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Staff-Child Interaction Therapy Versus Treatment As Usual In Community-Based Wraparound Services: An Evaluation Of Feasibility And Child Behavior Problems, Nancy M. Wallace

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Wraparound services are a well-known, widely implemented community-based model developed to treat children with a variety of severe emotional disturbances (Clark & Clarke, 1996). Although results have demonstrated some positive outcomes (Suter & Bruns, 2009), significant weaknesses have also been noted including negative findings (Bertram, Suter, Bruns & O'Rourke, 2011) and a variety of methodological limitations (Suter & Bruns, 2009). States have recently begun to examine the empirical basis of wraparound programs to better understand their implementation and effectiveness (Community Data Roundtable, 2015).;The current study examined the implementation of Staff-Child Interaction Therapy (SCIT), a manualized treatment developed at West Virginia …

Democratizing Entrepreneurship: Online Documents, Tools, And Startup Know-How, Jeff Thomas, Praveen Kosuri, Bernice Grant

Faculty Scholarship

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Freeing The Law, Khelani Clay

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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The Double Life Of Law Schools, Ian Holloway Phd, Qc, Steven I. Friedland

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Patents And Mobile Devices In India: An Empirical Survey, Jorge L. Contreras, Rohini Lakshane

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Though India has the second-largest wireless subscriber base in the world, with more than 150 domestic mobile device vendors, it has, until recently, remained relatively unaffected by the global smartphone wars. Over the past few years, however, a growing number of patent enforcement actions have been brought by multinational firms against domestic Indian producers. These actions, which have largely resulted in judgments favoring foreign patent holders, have given rise to a variety of proposals for addressing this situation. In order to assess the potential impact of patents on the mobile device market in India, and to assist policy makers in …

The Other Rights Revolution: Conservative Lawyers And The Remaking Of American Government (Book Review), Michael Ariens

Faculty Articles

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Stress Hardiness And Lawyers, Pamela Bucy Pierson, Ashley Hamilton, Michael Pepper, Megan Root

Articles

This article empirically analyzes original data to look at stress and stress hardiness in the legal profession A number of studies address stress in the legal profession and its impact on the mental health of lawyers Our study is the first to examine stress hardiness in the legal profession Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 20132016 in surveys of 530 law students and lawyers and qualitative data from 106 indepth interviews with lawyers and building on the work of research psychologists Salvatore Maddi and Suzanne Kobasa we look at whether some lawyers more stress hardy than others and if so …

Lawyer Resilience Alabama Lawyer Assistance Program, Pamela Bucy Pierson

Articles

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Sovereignty And Social Change In The Wake Of India's Recent Sodomy Cases, Deepa Das Acevedo

Articles

American constitutional law scholars have long questioned whether courts can really drive social reform and this position remains largely unchallenged even in the wake of recent landmark decisions affecting the LGBT community In contrast court watchers in India "” spurred by developments in a special type of legal action developed in the late 1970s known as "public interest litigation" or "PIL" "” have only recently begun questioning the judiciary's ability to promote progressive social change Indian scholarship on this point has veered between despair that PIL cases no longer reliably produce good outcomes for India's most disadvantaged and optimism that …

Lived Legal Expertise: Mobilizing The Political Agency Of Incarcerated Youth, Ian S. Schiffer

Pomona Senior Theses

This thesis analyzes how caring relationships and an emancipatory approach to law related education (LRE) within juvenile justice facilities can cultivate political agency. I focused specifically on Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige, an LA County juvenile probation facility, in La Verne, CA, as a case study. During three months of teaching a law related education class and embedding myself at the facility with an asset-based framework, I encountered a wealth of knowledge that incarcerated juveniles possess, not from formal education or research, but based in their own lived experiences. Los Angeles County Probation spends $233,000 per student per year; assuming best intentions of …

Constitutional Economic Justice: Structural Power For "We The People", Martha T. Mccluskey

