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Desmond's Law: A Novel Approach To Animal Advocacy, Jessica Rubin

Animal Law Review

In May of 2016, the Connecticut Legislature passed Public Law 16-30, informally called Desmond’s Law. This law allows courts to appoint supervised law students or volunteer lawyers to advocate for the interests of justice in animal cruelty cases. Desmond’s Law institutes a novel approach to animal cruelty cases—advocates support the prosecution and sentencing of individuals charged with animal cruelty offenses and promote enforcement of historically under-utilized anti-cruelty laws. Based upon the author’s personal experience conceiving and implementing Desmond’s Law, this Article aims to aid legislators, judges, and advocates in creating legislation modeled on Connecticut’s Desmond’s Law. This Article also aims …

College Student Food Insecurity And Awareness And Use Of Supports: Recent Findings From A Survey Of Students At A Mid-Sized State Comprehensive University In Kansas, Brett Zollinger, Shala Mills, Emily Brandt, Wendy Rohleder-Sook

Sociology Faculty Publications

Recognition of food insecurity among college students in the U.S. is growing. With college costs outpacing inflation for many years now, to what extent do students at "affordable" public-supported state universities experience difficulty affording food throughout the academic year? This article highlights the level of food insecurity among students enrolled in on-campus courses at Fort Hays State University. A two-wave, self-administered mail survey found that 34% of on-campus students experienced food insecurity in the previous year, and those who were food insecure were much more likely to use local food supports, including a campus food pantry. Current combined household income …

"We The Pit Bulls": The Fate Of 'Pit Bulls' Under The United States Constitution, Will Lowrey

Animal Law Review

Across the United States, thousands of pit bull type-dogs are legally discriminated against by laws that punish them based solely on their appearance. For over three decades, dozens of towns and cities across the country have overwhelmingly blamed dog bites and public safety concerns on one particular type of dog. These laws take various forms, from complete bans to public muzzling to fencing requirements, but all invariably subject pit bulltype dogs to conditions and requirements not imposed on most other breeds. Through dozens of legal challenges, advocates for pit bull-type dogs have attempted to use the Constitution to attack the …

Front Matter

Animal Law Review

Front Matter includes Title Page, Masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for Animal Law Review Volume 25, Issue 1, 2018.

Evolving Science Meets The Stagnating Appeals Process: Integrating Daubert Into The Post-Trial Phase, Jacey Smith

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Bumpy Road To The Supreme Court: Does The Second Amendment Prevent States From Prohibiting Ownership Of Assault-Style Rifles And High-Capacity Magazines?, James B. Astrachan

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Current Controversies In The Use Of Dna In Forensic Investigations, Samuel Hodge

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

Body-Worn Cameras: The Implementation Of Both The Police Department’S Rollout Of Cameras And The State’S Attorney’S Office’S Processing Of Data For Discovery, Daniel Bernard Trimble

University of Baltimore Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Surveillance Gap: The Harms Of Extreme Privacy And Data Marginalization, Michele E. Gilman, Rebecca Green

All Faculty Scholarship

We live in an age of unprecedented surveillance, enhanced by modern technology, prompting some to suggest that privacy is dead. Previous scholarship suggests that no subset of the population feels this phenomenon more than marginalized communities. Those who rely on public benefits, for example, must turn over personal information and submit to government surveillance far more routinely than wealthier citizens who enjoy greater opportunity to protect their privacy and the ready funds to secure it. This article illuminates the other end of the spectrum, arguing that many individuals who may value government and nonprofit services and legal protections fail to …

Innovating Criminal Justice, Natalie Ram

All Faculty Scholarship

From secret stingray devices that can pinpoint a suspect’s location, to advanced forensic DNA-analysis tools, to recidivism risk statistic software—the use of privately developed criminal justice technologies is growing. So too is a concomitant pattern of trade secret assertion surrounding these technologies. This Article charts the role of private law secrecy in shielding criminal justice activities, demonstrating that such secrecy is pervasive, problematic, and ultimately unnecessary for the production of well-designed criminal justice tools. This Article makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, the Article establishes that trade secrecy now permeates American criminal justice, shielding privately developed criminal justice …

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, October 25, 2018, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Treatment Or Punishment: Sentencing Options In Dwi Cases, Victor Eugene Flango

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Alcohol-related crashes are responsible for many of the traffic fatalities in the United States, and the sad thing is that many of these are preventable. Yet the attitude of the public toward driving while impaired (DWI)1 is conflicted, and that ambivalence is reflected in the criminal justice process. Unlike other crimes, or even smoking, the goal of the law is not to cease all drinking and driving, just drinking that impairs judgment and the ability to drive safely. The question then becomes how much drinking is acceptable before driving, which can vary by health, weight, and tolerance of the individual. …

Looking Backward, Looking Forward: How The Evolution Of Specialty Courts Can Inform The Courts Of Tomorrow, Tatyana Kaplan, Monica K. Miller, Emily F. Wood

