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Mapping Coastal Risks And Social Vulnerability: Current Tools And Legal Risks, Lisa Schiavinato, Heather Payne

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

No abstract provided.

State And Local Liability For Failure To Adapt To And Protect Against Recurrent Flooding: Applying Farmers Insurance's Legal Framework To Virginia Circumstances, James M. Andris Jr.

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

No abstract provided.

Go Green, Save Money: Lowering Flood Insurance Rates In Virginia With Stormwater Management And Open Space, Adele Young, Kristen Clark

Virginia Coastal Policy Center

No abstract provided.

No. 9 - Cybersecurity And National Defense: Building A Public-Private Partnership, Rebecca H. White, C. Donald Johnson, Loch K. Johnson, Quentin E. Hodgson, Jamil Jaffer, Clete D. Johnson, Victoria Woodbine, Timothy L. Meyer, Adam Golodner, Barry Hensley, Andrea Matwyshyn, Jacob Olcott

Occasional Papers Series

Organized and sponsored by the Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy, Cybersecurity and National Defense: Building a Public-Private Partnership was a daylong conference exploring issues related to the national security dimensions of cyber attacks as well as the role of the private sector in addressing cybersecurity risks. The overarching theme was the scope of public-private collaboration in addressing cybersecurity risks and the potential for future cooperation between government and the private sector. Clete D. Johnson, Chief Counsel for Cybersecurity at the Federal Communications Commission gave a lunchtime address on the FCC’s approach to communications security in the Internet …

Lawyer: Spring 2015, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•Retiring professors Paula Lustbader ’88, Hank McGee, and John Mitchell
•John McKay reflects on his time in Palestine
•Environmental Law seminar sees Elwha River restoration work up close

How Taxis, Peanuts And Assault Rifles Get You A Martini For Dinner: Examining Peanut Quotas And Taxi Medallions In Consideration Of Whether A Fifth Amendment Takings Claim Is A Red Herring When Eliminating Alcohol License Quota Systems - Alcohol Licenses Under A Quota System: Non-Compensable Regulatory License Or Compensable Property Right In An Entrenched Legacy Market, Karen Powell

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Tapping The “Town And Gown” Potential For Correctional Health Research Collaborations, Madison L. Gates, Michelle Staples-Horne, Nancy C. Webb, Ronald L. Braithwaite, Beverly Hastings

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: Collaborations between juvenile justice systems (town) and academia (gown) promise to significantly enhance what we understand about high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) found among detained populations, particularly African American young women. However, research related to the sexual health of adolescent detainees has not occurred in proportion to the magnitude of issues found in the population. While there are many challenges to conducting research with this population, there are also lessons learned and best practices from other studies that may provide guidance.

Methods: In 2015, we implemented a pilot project with young women in a detention center to …

Advocating For Pregnant Women In Prison: Georgia Can Do Better, Nancy Webb, Madison Gates

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: Women are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. prison populace and approximately 1 in 25 were pregnant when they were incarcerated. However, women, including pregnant women, are receiving unacceptable health care in correctional systems. Further, many correctional systems lack policies to protect the best interest of incarcerated women, mothers and their children.

Methods: We reviewed the literature on pregnant women in prison and found that corrections has been slow in making changes and adapting facilities for women, especially related to pregnancy, parenting skills and nurseries. It has been suggested the parent-infant attachment and the involvement incarcerated parents have …

Rights At Risk In Privatized Public Housing, Jaime Alison Lee

All Faculty Scholarship

Traditional public housing is dwindling. Federal policy has increasingly encouraged privatization, shifting stewardship of public housing out of the hands of government and into the hands of private, for-profit companies. Privatization in this context has both benefits and risks. A particularly compelling area of study is the attempt by lawmakers to conscript private contractors into serving public policy goals. Private landlords are obligated not merely to provide housing, but to conduct themselves in ways that promote the interests of vulnerable people. The case of public housing suggests that legislative mandates and contractual obligations are not enough to assure this outcome, …

Towards A Healthy Neighborhood: Recommendations For Health Assessments Of Future Development In Upham’S Corner, Luc Figueiredo Miller

