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Responsibility To Pay: Compensating Civilian Casualties Of War, Jonathan Tracy Jan 2007

Responsibility To Pay: Compensating Civilian Casualties Of War, Jonathan Tracy

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.


A Tribute To Roger Groot, Frank O. Bowman Iii Jan 2007

A Tribute To Roger Groot, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

A Tribute to Roger Groot


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 …


Th Politics Of Hate: Ultranationalist And Fundamentalist Tactics And Goals, Joan Davison Jan 2007

Th Politics Of Hate: Ultranationalist And Fundamentalist Tactics And Goals, Joan Davison

Faculty Publications

Ultranationalist and religious fundamentalist movements frequently use hate to mobilize people. These groups possess a sophisticated understanding of the importance of appealing to the emotions. Leaders often employ xenophobic language intended to inspire fear and justify a defensive reaction. The movements also rely heavily upon symbols, myths, and public events to simplify and communicate the "truths" of their ideologies. The leaders convey messages with tremendous affective appeal. Yet, measures exist to counter and contain the politics of hate. The development of civil society, group rights, a free media, and integrated institutions can contribute to a durable solution in cases of …


Nietzsche Reception As "Philosopher Of Fuehrermenschen" In The Main Nazi Paper, David B. Dennis Jan 2007

Nietzsche Reception As "Philosopher Of Fuehrermenschen" In The Main Nazi Paper, David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.


What Are Aboriginal Rights?, Brian Slattery Jan 2007

What Are Aboriginal Rights?, Brian Slattery

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

Aboriginal rights in Canada are often viewed as specific rights - rights that are grounded in the specific practices and customs of particular aboriginal peoples and that differ from people to people. This article argues that these specific rights are in fact concrete instantiations of a panoply of generic aboriginal rights that are presumptively held by all aboriginal groups under Canadian common law. They include the right to conclude treaties, the right to customary law, the right to honourable treatment by the Crown, the right to an ancestral territory, the right of cultural integrity, and the right of self-government. These …


Kelo V. City Of New London: A Reduction Of Property Rights But A Tool To Combat Urban Sprawl, Gregory V. Jolivette Jr. Jan 2007

Kelo V. City Of New London: A Reduction Of Property Rights But A Tool To Combat Urban Sprawl, Gregory V. Jolivette Jr.

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note will analyze the two opposing interests of property owners and of cities in the context of the Supreme Court's Public Use Clause jurisprudence and show that while the Court's decision in Kelo may have diminished property rights, the decision could render an overriding positive impact on combating urban sprawl. Part II defines urban sprawl and identifies some of its associated costs. Part III briefly describes Public Use Clause jurisprudence prior to the Supreme Court's ruling in Kelo. Part IV discusses the Court's opinion in Kelo and Justice Kennedy's concurrence. Part V examines the substantial criticism of Kelo and …


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 …


Muslim Brides And The Ghost Of The Shari’A: Have The Recent Law Reforms In Egypt, Tunisia And Morocco Improved Women’S Position In Marriage And Divorce, And Can Religious Moderates Bring Reform And Make It Stick?, Yakare-Oule Jansen Jan 2007

Muslim Brides And The Ghost Of The Shari’A: Have The Recent Law Reforms In Egypt, Tunisia And Morocco Improved Women’S Position In Marriage And Divorce, And Can Religious Moderates Bring Reform And Make It Stick?, Yakare-Oule Jansen

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.


Obesity, Public Health, And The Food Supply, Barbara L. Atwell Jan 2007

Obesity, Public Health, And The Food Supply, Barbara L. Atwell

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article proposes a three-part approach to improve the food supply. Specifically, it explores government taxing and spending, two traditional public health tools, and suggests that both of these governmental powers can be used to make healthier foods more readily reasonable prices, while increasing the cost of less healthy alternatives. Finally, it proposes that we promote a true “food democracy” through the creation of an education and awareness campaign. This campaign would not only better educate Americans about proper nutrition but would also focus on how we can change our entire relationship with food. It would encourage consumption of locally …


Doctors As Pawns? Law And Medical Ethics At Guantanamo Bay, Jonathan H. Marks Jan 2007

Doctors As Pawns? Law And Medical Ethics At Guantanamo Bay, Jonathan H. Marks

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Place For Interposition? What John Taylor Of Caroline And The Embargo Crisis Have To Offer Regarding Resistance To The Bush Constitution, Bradley D. Hays Jan 2007

A Place For Interposition? What John Taylor Of Caroline And The Embargo Crisis Have To Offer Regarding Resistance To The Bush Constitution, Bradley D. Hays

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


More Ours Than Theirs: The Uighurs, Indefinite Detention, And The Constitution, Ulysses S. Smith Jan 2007

More Ours Than Theirs: The Uighurs, Indefinite Detention, And The Constitution, Ulysses S. Smith

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.


