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A Role For Kv7 Channels In Alcohol Consumption: Genetics, Pharmacology, And Neuroadaptations, Natalie Maurisa Straight-Mcguier

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health issue that produces enormous societal and economic burdens. Current FDA-approved pharmacotherapies for treating AUD suffer from deleterious side effects and are only effective in a subset of individuals, representing a need for improved medications for the management of AUD. The experiments described in this dissertation provide evidence for a complex relationship between Kv7 channels and alcohol-related behaviors that spans genetics, behavioral pharmacology, and biochemical adaptations suggesting these channels are a target for treating AUD. We first examined the genetic relationship between Kcnq genes and alcohol-related behaviors, showing that these channels contribute …

Hidden Racial Bias: Why We Need To Talk With Jurors About Ferguson, Patrick C. Brayer

Faculty Works

Issues of race frame our national identity and define our capacity to achieve true equality for all individuals. By its very nature and traditions, the law is a profession tasked with confronting inequality and discrimination in our society. As issues of race continue to influence our communities, nation, and world, the legal profession will be charged with leading future discussions on how prejudice and bias affect our clients. Unfortunately, as legal professionals, we still struggle with the question of whether to talk about race in voir dire. This essay discusses our obligation as judges, academics, and practitioners to understand how …

Traumatic Brain Injury And The Law: Introduction, Sean O'Brien, Kenneth D. Ferguson

Faculty Works

Introduction to UMKC Law Review symposium issue focusing on the intersection of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and the law.

Blackness As Character Evidence, Mikah K. Thompson

Faculty Works

Federal Rule of Evidence 404 severely limits the government's ability to offer evidence of a defendant's character trait of violence to prove action in conformity with that trait on the occasion in question. The Rule states that such character evidence is generally inadmissible when offered to prove propensity. The Rule also allows the government to offer evidence of an alleged victim's character for peacefulness in homicide cases where the defendant asserts the self-defense privilege. Although criminal defendants may offer character evidence under limited circumstances, Rule 404 creates a significant disincentive for doing so. Where a defendant offers evidence of an …

Implied Assertions In Evidence Law: A Retrospective, Christopher G. Miller

MC Law Review

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Getting Away With Murder: Undermining The Louisiana Legislature's Attempt To Impose Harsher Penalties For Child Deaths Resulting From A Parent's Failure To Supervise, Taylor W. Prejean

MC Law Review

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The Statutory Implications Of The Public's Right To View Executions: A State By State Analysis, Kate Esther Rapp

MC Law Review

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The Most Comprehensive Judicial Record Ever Produced: The Polygamy Reference, Bj Wray, Keith Reimer, Craig Cameron

Emory Law Journal

In the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia presided over an unprecedented proceeding in Canadian legal history¿a ¿reference¿ hearing conducted at the trial court level into the constitutionality of Canada¿s criminal prohibition of polygamy. The authors are legal counsel at the Department of Justice and were part of the legal team that successfully defended the constitutionality of the prohibition on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada. This Essay discusses various aspects of the litigation, including the uniqueness of the proceeding, the voluminous evidentiary record it generated, the …

Excessive Corporate Risk-Taking And The Decline Of Personal Blame, Steven L. Schwarcz

Emory Law Journal

Government agencies and prosecutors are being criticized for seeking so few indictments against individuals in the wake of the 2008¿2009 financial crisis and its resulting banking failures. This Article analyzes why¿contrary to a longstanding historical trend¿personal liability may be on the decline, and whether agencies and prosecutors should be doing more. The analysis confronts fundamental policy questions concerning changing corporate and social norms. The public and the media perceive the crisis¿s harm as a ¿wrong¿ caused by excessive risk-taking. But that view can be too simplistic, ignoring the reality that firms must take greater risks to try to innovate and …

2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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2015-2016 Undergraduate Course Description, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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2015-2016 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

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In Brief

In Brief

Table of Contents

• Jessica Berg and Michael Scharf Appointed as Co-Deans of the Law School
• A Message from the Deans
• First-Year Students Gain Experience Working with Real Clients
• Changing Lives over Spring Break
• Law Students File Class-Action Lawsuit...
• Advancing Our Neighborhoods
• Successful Persistence
• Two Alums Secure Verdicts over $40 Million
• For Her Father and for the Workers
• Achieving the American Dream
• Featured Columnist for MedPage Today
• No Day Is Typical for This Alumnus on a Small Island Nation
• Serving as Health Care Policy Advisor for a Congressman
• Brigade Judge Advocate, Deployed to Liberia During the Ebola Epidemic
• Celebrating Lew Katz's …

Fall/Winter 2015: 2015 Alumni Award Winners, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

An overview and profiles of the SNC Alumni who were awarded various Alumni Awards in 2015.

