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Proverbial Language And Its Role In Acquiring A Second Language And Culture, Natalya Vanyushkina Jan 2007

Proverbial Language And Its Role In Acquiring A Second Language And Culture, Natalya Vanyushkina

Russian Language Journal

Researchers in the domain of Russian as a foreign and a second language have paid relatively little attention to proverbs as units of linguistic and cultural expression. Due to this neglect and the overall scarcity of statistical data on current Russian proverbial language, many Russian textbooks and dictionaries offer at best some outdated proverbs that have fallen into disuse in contemporary Russia and at worst, disregard proverbial language altogether. However, this expressive language deserves much more serious consideration from both researchers and teachers of Russian. Russian native speakers take it for granted that their interlocutors share the assumptions behind proverbs, …

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Full Issue Jan 2007

Full Issue

Russian Language Journal

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The "Ultra-Modern" Euripides Of Verrall, H.D., And Macleish, Thomas E. Jenkins Jan 2007

The "Ultra-Modern" Euripides Of Verrall, H.D., And Macleish, Thomas E. Jenkins

Classical Studies Faculty Research

This essay explores the modernity of ancient Greece. If this concept seems a paradox, it is; and it is that tension between antiquity and modernity, between constructions of classical rationalism and modern angst, that fueled three extraordinary adaptations of Euripides from the early 1890s to the mid 1960s. Drawing on a perception of Euripides as the most "modern" of ancient (perhaps even modern!) playwrights, A. W. Verrall, H(ilda) D(oolittle), and Archibald MacLeish all fashioned Euripides-inspired works that challenged contemporary perceptions of Euripides as a classic. As H.D. explains in her Notes on Euripides, "[W]e are too apt to pigeon-hole …

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Early Adolescent Decision Making And Behavioral Adjustment: Are Associations Moderated By Relationship Quality?, Matthew Donald Marrero Jan 2007

Early Adolescent Decision Making And Behavioral Adjustment: Are Associations Moderated By Relationship Quality?, Matthew Donald Marrero

LSU Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between early adolescent decision making and behavioral adjustment with special interest in the interaction between parent-child relationship quality and decision making on behavioral adjustment. Associations were examined using data provided by 218 early adolescents. Girls comprised half the sample and the mean age was just over 11 years old. Main effects were consistent with previous research. Early adolescent decision making was associated with greater behavior problems and depressed mood. Parent-child relationship quality was defined as conflict and acceptance. Greater conflict was associated with poor behavioral adjustment while greater acceptance was …

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Sensational Reports: The Ethical Duty Of Cause Lawyers To Be Competent In Public Advocacy, Deborah J. Cantrell Jan 2007

Sensational Reports: The Ethical Duty Of Cause Lawyers To Be Competent In Public Advocacy, Deborah J. Cantrell

Publications

This article argues that cause lawyers - those lawyers whose primary focus is on social change rather than on for-profit client-based work - have an ethical responsibility to be competent in public advocacy. That responsibility stems from a cause lawyer's commitment to the principles embodied in the particular social movement in which the lawyer is acting. It is reinforced by the requirement of competency under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. To illustrate the contours of a competent public advocacy strategy, the article highlights two cause lawyering organizations, Legal Momentum and the Institute for Justice, and considers how each organization …

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Illuminating Secrecy: A New Economic Analysis Of Confidential Settlements, Scott A. Moss Jan 2007

Illuminating Secrecy: A New Economic Analysis Of Confidential Settlements, Scott A. Moss

Publications

Even the most hotly contested lawsuits typically end in a confidential settlement forbidding the parties from disclosing their allegations, evidence, or settlement amount. Confidentiality draws fierce criticism for harming third parties by concealing serious misdeeds like discrimination, pollution, defective manufacturing, and sexual abuse. Others defend confidentiality as a mutually beneficial pay-for-silence bargain that facilitates settlement, serves judicial economy, and prevents frivolous copycat lawsuits. This debate is based in economic logic, yet most analyses have been surprisingly shallow as to how confidentiality affects incentives to settle. Depicting a more nuanced, complex reality of litigation and settlement, this Article reaches several conclusions …

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Clouds, Cameras, And Computers: The First Amendment And Networked Public Places, Timothy Zick Jan 2007

