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Understanding California Sentencing, Kara Dansky

University of San Francisco Law Review

This article describes some constitutional foundations, California's punishment history and themes, and efforts to alleviate prison overcrowding.

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Software For The Telugu Language, Madhuri Dasari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Born Free Yet Everywhere In Chains: Global Slavery In The Twenty-First Century, Ranee Khoohsie Lal Panjabi

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Counting Casualties In The War On Prisoners, Craig Haney

University of San Francisco Law Review

This article decribes prision overcrowding and "The War on Prisoners" - how the nation's criminal justice system was devoted to dispensing punishment and inflicting pain as a matter of policy.

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Democracy And Tort Law In America: The Counter Revolution, Christopher J. Roederer

School of Law Faculty Publications

Although the seeds of democracy and democratic tort reform were sown well before America’s founding, neither began to blossom until after the Second World War. Democratic progress from the 1950s to the 1970s led to, and was in part consolidated by, progressive developments in tort law during the same period. Unfortunately, the last quarter century has been a period of democratic decay in America and just as the revolution in tort law was bound up with democratic progress, the counter-revolution in tort law has tracked and reinforced the waning of American democracy since the 1980s. Although a few authors have …

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Raise Your Profile: Build Your Program, Jennifer Nutefall, Deborah Gaspar

University Libraries Publications

To raise the library's profile within the campus community, it is critical to create a strategic plan and align library goals with those of the university. At George Washington University's Gelman Library, the instruction librarians gained internal and external support to hire two new instruction librarians to better support collaboration with the new university writing program. The library then used assessment data to successfully advocate for an additional two positions.

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