“For All The Saints”: A Feast For All People And All Time, Nathaniel G. Costa Jan 2007

“For All The Saints”: A Feast For All People And All Time, Nathaniel G. Costa

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

This paper examines the feast of All Saints, encompassing the beloved dead, both known and unacclaimed, as expressive of the paschal mystery in their partaking of the promise of life in the resurrection; it also poses the challenge for the living faithful to see themselves as saints in a recovery of the Pauline understanding of the term. The Feast of All Saints strengthens our full understanding of the communion of saints less solely as perfect individuals, remote in time and place from the present, and more as the faithful community of all times and places sharing in the life of …


Looking At Conflict Diamonds Through The Lens Of Catholic Social Teaching, Heather Cherpelis Jan 2007

Looking At Conflict Diamonds Through The Lens Of Catholic Social Teaching, Heather Cherpelis

School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses

Since 1991, more than 50,000 people have been killed and over one million persons displaced in Sierra Leonedue to civil war. In Angolathe average cost of lives is at least 500,000, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the estimated cost is over 3 million lives, and finally in Liberiathe cost of lives is at least 200,000 all due to civil war (The Truth About Diamonds, p. 1). And what funded these wars? Diamonds. Conflict Diamonds to be exact. The United Nations defines conflict diamonds as “rough diamonds which are used by rebel movements to finance …


Goodbye To All That? A Requiem For Neoconservatism, Kenneth Anderson Jan 2007

Goodbye To All That? A Requiem For Neoconservatism, Kenneth Anderson

American University International Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Exploration Of American Social Justice Activists: Developmental Experiences Of White Undergraduate And Post-College Millennials Who Are Activists For Africa, Caryn P. Grimstead Jan 2007

An Exploration Of American Social Justice Activists: Developmental Experiences Of White Undergraduate And Post-College Millennials Who Are Activists For Africa, Caryn P. Grimstead

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore experiences that undergraduate students and recent graduates who are White social justice activists for Africa perceive as contributing to their development as activists committed to addressing humanitarian crises in Africa and how they interpret these experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with six undergraduate students, or recent graduates, who considered themselves social justice activists for Africa and who identified with White culture more strongly than any other ethnic culture. These participants ranged from ages 21 to 25 and were found to share demographic similarities such as intact families of origin and middle …


A New Catholic Approach To Understanding The Origins Of War, Matthew Allen Shadle Jan 2007

A New Catholic Approach To Understanding The Origins Of War, Matthew Allen Shadle

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Investigation Of An Energy Harvesting Small Unmanned Air Vehicle, Kyle Christopher Magoteaux Jan 2007

Investigation Of An Energy Harvesting Small Unmanned Air Vehicle, Kyle Christopher Magoteaux

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Detection Of Unique Turbulent Signatures Resulting From Atmospheric Disturbances Of Flying Aircraft, Mark Anthony Garnet Jan 2007

The Detection Of Unique Turbulent Signatures Resulting From Atmospheric Disturbances Of Flying Aircraft, Mark Anthony Garnet

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Vertical Takeoff And Landing (Vtol) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Ua V) With Emphasis On Tilt Duct And Tilt Rotor Systems, Devin Boyle Jan 2007

Analysis Of Vertical Takeoff And Landing (Vtol) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Ua V) With Emphasis On Tilt Duct And Tilt Rotor Systems, Devin Boyle

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

No abstract provided.


