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An Exploration Of Efforts To Combat Human Trafficking In A Small Community, Shirley Konneh

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Human trafficking is a global crime that violates the rights of people by holding them in captivity and coercing them into sexual slavery or strenuous labor. It has become a growing phenomenon on Cape Cod, Massachusetts with no signs of stopping. Using John Kingdon's work on multiple policy streams as the primary theoretical foundation, the purpose of this case study was to identify the perceived barriers to implementing existing Massachusetts's policies targeting human trafficking on Cape Cod as experienced by social service providers and law enforcement. Data were collected from 6 participants through e-mail interview. These data were inductively coded …

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Touro Law Review

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Foreword To The Conference: Louis D. Brandeis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective, Samuel J. Levine

Touro Law Review

On March 31-April 1, 2016, Touro Law Center and the Jewish Law Institute hosted a national conference: Louis D. Brandeis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective. More than thirty judges, lawyers, and scholars, across a broad range of disciplines and hailing from across the United States, explored a variety of themes that included, among others: Brandeis’s groundbreaking work as a lawyer and a scholar; his commitment to his Jewish heritage; his historic appointment to the United States Supreme Court; and his jurisprudence on the Court. In addition to the timeless quality of these themes, the timing of the conference was significant, taking place …

The Continuing Vitality Of Louis D. Brandeis’S Free Expression Jurisprudence, Frederick M. Lawrence

Touro Law Review

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Moving From A Brandeis Brief To A Brandeis Law Firm: Challenges And Opportunities For Holistic Legal Services In The United States, Judith A. Mcmorrow

Touro Law Review

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Louis Brandeis’S Arc Of Moral Justice, Katherine A. Helm

Touro Law Review

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Transactional Clinics As Change Agents In The Trump Era: Lessons From Two Contexts, Priya Baskaran, Michael Haber

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The results of the 2016 presidential election and the efforts by the Trump administration to make sweeping changes to a wide range of federal policies have left communities across the country feeling overwhelmed and threatened. In its first year, the Trump administration has been working steadily to slash budgets for health care, housing, infrastructure, schools, and other public benefits that help low-income and middle-class Americans, while adopting policies and engaging in rhetoric that has made many immigrants, Muslims, people of color, and LGBTQ people feel increasingly vulnerable and marginalized.

The authors of this commentary run law clinics that provide pro …

Unaccompanied And Excluded From Food Security: A Call For The Inclusion Of Immigrant Youth Twenty Years After Welfare Reform, Claire R. Thomas, Ernie Collette

Articles & Chapters

The purpose of this paper is to advocate for immediate access to SNAP (Food Stamps) benefits for immigrant kids applying for and granted Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) in both New York State and at the federal level through the historical background of exclusionary immigration policies, an examination of PRWORA, and the application of a case study. First, this paper will briefly discuss the historical background of U.S. immigration policy as exclusionary of certain groups of immigrants, particularly those thought to become a public charge, and the correlation between anti-immigrant sentiment and the passage of laws restricting access to public …

Chapter 636: Catching Those Who Fall, An Affirmative Defense For Human Trafficking Victims, Isabella Blizard

University of the Pacific Law Review

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Not For Free: Exploring The Collateral Costs Of Diversity In Legal Education, Spearit

University of the Pacific Law Review

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Social Enterprise, Law And Legal Education, Devon Kapoor, Lorne Sossin

All Papers

In this brief essay, we explore the relationship between law and social enterprise. Is social enterprise, like the “corporation,” a legal construct, or is it a term used to capture an emerging set of practices by existing entities—for example, where registered charities set up a separate structure to generate revenues which then fund the charitable activities. An organization that has undertaken such practices is the well-known Canadian charity, “Me to We,” which, while focused on development activities in sub-Saharan Africa, also has a revenue generating operation selling fair trade T-shirts and other goods. In describing this relationship, Me to We’s …

Investor's Guide To Security Industry Disputes: How To Prevent And Resolve Disputes With Your Broker, Jill Gross, Elissa Germaine

Faculty Publications

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The Pace Investor Rights Clinic produced this Guide to Securities Industry Disputes for the individual investor who hopes to prevent or may already have a dispute with his or her securities broker. Our goal is for investors to learn more about their legal rights and best practices for responsible investing, before a dispute arises, and to gain an understanding of their options in case a dispute does arise. We hope that informed investors will be better able to prevent disputes with their broker as well as identify and resolve legitimate grievances.

The first section of this Guide covers investors’ …

A Flex-Time Jd In Canada: New Approaches To The Accessibility Of Legal Education, Darcel Bullen, Lorne Sossin

Articles & Book Chapters

This article examines accessibility and inclusion in legal education. Responding to the Canadian Bar Association’s call for accessible and innovative legal education in the Futures Report, this study explores the possibilities (and limits) of a Flex Time Juris Doctor (“JD”) program and how such a program might foster further diverse and inclusive learning community for law students.The article situates the debate around more flexible forms of legal education in historical context, highlighting the role part-time legal studies has played in facilitating the entry of outsider groups into the legal profession. While there is not a mid-sized city in the US …

The Practice - And Rule - Of Law, Stephen Ellmann

Articles & Chapters

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Fortuitously Present At The Creation, Arthur S. Leonard

Articles & Chapters

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New York City's "Universal Access" Legislation: One Giant Leap For The Civil Right To Counsel, Andrew Scherer

Articles & Chapters

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Regulating Lawyers: North American Perspectives And Problematics, Richard F. Devlin

The International Lawyer

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The Professional Responsibility Of Fair Play When Dealing With A Pro Se Adversary, Davis G. Yee

South Carolina Law Review

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Annual Report Fiscal Year 2015-2016, Tennessee. Department Of Human Services.