Clouds, Cameras, And Computers: The First Amendment And Networked Public Places, Timothy Zick

Faculty Publications

It seems to be a common assumption that physical places like parks, sidewalks, and public squares, and "cyber-places" like the Web, constitute separate locations of communication. In reality, however, the intersection and collision of these two spaces is imminent. In some respects it has already occurred. Entire cities and counties are erecting wireless "clouds" that will bring the Internet to vast public spaces. Technologies of surveillance continue to proliferate. What one does and says in public places is increasingly subject to surveillance by means of a combination of hand-held devices and official surveillance tools like closed circuit television cameras (CCTV). …

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Uganda: A Nation In Crisis, Hema Chatlani Jan 2007

Uganda: A Nation In Crisis, Hema Chatlani

California Western International Law Journal

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Zimbabwe: Why The United Nations, State, And Non-State Actors Failed To Effectively Regulate Mugabe's Policy Of Internal Displacement, Sarah E. Hager Jan 2007

Zimbabwe: Why The United Nations, State, And Non-State Actors Failed To Effectively Regulate Mugabe's Policy Of Internal Displacement, Sarah E. Hager

California Western International Law Journal

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"They Told Me He Said He Would Kill Me." Why Hearsay Should Get Full Weight In Asylum Proceedings, Nicole J. Thomas Jan 2007

"They Told Me He Said He Would Kill Me." Why Hearsay Should Get Full Weight In Asylum Proceedings, Nicole J. Thomas

California Western International Law Journal

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No Hablo Inglés: Waivers To The English Language Requirement For Naturalization, Helene C. Colin Jan 2007

No Hablo Inglés: Waivers To The English Language Requirement For Naturalization, Helene C. Colin

California Western International Law Journal

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Imminence And Proportionality: The U.S. And U.K. Responses To Global Terrorism, Todd Landman Jan 2007

Imminence And Proportionality: The U.S. And U.K. Responses To Global Terrorism, Todd Landman

California Western International Law Journal

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Bringing Fairness To Extradition Hearings: Proposing A Revised Evidentiary Bar For Political Dissidents, Hansdeep Singh Jan 2007

Bringing Fairness To Extradition Hearings: Proposing A Revised Evidentiary Bar For Political Dissidents, Hansdeep Singh

California Western International Law Journal

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Global Governance And Public Health Security In The 21st Century, Thomas E. Novotny Jan 2007

Global Governance And Public Health Security In The 21st Century, Thomas E. Novotny

California Western International Law Journal

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Preserving The Peace: The Continuing Ban On War Between States, Mary Ellen O'Connell Jan 2007

Preserving The Peace: The Continuing Ban On War Between States, Mary Ellen O'Connell

California Western International Law Journal

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Is This Your Bedroom?: Reconsidering Third-Party Consent Searches Under Modern Living Arrangements Note, Russell M. Gold Jan 2007

Is This Your Bedroom?: Reconsidering Third-Party Consent Searches Under Modern Living Arrangements Note, Russell M. Gold

Articles

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The Return Of Seditious Libel, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Clint A. Carpenter Jan 2007

The Return Of Seditious Libel, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., Clint A. Carpenter

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Lady Madonna, Children At Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System's Romanticization Of The Parent-Child Relationship, Jennifer M. Collins Jan 2007

Lady Madonna, Children At Your Feet: The Criminal Justice System's Romanticization Of The Parent-Child Relationship, Jennifer M. Collins

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This Article is an attempt to begin a conversation about the way children who have been victimized by their parents are treated by the criminal justice system. I suggest that even though as a society we are obsessed with our children, that obsession has not translated into criminal justice policies that adequately protect them. Parental offenders are systematically treated better by the criminal justice system than are extrafamilial offenders, and we need to grapple with whether that preferential treatment is appropriate. I suggest that in many instances it is not, and I therefore propose some principles that I hope provide …

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Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, And Some Modest Proposals For Reform, Dale Carpenter Jan 2007

Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, And Some Modest Proposals For Reform, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