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

LOOKING BACKWARD

The “war on drugs” in the 1980s led to more punitive drug related legislation and exponential increases in arrest and incarceration rates. In 1980, there were 580,900 drug violation arrests. In 1989, the number of drug-related arrests increased to more than 1.3 million.1 The substantial increase in arrests, many which were nonviolent, overburdened courts and resulted in increasingly overcrowded prisons. Laypersons and legal actors became frustrated with the traditional approach to case processing and the “revolving door” of repeat drug-related offenders.2 In response to burgeoning dockets and prisons and drug-related recidivism, Miami-Dade County, Florida opened the country’s first …

History Of Senate Bills:, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Subject Index:, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Status Of All Senate Bills As Of 8:00 A.M. June 20, 2018 - Final:, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

House Journal: Seventy-First General Assembly State Of Colorado Second Regular Session, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Subject Index Of House And Senate Bills: Passed In The Seventy-First General Assembly Second Regular Session, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Too Big To Fail: Limiting Public Risk In Hydropower Licensing, Joshua Viers, Daniel Nover

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

The Origins Of The Espionage Act Of 1917: Was Judge Learned Hand's Understanding Of The Act Defensible?, Geoffrey R. Stone

Articles

No abstract provided.

Federalism Friction In The First Year Of The Trump Presidency, Vikram David Amar

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Over the last twelve months or so, federalism principles have been repeatedly invoked by state and local governments in a range of lawsuits and legislative proposals seeking to block or temper federal policy initiatives emanating from the new Administration of President Donald Trump. In this essay, I hope to sketch out a few of the more high-profile federalism flashpoints that have emerged over the past year or so, and offer some preliminary assessments of some of the decisions that lower courts (and legislative bodies) have been rendering in some of them. I try to highlight areas of agreement and areas …

Jeopardizing Their Communities, Their Safety, And Their Lives: Forced Concealed Carry Reciprocity's Threat To Federalism, Hannah E. Shearer

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (H.R. 38) is a gun bill that would force each state to recognize and enforce the concealed carry laws of every other state. State laws governing the concealed carry of firearms vary widely in how effectively they screen out reckless or unlawful gun carriers. Weaker state laws let more people carry with fewer background checks or other restrictions, and H.R. 38 would extend the geographic scope of the weakest concealed carry laws in the nation, without requiring that Congress actually adopt a weak national standard. This Essay argues that forced reciprocity violates the division of …

Sex Offender Regulations And The Rule Of Law: When Civil Regulatory Schemes Circumvent The Constitution, Ryan W. Porte

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

The U.S. Supreme Court last decided the issue of whether post-incarceration sex offender regulations constituted punishment or nonpunitive regulations over twenty years ago. In coming to its conclusion, the Supreme Court assessed the regulations as they were written in the 1990s and the early 2000s and maintained the assumption that offenders constituted a greater danger to the public than other classes of criminals. In 2018, post-incarceration sex offender regulations are far more restrictive than they were two decades ago and scientific studies tend to refute the public belief that sex offenders are more recidivistic than other criminals. Recognizing this, some …

Prior Record Enhancements At Sentencing: Unsettled Justifications And Unsettling Consequences, Richard Frase, Kelly Lyn Mitchell, Rhys Hester Hester, Julian V. Roberts

Articles

No abstract provided.

Punishing Kids In Juvenile And Criminal Court, Barry Feld

Articles

No abstract provided.

Understanding “Sanctuary Cities”, Linus Chan, Juliet P. Stumpf, Christopher N. Lasch, Ingrid V. Eagly

Articles

No abstract provided.

Immigration As Commerce: A New Look At The Federal Immigration Power And The Constitution, Jennifer Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

The relationship of immigration law to the Constitution has long been incoherent. One result is that there is little clarity on the appropriate standard of review for constitutional violations when aspects of immigration law and policy are challenged in the federal courts. This Article advances the Commerce Clause as the anchor of a new understanding of the link between the government's immigration power and the Constitution. Despite the extensive early history of the Foreign Commerce Clause as the presumed source of the immigration power, it plays almost no role in immigration jurisprudence today, and few scholars have seriously considered its …

Graduate Bulletin 2018-2019, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2018-2019

Undergraduate Bulletin 2018-2019, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2018-2019

The Impact Of Wildfire On Soil Erosion Using A Gis-Integrated Rusle Model And The Influence Of Dem Resolution On Model Results, Amada Fernandez

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This study analyzes the environmental impact of wildfires on soil erosion in the surrounding watershed of the burn area. Depending on the severity and frequency, wildfrres can have detrimental effects on the soils and hydrology of an ecosystem. Since severe wildfires alter the vegetation cover and the properties of the soil, researchers are often concerned with changes in sedimentation after a wildfire and its implications for watershed hydrology. Adverse changes to sedimentation can result in increases in surface runoff, soil erosion, sediment delivery to nearby streams, and peak flows. Assessing post-fire soil erosion risk is crucial in prioritizing watershed protection …