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Competition Enforcement, Trade And Global Governance: A Few Comments, Petros C. Mavroidis, Damien J. Neven

Faculty Scholarship

The debate on international antitrust has come from two perspectives. On the one hand, the trade community has emphasised the interface between trade policy and competition (policy and) enforcement. This interface, which was recognised from the outset of multilateral efforts to liberalise trade in what would become the GATT and eventually the WTO, focuses on the prospect that trade liberalisation through border instruments should not be undone by restrictive business practices (RBPs), placing a particular responsibility in this respect on competition enforcement. On the other hand, the antitrust community has emphasised the risk of inefficient enforcement when several jurisdictions can …

Why We Need Police, Justin Mccrary, Deepak Premkumar

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter discusses the essential role that the police have in deterring and reducing crimes, particularly the most violent and costly ones to society, such as murder. We begin by providing a brief overview of deterrence theory before discussing the empirical evidence on the efficacy of police staffing and various policing strategies on crime reduction. Using a framework developed in Weisburd and Eck (2004), we quickly evaluate the model of standard policing and then mainly focus on evidence behind three current policing practices: hot spots, problem- oriented, and proactive. Finally, we use the empirical evidence of police staffing to provide …

Regulating Financial Markets – An Ltf Perspective, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter applies the “Legal Theory of Finance” (LTF) I developed in a paper, which was published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in 2013. Together with other research projects, conferences, and workshops conducted in the intervening period, this chapter illustrates the explanatory powers of the theory and its ramifications for the regulation of financial systems. I am grateful for the conference and this volume, and to the other authors in it who have tested LTF in application to new circumstances as they offer a good opportunity to step back and ask more basic questions about LTF:

1. What is the …

Sovereignty And Complex Interdependence: Some Surprising Indications Of Their Compatibility, Charles F. Sabel

Faculty Scholarship

Even as democratic sovereignty and globalization are increasingly seen as incompatible in theory, this chapter argues that, in some important realms, they are proving compatible in practice. As tariffs have fallen to negligible levels, trade agreements among rich countries have come to focus on reconciling regulatory differences. In many sectors, novel forms of cooperation have emerged that allow trade partners deliberately to investigate and learn from one another’s practices, eventually recognizing the equivalence of regimes that are not strictly identical — and in the process extending domestic political oversight to relations among states while often heightening domestic accountability. The emergent …

On Constructing A Knowledge Base Of Chinese Criminal Cases, Xiaohan Wu, Benjamin L. Liebman, Rachel E. Stern, Margaret Roberts, Amarnath Gupta

Faculty Scholarship

We are developing a knowledge base over Chinese judicial decision documents to facilitate landscape analyses of Chinese Criminal Cases. We view judicial decision documents as a mixed-granularity semi-structured text where different levels of the text carry different semantic constructs and entailments.We use a combination of context-sensitive grammar, dependency parsing and discourse analysis to extract a formal and interpretable representation of these documents. Our knowledge base is developed by constructing associations between different elements of these documents. The interpretability is contributed in part by our formal representation of the Chinese criminal laws, also as semi-structured documents. The landscape analyses utilizes these …

International Arbitration: Out Of The Shadows, George A. Bermann

Faculty Scholarship

This article discusses a diverse number of issues that have affected the strength and popularity of international arbitration among its users. It emphasises the importance of the arbitration community recognising the force and validity of a number of critiques of the process and developing strategies for dealing with them. It is an edited version of a Keynote Address delivered at the ADR in Asia Conference on 29 October 2018.

Environmental Law In New York, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

September 2019 issue of Environmental Law in New York.

