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Confronting The Crisis Of California Prisons, Thelton Henderson

University of San Francisco Law Review

This is a brief address that is aimed at explaining the history and importance of prison reform and an approach to change the underlying culture in the institution that creates the unconstitutional conditions in prisons.

Toward An Integral Critical Approach To Thinking, Talking, Writing, And Teaching About Race, Rhonda V. Magee

University of San Francisco Law Review

A response and critizism of "Are Law Schools Racist?: A "Talk" with Richard Delgado"

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 05 - January 2008

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the University's 25-year master plan, a collaboration between the University's public radio station and the Institute for Asian American Studies, the dedication of the Boston State College Room, GoKids programming, and other news from UMass Boston.

Insights- October 2008, University Relations Staff

Insights

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Insights- Nov/Dec. 2008, University Relations Staff

Insights

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Exploring (Social) Class In The Classroom: The Case Of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, Miriam A. Cherry

Faculty Publications

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Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (the "Lucy Case") presents a rich teaching vehicle for the first year of contracts for multiple reasons. Another participant in this symposium has discussed the Lucy Case to laud its value in teaching fact analysis or issue spotting. Others have commented upon the case for its doctrinal utility in explaining the concepts of illusory contracts, exclusive dealing and best efforts. The historical background, the opinions of Benjamin Cardozo and the opportunity to introduce feminist jurisprudence and law and economics concepts into the first year course are also fertile ground for discussion. Knowing …

An Interview With Kenneth A. Bruffee, Michele A. Eodice

The Writing Center Journal

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The Blind Leading The Blind: What If They’Re Not All Visual Or Tactile Learners?, Robin A. Boyle, James B. Levy

Faculty Publications

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As legal writing professors, we exalt analysis over intuition and are trained to follow the facts rather than engage in guess-work. We train our students to do the same. Yet when it comes to the pedagogy of legal analysis, we sometimes disregard our training by relying on observations and anecdotal evidence. Specifically, we may be assuming that the vast majority of our students are visual and/or tactile learners because they have grown up using computers, and we see students using computers all the time. Implicit in our assumption is that learning styles are determined by environmental factors alone or …

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Turkish Journal of Botany

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Turkish Journal of Botany

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Poisoners, Larcenists, And The Mad Chambermaid: Villainy In Late Victorian Detective Fiction, Jennifer Filion

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this study identifies and focuses on six primary categories: the visual depiction of the criminal, the criminal class, the jewelry heist, the colonial subject, the violent female offender, and the domestic villain. The creation of each criminal category and the reinforcement of that “type” in popular literature functions to establish order and to support beliefs …

Intellectual Influences On The New Left In America: C Wright Mills And Herbert Marcuse, James Panton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The commonalities between C. Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse – both social theorists who enjoyed a considerable public audience – are charted in this essay. Despite apparent fundamental differences over Marxism and "Big Theory", their parallel theoretical engagements with the linked questions of post-war political agency and the impact of U.S. mass media, are mapped out. A specific limitation of their "New Left" philosophies and politics is each thinker's problematic tendency to locate potential "freedom" in an increasingly narrow "private" sphere.

Governing Certain Things: The Regulation Of Street Trees In Four North American Cities, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

Most sociolegal studies of the urban street focus on the human element. By focusing on the tree, my Article offers a unique perspective on the interrelations between various actors within the public spaces of modern North American cities. Situated at the intersection of legal geography, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies, this Article demonstrates how natural artifacts function as technologies of governance, thereby masking crucial political interventions behind a natural facade. The tensions between nature and the city, as embedded in both the construction and the regulation of street trees, provide an unusual perspective on the management of urban populations …

Hungry Realism: Style And Subjecthood In Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl, Amy Gentry

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Meridel Le Sueur's 1939 novel The Girl occupies a troubled place within the history of American genres. Situated within several different subgenres—at once proletarian literature, feminist complaint, and sentimental melodrama—the novel sits comfortably in none. Written in 1939 but only published in 1978, it entered the public sphere almost forty years out of context, in a moment of radical feminism which, while it often resonated with Le Sueur's politics, could not but offer important dissonances as well. This long silence and late revision have partially obscured the book's original depiction of hunger as a force that destabilizes subjectivity …

Competitive Supragovernmental Regulation: How Could It Be Democratic?, Errol E. Meidinger

Journal Articles

This paper explores the possibility that a developing form of regulatory governance is also sketching out a new form of anticipatory regulatory democracy. 'Competitive supra-governmental regulation' is largely driven by non-state actors and is therefore commonly viewed as suffering a democracy deficit. However, because it stresses broad participation, intensive deliberative procedures, responsiveness to state law and widely accepted norms, and competition among regulatory programs to achieve effective implementation and widespread public acceptance, this form of regulation appears to stand up relatively well under generally understood criteria for democratic governance. Nonetheless, a more satisfactory evaluation will require a much better understanding …

Drawing Back From The Abyss, Or Lessons Learned From Count Von Count, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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A New Look At Neo-Liberal Economic Policies And The Criminalization Of Undocumented Migration, Teresa A. Miller

Journal Articles

This paper situates the current “crisis” surrounding the arrival and continued presence of undocumented immigrants in the United States within penological trends that have taken root in American law over the past thirty years. It positions the shift from more benevolent to the increasingly harsh legal treatment of undocumented immigrants as the continuation of a succession of legal reforms criminalizing immigrants, and governing immigration through crime. By charting the increasing salience of crime in public perceptions of undocumented immigrants, and comparing the immediately preceding criminal stigmatization of so-called “criminal aliens”, this paper exposes current severity toward undocumented immigrants as consistent …

