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Producing Democratic Vibrancy, K. Sabeel Rahman

Journal of Law and Policy

Professor Rahman gives his thoughts and opinions on the impact of Citizens' United v. FEC and the growth of the First Amendment debate since. The comment analyzes the normative udnerstanding of democracy and the ongoing debate campaifgn finance have. Professor Rahman concludes by suggesting that the debate is wrongly focused on the indivudals being consumers of politcal speech rather than the producers of it.

Persistent Threats To Commercial Speech, Jonathan H. Adler

Journal of Law and Policy

The current Supreme Court is very protective of speech, including commercial speech. Threats to commercial speech persist nonetheless. This article briefly examines two: the use of commercial speech restrictions as a form of rent-seeking, and compelled commercial speech. Regulation of commercial speech protect is sometimes used to protect established corporate interests from competitors who are less able to bear the costs of regulation, with consequences that extend beyond the economic marketplace. In the case of commercial speech, courts have been unduly deferential to claims of a consumer “right to know” as a basis for mandated labeling and disclosure. Greater protection …

No Drop Prosecution & Domestic Violence: Screening For Cooperation In The City That Never Speaks, Allessandra Decarlo

Journal of Law and Policy

Throughout history, domestic violence has been infamously kept behind closed doors and outside of our legislature. It was not until the 1960s, due to the efforts of the battered women’s movement, that the U.S. government began to address domestic violence as a social ill and offered protection to victims through statutes and policies in both State and Federal capacities. This note elaborates on one such policy, known as a “No-Drop” policy, which has been implemented by prosecutor’s offices throughout New York City’s five boroughs, as a mechanism to aggressively combat domestic violence. “No- Drop” policies allow prosecutors to vigorously prosecute …

A Balancing Act For American Universities: Anti-Harassment Policy V. Freedom Of Speech, Bridget Hart

Journal of Law and Policy

Legal scholars, educational administrators, journalists, and students have all witnessed a rise in students being disciplined by university officials for speech and conduct deemed inappropriate for college campuses. In endeavoring to explain this trend, some academics point to the disconnect between the Department of Education and university administrators regarding the legal standards for campus anti-harassment policies. The lack of clarity regarding what constitutes harassment on college campuses has resulted in the punishment of students by universities for speech and conduct that is normally considered to be protected speech under the First Amendment. This note first provides an overview of the …

When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It: Unifying The Split In New York's Analysis Of In-House Attorney-Client Privilege, Thomas O'Connor

Journal of Law and Policy

As one surveys the vast and ever-changing landscape of law and litigation, few things stand out as so unanimously exalted and carefully guarded as the privilege protecting attorney-client communications. Yet there is today a surprising lack of uniformity and predictability in the reasoning by which New York courts determine whether a communication made by in-house counsel to its corporate client will – or will not – enjoy the protection of that privilege. Rather than follow a single and predictable analysis to resolve the question, New York courts have oscillated between one line of decisions focusing primarily on the purpose of …

Sponsor Support, Virginia Coastal Policy Center, William & Mary Law School

2016, Living with the Water – Too Much, and Too Little

No abstract provided.

Living With The Water - Too Much, And Too Little (Agenda), Virginia Coastal Policy Center, William & Mary Law School

2016, Living with the Water – Too Much, and Too Little

No abstract provided.

The Yersinia Pestis Effector Yopm Inhibits Pyrin Inflammasome Activation., Dmitry Ratner, M Pontus A Orning, Megan K. Proulx, Donghai Wang, Mikhail A. Gavrilin, Mark D. Wewers, Emad S. Alnemri, Peter F. Johnson, Bettina Lee, Joan Mecsas, Nobuhiko Kayagaki, Jon D. Goguen, Egil Lien

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Faculty Papers

Type III secretion systems (T3SS) are central virulence factors for many pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria, and secreted T3SS effectors can block key aspects of host cell signaling. To counter this, innate immune responses can also sense some T3SS components to initiate anti-bacterial mechanisms. The Yersinia pestis T3SS is particularly effective and sophisticated in manipulating the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and IL-18, which are typically processed into their mature forms by active caspase-1 following inflammasome formation. Some effectors, like Y. pestis YopM, may block inflammasome activation. Here we show that YopM prevents Y. pestis induced activation of the Pyrin inflammasome induced …

Rwu First Amendment Blog: David Logan's Blog: When Facts And News Diverge 12-2-2016, David A. Logan

Law School Blogs

No abstract provided.

Welcome Christmas, Department Of Music

Concerts and Event Programs 2016-2017

AU Singers and Choral, and AU Orchestra under the direction of Stephen Zork featuring works by Thompson, Nickel, Harris, Courtney, Bell, Archer, Nelhybel, Berkey, Arnesen and Rose.

Student Conductors:

Heidi Ordaz

Joshua Goines

Soloists:

Megan Mocca, mezzo-soprano

Jamila Sylvester, mezzo-soprano

Katia Nikolaus, flute

Pricing And Reliability Enhancements In The San Diego Activity-Based Travel Model, Joel Freedman

PSU Transportation Seminars

The estimation of demand for priced highway lanes is becoming increasingly important to agencies seeking to improve mobility and find alternative revenue sources for the provision of transportation infrastructure.

However, many modeling tools fall short of what is required for robust estimates of demand with respect to toll and managed lanes in two key areas:

• The value-of-time is often aggregate and not consistently defined throughout the model system, and
• The reliability of transport infrastructure is rarely taken into account.

