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In Re Tenancy By The Entirety-Married Couples, Common Law Marriages, And Same-Sex Partners: Orth V. Orth, John V. Orth Jan 2009

In Re Tenancy By The Entirety-Married Couples, Common Law Marriages, And Same-Sex Partners: Orth V. Orth, John V. Orth

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Gender And Human Rights In The Global Political Economy, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2009

Rethinking Gender And Human Rights In The Global Political Economy, Deborah M. Weissman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Perfection In Paul: Snapshot Of A Stand-Off, Kent Yinger Jan 2009

Perfection In Paul: Snapshot Of A Stand-Off, Kent Yinger

Faculty Publications - Portland Seminary

Following a review of scholarship on ‘perfection’ in Pauline soteriology, this paper will document the current stand-off among Pauline scholars as to whether Paul requires (or thinks Jewish soteriology requires) perfect Law-keeping -- often connected with post-Sanders’ debates over 1st century Jewish soteriology. Along the way it will reflect on the meaning of perfection language in the various corpora. The paper will then suggest that resolving this issue remains crucial for unraveling Pauline soteriology.


An Analysis Of The Death Penalty Jurisprudence Of The October 2007 Supreme Court Term (The Twentieth Annual Supreme Court Review), Richard Klein Jan 2009

An Analysis Of The Death Penalty Jurisprudence Of The October 2007 Supreme Court Term (The Twentieth Annual Supreme Court Review), Richard Klein

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Rethinking The Legal Reform Agenda: Will Raising The Standards For Bar Admission Promote Or Undermine Democracy, Human Rights, And Rule Of Law?, Samuel J. Levine, Russell G. Pearce Jan 2009

Rethinking The Legal Reform Agenda: Will Raising The Standards For Bar Admission Promote Or Undermine Democracy, Human Rights, And Rule Of Law?, Samuel J. Levine, Russell G. Pearce

Scholarly Works

This Article offers a critique of, and alternative to, the American Bar Association's efforts, supported by the United States government, to promote the requirement of a college education in law as prerequisite for becoming a lawyer in developing countries. Using the examples of China, which currently has a far more open system for becoming a legal services provider, and South Africa, which already has a system consistent with the goals of the ABA, the Article argues that more stringent education requirements actually undermine democracy, human rights, and rule of law. In China, where the most significant advocates for human rights …


The Framers' Search Power: The Misunderstood Statutory History Of Suspicion & Probable Cause, Fabio Arcila, Jr. Jan 2009

The Framers' Search Power: The Misunderstood Statutory History Of Suspicion & Probable Cause, Fabio Arcila, Jr.

Scholarly Works

Originalist analyses of the Framers’ views about governmental search power have devoted insufficient attention to the civil search statutes they promulgated for regulatory purposes. What attention has been paid concludes that the Framers were divided about how accessible search remedies should be. This Article explains why this conventional account is mostly wrong and explores the lessons to be learned from the statutory choices the Framers made with regard to search and seizure law. In enacting civil search statutes, the Framers chose to depart from common law standards and instead largely followed the patterns of preceding British civil search statutes. The …


The Organization In Front Of The Text : A Critical Hermeneutic Inquiry In Employee Policy Appropriation, Marisa B. Michaels Jan 2009

The Organization In Front Of The Text : A Critical Hermeneutic Inquiry In Employee Policy Appropriation, Marisa B. Michaels

Doctoral Dissertations

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Appropriating The Unspoken Text : Development Discourse And Hmong Women In Lao People's Democratic Republic, Kimberly C. Mendonca Jan 2009

Appropriating The Unspoken Text : Development Discourse And Hmong Women In Lao People's Democratic Republic, Kimberly C. Mendonca

Doctoral Dissertations

unavailable


Environmental Enrichment Effects On The Activity Of A Nearctic River Otter, Kenneth O. Nelson Jan 2009

Environmental Enrichment Effects On The Activity Of A Nearctic River Otter, Kenneth O. Nelson

