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From Macks Creek To Ferguson: How Illinois Can Learn From Missouri To Prevent Predatory Enforcement Practices By Municipalities, Brian Scott

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Some municipalities, including several in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area, are suspected of writing excessive traffic tickets to generate revenue.  A Missouri statute known as the Macks Creek law is intended to protect residents from ticketing practices aimed at generating revenue for municipalities.  In the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri legislators are reexamining the Macks Creek law to make it stricter on municipalities engaged in the practice of raising revenue through writing traffic tickets.  This Comment provides background information on the Macks Creek law and compares it to similar statutes in other states.  The …

Lawyer: Spring 2016, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•Korematsu's Living Legacy: $1 million gift allows Korematsu Center to carry on the civil rights work of its namesake
•Advanced Law Degrees: LLM and MLS degrees starting this fall
•Bringing Law School to Alaska: Students are attending a year of law school in Alaska
•There's an App for That: Lawyers and law students teamed up with developers to solve problems of access to legal services

Recap: Betterman V. Montana, Jason Collins

Montana Law Review Online

No abstract provided.

Volume 40, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editor in Chief: Graeme Maitland

Digital Editor: Jessica Patrick

Editors: Marina Bruggeman, Melanie Gillis, Sarah Walsh

Location, Location, Mis-Location: How Local Land Use Restrictions Are Dulling Halfway Housing's Criminal Rehabilitation Potentia, Michael J. Mcgowan

Student Scholarship

Part I of this Article begins with a brief historical explanation of halfway houses as a model of criminal rehabilitation. Part II addresses why recidivism rates provide the most appropriate metric gauging halfway houses' success and how they apparently have failed to improve recidivism rates. Part III then delves into the body of scholarship that explains how an individual's likelihood of landing back behind bars is to some extent demonstrably tied to their location, meaning their surrounding cultural, economic, and criminogenic environment. Part IV discusses the sparse data on the sorts of neighborhoods where halfway houses ultimately end up and …

The British Experience With Hearsay Reform: A Cautionary Tale, Mark S. Brodin

Fordham Law Review

Among the proposals being considered by the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence (“the Committee”) is the scrapping of the categorical exception regime for hearsay, leaving questions of reliability and admissibility ad hoc to district court judges along the lines of Federal Rules of Evidence (FRE) 403 and 807. Over the past decades, the British have moved toward this approach, and it is the purpose of this Article to identify the lessons that can be learned from that experience, especially with regard to criminal prosecutions and the right of confrontation.

Using Johnson V. United States To Reframe Retroactivity For Second Or Successive Collateral Challenges, Thomas H. Gabay

Fordham Law Review

The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) provides a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison for persons with at least three prior “violent felony” convictions who are subsequently convicted of being in possession of a firearm. In Johnson v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down one portion of this statute on the ground that it was unconstitutionally vague. In addition to an enumerated list of “violent felonies” that can result in a conviction, this portion included a catchall category that defined a violent felony as a crime that “otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk …

Field Preemption And The Presumption Of Federal Action: A Three-Way Supremacy Clause Tug Of War, Joseph E. Zeis Jr.

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commemorating The Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Michael Blackwell Reverend

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the pinnacle of the ten-year struggle to liberate African Americans from the shackles of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Although the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave black men the right to vote way back in 1870, coupled with the 19th Amendment that gave women, including black women, the right in 1920, racism still abounded at election offices across the country—particularly, but not exclusively, among the Southern states. American Negroes, if you will, had been struggling for free access to the polls for decades, when major organizations such as the National Association …

Volume 100, Number 1 (2016)

Judicature

No abstract provided.

Review: Saving Place: 50 Years Of New York City Landmarks, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

Publications and Research

This piece is a review of "Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks" at the Museum of the City of New York from April 2015 to January 2016. It discusses the presentation of the history of preservation in New York City and how the landmarks law has been implemented and challenged over its first half century.

