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The Effects Of Competition On The Nitrogen Uptake Ability Of Juncus Effusus : An In-Situ Field Experiment At The University Of Mississippi Field Station, Clint. Helms

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Isolation And Structural Determination Of Two Sterol Sulfates That Reverse Efflux Pump-Mediated Fluconazole Resistance In Candida Albicans From A Marine Sponge Topsentia Sp., Jessica Ann Digirolamo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Visibility : Searching For Black Businesses In Oxford, Mississippi, Velsie D. Pate

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Federalism Accountability: "Agency-Forcing" Measures, Catherine M. Sharkey

Faculty Articles

This Article takes as its starting point the “agency reference model” for judicial preemption decisions, adopting the foundational premise that courts should take advantage of what federal agencies, which are uniquely positioned to evaluate the impact of state regulation and common law liability upon federal regulatory schemes, have to offer. The Article’s main focus is on the federalism dimension of the debate: Congress’s and federal agencies’ respective ability to serve as loci of meaningful debate with state governmental entities about the impact of federal regulatory schemes on state regulatory interests. Notwithstanding the dismal track record of federal agencies, which seems …

Happiness And Revealed Preferences In Evolutionary Perspective, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

How do we understand human nature? The purpose of this Essay is to examine the relationship between human nature and social institutions. More concretely, the question is: What does an accurate account of human nature tell us about the choice of a desirable set of social institutions? Accounts of this sort typically focus on two key sticking points, one of ends and the other of means. On the former, Is individual self-interest the driving force behind all forms of human behavior? Do people care about themselves first? In the extreme, improbable, answer to this query, ordinary people do not care …

Social Value As A Policy-Based Limitation Of The Ordinary Duty To Exercise Reasonable Care, Mark A. Geistfeld

Faculty Articles

One whose affirmative conduct creates a foreseeable risk of physical harm is subject to the ordinary duty to exercise reasonable care with respect to those who might be foreseeably harmed by the conduct. In exceptional cases, this ordinary duty has been limited by judges as a matter of law. Judges have invoked a variety of public-policy factors to support such a limitation of liability, but have not adequately explained the nature of the justification. Consequently, the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harms recognizes that courts can limit duty when “an articulated countervailing principle or policy warrants denying or …

The Aaml's Revised Standards For The Representation Of Children In Custody And Visitation Proceedings: The Reporter's Perspective, Martin Guggenheim

Faculty Articles

This article describes the Standards for the Representation of Children in Custody and Visitation proceedings recently promulgated by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. It also seeks to bring to life the remarkable politics of children’s representation, which came to a boil in recent years. In addition to describing the AAML Standards, the article also describes two other recent efforts to define the role of a child's lawyer, one by the Uniform Law Commission and the other by the American Bar Association and then tells the story of why both of those efforts ultimately failed to garner significant support in …

In Case Of Emergency: Misunderstanding Tradeoffs In The War On Terror, Stephen Holmes

Faculty Articles

The article discusses the debate on counterterrorism law. The author states that adhering to the pre-existing rules such as the habeas corpus and the Geneva Conventions during emergency situations underestimate the consequences of dangers. It states that rules which constrain the executive are needed for flexibility that is required for effectiveness in confronting the terrorist threats. It further notes that the existing emergency rules can impede responses to danger and disaster when these rules are slavishly followed. The author stresses on the idea that decisions for counterterrorism increase security in one dimension only since the spectrum of threats remains complex …

The University As Constructed Cultural Commons, Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann, Katherine J. Strandburg

Faculty Articles

This paper examines commons as socially constructed environments built via and alongside intellectual property rights systems. We sketch a theoretical framework for examining cultural commons across a broad variety of institutional and disciplinary contexts, and we apply that framework to the university and associated practices and institutions.

Privacy: Is There Any Left?, Arthur R. Miller

Faculty Articles

Arthur R. Miller was the keynote speaker at the Federal Courts Law Review’s Symposium Privacy in the Federal Courts on April 11, 2008.

The Case Against The Case For The Third-Party Doctrine: A Response To Epstein And Kerr, Erin E. Murphy

Faculty Articles

I will start by posing the two major questions at stake: should there be any third-party protection at all, and if so, what should it look like? Since Professor Epstein focused most of his attention on the latter point, I will spend my time more on the former. To answer that general question, I intend to proceed in the following four steps. First, having agreed with Professor Epstein's critiques of Professor Kerr's technological neutrality and ex ante clarity rationales for scrapping third party protection, I will add two critiques of my own. Second, in the spirit of reconciliation, I will …

The Internationalization Of U.S. Law, José E. Alvarez

Faculty Articles

The following luncheon address was given during International Law Weekend in New York on October 28, 2006. The speech addresses the growth of international legal jurisprudence and refutes claims that U.S. law remains unaffected by it.

