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Hiv/Aids And Human Rights In Botswana And Swaziland: A Matter Of Dignity And Health, Vincent Iacopino, Sheri D. Weiser, Madhavi Dandu, David Tuller

UC Law SF International Law Review

A health and human rights framework provides a comprehensive perspective for understanding complex interactions between HIV/AIDS, human rights, and the health of individuals and communities. By helping to identify a broad range of social factors that affect health, such a framework also facilitates the development of interventions and policies that maximize both health and human rights benefits. In this Article, we discuss the various linkages between health and human rights and review the literature on HIV/AIDS and human rights, with a focus on under-resourced settings. In particular, we examine how the framework is relevant to the specific epidemics in Botswana …

Universal Jurisdiction To Prosecute Human Trafficking: Analyzing The Practical Impact Of A Jurisdictional Change In Federal Law, John Reynolds

UC Law SF International Law Review

Human trafficking is fast-growing international dilemma. This note evaluates the potential of universal jurisdiction to prosecute human trafficking to mitigate the crime's impact. Analogies are drawn to slavery and piracy, the paradigm crimes subject to universal jurisdiction. This note will also explore alternative approaches to combating human trafficking - political and economic approaches that attempt to undercut the root causes of human trafficking.

Analysis Of Behaviors In Crowd Videos, Ramin Mehran

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, we address the problem of discovery and representation of group activity of humans and objects in a variety of scenarios, commonly encountered in vision applications. The overarching goal is to devise a discriminative representation of human motion in social settings, which captures a wide variety of human activities observable in video sequences. Such motion emerges from the collective behavior of individuals and their interactions and is a significant source of information typically employed for applications such as event detection, behavior recognition, and activity recognition. We present new representations of human group motion for static cameras, and propose …

Spectrum Sharing And Service Pricing In Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Swastik Kumar Brahma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Traditionally, radio spectrum has been statically allocated to wireless service providers (WSPs). Regulators, like FCC, give wireless service providers exclusive long term licenses for using specific range of frequencies in particular geographic areas. Moreover, restrictions are imposed on the technologies to be used and the services to be provided. The lack of flexibility in static spectrum allocation constrains the ability to make use of new technologies and the ability to redeploy the spectrum to higher valued uses, thereby resulting in inefficient spectrum utilization [23, 38, 42, 62, 67]. These limitations have motivated a paradigm shift from static spectrum allocation towards …

Fragrant Or Foul? - Regulation Of The Global Perfume Industry And The Implications For American Sovereignty, Caroline M. Reebs

UC Law SF International Law Review

The regulation of fragranced personal care products is increasingly scrutinized in the United States. As the FDA's cosmetic product requirements are minimal, particularly when compared to those followed by food producers and drug manufacturers, consumer groups emphasize the negative health implications. Industry, on the other hand, maintains that fragrances are safe for use and are effectively monitored by international trade associations. Because the government plays a modest role in cosmetic regulation, an arbiter is needed.

This Note examines the above concerns in a comparative light. The European Union's Cosmetic Directive imposes more requirements on cosmetic manufacturers and maintains a lengthier …

Limited Scope Permitting For Time-Sensitive Project Delivery Systems, Wayne Jensen, Bruce Fischer, Zhigang Shen

Department of Construction Engineering and Management: Faculty Publications

Delivery of construction projects in the United States has traditionally been based upon the design-bid-build system. TIlis system has been used to create numerous impressive structures, but it often proves expensive and usually requires considerable time, because design, permitting and construction are accomplished in sequential order and do not overlap. Several alternatives to the traditional system have been developed, many of which fall under the classification of time-sensitive project delivery systems. The most commonly used time-sensitive project delivery systems are phased and fast-track construction (FaZio, Moselhi, Theberge & Revay 1988a). Figure 1 illustrates some of the major differences between traditional …

Efficacy Of Rodenticide Baits For The Control Of Three Invasive Rodent Species In Hawaii, William C. Pitt, Laura C. Driscoll, Robert T. Sugihara

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We tested the efficacy and palatability of nine commercial rodenticide bait formulations on Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), roof rats (R. rattus), and house mice (Mus musculus). Efficacy varied by rodenticide tested and rodent species. Generally, rodenticides were more effective against mice than for either of the rat species, and mice tended to consume more rodenticide bait than the laboratory chow alternative food. Efficacy was generally highest for the second-generation anticoagulants tested; however, this varied across products and one-first-generation rodenticide had similar effectiveness. Bait acceptance (palatability) also varied both by rodenticide and by rodent species. …