Article of record is at http://jsah.ucpress.edu/content/75/1/119.abstract

Americans’ Attitudes About Prescription Painkiller Abuse, R. J. Blendon, J. M. Benson, Caitlin L. Mcmurtry, J. M. Sayde

Brown School Faculty Publications

A new poll of adults in the United States by Stat and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that just days after the passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 through the U.S. Senate, more than two in five Americans believe that the amount of money the government currently spends on treatment programs for people addicted to prescription painkillers or heroin is too low. Despite historic levels of partisan polarization, self-identified Democrats and Republicans nationwide agree not on only increases in government addiction treatment funding, but also on treatment instead of incarceration for drug offenses, …

Plea Bargain Negotiations: Defining Competence Beyond Lafler And Frye, Cynthia Alkon

Faculty Scholarship

In the companion cases of Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye the U.S. Supreme Court held that there is a right to effective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. However, the Court defined effective assistance of counsel in only one narrow phase of plea bargaining: the client counseling phase. The Court said it would not look more broadly at the negotiation process itself as "[b]argaining is, by its nature, defined to a substantial degree by personal style.” This statement indicates that the Court does not fully understanding developments in the field of negotiation over the last thirty years. Negotiation …

Creating An International Prison, Mary Margaret Penrose

Faculty Scholarship

This Article asserts that a permanent international prison is a necessary, if not indispensable, component of any effective international criminal justice system. It begins by first addressing the historical approach to international sentencing. Next, it discusses the inadequacies of the status quo. Finally, it argues the time has come to construct a permanent international prison, rather than adhere to the ad hoc approach in dealing with international criminals and convicts.

Faith's Reasons

Faith’s Reasons

A newsletter published by the Forum on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition Today at the University of Dayton. The newsletter contains faculty and campus news, and reviews of books and other resources that discuss the intellectual tradition. The issue describes the conference, "Church and World: The Legacy and Challenges of Vatican II," hosted by UD in September 2003. John Inglis provided commentary on his book, On Medieval Philosophy. The issue also describes a lecture series hosted by UD, "The Wounded Body of Christ: Sexual Abuse in the Church."

Commonwealth Times 2016-02-29

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Current, February 29, 2016, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, February 29, 2016, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

The Rider (2016-02-29), Jesus Sanchez

The Rider Archives

Vol.1 No.21

The Source Newsletter, Yolanda Carr, Kem Mendizabal

The Source

No abstract provided.

The Peril Of Paroline: How The Supreme Court Made It More Difficult For Victims Of Child Pornography, Janet Lawrence

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Animal Victim's Best Chance: Veterinary Legal Duty To Report Cruelty In The U.S., Lora Dunn

Animal Sentience

Legislation throughout the U.S. recognizes animal sentience and the importance of veterinary reporting to combat the ongoing suffering of these animal victims: All 50 states have felony penalties available for animal cruelty crimes, and veterinary reporting is permitted or required in the majority of states. The remaining minority of U.S. states should take action to require veterinarians to report animal cruelty and render veterinarians immune for good faith reporting.

The Faithful Flyer, 02-28-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Admissions Report - Detailed Data - February 2016, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Detailed report of applicants to Wright State including data on county of residency, intended major, and ethnicity for Fall Semester 2015.

Distance Education More Expensive Than Thought., Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

Cost is one of the big issues facing higher education.

Diminishing government funding has spiraled

the expense of attending public colleges and

universities, which, in turn, has increased the debt

burden on students to more than a trillion dollars.

Facing this issue has become a national concern

for many politicians. State legislators and governors,

as well as executives of some for-profit

education companies, have been pushing distance

education (mostly in the form of on-line courses)

as the solution.

Cross-Cultural Counseling And Education Conference Program 2016, Child And Family Guidance, Inc., Georgia Southern University, Coastal Georgia Center

National Cross-Cultural Counseling & Education Conference for Research, Action & Change (2016-2024)

Official Conference Program

Hear Us Roar, February 26, 2016, Michael Shonrock

Michael Shonrock

Digital newsletter produced by the office of President Michael Shonrock.

Legal Personhood In More's Utopia, Andreea Boboc

UTOPIA500

The third UTOPIA500 presentation was Feb. 25, 2016. Dr. Andreea D. Boboc, English professor in the College of the Pacific, received an official "Me and Tommy More" polo shirt from McGeorge's Dean Francis J. Mootz III. She then spoke about Legal Personhood in More's Utopia. A published scholar of medieval English literature, Dr. Boboc explored how the fluidity and multiple jurisdictional levels of law in late medieval England shaped personhood. She had a compelling and provocative interchange with the Law and Literature students.

Self-Reports Of Adverse Health Effects Associated With Cyberstalking And Cyberharassment: A Thematic Analysis Of Victims’ Lived Experiences, Elaine L. Davies, Jacqueline Clark, Al-Leigh Roden

Faculty Articles & Research

No abstract provided.

College Senate Minutes February 25, 2016, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on February 25, 2016.