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Motions 2011 Volume 47 Number 5, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.

Note – Don’T Steal My Sunshine: Deconstructing The Flawed Presumption Of Privacy For Unfiled Documents Exchanged During Discovery, Mary Elizabeth Keaney

UC Law Journal

Courts encourage settlement as a way to resolve disputes efficiently and clear congested dockets, but settlement agreements can have a sinister effect too. It is becoming common in modern litigation to draft settlement agreements that require the return of discovery materials and the sealing of court documents from public view. Legitimate privacy concerns warrant sealing pretrial discovery and other court documents. However, the practice of keeping information vital to the public health and safety sealed for a price is illegitimate, and should be prohibited. Legislative efforts are being made to monitor the impact that secret settlement agreements have on public …

Why Does The Public Cooperate With Law Enforcement? The Influence Of The Purposes And Targets Of Policing, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This study addresses the extension of the “procedural justice” model for understanding public cooperation with law enforcement to new policing contexts and new minority populations. The study draws on four recent surveys of public reactions to policing ag

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, February 1, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The February 1, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

American Policing At A Crossroads, Tom R. Tyler, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Aziz Huq

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

As victimization rates have fallen, public preoccupation with policing and its crime control impact has receded. Terrorism has become the new focal point of concern. But satisfaction with ordinary police practices hides deep problems. The time is therefore ripe for rethinking the assumptions that have guided American police for most of the past two decades. This essay proposes an empirically grounded shift to what we call a procedural justice model of policing. When law enforcement moves toward this approach, it can be more effective, at lower cost and without the negative side effects that currently hamper responses to terrorism and …

A Comparative Review Of Environmental Policies And Laws Involving Hazardous Private Dams: 'Appropriate' Practice Models For Safe Catchments, John D. Pisaniello

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Generally, the world’s largest dams have been erected and managed
by governments, while individual owners have been responsible for private
dams. Both kinds of dams have experienced technical failures that
have resulted in tragic losses of life as well as disastrous damage to property
and environment, and this has generated serious concerns regarding
dams’ safety worldwide. In Australia, despite the fact that attention has
been focused on the physical and technical integrity of medium- to largescale
dams, the smaller private dams have been virtually ignored with
regard to their serious potential and actual problems. Specifically, private
dams pose threats to …

Strengthening Multi Hazard Mitigation, Preparedness, Response And Recovery Capabilities: Leveraging Campus Resources For System-Wide Results, Toby Osburn, Joseph "Joey" V. Pons Iv

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy and less than two years removed from back to back hurricane experiences with Katrina and Rita, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System (ULS) made specific recommendations to all of its member institutions regarding increased preparedness and enhanced response for managing an active shooter incident on a ULS campus.  The ULS Emergency Preparedness Steering Committee (EPSC) was formed to undertake the immense task of implementation these recommendations by drawing on campus and system resource persons representing environmental health and safety, public safety, student affairs, academic affairs, business affairs, facilities …

Promoting Democracy In Prosecution, Russell M. Gold

Washington Law Review

Voters were meant to check prosecutors’ decisions, but that check has eroded because voters lack the information necessary to cast meaningful votes in prosecutor elections. Voters’ lack of an effective political check on prosecutors causes two related problems: (1) inefficient allocation of prosecutorial resources and (2) divestment of democratic sovereignty from the people. Prosecutors currently need not consider expenditures for incarceration or public defense because voters never see these costs and thus cannot hold their prosecutors accountable for them. Accordingly, these costs become an externality in the prosecutorial decision-making process, causing prosecutors to spend resources in socially inefficient ways. To …

Death Sentencing In East Baton Rouge Parish, 1990-2008, Glenn L. Pierce, Michael L. Radelet

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Citizen Corps For Cert, Kevin Bosarge

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

No abstract provided.

Regional Assessment Of Tsunami Hazard Management Plans: The Case Of The Us Pacific Northwest, Edmund Merem, Yaw Twumasi, Joan Wesley, Benetta Robinson

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

The US Pacific coastal states continue to be at risk from both locally and distantly generated Tsunamis. During the past two centuries, all five states have been hit by Tsunamis which inflicted considerable causalities and damage. This susceptibility can be minimized by effective hazard management plans, better hazard mitigation practices and the construction of more hazard resistant structures such as steel reinforced concrete buildings. At the same time, no studies have been conducted to determine how local authority has incorporated Tsunami hazard management in their planning frameworks. The analysis of several costal counties in the states, indicate that most plans …