Guest Satisfaction And Guest Loyalty Study For Hotel Industry, Danijel Carev

Theses

Common perception by practitioners in the hotel industry today that a satisfied guest would become a repeat customer was considered as a major subject of this research. It determined the extent to which satisfaction fostered loyalty. Interviewing guests and demonstrating the expression of visual experience through photography illustrated the guests´ propensity for recommending and returning to the hotel as a repeat customer. Using a provided digital camera, participating guests were asked to photograph whatever caught their eye to illustrate the hotel as being meaningful. In examining factors such as ambience, service, as well as with the guest’s overall satisfaction with …

Measuring Library Space Use And Preferences: Charting A Path Toward Increased Engagement, Kathleen M. Webb, Molly Schaller, Sawyer Hunley

Roesch Library Faculty Publications

The article presents a study on measuring library space, use, and preferences at the University of Dayton. The study used a multi-method research approach to be able to analyze the current space use in the library. Data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), surveys on study spaces and online library, and a week-long video were investigated to comprehend the student choices in library usage. Results showed that the university students prefer to study at times alone and at times with others. Factors such us interpersonal communication, comfort, and promotion of basic human needs and desires are necessary for …

The Interlegality Of Transnational Private Law, Robert Wai

Articles & Book Chapters

This article describes transnational private law as a decentralized and intermediate form of transnational governance that recognizes and manages the multiplicity of norms generated by plural normative systems in our contemporary world society. These include international and municipal state systems, nonstate social systems, and private ordering by parties. Consistent with an approach that views globalization as changing the nature of the sovereignty of states, the article draws on the rich tradition of private law, considered with its international dimensions, to find both a concrete example of and a model for understanding the complex role of the state in the plural …

Will The Law Society Of Alberta Celebrate Its Bicentenary?, Harry W. Arthurs

Articles & Book Chapters

External changes - in demography and economy, in the domestic and global organization of power - are transforming the knowledge base of Canada's legal profession, the relations amongst lawyers and between lawyers and their "relevant others, " and indeed the very notion oflegal professionalism. This article explores the implication of these changes for the future of the profession 's governing bodies.

Corporate Social Responsibility In A Comparative Perspective, Cynthia Williams, Ruth V. Aguilera

Articles & Book Chapters

Comparative studies of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are relatively rare, certainly as contrasted with other related fields, such as comparative corporate governance or comparative corporate law. This is to be expected in a field, CSR, that is still

Moreover, the field of empirical CSR research generally has been hampered by the lack of a consistent definition of the construct of CSR, as well as its operationalization and measurement, as recently pointed out by McWilliams et al. (2006) and Rodriguez et al. (2006). This lack of consistency of CSR definitions across studies makes it difficult to evaluate and compare the findings …

Shareholder And Director Liability For Unpaid Workers' Wages In Canada: From Condition Of Granting Limited Liability To Exceptional Remedy, Eric Tucker

Articles & Book Chapters

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Quantification Of The Ecological Resilience Of Drylands Using Digital Remote Sensing, Robert A. Washington-Allen, R. D. Ramsey, Neil E. West, Brien E. Norton

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial surface and support > 36% of the world’s population. However, the magnitude of dryland degradation is unknown at regional and global spatial scales and at 15–30-yr temporal scales. Historical archives of > 30 yr of Landsat satellite imagery exist and allow local to global monitoring and assessment of a landscape’s natural resources in response to climatic events and human activities. Vegetation indices (VIs), i.e., proxies of vegetation characteristics such as phytomass, can be derived from the spectral properties of Landsat imagery. A dynamical systems analysis method called mean-variance analysis can be used to describe and quantify …

Using The Novel To Teach Multiculturalism, Michelle Loris

English Faculty Publications

Description of a fourteen week course taught by Michelle Loris, professor of English at Sacred Heart University. The course, titled Recent Ethnic American Fictions, introduced students to several concepts from contemporary literary theory. The theories included New Criticism, Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, New Historicism, and Feminist Theory. The assumption was that these concepts would give students the tools to become critical readers, which would then provide them with a deeper understanding of these multicultural novels and their particular cultural contexts. For a semester, reading and thinking about these multicultural novels engaged and challenged the students' assumptions about themselves and the America …

Proceedings Of The Second International Humanitarian Law Dialogs, Sixtieth Anniversary Of The Genocide Convention: The Power Of A Word, Mark A. Drumbl

Scholarly Articles

Introductory lecture to the Second Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) was adopted sixty years ago. The legacy of the Genocide Convention is inextricable from the legacy of Nuremberg and the legal work of the Nuremberg prosecutors, some of whom join us today. To this end, celebrating Nuremberg also means celebrating the Genocide Convention.

Schechter's Ideas In Historical Context And Dilution's Rocky Road, Robert G. Bone

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Undergraduate Bulletin 2008-2009, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

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The Impact Of Gender Role Orientation On Childhood Friendship Patterns, Ashley O. Durkee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Review Of "Global Economics: A History Of The Theater Business, The Chamberlain's/King's Men, And Their Plays, 1599-1642" By M. D. Aaron, Nora Johnson

English Literature Faculty Works

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