Dark Trading At The Midpoint: Does Sec Enforcement Policy Encourage Direct Feed Arbitrage?, Robert P. Bartlett Iii, Justin Mccrary

Faculty Scholarship

Prevailing research in market microstructure posits that liquidity providers bypass queue lines on exchanges by offering liquidity in dark venues with de minimis sub-penny price improvement, thus exploiting an exception to the penny quote rule. We show that (a) the SEC enforces the quote rule to prevent sub-penny queuejumping in dark pools unless trades are “pegged” to the NBBO midpoint and (b) the documented increase in dark trading due to investor queue-jumping stems from increased midpoint trading. Although encouraging pegged midpoint orders can subject traders to direct feed arbitrage, we estimate that less than 2% of shares traded per year …

Comment On Daniel A. Crane: A Premature Postmortem On The Chicago School Of Antitrust, Lina M. Khan

Faculty Scholarship

A central question raised by the recent surge of neo-Brandeisian scholarship and advocacy is whether the nascent movement will deliver any form of lasting change to antitrust. In his essay for this issue of Business History Review, Daniel Crane is doubtful. He argues that critiques of the Chicago School are often simplistic and misunderstand its legacy, which includes institutionalizing economic theory in antitrust analysis in ways that even its post-Chicago critics absorbed and built on. The “consumer welfare” standard, Crane notes, still draws wide support across the ideological spectrum and may be capacious enough to accommodate a variety of approaches …

Beyond The Counterinsurgency Paradigm Of Governing: Letting Go Of Prediction And The Illusion Of An Internal Enemy, Bernard E. Harcourt

Faculty Scholarship

Bernard E. Harcourt expands the thesis about the illusion of insurgency in the United States to the current day. What, he asks, could alter fraudulent and overblown perceptions about the sanctity and importance of the national security state? He suggests that the way forward might begin with relinquishing the institutionalized practice of predicting danger. How to do this and what the consequences might be for his three-pronged analysis of state counterinsurgency strategy provides fresh thinking for future analysis and policymaking.

Corporate Control And The Regulation Of Controlling Shareholders, Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani

Faculty Scholarship

In this chapter, we outline the theory of idiosyncratic vision and explored its implications. Our theory can be summarized as follows: First, while investors value control because it offers them protection from agency costs, entrepreneurs value control because it allows them to pursue their idiosyncratic vision. Second, any contract between entrepreneurs and investors represents a balance between the entrepreneurs’ freedom to secure their idiosyncratic vision and the investors’ protection against agency costs. Third, the investors and entrepreneurs will allocate cash-flow and control rights through the bargaining process to achieve this balance.

In addition, this chapter demonstrates that ownership structures are …

Whose Faith Matters? The Fight For Religious Liberty Beyond The Christian Right, Elizabeth Reiner Platt, Katherine M. Franke, Kira Shepherd, Lilia Hadjiivanova

Faculty Scholarship

By offering a sweeping account of religious liberty activism being undertaken by numerous progressive humanitarian and social justice movements, and uncovering how right-wing activists have fought for conservative Christian hegemony rather than “religious liberty” more generally, this report challenges the leading popular narrative of religious freedom.

Real-Time Path Planning In Constrained, Uncertain Environments, Randall Christensen, Robert C. Leishman

Faculty Publications

A key enabler of autonomous vehicles is the ability to plan the path of the vehicle to accomplish mission objectives. To be robust to realistic environments, path planners must account for uncertainty in the trajectory of the vehicle as well as uncertainty in the location of obstacles. The uncertainty in the trajectory of the vehicle is a difficult quantity to estimate, and is influenced by coupling between the vehicle dynamics, guidance, navigation, and control system as well as any disturbances acting on the vehicle. Monte Carlo analysis is the conventional approach to determine vehicle dispersion, while accounting for the coupled …

The Value Of Professional Learning Communities As Perceived By Novice Secondary School Teachers, Brandon J. Cotter

All Capstone Projects

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceived value that novice secondary school teachers have regarding the professional learning community process at Argo Community High School. The study uses qualitative methods in order to gather information about the novice teachers’ perceptions.

During the study, novice teachers with three or less years of experience were invited and selected to partake in completing a survey and structured interviews that helped provide insight as to their perceptions on the effectiveness of professional learning communities in making novice teachers feel supported through collaborative efforts.