This presentation describes an effort which implemented recommendations of the Strategic Highway Research Program C04 and L03\L04 tracks on pricing and …

2016-12-02 Performance Funding Report, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Performance Funding Report issued by the President's Office on December 2, 2016.

Festival Of Christmas, St. Norbert College Music Department

Music Performances

This is St. Norbert's annual Festival of Christmas, held in the Walter Theatre located at the Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts. This concert celebrates the Christmas season with carols sung with the audience and an assortment of holiday themed performances by the college's ensembles.

December 2, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Faculty Affairs Committee Minutes Of The Academic Senate 2016-12-02, University Of Dayton. Faculty Affairs Committee

All Committee Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Focusing On Men And Fathers: A Challenge For Social Work Research And Practice, Kevin Shafer, Jennifer L. Bellamy

Faculty Publications

In introducing this special issue of Social Work Research, we feel it is important to discuss why social work practice and research with men and fathers is of critical importance and deserving of specific attention. Social work researchers and practitioners need to focus on men and fathers, both as a special population and as subpopulations of other groups. A focus on men and fathers is critical because (a) it is a social justice issue for men, women, and children; (b) men are underserved by helping professionals, including social workers, particularly in certain contexts and programs; (c) social workers are uniquely …

Chimes: December 2, 2016, Calvin College

Chimes

Indigenous spirituality impacts DAPL protests by Kathryn Mae Post

The scoop on 'The Philadelphia Story' by Courtney Zonnefeld

Professor appears on conservative watchlist by Josh Parks

Moon rock comes to Calvin Museum by Daniel Blakemore

KE composting catches on by Juliana Ludema

Sold-out Dance Guild impresses by Maddie Hughey

On top of the world: women's volleyball national champs by Mark Peless

Lindenwood Digest, December 2, 2016, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

Research Challenges And Conservation Implications For Urban Cat Management In New Zealand, Kh Kikillus, Gk Chambers, Mj Farnworth, Km Hare

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Over the past 20 years, conservation efforts in New Zealand have moved from being concentrated in rural and isolated island locations, where exotic mammalian predators are often controlled, to begin to bring native fauna back to major cities. However, human–wildlife conflicts arise when conservation occurs in close proximity to cities. These are particularly intense when companion animals are involved either as potential predators or prey of high-value conservation animals. Within New Zealand, this conflict is particularly fraught around domestic cats (Felis catus) in the urban environment. Cats in New Zealand are recognised as major introduced predators of native fauna, but …

The Dialectics Of Containment: How Photographic Representations Of Non-Human Animals Transform The Everyday., C Baker

School of Art, Design and Architecture

By se ng a diverse selec on of visual and textual representa ons, including my own photographic enquiry, in dialec cal opposi on, this paper exposes and challenges the inherent ideologies and philosophical posi ons which underpin the social prac ces used to maintain control over the canine popula on in Cyprus. Using a polyvocal approach, whereby a number of dis nct streams of discourse run in parallel through the paper, I provide an imagina ve space where no ons of power and coercion, iden ty and representation can emerge and be subject to scrutiny. This approach leads, I propose, …

Improving Screening For Problem Behaviors Among Homeless Children In Georgia, Marvin So, Luisita G. Agbayani, Mariel K. Gutierrez, Josef T. Griffins

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Among other challenges, homeless children often struggle with internalizing and externalizing behavior problems that impair functioning and well-being (Bassuk, et al., 1997). Given the instability of service continuity often present in the lives of homeless families and their children, it is strikingly common for child mental and behavioral disorders to be caught at a later developmental stage among this group compared to both housed and other low-income peers (Grant, et al., 2007). Emergency shelters represent an untapped setting in which to deploy universal, evidence-based screeners for problem behaviors among this population. We implemented universal screening interventions across three shelters serving …

Where Was Canada? The Canadian Military Contribution To The British Commonwealth Second World War Campaign In North Africa, Andrew Stewart

Canadian Military History

The campaign fought by predominantly British Commonwealth forces in North Africa during the Second World War, in many respects, represented a final example of imperial solidarity and unity. Whilst the United States participated during the final stages prior to the surrender of Axis forces in May 1943, it was Britain and its Empire that provided most of the resources and manpower and contested most of the battles. Canada, however, played only a relatively minor part and this paper seeks to examine the associated decision-making process that took place in London and Ottawa and discuss the tensions that arose.

Destroying The Panthers: The Effect Of Allied Combat Action On I./Ss Panzer Regiment 12 In Normandy, 1944, Arthur Gullachsen

Canadian Military History

This article is an examination of the operational record of the World War Two German Panther tank during the Normandy Campaign of summer 1944. Challenging its perception as mechanically unreliable, this article argues Allied combat action was responsible for a large percentage of Panthers that were out of action. Secondly, the inferior resources of the German tank replacement and repair program were no match for superior Canadian Army practices during 1944. To support these arguments the author examines Canadian and German wartime primary documents as well as multiple secondary sources.

Notes On Contributors

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

Obituary: Dr Okifumi Komesu, Ryoji Okuda

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Yeats 150, Sandie Byrne

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

Ministers Of The Imagination, Francis Hutton-Williams

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

A Review Of At The Hawk's Well (A Sólyam Kútjánál), Matthew M. Deforrest

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

The Space-Minded Dramaturgy Of W.B. Yeats In Theory And Practice: At The Hawk's Well And The Dance Plays, Melinda Szüts

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.

The Avian Rising: Yeats, Muldoon, And Others, Lucy Mcdiarmid

International Yeats Studies

No abstract provided.