Designing A Global Intellectual Property System Responsive To Change: The Wto, Wipo And Beyond, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Rochelle C. Dreyfuss

Faculty Articles

In recent years, it has become clear that the TRIPS regime is in trouble. Although lawmaking in the World Trade Organization (WTO) has essentially stalled, there is a continuing need to recalibrate the rules applicable to knowledge production. In theory, the problems facing WTO members could be resolved through new lawmaking within that institution. For a variety of reasons, however, this has not materialized. The WTO’s adjudicatory system has compensated somewhat for the lack of activity in the Ministerial Conference and the General Council. But for a number of reasons, it is not a substitute for a well-functioning “legislative body.” …

Employer Reputation At Work, Samuel Estreicher

Faculty Articles

Employer reputational costs - that is, the loss in value of the firm's reputational assets if the firm reneges on its promises to workers, both express and implied, - has played an important role in the economic literature of employment contracts, but this factor has itself generated little sustained analysis. Reputation is often offered as a late-appearing deus ex machina explaining why opportunistic behavior by employers even in internal labor markets is likely to be relatively unimportant. This standard explanation for the enforceability of implicit labor contracts in internal labor markets is problematic for at least three reasons. It assumes …

Gun Control After Heller: Threats And Sideshows From A Social Welfare Perspective, Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig, Adam M. Samaha

Faculty Articles

What will happen after District of Columbia v. Heller? We know that five justices on the Supreme Court now oppose comprehensive federal prohibitions on home handgun possession by some class of trustworthy homeowners for the purpose of, and maybe only at the time of, self-defense. Perhaps the justices will push further and apply Heller’s holding to state and local governments via the Fourteenth Amendment. But the majority opinion in Heller offered limited guidance for future cases. It did not follow a purely originalist method of constitutional interpretation, nor did it establish a constraining doctrinal framework for evaluating firearms regulation—although the …

Monitoring Effects Of Hurricane Katrina To The Mississippi Gulf Coast / By Crystal Warren, Crystal Warren

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Effect Of Alcohol Expectant Attitudes On Perceptions Of Dating Violence, Jennifer M. Kitchens

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Copyright Protection Vs. Privacy Rights, Danny Davis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Ethanol Teratogenesis In Japanese Medaka : A Morphometric, Biochemical And Epigenetic Analysis, Yuhui Hu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Tools For Inclusion: Disclosure Of Disability Information At A One-Stop Career Center: Tips And Guidelines, David Hoff

Tools for Inclusion Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

One-Stops Career Centers (One-Stops) were established under the federal Workforce Investment Act to provide a full range of job seeker assistance under one roof. One-Stops are located at a variety of locations in each state, with more than 3,200 centers across the country. More than 13 million people per year use the One-Stop system. Many of these are people with disabilities.

Institute Brief: Access For All Customers: Universal Strategies For One-Stop Career Centers, David Hoff, Elena Varney, Lara Enein-Donovan, Cindy Thomas, Sheila Fesko

The Institute Brief Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

One-Stop Career Centers serve a diverse range of customers. These include individuals with a variety of educational and work backgrounds, people from diverse racial, linguistic and ethnic cultures, as well as individuals with a wide range of disabilities and support needs. One way of addressing the needs of this diverse customer base is to develop services and systems that respond to the needs of each of these groups. However, this can be expensive and labor-intensive. A more effective way to serve this broad customer pool is to provide One-Stop services according to the principles of what is known as "universal …

Searching For The Balance Between Flexibility And Workers' Security (Is It Time To Reform Labor Market Policies?), Emmanuel F. Esguerra, Kristine Laura S. Canales

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

The protection of labor and the regulation of labor-capital relations are fundamental elements of Philippine labor policy. This protective posture is enshrined in the Constitution (Art. XIII), and reaffirmed in the Labor Code of the Philippines which provides the legal basis for all existing labor market policies and regulations.