Opportunities For Undergraduate Research Experiences (Oure) Research Papers 2006-2007 Vol. I, Ryan Abington, Sunil Aggarwal, Emily Bahram-Ahi, Lia Raquel Otal Bartnicki, Navarre Bartnz, Matthew Beyer, Devin Boyle, Joshua Bunch, Adam Bunton, Joshua Cardenzana, Joshua Carey, Brandi Clark, Cary Cooper, Ryan Dusheke, Agatha Dwilewicz, Joshua Eads, Josiah Elliott, Justin Enderle, David Erdos, Tyler Fears, Nathaniel Goss Jan 2007

Opportunities For Undergraduate Research Experiences (Oure) Research Papers 2006-2007 Vol. I, Ryan Abington, Sunil Aggarwal, Emily Bahram-Ahi, Lia Raquel Otal Bartnicki, Navarre Bartnz, Matthew Beyer, Devin Boyle, Joshua Bunch, Adam Bunton, Joshua Cardenzana, Joshua Carey, Brandi Clark, Cary Cooper, Ryan Dusheke, Agatha Dwilewicz, Joshua Eads, Josiah Elliott, Justin Enderle, David Erdos, Tyler Fears, Nathaniel Goss

Opportunities for Undergraduate Research Experience Program (OURE)

No abstract provided.


Foa Clock Coffy, Leon Rooke Jan 2007

Foa Clock Coffy, Leon Rooke

Short Story

No abstract provided.


The Unresolved Equation Of Espionage And International Law, A. John Radsan Jan 2007

The Unresolved Equation Of Espionage And International Law, A. John Radsan

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Essay, in order to offer up something to that appetite, is divided into five parts. After this introduction, the author, A. John Radsan, describes a Hegelian impulse, the perpetual drive to find unity in disorder. That impulse, for better or worse, creates the train and the track for many of the academy's journeys. Radsan then defines what is meant by "intelligence activities" for purposes of this Essay, after which Radsan surveys the scholarship that existed before this symposium on the relationship between espionage and international law. As the number of pages written on this topic suggests, scholarship on espionage …


Standing Closest To The Flame: Community Wildfire Planning And The Healthy Forest Act, William E. Fleeger Jan 2007

Standing Closest To The Flame: Community Wildfire Planning And The Healthy Forest Act, William E. Fleeger

Doctoral Dissertations

Recently, national fire policy has been redirected from a primary focus on suppression towards a more integrated and comprehensive approach developed at the community level. As part of this policy shift, Congress passed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (P.L. 108-148) in 2003 encouraging communities to develop community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) to guide fuel reduction and wildfire mitigation efforts on both federal and nonfederal lands. This research examines U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and community collaboration in the development of CWPPs through a case study analysis of four communities in two western states. The social and decision-making processes used in the …


Book Notes: Theory's Empire, Timothy Burke Jan 2007

Book Notes: Theory's Empire, Timothy Burke

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Speech: Modern War And Modern Law, David Kennedy Jan 2007

Speech: Modern War And Modern Law, David Kennedy

University of Baltimore Law Review

Warfare has become a legal institution. Law organizes and disciplines the military, defines the battlespace, privileges killing the enemy, and offers a common language to debate the legitimacy of waging war — down to the tactics of particular battle. At the same time, law is no longer a matter of firm distinctions — combatant and non-combatant, war and peace. It has become a flexible and strategic partner for both the military and for humanitarians seeking to restrain the violence of warfare. The relationship between modern war and modern law is made all the more complex by today's asymmetric conflicts, and …


Fabrication And Characterization Of Particulate Polymer Nanocomposites, Ying Du Jan 2007

Fabrication And Characterization Of Particulate Polymer Nanocomposites, Ying Du

Open Access Dissertations

A comprehensive series of experiments are conducted to study dynamic crack initiation and propagation in nanocomposite materials. The nanocomposites are fabricated using ultrasonics with an in-situ polymerization technique to produce materials with excellent particle dispersion, as verified by transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Dynamic fracture toughness testing is carried out on three-point bend nanocomposite specimens using a modified split-Hopkinson pressure bar. Dynamic photoelasticity coupled with high-speed photography has also been used to obtain crack tip velocities and dynamic stress fields around the propagating cracks. A relationship between the dynamic stress intensity factor, KD, and the crack tip velocity, …


Review Of Indians And Emigrants: Encounters On The Overland Trail By Michael L. Tate, Susan Badger-Doyle Jan 2007

Review Of Indians And Emigrants: Encounters On The Overland Trail By Michael L. Tate, Susan Badger-Doyle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Relations between emigrants and the Indians they encountered along the central route of trails ro Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley were a significant aspect of overland travel, particularly on the segment crossing the Great Plains. Emigrants and Indians is a comprehensive study of the complex history of these intercultural relations from 1840 to 1870. In contrast to popular stereotypical images of "savage" Indians and a focus on conflict, Michael Tate shows that cooperation, aid, and mutual benefit dominated Indian-white relations throughout the period. In topical chapters, he examines the evolving nature of relations between two fundamentally different peoples …