The Influence Of Arabic Parental Involvement On Their Children's Academic Progress Currently Enrolled In First Through Third Grade In Worth School District 127, Sinead Chambers

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Worth School District 127 is located in the south suburbs of Chicago and maintains a K-8 student population of approximately 1,139 students. Twenty-one percent of Worth School District 127’s student population is considered to be English Learners (EL), and forty-seven percent of that population of students are Arabic students. There are currently two certified Arabic instructors employed by the district and one Arabic English Learners Tutor. All three of these staff members also serve as cultural brokers for Worth School District 127 and offer much academic and social support to the Arabic community of Worth. The number of Arabic families …

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy And Students' Behaviors, Loren Williams

All Capstone Projects

Around 17 million children in the U.S have or have had a behavioral health issue, but most are not treated. Eighty percent of children with anxiety are not receiving treatment, along with 40% of children with diagnosable ADHD/ADD and 60% of children with diagnosable depression. Untreated behavioral health issues have had a severe impact on the nation's economy. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, untreated behavioral health issues cost about $100 billion a year in lost productivity. The United States has a high population of both children and adults with untreated behavioral health issues. Children who have untreated …

Examining Organizational Learning Culture (Olc) In Schools Adopting Trauma-Informed Practices, Constance Grimm-Grason

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Trauma-informed practices represent a departure from the status-quo disciplinary practices originating from zero-tolerance approaches. This departure from the status-quo represents a transformative change in schools. Teachers are often the initial responders to student struggles or misbehaviors, and the teacher’s response is conditioned by their belief system, their self-efficacy, and the norms of the school where they teach. The shift to supportive school discipline approaches, such as trauma-informed practices, may alter the formal discipline norms of the school, but the shift may not transfer to the teacher’s belief systems, their sense of self-efficacy with trauma, or the informal norms of the …

Increasing Self-Efficacy In Providing Inclusive Practices To Students With Diverse Learning Needs, Teresa K. Nagy

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The purpose of this qualitative study was designed to determine if teachers in an elementary school in South Suburban School District in Chicago, Illinois increased their self-efficacy as it relates to serving students with disabilities in their least restrictive environment after receiving professional development. The study began with a historical review of students with disabilities and the current requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Reauthorization Act of 2004. Educational systems within the United States are required to provide services to students with diverse learning needs in the least restrictive environment. These supports are most commonly referred to as inclusive practices. …

An Anti-Deficit Approach To The Study Of Persistence: Factors Influencing Persistence Among Black Males Attending Community College, Donna K. Williams

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The vast majority of literature on postsecondary Black males emphasizes the lack of academic success for this segment. Research reports that Black males have lower levels of academic achievement, ranking at or near the bottom of most success indicators, which include enrollment, persistence, engagement, and attainment. However, in examining the discourse on postsecondary Black males, a great deal of research is deficit-based.

Providing a counter-narrative to the plethora of deficit-based literature on postsecondary Black males, this study is guided by an anti-deficit approach that seeks to highlight factors that influence persistence among Black men attending community college. This mixed method …

The Impact On Policy And Procedure Changes In Law Enforcement Due To The Black Lives Matter Movement In Cook County, Illinois, Shari Payne

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The research topic focuses on the Black Lives Matter Movement. This topic is worth researching because African-Americans have been brutally victimized by their non-minority slave owners and law enforcement since they were brought to American from Africa. Although there have been African-American leaders that have fought for equality and fair treatment within the legal system; the plight of African-Americans has not progressed as much as one would expect. This study attempted to determine if the Black Lives Matter Movement has an effect on policy and procedure changes within law enforcement at their place of employment. The sample population consisted of …

Home Away From Home, Modupeoluwa Olayemi Opakunle

All Capstone Projects

This project addresses the need for a housing market for the on the go person. It is important because there is a need for fully furnished convenient housing around the globe.

Our website will include an admin page and section. The admin will be able to view transactions, property listings, bookings, and ratings.

Owners accounts will include uploading their properties, set payment settings and ratings.

Renters accounts will include ratings, and surveys.