Public-Private Partnerships: Lessons Learned From A Partnership: Consolidated Contractors Company And The Morganti Group Inc. (Ccc/Morganti), Al-Balqa’ Applied University (Bau)/Al-Huson University College (Ahuc) And The Usaid Jordan Economic Development Program, Hussien Al-Wedyan, Terry S. Lane, David Lowther, Gwen El Sawi

Center for Social Policy Publications

This paper describes a Public-Private Partnership that brings together: Al-Balqa’ Applied University/Al-Huson University College (AHUC); Consolidated Contractors Company and the Morganti Group Inc. (CCC/MORGANTI); Al-Huson Career Development Center (CDC); and USAID Jordan Economic Development Program (SABEQ). The Partnership enhances CCC/MORGANTI with its corporate responsibility initiative in Jordan as well as addressing CCC/MORGANTI’s labor force needs from Jordan and in the MENA Region. The lessons learned from the process of developing this partnership may be applied to other potential and emerging partnerships in other sectors. The paper draws on principles and best Education and Training Public/Private Partnerships Improved Workforce Demand-Driven Skills …

Why It’S Harder (And Different) For Single Mothers: Gender, Motherhood, Labor Markets And Public Work Supports, Randy Albelda

Center for Social Policy Publications

This paper focuses on low-wage work and single mothers. I begin with a typical example of early 20th century research on low-wage workers as it helps provides both an historical explanation for women’s earnings and employment situation over much of the 20th century and important insights into new directions for research and advocacy. Following that, I tease apart the distinctions between having low wages and being low income, particularly as these apply to single mothers. I then detail the resource base for single mothers which entails the complex relationship between family structure and obligations, earnings and employment benefits, and public …

Podcast: Economic Expressions: A Conversation With The Economist Julie Nelson, Julie A. Nelson

Economics Faculty Publication Series

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A Response To Bruni And Sugden, Julie A. Nelson

Economics Faculty Publication Series

An article by Luigino Bruni and Robert Sugden published in this journal argues that market relations contain elements of what they call ‘fraternity’. This Response demonstrates that my own views on interpersonal relations and markets – which originated in the feminist analysis of caring labour – are far closer to Bruni and Sugden's than they acknowledge in their article, and goes on to discuss additional important dimensions of sociality that they neglect.

Lao Health And Adjustment In Southern New England Three Decades After The Secret War, Patrick F. Clarkin

Institute for Asian American Studies Publications

This study explored Lao life histories, health, and social adjustment in the southern New England states of Rhode Island and Connecticut. In addition, it sought to examine whether there was a correlation between war experiences early in life and health in adulthood, a finding reported in previous research on the Hmong, another ethnic group from Laos. Overall, 99 Lao adults born in Laos or Thailand (mean age 43.5 +/- 10.8 years) completed orally administered questionnaires and were measured for blood pressure and various anthropometric markers. Lao in this sample appeared to have higher than average educational back grounds in Laos, …

Recession Grips The Bay State, Alan Clayton-Matthews

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

Economic activity in Massachusetts is on the decline. According to the current economic index, real gross state domestic product grew at only a 0.6 percent annual rate in the third quarter, and the leading index is predicting that the state’s economy will decline at a 1.5 percent annual rate over the six months november 2008 through april 2009. Massachusetts is in a recession.

Brokering Up: The Role Of Temporary Staffing In Overcoming Labor Market Barriers, Françoise Carré, Brandynn Holgate, Helen Levine, Mandira Kala

Center for Social Policy Publications

Alternative Staffing Organizations (ASOs) are social-purpose businesses created by community-based organizations and national nonprofits to “broker up” job seekers, starting with temporary assignments and forming bridges to better jobs. Funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation, the Alternative Staffing Demonstration examined four ASOs around the country for a three-year research project, with 18 months of close monitoring, exploring, and assessing the ASO model. The Center for Social Policy studied how ASOs structure the services they provide, handle day-to-day management issues, and sell their services. We found the ASO model was variously adapted to generate short-term employment, build work experience, provide …

An End In Itself And A Means To Good Ends: Why Income Equality Is Important, Arthur Macewan

Center for Social Policy Publications

In recent years “poverty reduction” has become the watchword in development agencies, in international lending institutions, and among development economists generally. The focus on poverty reduction reached a high point perhaps with the articulation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with the extensive analytic work that has accompanied the MDGs. Yet, much of the discussion of poverty reduction and economic development in low and middle income countries has either ignored the issue of income distribution or has tended to view income distribution only in terms of its impact on economic growth.

Poverty and inequality, however, are intimately bound up …