. Most workers know outsourcing as a process whereby a domestic firm transfers some portion of their work product or a job to a different firm that resides either onshore in America …


Why Only The State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions, Alon Harel Jan 2007

Why Only The State May Inflict Criminal Sanctions, Alon Harel

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

Some theorists argue that a justification of criminal punishment presupposes a theory of state power. Although the state is typically assigned the task of inflicting criminal sanctions, the mere fact that the criminal deserves to be punished cannot in itself justify the infliction of punishment by the state, as non-state agents could presumably give people their just deserts. One way of addressing the plea for a theory of state power would be to suggest that state-inflicted sanctions are justified simply on the grounds that the state is more likely than other agents to determine accurately what a wrongdoer justly deserves …


Table Of Contents - Issue 2 , Cleveland State Law Review Jan 2007

Table Of Contents - Issue 2 , Cleveland State Law Review

Cleveland State Law Review

No abstract provided.


Law As Symbol: Appearances In The Regulation Of Investment Advisers And Attorneys , Larry D. Barnett Jan 2007

Law As Symbol: Appearances In The Regulation Of Investment Advisers And Attorneys , Larry D. Barnett

Cleveland State Law Review

From a macrosociological perspective, law is an institution of society, is shaped by conditions in society, and facilitates social life by interalia producing symbols. Law accordingly adopts concepts and principles that focus on the appearance to society of certain phenomena and that are symbols when the phenomena are socially significant. To illustrate symbols in law, the article examines (i) the "hold oneself out" standard in defining an investment adviser under the federal Investment Advisers Act and (ii) the standard for ethical conduct that requires attorneys to avoid appearances of impropriety. If symbolic concepts and principles are tied to the properties …


Predictors Of Middle School Girls' Engagement In Suspendable School Offenses., Barbara Harlow Cavanaugh Jan 2007

Predictors Of Middle School Girls' Engagement In Suspendable School Offenses., Barbara Harlow Cavanaugh

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite research evidence that social context and personal characteristics are related to girls' violent behavior, little is known about the relative contribution of such antecedents. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the relative strength of predictors of school violence among a sample of middle school girls. Of special interest were the intervening variables, because knowledge of their relative strength could enable schools to design targeted interventions to reduce school violence. Social learning theory formed the theoretical foundation for the study. A four-part survey consisting of sociodemographic items, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, an amended version of the Attitudes …


Conceptualizing Intimate Violence And Gender Equality: A Comparative Approach, Valorie K. Vojdik Jan 2007

Conceptualizing Intimate Violence And Gender Equality: A Comparative Approach, Valorie K. Vojdik

Fordham International Law Journal

Part I discusses the treatment of domestic violence as a human rights issue under international law, focusing on the shift in the conceptualization of violence against women from a private matter to a human rights issue. By framing gender-based violence as a means to perpetuate the social, economic, and political inequality of women, the international community has imposed positive obligations upon the state to not only punish but to prevent gender-based violence and to eliminate its root causes. In Parts II and III, I contrast the approaches of the highest courts of the United States and South Africa. Part II …


Adjudicating Genocide: Is The International Court Of Justice Capable Of Judging State Criminal Responsibility?, Dermot Groome Jan 2007

Adjudicating Genocide: Is The International Court Of Justice Capable Of Judging State Criminal Responsibility?, Dermot Groome

Fordham International Law Journal

Last February, the International Court of Justice issued a judgement adjudicating claims by Bosnia and Herzegovina that Serbia breached the 1948 Genocide Convention – the case marks the first time a state has made such claims against another. The alleged genocidal acts were the same as those that have been the subject of several criminal trials in the Yugoslav Tribunal. The judgment contained several landmark rulings – among them, the Court found that a state, as a state, could commit the crime of genocide and the applicable standard of proof for determining state responsibility is comparable to the standard used …


Lessons From The Saddam Trial, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2007

Lessons From The Saddam Trial, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Economic Emergency And The Rule Of Law, Bernadette Meyler Jan 2007

Economic Emergency And The Rule Of Law, Bernadette Meyler

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.


2007-2008 Lynn University Academic Catalog, Lynn University Jan 2007

2007-2008 Lynn University Academic Catalog, Lynn University

Academic Catalogs

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law—The Meaning Of Violence: An Interpretive Analysis On Whether A Prior Conviction For Carrying A Concealed Weapon Is A "Crime Of Violence" Under The United States Sentencing Guidelines, Neal Eriksen Jan 2007

Criminal Law—The Meaning Of Violence: An Interpretive Analysis On Whether A Prior Conviction For Carrying A Concealed Weapon Is A "Crime Of Violence" Under The United States Sentencing Guidelines, Neal Eriksen

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


State And Local Law Enforcement Response To Undocumented Immigrants: Can We Make The Rules, Too?, Michael J. Almonte Jan 2007

State And Local Law Enforcement Response To Undocumented Immigrants: Can We Make The Rules, Too?, Michael J. Almonte

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.


Voluntary Surgical Castration Of Sex Offenders: Waiving The Eighth Amendment Protection From Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Lystra Batchoo Jan 2007

Voluntary Surgical Castration Of Sex Offenders: Waiving The Eighth Amendment Protection From Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Lystra Batchoo

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.


Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried Jan 2007

Clarifying The Curative Admissibility Doctrine: Using The Principles Of Forfeiture And Deterrence To Shape The Relief For An Opponent's Evidentiary Misconduct, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Special Issues Raised By Rape Trial, Aviva Orenstein Jan 2007

Special Issues Raised By Rape Trial, Aviva Orenstein

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Emotional Juror., Todd E. Pettys Jan 2007

The Emotional Juror., Todd E. Pettys

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Expert Witness Ethics, Joseph Sanders Jan 2007

Expert Witness Ethics, Joseph Sanders

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Evidence And Ethics: Litigating In The Shadows Of The Rules, Joseph A. Colquitt Jan 2007

Evidence And Ethics: Litigating In The Shadows Of The Rules, Joseph A. Colquitt

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.


Categorical Exclusions From Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make A Right?, Dora W. Klein Jan 2007

Categorical Exclusions From Capital Punishment: How Many Wrongs Make A Right?, Dora W. Klein

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.


Applying United States V. Stein To New York's Indigent Defense Crisis: Show The Poor Some Love Too, Marc Sackin Jan 2007

Applying United States V. Stein To New York's Indigent Defense Crisis: Show The Poor Some Love Too, Marc Sackin

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Crucible, Harvard's Secret Court, And Homophobic Witch Hunts, Amy D. Ronner Jan 2007

The Crucible, Harvard's Secret Court, And Homophobic Witch Hunts, Amy D. Ronner

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.