Theses

Environmental enrichment has been used to identify and change a stimulus in a captive environment to increase the animal's welfare by bring out species-appropriate behaviors and combating stereotypic behaviors. One captive North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) was presented four enrichment initiatives (live fish, frozen fish, swim tube, PVC scent tubes) in a random order and placement throughout the exhibit. Baseline data showed that the otter preferred to spend mornings in the lower level of the exhibit and the afternoons in the upper level. Food initiatives (i.e. live fish, and a lesser degree frozen fish) were most effective in deterring …


Bailout Strategists: Thinking Through Philanthropy In A Time Of Troubles, Vivek Shandas, Marjory Hamman, Mark Holloway Jan 2009

Bailout Strategists: Thinking Through Philanthropy In A Time Of Troubles, Vivek Shandas, Marjory Hamman, Mark Holloway

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

As the global economy spirals into the unknown, fiscal certainty remains hard to come by in the region, especially when it comes to issues of social justice and support for the underprivileged. It’s hard to hear marginalized communities over the din of big banks and corporate CEOs. Increasingly, philanthropic organizations are being relied upon to fill the gap between having and needing, but can we expect philanthropy to thrive given predictions of darkening financial gloom? Vivek Shandas recently sat down with the principals from two local foundations outside the mainstream to learn about their strategies for success. Marjory Hamman is …


Spreading The Green And Sharing The Wealth, Rachel White Jan 2009

Spreading The Green And Sharing The Wealth, Rachel White

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

Examines the effects and benefits of trees for the urban environment, and looks at recent studies that have attempted to define the benefits of urban trees. Discusses the implications of trees for city planning.


A Journey To Tolerance: Overcoming The Politics Of Hate, Leanne Claire Serbulo Jan 2009

A Journey To Tolerance: Overcoming The Politics Of Hate, Leanne Claire Serbulo

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

The article examines the history of race relations in Oregon and Portland, as well as the growth of hate groups. It also discusses anti-gay and anti-abortion violence and rhetoric, and what opponents of hate groups did to stem the growth of extremism in Portland. The author argues that the institutional conditions that gave rise to extremism in the 1980s need to be addressed because we are still susceptible to homegrown hate.


Indicators Of The Metroscape: Stocks, Elizabeth Mylott Jan 2009

Indicators Of The Metroscape: Stocks, Elizabeth Mylott

Metroscape

A brief overview of stock prices in the Portland Metropolitan Area in the 2007-2008 time period.


A New Elasticity Element Made For Enforcing Weak Stress Symmetry, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Johnny Guzmán Jan 2009

A New Elasticity Element Made For Enforcing Weak Stress Symmetry, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Johnny Guzmán

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We introduce a new mixed method for linear elasticity. The novelty is a simplicial element for the approximate stress. For every positive integer k, the row-wise divergence of the element space spans the set of polynomials of total degree k. The degrees of freedom are suited to achieve continuity of the normal stresses. What makes the element distinctive is that its dimension is the smallest required for enforcing a weak symmetry condition on the approximate stress. This is achieved using certain "bubble matrices", which are special divergence-free matrix-valued polynomials. We prove that the approximation error is of order k + …


Unified Hybridization Of Discontinuous Galerkin, Mixed, And Continuous Galerkin Methods For Second Order Elliptic Problems, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Raytcho Lazarov Jan 2009

Unified Hybridization Of Discontinuous Galerkin, Mixed, And Continuous Galerkin Methods For Second Order Elliptic Problems, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Raytcho Lazarov

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

We introduce a unifying framework for hybridization of finite element methods for second order elliptic problems. The methods fitting in the framework are a general class of mixed-dual finite element methods including hybridized mixed, continu- ous Galerkin, non-conforming and a new, wide class of hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods. The distinctive feature of the methods in this framework is that the only globally coupled degrees of freedom are those of an approximation of the solution defined only on the boundaries of the elements. Since the associated matrix is sparse, symmetric and positive definite, these methods can be efficiently implemented. Moreover, the …


Homeotic Mutants And The Assimilation Of Developmental Genetics Into The Evolutionary Synthesis, Michael Dietrich, Gregory K. Davis, David K. Jacobs Jan 2009

Homeotic Mutants And The Assimilation Of Developmental Genetics Into The Evolutionary Synthesis, Michael Dietrich, Gregory K. Davis, David K. Jacobs

Dartmouth Scholarship

No abstract provided.


