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Personal Memoirs Of U.S. Grant, And Alternative Accounts Of Lee's Surrender At Appomattox, George R. Goethals

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

It is somewhat troubling that as we try to understand leaders and leadership we are confronted with the problem that our knowledge of central historical events is highly subject to the differing perspectives of various scholars. What can we know? How can we know it?

This chapter considers these questions by examining the implications of a particular variation on the general problem of differing historical perspectives. That is, how do we weigh autobiographical accounts of events by the actors themselves? Is there something distinctive about these accounts, or are they best thought of as just one more rendering of history, …

Adam Smith, Collusion And “Right” At The Supreme Court, David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Adam Smith’s views on collusion were injected into the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly as Justice Stevens puzzled over why a collusive action might be viewed as “right.” Motivation by a desire for approbation provides Smith’s explanation for the existence of well- functioning groups. “Right” action is approved by the group. The question is what happens when the groups are in conflict. For Smith, collusion is one instance of the larger problem of faction in which a small group organizes to exploit the larger society.

Sir Francis Galton, Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Cousin to Charles Darwin and a talented statistician, Sir Francis Galton had an influence on social science that was profound. His major contributions to mathematical statistics included the initial development of quantiles and linear regression techniques. Along with F. Y. Edgeworth and Karl Pearson, he developed general techniques of multiple regression and correlation analysis, statistical devices that serve as substitutes for experiments in social science. Galton had a major impact on economics, and with W. R. Greg, was instrumental in creating the “science” of eugenics.

Adam Smith And His Sources: The Evil Of Independence, Sandra J. Peart, David M. Levy

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

This paper explores the foundations of Adam Smith’s view that the philosopher is the same as the street porter. Despite their innate similarity, Smith recognized that the role of the philosopher, someone who provides useful instruction to fellow humans, is not that of the street porter (Pear and Levy 2005; Schliesser 2005, 2006). He also saw that this potentially useful employment may entail a biased perspective on human conduct. Motivated by matters too distant for ordinary people to notice, the philosopher may come to believe that he is better than those he studies and to regard himself as independent form …

Ethics In Experimentation, Donelson R. Forsyth

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

Experimentation in the social sciences, by its very nature, requires researchers to manipulate and control key aspects of the social setting so as to determine what effect, if any, these manipulations have on the people in that setting. Such studies, although unmatched in terms of their scientific yield, nonetheless raise questions of ethics: Do researchers have the moral right to conduct experiments on their fellow human beings? What practices are unacceptable and what procedures are allowable? Can standards be established to safeguard the rights of participants?

Autokinetic Effect, Donelson R. Forsyth

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The autokinetic effect is an optical illusion. It occurs when a perceiver staring at a stationary pinpoint of light in an otherwise completely dark visual field believes that the light moves from its fixed position. This “self-motion” (auto-kinetic) is caused, in part, by the nearly imperceptible movements of the eye known as saccades. Ordinarily the visual system compensates for these naturally occurring motions of the eye, but when only a single light is visible with no frame of reference, the light appears to wander in unpredictable directions and at variable speeds. This illusion was first noted by astronomers when viewing …

Why "Being There" Is Essential To Leadership, Joanne B. Ciulla

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

One of the first things Americans hear on the TV or radio news each day is where the president will be and what he will be doing. In England, you can tell when the queen is staying in her castle if her flag is flying over it. People like to know where their leaders are, and that information is readily available to the public. In an era of video conferencing and satellite feeds, leaders can be seen and heard anywhere at anytime in the virtual world. Nonetheless, the presence of a leader on TV is sometimes not good enough. There …

Ay 2007/2008 Meeting Schedule, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2007-11-28, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2008-02-06, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2007-10-10, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2008-03-05, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2007-10-31, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2008-07-11, Faculty Senate

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Ay 2007/2008 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2008-06-18, Faculty Senate

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Harmonizing U.S. Securities And Futures Regulations, Richard Carlucci

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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The Shield Of "Unintended Consequences": Analyzing Venture Capital's Defense Against Increased Carried Interest Taxation, Andrew Kirkpatrick

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Are Retail Investors Better Off Today?, Barbara Black

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Buyer Beware: Temporary Certificates Of Occupancy & The Need For Consumer Protection In The New York City Real Estate Market, Seth Pruss

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Free The Net, Jordan Wellington

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Are Leveraged Buyouts A Form Of Governance Arbitrage?, Dale A. Oesterle

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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The Impact Of "Going Private" On Corporate Stakeholders, Kent Greenfield

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Another Small Step For The Second Circuit Might Be A Giant Leap For Section 43(A) Of The Lanham Act, Cynda E. D'Hondt

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Corporate Free Market Responsibility: Addressing Rights Violations With A Fiduciary Duty Approach To Natural Resource Extractions In Weak Governance Zones, Seher Khawaja

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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The Role Of Financial Regulation In Private Financial Firms: Risk Management And The Limitations On The Market Model, James A. Fanto

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Where Do We Go From Here? The Battle Against Predatory Subprime Lending, Paul M. Schwartz

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Dueling Over Dual-Use Goods: The U.S. Department Of Commerce's Misguided Attempt To Promote U.S. Security And Trade With China Through Restrictive Export Controls, Andrew F. Diamond

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Leptodactylus Cunicularius Sazima And Bokermann Rabbit-Burrow Frog, W. R. Heyer, M. M. Heyer, Rafael O. De Sá

Biology Faculty Publications

Adult Leptodactylus cunicularius are moderately small. The head is longer than wide and the hind limbs are long (Table 1; Heyer and Thompson 2000 provided definitions of adult size and leg length categories for Leptodactylus). Male vocal sacs are internal, not externally expanded. The snout is protruding, not sexually dimorphic. Male forearms are not hypertrophied and males lack asperities on the thumbs and chest. The dorsum is variegated with small, often confluent, spots and blotches. There is a very thin interrupted mid-dorsal light stripe (pinstripe). Usually, there is a noticeable light, irregular, elongate, mid-dorsal blotch in the scapular region. …

Is The Amphibian Tree Of Life Really Fatally Flawed?, Darrel R. Frost, Taran Grant, Julian Faivovich, Raoul H. Bain, Alexander Haas, Celio F.B. Haddad, Rafael O. De Sá, Et Al.

Biology Faculty Publications

Wiens (2007, Q. Rev. Biol. 82, 55–56) recently published a severe critique of Frost et al.'s (2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 297, 1–370) monographic study of amphibian systematics, concluding that it is “a disaster” and recommending that readers “simply ignore this study”. Beyond the hyperbole, Wiens raised four general objections that he regarded as “fatal flaws”: (1) the sampling design was insufficient for the generic changes made and taxonomic changes were made without including all type species; (2) the nuclear gene most commonly used in amphibian phylogenetics, RAG-1, was not included, nor were the morphological characters that had justified …

Government Data Mining And The Fourth Amendment, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The government's ability to obtain and analyze recorded information about its citizens through the process known as data mining has expanded enormously over the past decade. Although the best-known government data mining operation (Total Information Awareness, more recently dubbed Terrorism Information Awareness) supposedly no longer exists, large-scale data mining by federal agencies devoted to enforcing criminal and counter-terrorism laws has continued unabated. This paper addresses three puzzles about data mining. First, when data mining is undertaken by the government, does it implicate the Fourth Amendment? Second, does the analysis change when data mining is undertaken by private entities which then …