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Law In The Time Of Cholera: Teaching Disaster Law As A Research Course, Neal R. Axton

Faculty Scholarship

Disaster law is fun to teach but it has a serious purpose. Emergencies will inevitably arise but how society responds to them will determine whether or not they become full-blown disasters. Training law students to adapt to dynamic situations will give them the skills they need in a world facing global warming, resource depletion, and a burgeoning population. By creating a more robust legal system, we can create a more resilient society.

Originally published in the May 2011 issue of AALL Spectrum.

Annual Survey Of Periodical Literature, Nancy Ver Steegh

Faculty Scholarship

The Annual Review of Periodical Literature provides a sampling of law review articles published between November 1, 2009, and October 31, 2010. The survey highlights the variety and depth of family law scholarship produced during the year and calls attention to currently debated "hot topics." Readers are encouraged to read articles of interest in their entirety because the summaries included in the survey are necessarily abbreviated.

Annual Report Of The Town Officers Of The Town Of Jefferson, Nh For The Year Ending December 31, 2010., Jefferson Town Representatives

Jefferson, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Vicissitudes Of Tort: A Response To Professors Rabin, Sebok & Zipursky, Catherine M. Sharkey

Faculty Articles

This response essay probes three themes that tie together three articles submitted for a tort symposium on “The Limits of Predictability and the Value of Uncertainty.” First, I explore the use of unpredictability as a code word for an assault on tort doctrine in response to an out-of-control tort system. In his historical account of the evolution of tort, Professor Rabin focuses on the canonical “no duty” rules of the nineteenth century and the contemporary rules-based limitations on open-textured liability in the twentieth century. But largely missing from this account is the story of rules promoting tort liability, such as …

The Role Of Creativity In Trademark Law, Jeanne C. Fromer

Faculty Articles

The article discusses various aspects of U.S. trademark law, including the differences between it and the patent and copyright branches of intellectual property law, trademark's promotion of creativity, and the expansion of coverage under trademark law. The author examines the role of creativity in trademark law by analyzing the 2010 legal dispute between Stefani Germanotta, also known as entertainer Lady Gaga, and her ex-boyfriend and music producer Rob Fusari.

Retaking Rationality Two Years Later, Michael A. Livermore, Richard L. Revesz

Faculty Articles

This paper proceeds in four additional parts. Part II provides a brief overview of the central arguments introduced in Retaking Rationality. Part III argues that cost-benefit analysis has been heartily embraced by the Obama Administration, indicating that, whatever one thinks of it, cost-benefit analysis is even more likely here to stay than when Retaking Rationality was published. Part IV discusses the relationship of protection-oriented interest groups to cost-benefit analysis over the last two years: what has changed; what has stayed the same since the publication of Retaking Rationality. Part V provides a brief reply to comments offered by Professors Douglas …

Rhetoric: Naturally Deceptive, John Larwood

Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly

No abstract provided.

Passing Pains: Revenge, Retaliation, And Redirected Aggression In A New Light, Lixing Sun

Biology Faculty Scholarship

A review of David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge, Oxford University Press: New York, 2011, 209 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 019539514X (hardcover).

From Sound Bites To Sound Policy: Reclaiming The High Ground In Criminal Justice Policy-Making, Anthony C. Thompson

Faculty Articles

In this article, the author contemplates the way the criminal justice system is portrayed in the media and suggests how the media's emphasis on "sound bites" - which makes it difficult to separate fact from hype - has had significant policy ramifications. The author makes a point of exploring the many ways that conceptions of crime are formed and influenced, as well as how the media has shaped legislation. In the author's opinion, in order to curb the excessive influence of most mainstream representations of the criminal justice system, there must be some mechanism for oversight of both the media …

The Diminishing Returns Of Incentive Pay In Executive Compensation Contracts, Andrew C. W. Lund, Gregg Polsky