Transparency Confined To The Courthouse: A Critical Analysis Of Criminal Lawyer's Assn., C.B.C. And National Post, Gerald Chan

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

The Supreme Court of Canada constitutionalized the open court principle under section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in its groundbreaking ruling in Edmonton Journal (1989). The Court’s holding was premised on three propositions: (1) the courts play an important role in our democratic society; (2) freedom of expression protects listeners as well as speakers; and (3) most individuals are dependent on the press to learn of what is transpiring in the courts. Taken together, these propositions suggested a broad conception of section 2(b) that could act as the primary guarantor of transparency in our democracy, not …

Why The Block Is The Block: Reinforcing Community Through Casual Conversation, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study combines Discourse Dynamics (Cameron, 2007) with Perceptual Simulation Theory (Barsalou, 2007; Gibbs, 2006), to analyze a sample of talk among residents of an urban neighborhood about topics related to community safety and the quality of life in their community. The results demonstrate the role of casual conversation in structuring complex social relationships, and the usefulness of close attention to metaphors, story-telling, and humor. By their use, re-use, and development of metaphors and stories the participants in this conversation express and reinforce the patterns of sociability and mutual watchfulness that contribute to a feeling of safety and comfort in …

From Jacobin To Liberal, Paul R, Hanson

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This article focuses on From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc-Antoine Jullien, 1775–1848 and argues that this book, written near the end of Robert R. Palmer’s career, stands as a sort of bookend to his earlier masterpiece, Twelve Who Ruled. The focus of the book, Marc- Antoine Jullien, was a precocious idealist, just sixteen years old when he made his first speech before the Paris Jacobin club. He supported the Jacobin political vision and went on to serve as an emissary in the provinces for the Committee of Public Safety, the focus of Twelve Who Ruled. As such, young Jullien was denounced …

Governance In The United States Columbia River Basin: An Historical Analysis, Eric Thomas Mogren

Dissertations and Theses

Political and institutional leaders in the Pacific Northwest have struggled over how best to manage Columbia River Basin development and the implications of that development since the early 1900s. Their efforts present a seeming paradox: whereas prominent political and institutional leaders believed some form of regional governance system was necessary, those same leaders refused to establish systems with the decision-making authority necessary to resolve the issues that led them to create the systems in the first place. This study examines the historical record at the institutional level to determine why. This study found twenty-six governance systems proposed since 1933 of …

Reading, Writing, And Interrogating: Providing Miranda Warnings To Students In Schoolhouse Interrogations, Stephanie Forbes

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Athirteen-year-old boy sat in a room until a law-enforcement officer arrived. He asked the boy to follow him into another room where three more adults, including another law-enforcement officer, waited. The second lawenforcement officer then proceeded to question the boy about his involvement in a series of home robberies while the other adults encouraged the boy to tell the truth. The boy then implicated himself in the home robberies, acts for which he was later arrested. He claimed that as the officers did not read him his Miranda rights, his statement could not be used against him. At first glance, …

The Resource Page

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

New Publications of Interest

Recent studies have exposed offender recidivism as a major public-safety issue that the courts need to address. Out of a sample of 275,000 prisoners who were released in 1994, two-thirds were arrested again within 3 years. Reports indicate that 1 in 31 adults is currently under criminal supervision. Of course, judges have some sense of local recidivism rates, as they see the same offenders over and over in the courtroom. But the public is also aware of the high level of recidivism, and general perceptions of public safety and the criminal-justice system suffer as a result. …

Studying Juror Expectations For Scientific Evidence: A New Model For Looking At The Csi Myth, Donald E. Shelton, Gregg Barak, Young S. Kim

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

After a jury acquittal, the prosecutor explains the loss to the assembled media by saying that the jurors demanded too much of the government. They “wrongfully” acquitted the defendant only because the television show Crime Scene Investigation (“CSI”), or one of its many spin-offs and copycats, overly influenced them. According to the prosecutor, the jurors could not separate reality from fiction when they did not see the same kinds of advanced scientific evidence during the trial that is commonly depicted on their television screens. This fictional scenario is played out in many criminal cases. The news media quickly …

Court Review, Volume 47, Issue 3 (Complete)

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Articles

52 Selected Criminal Law Cases in the United States Supreme Court and a Look Ahead (Charles D. Weisselberg)

64 Lawyer-Assistance-Program Attorneys and the Practice of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (David B. Wexler)

68 Reading, Writing, and Interrogating: Providing Miranda Warnings to Students in Schoolhouse Interrogations (Stephanie Forbes)

Departments

50 Editor’s Note

51 President’s Column

76 The Resource Page

Selected Criminal Law Cases In The United States Supreme Court And A Look Ahead, Charles D. Weisselberg