Fully furnished convenient housing is the perfect solution for business travelers, relocating employees, and project teams needing short or long-term housing around the globe. Whether you arrange temporary …

Reducing Recidivism Rates: Teen Court Solution In Kankakee County, Robert J. Mason Ii

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The topic selected for this research is Teen Court, also referred to as Peer Court or Youth Court. The researcher attempts to determine the effects teen diversion programs, such as Teen Court, have on reducing the rate of recidivism during one’s adolescent years. This approach uses a peer court system to hold them accountable for their actions. Teen court works, because it has peers influencing peers, versus another adult telling youths what they should do” (Garrett, 2009, p. 50). With a focus on past Teen Court participants and Teen Court personnel in Kankakee County, Illinois, the results from this study …

Online Art Gallery, Mustafa Ali

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Online Art Gallery is an e-commerce website, which allows people with art and artists all over the world to showcase a large selection of paintings, drawings, prints, digital art, sculpture and photography. This website also provides artists with a curated environment in which to exhibit and sell their work.

Online Art Gallery contains a database which stores artist, buyer, and gallery information. This website allows the artist and buyer the ability to browse for artwork by categories, subjects, artists, tags and prices. This website allows advanced searching where a potential buyer can search galleries based on specifics such as theme, …

Home Away From Home, Malcolm Washington

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Online Art Gallery, Francisco Edwardo Vasquez

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Online Art Gallery is an e-commerce website, which allows people with art and artists all over the world to showcase a large selection of paintings, drawings, prints, digital art, sculpture and photography. This website also provides artists with a curated environment in which to exhibit and sell their work.

Online Art Gallery contains a database which stores artist, buyer, and gallery information. This website allows the artist and buyer the ability to browse for artwork by categories, subjects, artists, tags and prices. This website allows advanced searching where a potential buyer can search galleries based on specifics such as theme, …

Mary Johnston Gates Papers - Accession 1306, Mary Johnston Gates

Manuscript Collection

The Mary Johnston Gates Papers consist of correspondence, minutes, histories, financial records, program notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and reference material, relating to the South Carolina Extension Homemakers’ Council, Bethel Home Demonstration Club, the and National Extension Homemakers’ Council. Most of the material in the collection range in date from the 1950’s to the 1970’s.

Confederate Veterans Association Catawba Camp No. 278 Records - Accession 579, American Civil War, Confederate Veterans, Catawba Camp (Cva) No. 278

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of photocopies of records related to the Confederate Veterans Association Catawba Camp No. 278. The majority of the records consist of minutes, but also includes membership lists, newspaper clippings, and resolutions. Also included in the collection are Catawba Camp flag and two ribbons. The Catawba Camp was organized in 1893 and was based in Rock Hill, SC with Colonel Cadwallader Jones as the Commander.

Frances Patton Statham Papers - Accession 574, Frances Patton Statham

Manuscript Collection

This Frances Patton Statham Papers consist mainly of newspaper clippings (originals and photocopies) and advertising flyers for Ms. Statham’s books. Frances Patton Statham (1931-2020) was a 1951 graduate of Winthrop College. The newspaper clippings cover the years from 1979 to 1983, as do the advertising items. Also contained in this collection are 1984 and 1985 book reviews about From Love’s Ashes. There are also two manuscript copies of From Love’s Ashes, one being the original and the other a typescript copy. Literary Newsletters are also part of this collection. They are from the story “When the Gypsies Came.” …

Robert Witherspoon Hemphill Papers - Accession 568, Robert Witherspoon Hemphill

Manuscript Collection

Robert Witherspoon Hemphill (1915-1983) was a lawyer, judge, civic leader, US Army Air Corp Veteran of World War II, and member of the South Carolina and the United States House of Representatives from Chester, South Carolina. The Robert W. Hemphill Papers includes includes speeches, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings, relating to Hemphill’s personal and family affairs. There is also research materials on Aaron Burr, information relating to the Presbyterian Church, and Winnsboro Granite Corporation. Also included are diplomas for Hamilton G. Witherspoon and Robert Witherspoon, financial statements from attorneys concerning wills and the money to be received from them, and …

Terry Norton Children's Book Collection - Accession 1654, Terry L. Norton

Manuscript Collection

This collection consists of the children’s books and magazines collected by Dr. Terry L. Norton, Winthrop Professor Emeritus. Dr. Norton was a Winthrop Professor of Education from 1981 until his retirement in 2008. He is also a 1981 graduate of Winthrop College. The books are organized in consecutive order numerically and then by subjects selected by Dr. Norton, excepting the last appendix, which is organized by books as received.