Faculty Articles

For the past 30 years, the conventional wisdom has been that executive compensation packages should include very large proportions of incentive pay. This incentive pay orthodoxy has become so firmly entrenched that the current debates about executive compensation simply take it as a given. We argue, however, that in light of evolving corporate governance mechanisms, the marginal net benefit of incentive-laden pay packages is both smaller than appreciated and getting smaller over time. As a result, the assumption that higher proportions of incentive pay are beneficial is no longer warranted. A number of corporate governance mechanisms have evolved to duplicate …

Black Carbon: The Most Important Ignored Contributor To Climate Change, Kate Deangelis

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Re-Imagining The Human Rights Law Clinic, Arturo J. Carillo, Nicolás Espejo Yaksic

Maryland Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Joseph Freedman, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Erica Lyman, Stephen J. Porter, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith, Hong Tang

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

International Litigation, Neale H. Bergman, Jonathan I. Blackman, Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Lorraine De Germiny, Phillip Dye Jr., William Lawrence, Matthew D. Slater, Karen Woody, Howard S. Zelbo

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Broadening Conceptions Of What Constitutes Knowledge And Evidence In Sotl, Sharon Thomas

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

In the two decades since the publication of Boyer’s (1990) seminal work, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has earned an increasingly venerable reputation as a legitimate area of scholarship. What remains contentious, however, is the form that such scholarship takes. Despite the publication of numerous books and articles lauding alternative epistemologies, SoTL advocates regularly have to defend their approaches. The purpose of this essay is to encourage higher education practitioners to broaden their conceptions of what constitutes knowledge and evidence in SoTL. An epistemological discussion, it aims to provide a strong theoretical framework within which SoTL practitioners can …

Aspen Crown Dieback And Mortality On The Williams Ranger District, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, Thomas J. Zegler

Aspen Bibliography

Crown dieback and mortality of quaking or trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) were extensive within pine-oak and mixed conifer forest types of the Williams Ranger District, Kaibab National Forest in northern Arizona. I collected data from 48 aspen sites to determine if predisposing site and stand factors and contributing damaging agents were associated with aspen crown dieback and mortality. Overstory aspen mortality averaged 50% by stems per hectare and 44% by basal area. Based upon univariate relationships, elevation was the most significant site factor related to both overstory aspen crown dieback (R2 = 0.15, P = 0.0069) and overstory aspen mortality …

The Undiscovered Country: Wyoming's Emergence As A Leading Trust Situs Jurisdiction, Christopher M. Reimer

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

On Chinese Mothering And Amy Chua

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Yale Law professor Amy Chua’s article on “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” is still in the top five most-emailed stories at the Wall Street Journal’s website, four days after its publication last Saturday. Chua has attracted a considerable amount of attention with her article (and newly released book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother), which examines Chinese parenting techniques and compares them to Western approaches to raising children:

Shanghai Spaces And Histories: Thoughts On Reading Qiu Xiaolong’S Years Of Red Dust, Daisy Yan Du

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In Shanghai Modern, Leo Lee, a prominent specialist in Chinese literary studies, focuses much of his attention on urban space as a marker of modernity in Republican Shanghai (1912-1949). His mappings of the city include places that are located mostly in the concessions, where Western (and later Japanese) influences dominated: the high-rise buildings in the Bund, the department stores located on or near Nanjing Road, and the cafes in the French Concession, as well as dance halls, public parks, race clubs, and cinemas. Lee also touches upon the lanes populated by native Chinese, but his main focus is on …

Resolutions And Their Incongruities: Further Thoughts On Logical Mechanism, Christian F. Hempelmann, Salvatore Attardo

Faculty Publications

This paper is a contribution to the study of the resolution of incongruities in humor. We reject some criticisms of logical mechanisms and analyze three different types of incongruities in humorous texts: completely backgrounded, backgrounded, and foregrounded. Only the latter are addressed by logical mechanisms. We identify a mechanism of “incongruity shifting” which may be a candidate for “deep” logical mechanism (along the lines of “parallelism” in Attardo et al. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 15: 1–44, 2002). We finally discuss the similarities between Oring's (Engaging humor, University of Illinois Press, 2003) “appropriate incongruity” theory and our approach, which …