Honors College Theses

Historic growth in Boston, Massachusetts, belies dramatic gaps in socio-economic status among residents and corresponding increases in health disparities between low income and more affluent Boston neighborhoods. The Fairmount/Indigo Planning Initiative Corridor Plan is a renewed investment in Boston’s poorest communities that may potentially tackle these inequities. The plan aims to link neighborhoods that are cut off from downtown to the heart of the city. Such investment in rapid transit may combat the spatial isolation found to negatively affect health outcomes but similar transportation upgrades in other American cities have been associated with gentrification and displacement (Pollack et al, 2010). …

University Honors Program News, Georgia Southern University

Honors College: News & Publications (2008-2020)

• Chemistry Student Mariana Hernandez Publishes Research

• Five Years of the Honors Program’s Alternate Break Trip to Camp Blue Skies at Camp Twin Lakes

• Olivia Carter Takes Center Stage (and the rest of it as well)

• Honors Students Spend Spring Break Volunteering in Costa Rica

Creating A Self-Stabilizing Constitution: The Role Of The Takings Clause, Tonja Jacobi, Sonia Mittal, Barry R. Weingast

Northwestern University Law Review

The U.S. Constitution has survived for over two centuries, despite the Civil War and numerous other crises. In contrast, most national constitutions last less than two decades. Why has the Constitution sustained a largely stable democratic system while so many others have failed? A self-stabilizing constitution creates incentives for all relevant actors to abide by the rules. Drawing on earlier work, we argue that, to be self- stabilizing, a constitution must (1) lower stakes in politics for both ordinary citizens and powerful elite groups; (2) create focal points that facilitate citizen coordination against transgressions by government officials; and (3) enable …

Environmental Assessment As Planning And Disclosure Tool: Greenpeace Canada V. Canada (Attorney General), Martin Zp Olszynski

Dalhousie Law Journal

In Greenpeace Canada v. Canada (2014), the applicants successfully challenged the adequacy of the environmental assessment report prepared in relation to a proposed nuclear power plant. In assessing that report, the Federal Court described environmental assessment as an "evidence-based and democratically accountable" decision-making process. In this comment I suggest that this characterization represents the most significant-if perhaps also long overdue development in Canadian environmental assessment law since the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada. I also discuss some of the implications of this characterization, including the extent to which environmental effects must be …

A “Universal Value”? Perceptions Of Democracy Across Race Among Young Voters In Durban, Sa, Svati Pazhyanur

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This study seeks to explore perceptions of democracy among young voting age South Africans, and how they vary across racial communities. While perceptions of democracy encompass a broad range of topics, this study focuses on the more tangible aspects of youth engagement with democracy. This study questions what democracy means to young South Africans, how it plays out in daily life, how successful its implementation in South Africa has been, and what it would ideally look like in the future. Because youth engagement with these discussions will significantly affect democracy’s trajectory in the future, it is essential to understand young …

Genocide In Northeast Brazil: Dismantling Colonial Legacies Of Contemporary State Violence In Salvador, Kelsi Sleet

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The systematic use of violence by the police a lead me to the city of Salvador, Bahia, a city where 80% of the population is Afro-Brazilian. Using a framework of structural violence I develop a critical understanding of how contemporary manifestations of colonialism impact black people in Salvador, Bahia. Through this research I problematize the idea of the “racial democracy” to understand how black people are experiencing the direct use of violence by the Brazilian state in the form of anti-black genocide. I ask how Black Brazilian activists in Salvador resist and challenge state violence, specifically in the context of …

The Current Volume 25 : Issue 26, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Developments In Family Law In The District Of Columbia: Three Significant Legislative Changes For Child Support, Meridel Bulle-Vu, Tianna Gibbs, Ashley Mcdowell

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Over the last decade, the District's child support law has changed in three significant ways: (1) by the enactment of a statute that requires sentencing judges to notify obligors of their right to modify or suspend their child support order during incarceration; (2) by the passage of a law that requires the District of Columbia government to distribute up to the first $150 of child support collected each month to custodial parents who receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families(TANF); and (3) by substantial revisions to how child support orders are calculated under the District's Child Support Guideline (the Guideline).1 These …