After Sosa: The Future Of Customary International Law In The United States, William S. Dodge Jan 2009

After Sosa: The Future Of Customary International Law In The United States, William S. Dodge

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Evidence Code Section 802: The Neglected Key To Rationalizing The California Law Of Expert Testimony, David L. Faigman, Edward J. Imwinkelried Jan 2009

Evidence Code Section 802: The Neglected Key To Rationalizing The California Law Of Expert Testimony, David L. Faigman, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Law's Misguided Love Affair With Science, Robin Feldman Jan 2009

Law's Misguided Love Affair With Science, Robin Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Plain Language Patents, Robin Feldman Jan 2009

Plain Language Patents, Robin Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Historic Perspectives On Law & Science, Robin Feldman Jan 2009

Historic Perspectives On Law & Science, Robin Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Heller, Citizenship, And The Right To Serve In The Military, Elizabeth L. Hillman Jan 2009

Heller, Citizenship, And The Right To Serve In The Military, Elizabeth L. Hillman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Heller And Constitutional Interpretation: Originalism's Last Gasp, Rory K. Little Jan 2009

Heller And Constitutional Interpretation: Originalism's Last Gasp, Rory K. Little

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Electronic Lawyer, Richard L. Marcus Jan 2009

The Electronic Lawyer, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Second Amendment Decision Rules, Calvin R. Massey Jan 2009

Second Amendment Decision Rules, Calvin R. Massey

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Using Salience And Influence To Narrow The Tax Gap, Susan C. Morse Jan 2009

Using Salience And Influence To Narrow The Tax Gap, Susan C. Morse

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


An Eigenanalysis And Synthesis Of Unitary Operators Used In Quantum Computing Algorithms, Steven Randall Hutsell Jan 2009

An Eigenanalysis And Synthesis Of Unitary Operators Used In Quantum Computing Algorithms, Steven Randall Hutsell

Dissertations and Theses

In this work we tackle the challenge of designing quantum unitary operators which represent solutions to optimization problems. We start with a novel method which combines an evolutionary algorithm known as an Evolution Strategy (ES) with a method to randomly generate unitary operators. With this new method, a quantum operator is represented for the first time using real-valued vectors and can be "evolved" or designed to meet certain target criteria. This criteria could be the solution to an optimization problem. With the ability to evolve quantum operators, we attempt to evolve various known single and multi-qubit quantum gates as well …


Factors Associated With Inclusion Of Spirituality In Secular Social Work Education, Leslie Grace Wuest Jan 2009

Factors Associated With Inclusion Of Spirituality In Secular Social Work Education, Leslie Grace Wuest

Dissertations and Theses

In a diverse society, social work practitioners must be able to work with and respect people from a wide variety of cultures and ethnicities and with different value systems and ideological perspectives, including spiritual or religious beliefs. Accordingly, social work education has begun to incorporate the topic of spirituality. This study builds upon previous studies by Dudley and Helfgott (1990) and Sheridan et al. (1994) which focused on views of faculty members regarding spirituality in social work education and support for a course on spirituality in the social work curriculum. This study goes on to examine inclusion of spirituality in …


Cognition And Star Trek: Learning And Legal Education, Kate Bloch Jan 2009

Cognition And Star Trek: Learning And Legal Education, Kate Bloch

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Hitting The Sweet Spot By Accident: How Recent Lower Court Cases Help Realign Incentives In The Credit Rating Industry, John Crawford Jan 2009

Hitting The Sweet Spot By Accident: How Recent Lower Court Cases Help Realign Incentives In The Credit Rating Industry, John Crawford

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.