Effects Of Lactobacillus Acidophilus And Yucca Schidigera On Finishing Performance And Carcass Traits Of Feedlot Cattle, Cody A. Nichols, Karla H. Jenkins, Judson Vasconcelos Vasconcelos, Galen Erickson, Stephanie A. Furman, Richard S. Goodall, Terry Klopfenstein

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

A finishing trial evaluated effects of feeding a direct-fed microbial product(Nova-Cell®) and a saponin feed additive (Ruma Just®) as a 2x2 factorial in steam-flaked corn-based diets containing 11% wet distillers grains (DM basis). No interaction was observed between Nova-Cell and Ruma Just (P > 0.13). Feeding either Ruma Just or Nova-Cell had no impact (P = 0.20) on final BW, DMI, ADG, or F:G. Neither Nova-Cell or Ruma Just affected (P = 0.10) HCW, 12^th rib fat, or LM Area. Marbling appeared to be improved (P = 0.03) when Ruma Just was added to the finishing diet.

Nutrient Composition Of Spoiled And Non-Spoiled Wet Byproducts Mixed And Stored With Straw, Jennifer R. Yelden, Crystal D. Buckner, Kelsey M. Rolfe Rolfe, Dana I. Christensen, Terry Klopfenstein, Galen Erickson

Nebraska Beef Cattle Reports

Wet corn byproducts were mixed with straw and stored in 55 gallon barrels for 56 days to simulate bunker storage. The spoilage process caused a decrease in fat content and an increase in pH, NDF, ash, and CP. Covering with plastic or distillers solubles reduced the amount of spoilage and the change in nutrient composition.

Immunization With Hiv Gag Targeted To Dendritic Cells Followed By Recombinant New York Vaccinia Virus Induces Robust T-Cell Immunity In Nonhuman Primates, Barbara J. Flynn, Kathrin Kastenmüller, Ulrike Wille-Reece

Publications

Protein vaccines, if rendered immunogenic, would facilitate vaccine development against HIV and other pathogens. We compared in nonhuman primates (NHPs) immune responses to HIV Gag p24 within 3G9 antibody to DEC205 ("DEC-HIV Gag p24"), an uptake receptor on dendritic cells, to nontargeted protein, with or without poly ICLC, a synthetic double stranded RNA, as adjuvant. Priming s.c. with 60 ?g of both HIV Gag p24 vaccines elicited potent CD4⁺ T cells secreting IL-2, IFN-γ, and TNF-α, which also proliferated. The responses increased with each of three immunizations and recognized multiple Gag peptides. DEC-HIV Gag p24 showed better cross-priming for …

Flt3 Signaling-Dependent Dendritic Cells Protect Against Atherosclerosis, Jae-Hoon Choi, Cheolho Cheong, Guillaume Darrasse-Jèze

Publications

Early events in atherosclerosis occur in the aortic intima and involve monocytes that become macrophages. We looked for these cells in the steady state adult mouse aorta, and surprisingly, we found a dominance of dendritic cells (DCs) in the intima. In contrast to aortic adventitial macrophages, CD11c ⁺MHC II ^hi DCs were poorly phagocytic but were immune stimulatory. DCs were of two types primarily: classical Flt3-Flt3L signaling-dependent, CD103 ⁺CD11b ^- DCs and macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF)-dependent, CD14 ⁺CD11b ⁺DC-SIGN ⁺ monocyte-derived DCs. Both types expanded during atherosclerosis. By crossing Flt3 ^-/- to Ldlr ^-/- atherosclerosis-prone mice, …

Newcastle Disease Virus Expressing A Dendritic Cell-Targeted Hiv Gag Protein Induces A Potent Gag-Specific Immune Response In Mice, Jad Mammary, Frida Array, Qinshan Gao