Journal Articles

Toward that goal, this essay proposes a structural principle of collective economic power for “we the people.” This principle is both consistent with longstanding Constitutional ideals and tailored to the current challenges of neoliberal ideology and policy. It develops two premises: first, it rejects the neoliberal economic ideology that defines legitimate power and freedom as individualized “choice” constrained by an existing political economy. Instead, this proposed principle recognizes that meaningful political economic freedom and power fundamentally consist of access to collective organizations with potential to create a “more perfect union” with better and less constrained options. Second, the post-Lochner principle …

"No Shots, No School, No Kidding": The Legal Profession Needs A Vaccine To Ensure Professionalism, Debra Moss Curtis

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

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Reducing The Civil "Justice Gap" By Enhancing The Delivery Of Pro Bono Legal Assistance To Indigent Pro Se Litigants: A "Field" Assessment And Recommendations, Andrew H. Cohn

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Department Of Fisheries Annual Report To Parliament 2016/17, Government Of Western Australia Department Of Fisheries

Department of Fisheries Annual Reports

This annual report provides an overview of the Department and its operations for the financial year ended 30 June 2017. It has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Financial Management Act 2006, the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 and the Public Sector Commission’s Annual reporting framework – 2016/17 reporting year.

Internationalizing Chinese Legal Education In The Early Twenty-First Century, Zhizhou Wang, Sida Liu, Xueyao Li

Journal of Legal Education

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People V. Ferrer, California Superior Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Ruling on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss under Penal Code Section 1004

Bankrupt Marketplace: First Amendment Theory And The 2016 Presidential Election, Leonard M. Niehoff

Articles

In this article I advance two arguments. The first is that 2016 was a particularly important year for freedom of speech and the press, although not for conventional reasons. The second is that hte events of 2016 revealed that one of the essential components of our democracy - the central role that free expression plays in the democratic process - is in a state of serious dysfunction, if not crisis.

One Country, Two Systems: Hong Kong's Unique Status And The Development And Growth Of Arbitration In China, Jiali (Keli) Huang

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Note evaluates the future of arbitration in China and Hong Kong as the two approach their twentieth year working toward reunification under the implications of the "one country, two systems" model, which was implemented in Hong Kong when Hong Kong's sovereignty was transferred back to China in 1997. First, this Note explains Hong Kong's unique identity, the factors that triggered the Umbrella Movement and the Fishball Revolution, and Hong Kong's current relationship with China. Second, this Note provides a broad overview of the development of arbitration in China. Third, this Note describes the arbitral history between China and Hong …

Clemency And The Administration Of Hope, Erin R. Collins

Law Faculty Publications

In 2014, President Obama announced his intention to ‘‘restor[e] fundamental ideals of justice and fairness’’ to the criminal justice system by exercising his executive clemency power to commute sentences of those who had ‘‘already served their time and paid their debt to society.’’ Soon thereafter, the Department of Justice (DOJ) specified six criteria it would use to prioritize applications. The primary targets of these criteria were the casualties of the war on drugs: people sentenced to draconian sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, some of which involved less than a handful of narcotics. Most of these individuals had exhausted any available …

Barriers To Preventive Healthcare For Immigrants In Michigan, Sondos Ghazi Al-Hachim

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Affordable Care Act expanded insurance coverage to the general population; however, expanding insurance coverage to immigrants might not be sufficient to improve utilization of annual physical preventive exams. This study evaluated adult Michigan immigrants' individual demographics, perceptions, and behaviors, as well as the collective cultural and system characteristics that might act as barriers to the utilization of annual physical preventive exams. Ken Wilber's integral operating system model for medicine conceptual framework was used to create a comprehensive map of factors and bring more clarity and understanding to the barriers to annual physical preventive exam. The quantitative survey was the …

A Legal Study On The Internal Control System For Direction Of Legislation In Korea, Sungbum Kwon

Maurer Theses and Dissertations

The concept of internal control began in accounting professional groups, gradually expanded to the administrative control and the risk management from accounting control, and became an important area that cannot be excluded from the operation of the public companies in the U.S.