It is time to rethink the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in approving social science research. While most law professors conduct their research in an almost unregulated environment - pouring through cases, statutes, and each other's articles, all without the kind of human interaction subject to IRB regulation - their colleagues elsewhere in the university have been coping for decades with an increasingly intrusive bureaucracy that sometimes undermines basic academic values. Three things seem very clear. First, there are a lot of IRBs - at least 4,000 - and their numbers are growing. Second, they have recently "increased their …

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Famous Trademarks And The Rational Basis For Protecting Irrational Beliefs, J. Shahar Dillbary Jan 2007

Famous Trademarks And The Rational Basis For Protecting Irrational Beliefs, J. Shahar Dillbary

Articles

Contrary to the traditional view, this article argues that mega-brands are neither economic evils nor limited to imparting information about the products they adom. It also rejects the view that famous marks persuade "snobs" to "irrationally" pay more for the same physical product they could have purchased for less. Rather, it adopts the view that in purchasing a branded good, the consumer is actually purchasing a bundle of three prod- ucts: a physical product, information about the physical product, and an intangible product, such as fame, prestige, peace of mind, or a pleasant feel- ing. This article explores the demand …

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Hate Studies Through A Constructivist And Critical Pedagogical Approach, James M. Mohr Jan 2007

Hate Studies Through A Constructivist And Critical Pedagogical Approach, James M. Mohr

Journal of Hate Studies

Most of us are probably familiar with the child’s lament made during dinner: “I hate vegetables.” If you are a teacher, you may have heard students announce with conviction, “I hate homework.” It seems that everyone hates someone, something, or some action; so what value is there in a field of hate studies? Hate, when discussed as a strong feeling toward something one dislikes, appears simply as an emotion that does not deserve the special recognition of having an entire field committed to its research. However, this narrow focus on this one aspect of hate leaves ignored them very real …

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Reconceptualizing Anti-Lgbt Hate Crimes As Burdening Expression And Association: A Case For Expanding Federal Hate Crime Legislation To Include Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation, Jordan Blair Woods Jan 2007

Reconceptualizing Anti-Lgbt Hate Crimes As Burdening Expression And Association: A Case For Expanding Federal Hate Crime Legislation To Include Gender Identity And Sexual Orientation, Jordan Blair Woods

Journal of Hate Studies

The purpose of this article is to bring to the attention of researchers, scholars, and politicians an important point about the harms to LGBT victims resulting from hate crimes—one that, in my view, is ignored and is critical to the justifications for allowing bias crime victims to obtain legal compensation for being victimized on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. More specifically, this article critiques the current framing of anti-LGBT hate crimes in scholarship and empirical research and reconceptualizes these crimes as systemic inhibitors to expressive and associative opportunities on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation …

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Purify And Destroy: The Political Uses Of Massacre And Genocide, Steven K. Baum Jan 2007

Purify And Destroy: The Political Uses Of Massacre And Genocide, Steven K. Baum

Journal of Hate Studies

There is a popular movement in genocide research to portray genocide as arising from anything other than hate (e.g. Moshman, 2005). From a topdown perspective, this makes sense. After all, the case has been made that there are instrumental (e.g. land grabs) and social psychological considerations— careerism, social bonding—as well as ideological and contextual considerations that all contribute to the genocide recipe and have little to do with hate per se. Yet the current trend makes it seem as if hate crimes and old ethnic enmities do not exist.

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Physicians And Torture: Lessons From The Nazi Doctors, Michael Grodin, George J. Annas Jan 2007

Physicians And Torture: Lessons From The Nazi Doctors, Michael Grodin, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

How is it possible? What are the personal, professional and political contexts that allow physicians to use their skills to torture and kill rather than heal? What are the psychological characteristics and the social, cultural and political factors that predispose physicians to participate in human rights abuses? What can be done to recognize at-risk situations and attempt to provide corrective or preventive strategies? This article examines case studies from Nazi Germany in an attempt to answer these questions. Subjects discussed include the psychology of the individual perpetrator, dehumanization, numbing, splitting, omnipotence, medicalization, group dynamics, obedience to authority, diffusion of responsibility, …

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Bridge Damage Detection Using An Intelligent Engineering System, Dionysios N. Danilatos Jan 2007

Bridge Damage Detection Using An Intelligent Engineering System, Dionysios N. Danilatos