Teaching Hazard Mitigation Planning Through Learning Service, Melanie Gall

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

This presentation will showcase the work of two service-learning classes at Louisiana State University during the plan application and capability assessment phase for the DRU plan of Louisiana State University. More often than not, a consulting firm develops the Disaster Resistant University plan. There are many reasons why this might be a good choice for universities with limited personnel, computing resources, skills, experience, and so forth. Whenever universities produce their Plan in-house, they commonly tend to assign responsibilities to university administrators as well as faculty and staff members from public safety, risk management, geography, sociology, and engineering to name a …

A Content Analysis Of Crisis Management Websites At Four-Year Institutions Along The Gulf Coast, Steven Mccullar

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

College and university websites have become a very important tool in crisis communication over the past few years, especially after events such as the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Gustav and shootings at institutions such as Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, University of Texas, and Northern Alabama.  Stakeholders are turning to the university websites when a crisis occurs. It has become important for higher education institutions to have specific websites that deal with the possibility of a crisis.  This discussion takes a look at websites in the Gulf Region through the research process of content analysis. The goal of this …

Higher Education Emergency Management Program Accreditation: Seeking The "Holy Grail", Steve Charvat

DRU Workshop 2011 Presentations - Disaster Resistant University Workshop: Building Partnerships in Mitigation

University hospitals are accredited, college police departments are accredited and academic programs of higher education institutions receive accreditation. But what about the program(s) that protect and safeguard the lives of those living, working and visiting your campus? Emergency management accreditation programs and other baseline performance management standards are out there, but have yet to be applied to institutions of higher education. This workshop will discuss the various national and international programs and standards and provide a preview of what potentially is in store for colleges and universities. In these times of reduced programs and fiscal support for emergency management programs …

Executing The Will Of The Voters?: A Roadmap To Mend Or End The California Legislature’S Multi-Billion-Dollar Death Penalty Debacle, Judge Arthur L. Alarcón, Paula M. Mitchell

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Since reinstating the death penalty in 1978, California taxpayers have spent roughly $4 billion to fund a dysfunctional death penalty system that has carried out no more than 13 executions. The current backlog of death penalty cases is so severe that most of the 714 prisoners now on death row will wait well over 20 years before their cases are resolved. Many of these condemned inmates will thus languish on death row for decades, only to die of natural causes while still waiting for their cases to be resolved. Despite numerous warnings of the deterioration of California’s capital punishment system …

Some Reflections On Ethics And Plea Bargaining: An Essay In Honor Of Fred Zacharias, R. Michael Cassidy

San Diego Law Review

Dedication to the Ethics and Plea Bargaining works of Prof. Fred Zacharias.

Do Oregonians Know About The Crime Drop?, Brian Renauer

Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute Research Briefs

The violent crime rate in Oregon has not been this low since 1969, forty years ago. FBI 2009 Uniform Crime Statistics show Oregon’s crime rate continues to drop as does the nation’s. Crime rates are at the lowest levels since the 1960’s. Violent crime in Oregon dropped 2.1% from 2008 to 2009. In 2009, Oregon ranked 38th in the nation for violent crime rate.

Gsu View, 2011-01-31, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Risk Based Models For The Optimization Of Oil And Gas Supply Chain Critical Infrastructure, Kingsley Oseloka Achebe

Dissertations

The oil and gas sector faces a broad array of risks and uncertainties, affecting short- and long-term planning, and causing adverse effects in the energy sector. To predict and minimize them, risk based supply chain models were developed for the oil and gas supply chain critical infrastructure.

First, the events and activities were categorized as short term and long term, and their risk ratings derived, by analyzing data from past events and site visits. The result showed that events like the Israel – Arab war, successful hurricane, and production increase or decrease, had a risk rating of approximately 7.

Second, …

Conservation Lands Audit And Online Inventory For Dover, Nh, Christopher Kane

PREP Reports & Publications

This project developed a functional inventory of the numerous conservation lands located throughout the City of Dover. The City’s inventory of conservation lands was disjointed and clearly in need of organization. A consultant was hired to conduct the research necessary to produce a complete, up to date and easily accessible “functional Inventory” that is readily accessible to municipal volunteers and the public through the City website.

Hrs Review, January 2011, Human Resource Services, Boise State University

HRS Review

No abstract provided.

The Murray State News, January 28, 2011, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

Flyer News, Vol. 58, No. 23 (Jan. 28, 2011), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton.

January 28, 2011, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, January 28, 2011, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, January 27, 2011, Seton Hall University

2011

No abstract provided.

01/27/2011 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 01/27/2011. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

The Weekly Challenger, January 27, 2011, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The January 27, 2011, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Advocate, January 27, 2011, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

Western News, Jan. 27, 2011, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Founding medical school dean announced; Carnegie Foundation lauds WMU's community engagement efforts; Service anniversaries for January; On Campus with Lisa Johnson.