Rethinking The Childhood-Adult Divide: Meeting The Mental Health Needs Of Emerging Adults, Barbara L. Atwell

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this article describes ADHD and explores the extent of ADHD medication abuse, especially among young adults. Part II discusses the characteristics of emerging adults, who may be more likely than their older counterparts to make unwise decisions about medications and other life choices.34 While we protect minors by requiring parental consent for their medical treatments, emerging adults are effectively able to obtain any drug on the market if they convince the doctor that they have the requisite diagnosis. Part III explores HIPAA, the medical malpractice standard of care and the challenges associated with a society that is …

Citations And Convictions: One Community’S Coordinated Response To Intimate Partner Violence & Efforts Toward Offender Accountability, Kerry Beldin, Allison Lauritsen, Henry J. D'Souza, Bob Moyer

Social Work Faculty Publications

In 1996, a coordinated community response (CCR) was formally established in a mid-sized Midwestern city to improve the criminal justice response to intimate partner violence (IPV). Data for this study included all IPV-related incidents to which the local police department responded since the establishment of the CCR for a fourteen year period. Effective CCRs provide for IPV offender accountability through citation and prosecution of IPV-related crimes. Concerns about demographic variables affecting citation and prosecution rates have been identified in the literature. Compared to national statistics, gender differences were consistent but higher citation and conviction rates were identified in this community. …

An Awakening: How The Civil Rights Movement Helped Shape My Life, Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.

NYLS Law Review

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Remembering The Freedom Riders: An Interview With The Honorable Ernst H. Rosenberger, Ernst H. Rosenberger

NYLS Law Review

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The Financial Action Task Force And The Legal Profession, Duncan E. Osborne

NYLS Law Review

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The Role Of Lawyers In Combating Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing: Lessons From The English Approach, John A. Terrill Ii, Michael A. Breslow

NYLS Law Review

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U.S. Legal Profession Efforts To Combat Money Laundering And Terrorist Financing, Laurel S. Terry

NYLS Law Review

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Paying The Piper: The Cost Of Compliance With The Federal Sex Offender Registration And Notification Act, Jennifer N. Wang

NYLS Law Review

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The Trouble With Truth-Telling: Preliminary Reflections On Truth And Justice In Post-War Liberia, Gabriel Twose Ph.D., Caitlin O. Mahoney Ph.D.

Peace and Conflict Studies

This study investigates perceptions of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), particularly focusing on understandings of, and the links between, truth, justice, and reconciliation. Forty-five semi-structured interviews were conducted at three research sites in Liberia. Findings indicate that although most Liberians agreed with the TRC in principle, most of those who followed its proceedings saw major problems in its implementation, harming perceptions of reconciliation. Participants expressed concerns that the Commission had failed to discover the full truth of wartime abuses, that the truth that was discovered was not told in the right way, and that there had been problems …

Rethinking Immigration’S Mandatory Detention Regime: Politics, Profit, And The Meaning Of “Custody”, Philip L. Torrey

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Immigration detention in the United States is a crisis that needs immediate attention. U.S. immigration detention facilities hold a staggering number of persons. Widely believed to have the largest immigration detention population in the world, the United States detained approximately 478,000 foreign nationals in Fiscal Year 2012. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for immigration enforcement, boasts that the figure is “an all-time high.” In some ways, these numbers are unsurprising, considering that the United States incarcerates approximately one in every one hundred adults within its borders—a rate five to ten times higher than any other Westernized …

Racial Profiling In The War On Drugs Meets The Immigration Removal Process: The Case Of Moncrieffe V. Holder, Kevin R. Johnson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In Moncrieffe v. Holder, the Supreme Court held that the Board of Immigration Appeals could not remove a long-term lawful permanent resident from the United States based on a single misdemeanor conviction for possession of a small amount of marijuana. The decision clarified the meaning of an “aggravated felony” for purposes of removal, an important question under the U.S. immigration laws. In the removal proceedings, Adrian Moncrieffe, a black immigrant from Jamaica, did not challenge his arrest and drug conviction. Consequently, the Supreme Court did not review the facts surrounding, or the lawfulness of, the criminal prosecution. Nonetheless, the traffic …

Colorado's Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr.: At The Headwaters Of Justice, Troy Eid

Water Law Review

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Vol. 18, No. 2: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Utilizing Credit Reports For Employment Purposes: A Legal Bait And Switch Tactic, James D. Phillips, David D. Schein

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

In our previous article, "Holding Credit Reporting Agencies Accountable: How the Financial Crisis May be Contributing to Improving Accuracy in Credit Reporting" we reviewed the legal history of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), its amendments, and the federal case law by circuit. We suggested that the ability of consumers to ensure the accuracy and security of their credit reports might lead to an expansion of the litigation surrounding accurate credit reporting. This article takes the discussion further by exploring the ever-expanding use of credit reports in the employment law arena. We review the state legislation limiting the use of …

Dna Without Warrant: Decoding Privacy, Probable Cause And Personhood, Ken Strutin

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

In Part I, this article explores the challenges to privacy, personhood and probable cause raised by DNA collection as identification sanctioned in Maryland v. King. Part II considers the presumed infallibility of DNA testing that undergirds the Supreme Court's embracement of genetic identification. Lastly, in Part III, this article will try to decipher the Court's Fourth Amendment logic in denying privacy to the information in human cells but embracing them in cell phones in Riley v. California

Recent Children's Policy And Legislative Developments In Virginia: A Brief History, A Bright Future, The Honorable Christopher K. Peace, Amy L. Woolard

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

In this piece, we will outline the structural and policy developments implemented in Virginia in recent years that set the stage for a sea change in children’s services in Virginia.