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The Model Penal Code’S Wrong Turn: Renunciation As A Defense To Criminal Conspiracy, R. Michael Cassidy, Gregory I. Massing

Florida Law Review

While the Model Penal Code was certainly one of the most influential developments in criminal law in the past century, the American Law Institute (ALI) took a seriously wrong turn by recognizing “renunciation” as a defense to the crime of conspiracy. Under the Model Penal Code formulation, a member of a conspiracy who later disavows the agreement and thwarts its objective (for example, by notifying authorities of the planned crime in order to prevent its completion) is afforded a complete defense to conspiracy liability. This defense has enormous implications for crimes involving national security and terrorism, which are typically planned …

Nineteenth Century Personal Jurisdiction Doctrine In A Twenty-First Century World, Charles W. "Rockey" Rhodes

Florida Law Review

The initial twenty-first century personal jurisdiction decisions from the Supreme Court reveal that personal jurisdiction doctrine has not changed much since the nineteenth century. The nomenclature has changed, realism has replaced formalism, some fictions purportedly have been discarded, and the adjudicatory reach of courts has somewhat expanded, but the doctrine retains the same conceptual core-the social contract philosophical tradition limiting the scope of governmental authority to those establishing the requisite relationship with the sovereign.

I first overview jurisdictional doctrine from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This revisionist account illustrates that International Shoe—especially considered in light of its progeny—is not …

Preserving Legal Avenues For Climate Justice In Florida Post-American Electric Power, Allison Fishman

Florida Law Review

No abstract provided.

Adapting Laws For A Changing World: A Systemic Approach To Climate Change Adaptation, Victor B. Flatt

Florida Law Review

This Essay suggests that policy responses in climate change adaptation must be addressed and that focusing on adapting laws may be a good way to undertake this work. Following a review of existing scholarship and normative theories concerning law generally, environmental law, climate change, and adaptation, this Essay then proposes a template for approaching the adaptation of laws. This template would (1) examine where climate change puts pressure on the operation of laws; (2) seek to alter the implementation of that law or to alter the law itself to hew closely to the law’s original purposes; and (3) make these …

Critical Habitat And The Challenge Of Regulating Small Harms, Dave Owen

Florida Law Review

This Article investigates how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the courts are implementing the Endangered Species Act’s prohibition on “adverse modification” of “critical habitat.” That prohibition appears to be one of environmental law’s most ambitious mandates, but its actual meaning and effect are contested. Using a database of over 4,000 “biological opinions,” interviews with agency staff, and a review of judicial decisions considering the adverse modification prohibition, this Article assesses the extent to which the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the courts are relying on the adverse modification …

Planetarian Identity Formation And The Relocalization Of Environmental Law, Sarah Krakoff

Florida Law Review

Local food, local work, local energy production-all are hallmarks of a resurgence of localism throughout contemporary environmental thought and action. The renaissance of localism might be seen as a retreat from the world’s global environmental problems. This Article maintains, however, that some forms of localism are actually expressions, appropriate ones, of a planetary environmental consciousness. This Article’s centerpiece is an in-depth evaluation of local climate action initiatives, including interviews with participants, as well as other data and observations about their ethics, attitudes, behaviors, and motivations. The values and identities being forged in these initiatives form the basis for timely conceptions …

Balancing Compassion And Risk In Climate Adaptation: U.S. Water, Drought, And Agricultural Law, Robert W. Adler

Florida Law Review

It is inevitable that the world will experience a significant amount of global warming before efforts to mitigate the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere can even begin to succeed. Therefore, adaptation to climate change impacts, as well as mitigation, will be necessary to deal with climate disruption. In designing climate change adaptation efforts, a looming issue is how to balance the need and compassionate impulse to provide financial and other relief to victims of climate disruption impacts with the equally compelling need to reduce the overall risk of those impacts. U.S. water, drought, and agricultural law and …

Introduction: Climate Change At Epa, Lisa Heinzerling

Florida Law Review

With the demise of climate legislation in Congress, and the Supreme Court’s rejection of climate-related lawsuits brought under federal common law, rapt attention has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to bring greenhouse gases into the regulatory fold. Certainly, as the works in this special issue of the Florida Law Review demonstrate, EPA is not the only important player in the climate arena; indeed, as I will reluctantly suggest, the Agency’s efforts here appear to be waning rather than waxing. Even so, before turning to other aspects of the problem of climate change, discussed in other works in …

October 17, 2012 Cal Poly Report, Public Affairs Office

Cal Poly Report

No abstract provided.

Phoenix, 2012-10-17, Student Life

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.