Annual Report

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Office Of Criminal Justice Programs Annual Report Fy 2015/2016, Tennessee. Department Finance & Administration.

Office of Criminal Justice Programs

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Crime Shouldn't Pay: How California Should Expand And Restructure Its Human Trafficking Asset Forfeiture Laws, Benjamin T. Greer

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Section I of this article will provide updated statistical data on human trafficking in California, demonstrating increased consciousness, heightened awareness and the ongoing search for effective tools. Sections II and III will highlight the important psychological and practical economic impact asset forfeiture laws have on crime. These sections will also provide a comprehensive review how forfeiture is currently implemented in the fight against human trafficking. Sections IV and V will argue why human trafficking crimes must be subjected to California's civil asset forfeiture laws: how civil forfeiture reduces both the supply-side and demand-side of trafficked victims. It will also provide …

Just And Speedy: On Civil Discovery Sanctions For Luddite Lawyers, Michael Murphy

Faculty Scholarship

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Inequality Rediscovered, Jedediah Purdy, David Singh Grewal

Faculty Scholarship

Widespread recognition that economic inequality has been growing for forty years in most of the developed world, and in fact has tended to grow across most of the history of modern economies, shows that the period 1945-1973, when inequality of wealth and income shrank, was a marked anomaly in historical experience. At the time, however, the anomalous period of equality seemed to vindicate a long history of optimism about economic life: that growth would overcome meaningful scarcity and usher in an egalitarian and humanistic period that could almost qualify as post-economic. This has not been the experience of the last …

The Role Of Psychological Capital And The Areas Of Worklife Model In Predicting Job Burnout, Sylwia K. Oles

Online Theses and Dissertations

Job burnout is a widely spread global phenomenon that has been linked to negative work outcomes. Various factors can either contribute to or hinder job burnout development. Previous research established the role of the six areas of worklife model as well as psychological capital on job burnout. However, the relationship among these variables has not been clearly defined. The purpose of the present study was to attempt to understand predictors of job burnout in order to reduce its occurrence. Data was collected with a sample of college students. Four areas of worklife (workload, control, reward, and values) as well as …

Defining The Scope Of Fiduciary Liability, Paul Miller

Journal Articles

The Supreme Court of Canada has won faint praise and significant criticism for its fiduciary jurisprudence over the past few decades. In prior work, I have come to the partial defence of the Court, commending it for its willingness to confront key questions going to the structure and scope of fiduciary liability, and equally for its interest in ensuring that the law's elasticity is not lost to unreflective adherence to custom and convention. By contrast, peer courts in other jurisdictions have been much less open and creative in addressing questions concerning fiduciary law's general principles and, as a result, the …

Discovering Forensic Fraud, Jennifer D. Oliva, Valena E. Beety

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay posits that certain structural dynamics, which dominate criminal proceedings, significantly contribute to the admissibility of faulty forensic science in criminal trials. The authors believe that these dynamics are more insidious than questionable individual prosecutorial or judicial behavior in this context. Not only are judges likely to be former prosecutors, prosecutors are “repeat players” in criminal litigation and, as such, routinely support reduced pretrial protections for defendants. Therefore, we argue that the significant discrepancies between the civil and criminal pretrial discovery and disclosure rules warrant additional scrutiny. In the criminal system, the near absence of any pretrial discovery means …

The Politics Of Citations At The Ecj: Policy Preferences Of E.U. Member State Governments And The Citation Behavior Of Judges At The European Court Of Justice, Jens Frankenreiter

Scholarship@WashULaw

This paper investigates the relationship between the political preferences of EU Member States and the behavior of judges at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by analyzing their citation behavior. It shows that judges at the ECJ are more likely to cite judgments authored by judges appointed by Member State governments with similar preferences regarding European integration. Analogous with the context of U.S. courts, non-random opinion assignment potentially threatens the validity of these results. To overcome this problem, I exploit the unique institutional setting at the ECJ to develop an improved identification strategy which builds on comparing the citations in …

Universal Clinical Legal Education: Necessary And Feasible, Robert R. Kuehn

Scholarship@WashULaw

Although bar officials and most legal educators agree that law students need to learn not just to “think like a lawyer” but also the professional skills needed to “do like a lawyer,” legal education lags far behind other professions in the clinical training it provides its graduates. The justification usually given for such lack of training is the claim that it is not financially feasible for law schools to ensure that every student graduate with a clinical experience. This Essay challenges this mistaken justification. It first summarizes the numerous reports and studies showing the need for clinical training for law …

Australian Best Practices - A Comparison With The United Kingdom And The United States, Peter A. Joy, Adrian Evans, Anna Cody, Jeff Giddings, Mary Anne Noone, Simon Rice

Scholarship@WashULaw

This chapter, from the book "Australian Clinical Legal Education" compares efforts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to establish best practices or standards in clinical legal education and the resulting best practices that were developed. The material in this chapter may aid faculty teaching clinical courses in other countries as they consider whether to develop their own best practices in light of their cultures, legal institutions, and systems of legal education.

Employee Retention In A Call Center, Angelica Pigman, Perry Haan

AMTP Proceedings 2017

One of the most important aspects of many businesses providing customer services are their call centers. These organizations employ millions of workers who are required to address customer queries and provide solutions to both existing and prospective clients. Customer service is looked at as key factor to keeping current customers. Worldwide, call centers comprise an ever-evolving and dynamic industry, yet researchers find that there is a high turnover rate among call center agents (Pierre & Tremblay, 2011). Facing customers and answering complicated queries are daunting tasks, this is made even more complicated by the fact that call center technology is …