Publications

Viral vaccine vectors have emerged as an attractive strategy for the development of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine. Recombinant Newcastle disease virus (rNDV) stands out as a vaccine vector since it has a proven safety profile in humans, it is a potent inducer of both alpha interferon (IFN-α) and IFN-β) production, and it is a potent inducer of dendritic cell (DC) maturation. Our group has previously generated an rNDV vector expressing a codon-optimized HIV Gag protein and demonstrated its ability to induce a Gag-specific CD8⁺ T cell response in mice. In this report we demonstrate that the Gag-specific …

The Role Of The Stereociliary Glycocalyx In Hair Bundle Cohesion, Adria Claire Le Boeuf

Student Theses and Dissertations

The sensory hair cells of the inner ear are exquisitely sensitive machines that translate the broad dynamic range of sound intensities in our auditory landscape into the electrical language of neurons. The mechanosensitive organelle of the hair cell is the hair bundle, a cluster of linked, finger-like, membrane-ensheathed projections, stereocilia, emerging from the cell's apical surface. As a structure, the hair bundle is highly conserved, changing little yet performing many functions throughout the vertebrate evolutionary tree. The mechanosensitivity of the hair bundle is achieved by the tension-gating of mechanosensitive channels joined to proteinaceous tip links that connect the distal tips …

A Hydrodynamic Sensory Antenna Used By Killifish For Nocturnal Hunting, Jason S. Schwarz

Student Theses and Dissertations

The perception of sensory stimuli by an animal requires several steps, commencing with the capture of stimulus energy by an antenna. As the interface between the physical world and sensory transduction, the antenna modifies the stimulus in ways that enhance the animal's perception. For example, the mammalian external ear collects sound and spectrally alters it to increase sensitivity and improve the detection of directionality. The surfacefeeding killifish Aplocheilus lineatus is able to hunt in darkness by detecting surface capillary waves with the lateral-line system atop its head. This cephalic lateral line consists of 18 stereotyped mechanosensitive neuromasts, each bordered by …

Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters Reveal Fatty-Acylation Of Histone H3 Variants And Cholesterol Modification Of Proteins And Trafficking In Cells, John P. Wilson

Student Theses and Dissertations

Lipids are essential components to all known life. They serve many functions from basic building blocks to covalent protein modification and are particularly involved in signaling. Many rare and widespread human health concerns involve lipids but despite their importance, their analysis either free or protein-bound has remained difficult for decades. Here, using bioorthogonal chemistry, we have developed a robust system to identify the proteins modified by lipids and advanced the ability to image cholesterol in cells and tissues. The unbiased proteomic analysis of fatty-acylated proteins using chemical reporters undertaken here revealed a greater diversity of lipid-modified proteins in mammalian cells …

The Long-Rage Directional Behavior Of The Nematode C. Elegans, Margherita Peliti

Student Theses and Dissertations

Like any mobile organism, C. elegans relies on sensory cues to find food. In the absence of such cues, animals might display defined search patterns or other stereotyped behavior. The motion of C. elegans has previously been characterized as a sinusoid whose direction can be modulated by gradual steering or by sharp turns, reversals and omega bends. However, such a fine-grained behavioral description does not by itself predict the longrange features of the animals' pattern of movement. Using large (24 cm x 24 cm) Petri dishes, we characterized the movement pattern of C. elegans in the absence of stimuli. To …

Dre-1/Fbxo11, A Conserved F Box Protein, Regulates Apoptosis In C. Elegans And Is Mutated In Human Lymphoma, Michael Chiorazzi

Student Theses and Dissertations

In the course of metazoan embryonic and post-embryonic development, more cells are generated than exist in the mature organism, and these cells are deleted by the process of programmed cell death. In addition, cells can be pushed toward death when they accumulate genetic errors, are virally-infected or are otherwise deemed potentially-harmful to the overall organism. Caenorhabditis elegans has proved to be an excellent model system for elucidating the genetic underpinnings of cell death, and research has shown that the core machinery, made up of the egl-1, ced-9, ced-4 and ced-3 genes, is conserved across metazoans, and their homologues are crucial …