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Flora, Not Fauna: Gm Culture And Agriculture, Susan Mchugh Jan 2008

Flora, Not Fauna: Gm Culture And Agriculture, Susan Mchugh

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Reimagining Workers' Human Rights: Transformative Organizing For A Socially Aware Global Economy, Dean Hubbard Jan 2008

Reimagining Workers' Human Rights: Transformative Organizing For A Socially Aware Global Economy, Dean Hubbard

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

This article illustrates a strategy to reconceptualize workers' rights activism to achieve systematic transformation of the global political economy emphasizing the disproportionate toll of neo-liberal economics on women, poor people, and people of color. The first section demonstrates the way in which existing structures in international human rights law can work to provide a normative foundation to this goal. The second section emphasizes the essential next step toward reaching this transformation in what the author terms, Socially Aware Global Economy (SAGE) organizing. SAGE organizing first, reimagines the labor movement through grass roots, transnational organizing, second, revitalizes economic human rights law …


Globalization And Trade Initiatives In The Arab World: Historical Context, Progress To Date, And Prospects For The Future, Susan L. Sakmar Jan 2008

Globalization And Trade Initiatives In The Arab World: Historical Context, Progress To Date, And Prospects For The Future, Susan L. Sakmar

University of San Francisco Law Review

This Article discusses whether external trade intervention, such as the MEFTA Initiative proposed, will lead to greater economic integration of the Arab world into the multilateral trading regime, and whether MEFTA can serve as the catalyst to enhance intra-regional trade and investment.


The Fallacy Of Mandating Contraceptive Equity: Why Laws That Protect Women With Health Insurance Deepen Institutional Discrimination, Phyra M. Mccandless Jan 2008

The Fallacy Of Mandating Contraceptive Equity: Why Laws That Protect Women With Health Insurance Deepen Institutional Discrimination, Phyra M. Mccandless

University of San Francisco Law Review

This Comment takes a close look at the United States' approach to health insurance and various unsuccessful efforts at broadening the health care choices of American women in the form of contraceptive equity laws.


Sentencing Our Children To Die In Prison: Global Law And Practice, Connie De La Vega, Michelle Leighton Jan 2008

Sentencing Our Children To Die In Prison: Global Law And Practice, Connie De La Vega, Michelle Leighton

University of San Francisco Law Review

This Article focuses on the sentencing of child offenders to a term of life imprisonment without the possibility of release or parole ("LWOP"). These are children convicted of crimes when younger than eighteen years of age, as defined by the international standards contained in the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.


Understanding California Sentencing, Kara Dansky Jan 2008

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.


Software For The Telugu Language, Madhuri Dasari Jan 2008

Software For The Telugu Language, Madhuri Dasari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Born Free Yet Everywhere In Chains: Global Slavery In The Twenty-First Century, Ranee Khoohsie Lal Panjabi Jan 2008

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

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Counting Casualties In The War On Prisoners, Craig Haney Jan 2008

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.


Democracy And Tort Law In America: The Counter Revolution, Christopher J. Roederer Jan 2008

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 …


Raise Your Profile: Build Your Program, Jennifer Nutefall, Deborah Gaspar Jan 2008

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.


The Unending Onslaught On Tribal Sovereignty: State Income Taxation Of Non-Member Indians, Scott A. Taylor Jan 2008

The Unending Onslaught On Tribal Sovereignty: State Income Taxation Of Non-Member Indians, Scott A. Taylor

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reading Scripture In Crisis: The Victorian Crisis Of Faith And Macdonald’S Response To Coleridge, Gisela Kreglinger Jan 2008

Reading Scripture In Crisis: The Victorian Crisis Of Faith And Macdonald’S Response To Coleridge, Gisela Kreglinger

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.


What's So Fair About The Fair And Accurate Credit Transactions Act?, Michael E. Chaplin Jan 2008

What's So Fair About The Fair And Accurate Credit Transactions Act?, Michael E. Chaplin

Marquette Law Review

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Teaching Rights Of Publicity: Blending Copyright And Trademark, Common Law And Statutes, And Domestic And Foreign Law, David S. Welkowitz, Tyler T. Ochoa Jan 2008

Teaching Rights Of Publicity: Blending Copyright And Trademark, Common Law And Statutes, And Domestic And Foreign Law, David S. Welkowitz, Tyler T. Ochoa

Saint Louis University Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Recipe For Disaster: Analyzing The Interplay Between The Castle Doctrine And The Knock-And-Announce Rule After Hudson V. Michigan, G. Todd Butler Jan 2008

Recipe For Disaster: Analyzing The Interplay Between The Castle Doctrine And The Knock-And-Announce Rule After Hudson V. Michigan, G. Todd Butler

MC Law Review

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Science Fiction And Postmemory Han In Contemporary Korean American Literature, Seo-Young J. Chu Jan 2008

Science Fiction And Postmemory Han In Contemporary Korean American Literature, Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

In this essay, Seo-Young Chu explores representations of a specifically Korean American type of postmemory that she calls "postmemory han."


Asu Researchers Investigate Subterranean Fishes Of China, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2008

Asu Researchers Investigate Subterranean Fishes Of China, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


A-State Biology Department Sees New Library Dedicated, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2008

A-State Biology Department Sees New Library Dedicated, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Piranhas’ Arrival In Arkansas Possible, But Not Probable, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2008

Piranhas’ Arrival In Arkansas Possible, But Not Probable, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Arkansas Wildlife Gets Report Card At Conference, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2008

Arkansas Wildlife Gets Report Card At Conference, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Integrating Web 2.0 Applications As Cognitive Tools In Second And Foreign Language Instruction, Daniela Munca Jan 2008

Integrating Web 2.0 Applications As Cognitive Tools In Second And Foreign Language Instruction, Daniela Munca

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Crustaceans, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

Crustaceans, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Manatee, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

Manatee, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Vespucci, Amerigo, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

Vespucci, Amerigo, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


West Indies, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

West Indies, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Columbus, Christopher, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

Columbus, Christopher, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Whaling, E.C. M. Parsons, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada, Naomi A. Rose Jan 2008

Whaling, E.C. M. Parsons, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada, Naomi A. Rose

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


The Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada Jan 2008

The Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Shelly Kannada

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.


Biological Collections Get International Certification, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2008

Biological Collections Get International Certification, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.