When the Enron scandal struck the credibility of the stock market in the U.S. in 2001, the authorities implemented reformative measures including the SOX enactment to protect investors. Although there has been a controversy over this legislation since the enactment of the SOX, it appears that the U.S. capital market has been restoring confidence with the efforts of …

New York Law School Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 1, New York Law School

New York Law School Magazine

Features:

Field & Campus: Dispatches from 185 West Broadway

On the Record: Excerpts from recent faculty writing

“I Am New York Law School”: Portraits of recent alumni and 1Ls

Honor Roll of Donors: Our tribute to those whose support means so much

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Refuge From Time: How The One-Year Filing Deadline Unfairly Frustrates Valid Asylum Claims, Roy Xiao

North Carolina Law Review

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Monopolies In Multidistrict Litigation, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Scholarly Works

When transferee judges receive a multidistrict proceeding, they select a few lead plaintiffs’ lawyers to efficiently manage litigation and settlement negotiations. That decision gives those attorneys total control over all consolidated plaintiffs’ claims and rewards them richly in common-benefit fees. It’s no surprise then that these are coveted positions, yet empirical evidence confirms that the same attorneys occupy them time and again.

Anytime repeat players exist and exercise both oligopolistic leadership control across multidistrict proceedings and monopolistic power within a single proceeding, there is concern that they will use their dominance to enshrine practices and norms that benefit themselves at …

Beyond Reconciliation: Decolonizing Clinical Legal Education, Patricia Barkaskas, Sarah Buhler

Journal of Law and Social Policy

How can legal clinics and clinical legal educators respond to the ongoing harms of settler colonialism? At a time when "reconciliation" is top of mind for many legal educators in light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action, can reconciliation be taken up in a meaningful way through clinical legal education? Does reconciliation demand decolonization and if so can clinical legal education work towards decolonization? These are the questions we consider in this article. Drawing on our respective experiences with the University of British Columbia and the University of Saskatchewan’s clinical law programs, and grounding our analysis in …

“Don’T Want To Get Exposed”: Law’S Violence And Access To Justice, Sarah Buhler

Journal of Law and Social Policy

For many members of marginalized communities, law is all too often an author of oppression, and the justice system is a site not of justice but of threat and harm. Yet most access to justice projects in Canada devote themselves to the task of rendering law and the justice system more available to the public without a serious consideration of these critical and troubling community-held insights. In this article, I draw on qualitative interviews conducted with community members in Saskatoon and the literature on law’s violence to argue that those who are concerned about access to justice must come to …

Troubling Trends In Canada’S Immigration System Via The Excluded Family Member Regulation: A Survey Of Jurisprudence And Lawyers, Jamie Liew, Prasanna Balasundaram, Jennifer Stone

Journal of Law and Social Policy

When a law purports to combat a problem, many of us take for granted that it is effective in doing so, and that it is not harming people. This article looks at one regulation that, while aiming to protect the integrity of the immigration system, in fact erodes the humanitarian and compassionate objective of reunifying families. Regulation 117(9)(d) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations imposes a life-time ban on sponsoring a family member if the sponsor, when immigrating to Canada, did not disclose the existence of the family member and therefore have them examined by immigration officials. This article …

The Future Of Law As A Profession, Nancy J. Moore

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

Whither (Wither?) The Unfinished Business Doctrine, Douglas R. Richmond

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Tort In Search Of A Remedy: Prying Open The Courthouse Doors For Legal Malpractice Victims, Susan S. Fortney

Fordham Law Review

Using this broad connotation of justice, this Article questions whether many victims of legal malpractice are denied access to justice. In writing about the regulatory function of legal malpractice as a tort, Professor John Leubsdorf argues that legal malpractice relates to three important functions of the law of lawyering: “[D]elineating the duties of lawyers, creating appropriate incentives and disincentives for lawyers in their dealings with clients and others, and providing access to remedies for those injured by improper lawyer behavior.” Arguably, persons injured by lawyer misconduct are denied access to justice if our civil liability system does not provide them …