The Struggle To Rise Above The Shadows Before Sunset: A Critical Discussion On The Need To Lift The Expiration And Renewal Requirements Of Daca And Dapa, Anna Oguntimein

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Reasoning that judicial economy is best served when a law enforcement agency determines how to expend its limited enforcemen tresources, the Supreme Court has held that the decision to exercise prosecutorial discretion is presumptively unreviewable.1 In the realm of immigration law, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the recently announced Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) promote the goal of judicial economy by imposing a freeze on the deportation of eligible noncitizens who either entered the United States as children or who have a child who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident …

Civil Protection Orders: Increased Access And Narrowed Enforcement, Courtney Cross

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

The statute governing civil protection orders in the District of Columbia is the Intrafamily Offenses Act,1 which has been in effect since 1970.2 This statute has been amended frequently over the past 45 years. While some of these changes have been clerical3 or procedural,4 there have also been substantive amendments which, inter alia,significantly expand both who may file for a protection order and what remedies that petitioner may request and receive. Yet this expansion has coincided with an intense scaling back by the judiciary of who can prosecute alleged violations of protection orders. While the statute continues to enable more …

The Advocate, March 31, 2015, Minnesota State University Moorhead

The Advocate

No abstract provided.

The Sun Star Vol 34, No 22 ( March 31, 2015), N/A N/A

Sun Star

No abstract provided.

Imprisonment Inertia And Public Attitudes Toward "Truth In Sentencing", Michael O'Hear, Darren Wheelock

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Criminalizing Non-Evacuation Behavior: Unintended Consequences And Undesirable Results, Brandon Curtis

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, March 30, 2015

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Commonwealth Times 2015-03-30

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Corruption And Entrepreneurship: Evidence From A Random Audit Program, Jamie Bologna, Amanda Ross

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

In this paper, we examine the effect of corruption on business activity in Brazilian municipalities. Previous research that has examined the impact of corruption has relied primarily on survey or conviction data, which may be problematic as these measures likely to be biased. We use a new measure of corruption that draws upon random audit data of municipal governments’ finances in Brazil. We find that higher levels of corruption cause reductions in the number of businesses operating in an area. Furthermore, we find that these effects become larger over time, suggesting that corruption is more detrimental to long-run economic activity. …

Bats And Mines: Evaluating Townsend's Big-Eared Bat (Corynorhinus Townsendii) Maternity Colony Behavioral Response To Gating, Gabrielle F. Diamond, Joel M. Diamond

Western North American Naturalist

With the loss and modification of natural roosting habitat afforded by caves, abandoned mines have assumed increased importance as alternative roosting sites for Townsend’s big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii). However, increased human safety concerns have led to accelerated abandoned mine closure programs. To protect roosting sites in mines with significant bat activity, bat-compatible gates are installed that allow continued access to mine workings. Aside from ensuring public safety, these gates provide protection from disturbance to roosting bats. We evaluated the effects of gating on bat flight behavior at maternity colonies in 2 previously gated (control) and 2 ungated (treatment) …

My News

My News (2014-2020)

• Taiwanese Dancers Perform at Georgia Southern Performing Arts Center Tonight
• Georgia Southern Honors 59 Faculty and Staff at Retirees Recognition Ceremony
• Georgia Southern Wins Top Advocacy Team at International Mediation Tournament
• Urban Farmer Will Allen to Speak at Georgia Southern
• Sociologist Alice Goffman Discusses "Fugitive Life"
• Women’s Empowerment Conference Highlights “A Woman’s Worth”

“Amidst The Chime Of The Razor Wire”: Narrating Poetic Justice In Guantanamo Bay, Kristina H. Reardon

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal

The quest of poetic justice carries Marc Falkoff’s 2007 anthology Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak into the court of public (literary) opinion. While the Pentagon asserts that poetry poses special security risks, and related translation issues may obscure the artistry or message of some of the 17 poets’ verse, Falkoff’s volume nevertheless gives prisoners’ voices a forum in which they might be heard. At the nexus of legal and literary scholarship, poetic voice and its expression become a site of deconstructing identity. The Guantanamo poets invite readers to explore the ways that aesthetics form perceptions of their identity as …