Unique Small Rna Signatures Uncovered In The Tammar Wallaby Genome, James Lindsay, Dawn M. Carone, Judy Brown, Laura Hall, Sohaib Qureshi, Sarah E. Mitchell, Nicholas Jannetty, Andrew Pask, Michael O’Neill, Rachel O’Neill

Open Access Author Fund Awardees' Articles

Background

Small RNAs have proven to be essential regulatory molecules encoded within eukaryotic genomes. These short RNAs participate in a diverse array of cellular processes including gene regulation, chromatin dynamics and genome defense. The tammar wallaby, a marsupial mammal, is a powerful comparative model for studying the evolution of regulatory networks. As part of the genome sequencing initiative for the tammar, we have explored the evolution of each of the major classes of mammalian small RNAs in an Australian marsupial for the first time, including the first genome-scale analysis of the newest class of small RNAs, centromere repeat associated short …

Undergraduate Curriculum And Academic Policy Committee Minutes, October 17, 2012

Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Undergraduate Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee meeting held on October 17, 2012.

Methods For Evaluating Prediction Performance Of Biomarkers And Tests, Margaret Pepe, Holly Janes

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

This chapter describes and critiques methods for evaluating the performance of markers to predict risk of a current or future clinical outcome. We consider three criteria that are important for evaluating a risk model: calibration, benefit for decision making and accurate classification. We also describe and discuss a variety of summary measures in common use for quantifying predictive information such as the area under the ROC curve and R-squared. The roles and problems with recently proposed risk reclassification approaches are discussed in detail.

The Cord (October 17, 2012)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Volume 104 Issue 7, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

Ndls Update 10/17/2012, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Update

No abstract provided.

Nor'easter News Volume 6 Issue 3, Nor'easter News Staff

Nor'easter News

The fifty-sixth issue of the University of New England's student-run newspaper, Nor'easter News.

We Are...Marshall, October 17, 2012, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Editors’ Pick—Book Review: Global Sustainability And The Responsibilities Of Universities, Frederic Murray, Kelly S. Moor

Administrative Issues Journal

Weber, L.E., & Duderstadt, J. J. (Eds.). 2012. Global sustainability and the responsibilities of universities. Paris, France: Economica Ltd. 283 pp. ISBN 978-2-7178-6113-6

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (10/17/2012), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island school newspaper.

Spartan Daily October 17, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 27

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper, October 17, 2012, George Fox University Archives

"The Crescent" Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of George Fox University.

Easterner, Vol. 64, No. 4, October 17, 2012, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about student athletes, a student production of The Underpants, increased enrollment at Eastern Washington University, marijuana use on campus, Board of Trustees members James Murphy and Vicki Wilson, cold and flu season, a campus lecture by sculptor and filmmaker John Frame, Price Center Coordinator Sandra Williams, women's rugby, tailgating at football games, and the football and tennis seasons.

Prospectus, October 17, 2012, Javier Murillo, Ted Sutterlund, Nick Laptew, Jojo Rhinehart, Spencer Brown, Alex Wallner, Mace Mackiewicz

Prospectus 2012

PARKLAND CELEBRATES 45 ACADEMIC YEARS, Parkland Observes National Coming Out Day, Food for Thought Brings New Food, New Hours, Stop the Stress and Get Ready for Midterms, Pell Grants Boost College Access for Low-Income Students but Money is Only Half the Story, Gangnam Style? Not in N. Korea, Shelby Geers: October Athlete of the Month, Parkland Volleyball Streak Reaches Record 23 Games, Planetarium Features "Songs in the Key of Earth"

The Anchor, Volume 126.06: October 17, 2012, Hope College

The Anchor: 2012

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

October 17, 2012 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

GreenMail (student newsletter through 2024)

No abstract provided.

2012 October 17 - Health Sciences Task Force Meeting Minutes, Health Sciences Task Force, East Tennessee State University, Committee For 125, East Tennessee State University

Academics: The Health Sciences Task Force

No abstract provided.

Task Force Brainstorming Exercise: New Ways Of Learning And New Clinical Delivery Systems (Sub-Group 1 Results), Health Sciences Task Force, East Tennessee State University, Committee For 125, East Tennessee State University

Academics: The Health Sciences Task Force

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Ethnic Identity And Chlamydia And Gonorrhea Infections Among Low-Income Detained African American Adolescent Females, Dexter R. Voisin

Faculty Scholarship

This study explored the relationship between ethnic identity and Chlamydia and Gonorrhea infections among detained African American female adolescents. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 123 African American female adolescents within eight detention facilities in Georgia. Using audio-computer assisted self-interviewing technology, data were collected on demographics, ethnic identity, laboratory-confirmed Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, and other known correlates for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), such as socioeconomic status, parental monitoring, and risky sexual behaviors. Rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea testing yielded incidence rates of 22.6% and 4.3%, respectively. Findings indicated that, controlling for STI correlates, participants who indicated high ethnic identity were 4.3 …

The Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2010s

No abstract provided.