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Perhaps to most observers, the blockbusters from the United States Supreme Court’s 2010-2011 Term were on the civil side of the docket. Yet the Court did address a number of important aspects of policing and criminal prosecutions, such as the Fourth Amendment and exigent circumstances, Miranda and juveniles, and the Confrontation Clause. I believe that the most significant criminal-law-related rulings from the past Term may turn out to be the Court’s habeas corpus cases. The justices issued a series of opinions that interpret the federal habeas statutes to afford greater deference to state courts and that make it more difficult …

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2011, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

Contents include articles about the newly-named Louis M. Ricciardi College of Business, the aviation science program, and the recent accomplishments of faculty members Nancy Moses, Donald Running, Darcy Boellstorff, and Diana Fox. Also Bridgewater and Alumni News.

Citizenship And Punishment: Situating Death Penalty Jury Sentencing, Sarah Beth Kaufman

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research

Although capital punishment in the United States is subject to much social scientific scrutiny, there has been little ethnographic study of death penalty trials. This is not only an empirical lacuna, but also a theoretically and politically important one: by failing to take capital trials as primary objects of inquiry, the practices of lawyers, witnesses, judges, and others are viewed as products of, rather than implicated in, the institution of criminal justice. Based on an ethnography of fifteen death penalty sentencing trials across the United States during 2007, 2008, and 2009, this article seeks to understand the role of juries …

Index To The House Journal State Of Colorado: Sixty-Eighth General Assembly First Regular Session At Denver, The State Capitol, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Index To The Senate Journal State Of Colorado: Sixty-Eighth General Assembly First Regular Session, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Under International Standards Of Justice, Can Audio Or Video Recordings Of Distress Calls And Footage From Vessels Allegedly Subjected To Piratical Attacks Be Admitted Into Evidence? How Would Authenticity Be Proved? Does This Deny The Opportunity To Cross-Examine?, Baker & Mckenzie Llp

War Crimes Memoranda

No abstract provided.

The Case Against Preemption: Vaccines & Uncertainty, Mary J. Davis

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This article begins with a brief recap of the state of current preemption doctrine and how it governs the interaction of federal regulation of product manufacturers and state tort actions related to the actions of those manufacturers. Second, the article provides observations on how that doctrine might apply to vaccine injury litigation. Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, Inc. involves the preemptive scope of the Vaccine Act and the unique compensation system Congress created to respond to vaccine injuries. Bruesewitz was decided on February 22, 2011, and held that design defect claims are expressly preempted by the Vaccine Act. This article endeavors …

Material Witness Detentions After Al-Kidd, Wesley Macneil Oliver

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Our Perfect, Perfect Constitution, Michael Stokes Paulsen

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

Born By The Woman, Caught By The Midwife: The Case For Legalizing Direct-Entry Midwifery In All Fifty States, Sarah Anne Stover

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Burying Our Heads In The Sand: Lack Of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance, And The Persistent Problem Of Campus Peer Sexual Violence, Nancy Chi Cantalupo

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

This Article discusses why two laws that seek to prevent and end sexual violence between students on college campuses, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act ("Clery Act'), are failing to fulfill this goal and how these legal regimes can be improved to reach their objectives. It explicates how Title IX and the Clery Act ignore or exacerbate a series of "information problems" that create incentives for schools to "bury their heads in the sand" with regard to campus peer sexual violence. These …

Unilateral Alteration Of Public Sector Collective Bargaining Agreements And The Contract Clause, Stephen F. Befort

Articles

As public sector budgets have waxed and waned in response to changes in the economic cycle over the past 30 years, public sector employers increasingly have sought to control personnel costs by resorting to measures such as wage freezes and furloughs. Not infrequently, those measures have pitted the viability of collective bargaining agreements against the ability of government to protect its coffers. This article examines those court decisions that have considered the reach of the contract clause in this setting over the past thirty years. Most of these courts properly have applied the principles established by the Supreme Court in …

An Operator’S Guide To Human Terrain Teams, Norman Nigh

CIWAG Case Studies

An Operator's Guide to Human Terrain Teams focuses on the use of Human Terrain Teams in Afghanistan. The Human Terrain System is an innovative military intelligence support program used by the US Army that employs civilian social scientists with backgrounds in linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and regional studies to provide military commanders with clearer insights into the local population and culture in the regions in which they are deployed.

Seana Shiffrin's Thinker-Based Theory Of Free Speech: Elegant And Insightful, But Will It Work In Practice?, James Weinstein

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

Index, Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.