Masters Theses

"This thesis concerns the design of an algorithm that is capable to detect structural damage in civil infrastructure bridges. The algorithm, which will be dubbed Damage Diagnostics System throughout the thesis, is the software component of a broader Bridge Health Monitoring System. This broader system integrates software and hardware,such as sensors and data acquisition components...The rationale for the Structural Damage Diagnosis is based on the principle of the structural vibration testing. The Health Monitoring System captures the vibration signals, as the bridge responds to excitation from various sources. The purpose of the Diagnostic System is to extract information from the …

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Buy, Sell, Or Hold? Analyst Fraud From Economic And Natural Law Perspectives, Ronald J. Colombo Jan 2007

Buy, Sell, Or Hold? Analyst Fraud From Economic And Natural Law Perspectives, Ronald J. Colombo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Investor protection and healthy capital markets are commonly acknowledged as the objectives historically driving U.S. federal securities legislation and policy. Less commonly appreciated, or perhaps intentionally neglected, is the critical role that virtue was understood to play in realizing these objectives by the architects and original enforcers of the securities laws. This understanding has largely been lost, in no small part, due to the success that law and economics has had in dominating securities law thinking. This Article posits that this original understanding can be rediscovered, and the role of virtue restored to its rightful place in securities regulation, via …

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Supercharged Credit Shelter Trust, Mitchell M. Gans, Jonathan G. Blatt, Diana S.C. Zeydel Jan 2007

Supercharged Credit Shelter Trust, Mitchell M. Gans, Jonathan G. Blatt, Diana S.C. Zeydel

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Many married individuals adopt an estate plan designed to avoid estate tax on the death of the first spouse to die while taking maximum advantage of the so-called unified credit (also known as the applicable exclusion amount). The plan typically involves setting apart the amount sheltered by the unified credit (the "credit shelter" amount) separately and providing that only the portion of the estate in excess of the credit shelter amount will pass in a manner that qualifies for the marital deduction. Frequently, the credit shelter amount is set apart in trust so that the surviving spouse may benefit from …

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Legalization And The Mediation Of International Disputes: The Balkan Experience, Darrel Menthe Jan 2007

Legalization And The Mediation Of International Disputes: The Balkan Experience, Darrel Menthe

Connecticut Journal of International Law

This article examines three cases of attempted mediation of civil wars in the Balkans in the 1990s (Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia) and analyzes them with respect to the degree of legalization of the mediation. Legalization in this context means the framing of political disputes in terms of legal rights, principles, and entitlements in preference to more concrete political goals. This article builds a theory of the interaction of legalization and mediation around familiar insights from game theory, showing legalization frequently frames political disputes in ways that are less amenable to negotiated settlement. It argues that unthinking reliance on international law …

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The Expressive Capacity Of International Punishment: The Limits Of The National Law Analogy And The Potential Of International Criminal Law, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2007

The Expressive Capacity Of International Punishment: The Limits Of The National Law Analogy And The Potential Of International Criminal Law, Robert D. Sloane

Faculty Scholarship

Modern international criminal law (ICL) developed in the aftermath of World War II as an alternative to the proposal, espoused by Winston Churchill among others, that major Axis war criminals be summarily executed on sight. Because of this pedigree and the unconscionable nature of the crimes, ICL jurisprudence and scholarship have largely neglected the paramount question fundamental to any criminal justice system: the justifications for and legitimate goals of punishment. Insofar as a coherent jurisprudence of ICL sentencing can be said to exist at all, it remains correspondingly impoverished and unprincipled - comparable in some respects to that of the …

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Reassessing The Purposes Of Federal Question Jurisdiction, John F. Preis Jan 2007

Reassessing The Purposes Of Federal Question Jurisdiction, John F. Preis

Law Faculty Publications

For ages, judges and legal academics have claimed that federal question jurisdiction has three purposes: to provide litigants with a judge experienced in federal law, to protect litigants from state court hostility toward federal claims, and to preserve uniformity in federal law. Because federal claims, for the most part, have always been cognizable in state courts, these purposes imply that state courts are less experienced, more hostile, and more likely to adjudicate federal law in ways that decrease the uniformity of federal law. Despite the ongoing allegiance to this conception of federal question jurisdictionand by implication, state court adjudication of …

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