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Hostos Community College Academic Bulletin 2018-2020, Hostos Community College

College Bulletins

This is the official college catalog for 2018-2020. It contains course descriptions as well as information on degree programs, college resources and services, financial aid, admissions, and the academic calendar.

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Extending Fourth Amendment Protections And Bivens Claims For Damages To Non-Citizens In Cross-Border Killing Context, 53 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 343 (2020), Jessica Beckman

UIC Law Review

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“Sufficiently In Conflict”: The Reservation Of Illinois Rule Of Evidence 407, 53 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 403 (2020), Jaclyn Wilcox

UIC Law Review

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Termination Of Parental Rights: Should There Be A “Three-Strike Rule” For A Parent To Lose Parental Rights After Three Felony Convictions?, 53 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 283 (2020), Christopher Menich

UIC Law Review

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Urban Robotics: Achieving Autonomy In Design And Regulation Of Robots And Cities, Jesse Woo, Jan Whittington, Ronald Arkin

Connecticut Law Review

Cities across the United States are facing a wave of urban robotic products that combine artificial intelligence with the basic elements of transportation technology. The firms that deploy these technologies intend to both disrupt and serve many markets with their products, including but not limited to the transportation of people and cargo, surveillance, security, entertainment, and the collection and use of vast troves of data from the sensing capabilities of their products. In the evolution of technology, however, automated vehicles, delivery robots, security robots, and follow-me drones or robots are not separate products; they represent one overall movement to combine …

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Retributivist Reform Of Collateral Consequences, Brian M. Murray

Connecticut Law Review

This Article applies retributivist principles to discussions about collateral consequences reform. Retributivist ideas relating to agency and responsibility, proportionality, personal and communal restoration, and the obligations and duties of the state, as well as the broader community, suggest suspicion of an expansive collateral consequences regime. A retributivist assessment, cognizant of realities within the criminal system, reveals that many are overly punitive and disruptive of social order. Legislatures that prioritize retribution as a justification for and constraint on punishment should think clearly about whether existing collateral consequences result in disproportionate suffering and, if so, reconsider them. This includes the outsourcing of …

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The Science Of Administrative Change, Barry Sullivan, Christine Kexel Chabot

Connecticut Law Review

Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to reduce regulation during the 2016 presidential campaign. Indeed, one of his key advisors promised to “deconstruct” the administrative state. Since taking office, President Trump has attempted to make good on his promises, spurring federal agencies to brush aside countless regulations that previous administrations had promulgated based on scientific, technological, or economic evidence. Those efforts, which some have dubbed a “war on science,” implicate a long-contested question in administrative law: to what extent should a change in presidential administrations excuse agencies from any obligation to justify changes in policy with expert, reasoned analysis of relevant data? …

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The Hartford Guidelines On Speech Crimes In International Criminal Law, Richard Ashby Wilson, Matthew Gillett

Faculty Articles and Papers

The Hartford Guidelines on Speech Crimes in International Criminal Law are a comprehensive survey of individual criminal responsibility for harmful speech acts under international criminal law. The Guidelines offer a restatement of current international law concerning speech crimes with a view to assisting international agencies, national authorities and other actors contemplating appropriate regulatory responses to inciting speech and associated human rights violations. As such, they provide legal actors with an urgently needed, authoritative and systematic legal framework for regulating and sanctioning speech that violates international legal standards. Speech crimes are a decidedly unsettled area of international criminal law. There is …

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American Duality: The Legal History Of Racial Slavery In The United States Of America, Conor A. Scalise

Dissertations and Honors Papers

This paper explores the duality of American law and American culture in the context of American Slavery. On the one hand, White Americans took great pride in the robust and progressive protection of individual liberties and rights guaranteed to them by documents like the Constitution. But, on the other, those same legal documents worked symbiotically with the cultural mores of the day to create and sustain a system that enslaved African Americans for generations. This paper starts with an analysis on the origins of racial slavery in colonial America, which emphasizes the insidious function of the law and preconceptions about …

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Early Release For Prisoners Convicted Of Violent Crimes: Can Anyone Escape The Incapacitation-Retribution Catch-22?, Michael O'Hear

Connecticut Law Review

Two decades of criminal-justice reform in the United States have achieved only a modest reduction in the nation’s historically high imprisonment rate. Returning to the much lower imprisonment rate of a generation ago will almost certainly require shorter prison terms for individuals who have been convicted of violent crimes. Such a change, however, would draw at least two important objections: (1) people who have been convicted of violent crimes are an especially dangerous offender group who ought to be incapacitated behind bars for as long as possible, and (2) violent crimes are so serious that long prison terms are required …

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S.A.S. V. France: A Margin Of Appreciation Gone Too Far, Nathaniel Fleming

Connecticut Law Review

When is it permissible for a government to infringe on the religious rights of its citizenry? When is such infringement necessary for a democracy? This is the central concept underlying the margin of appreciation—a standard utilized by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to determine whether certain human rights violations may be excused as “necessary in a democratic society.” While such an approach certainly has its benefits—particularly considering that the ECHR is an international body seeking to intervene in national politics—it also leaves unresolved the question of the outer limits of such a standard. How far may a nation …

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2020 Virginia House Of Delegates: Demographics And Voting Behavior, Nathan Tatum

Student Publications

The focus of this project is on the demographic makeup of the 2020 Virginia House of Delegates, and how various demographic factors - political affiliation, gender/sex, race, religious affiliation, education level, and age - may influence their voting behavior on different legislation. The paper is divided into three parts. The first part explains the measures and methodology used in the creation of the dataset. The second and third parts make use of the information collected in the dataset. The second part details the demographic makeup of the 2020 Va. House and compares the makeup of the House to the makeup …

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Designing Tech Policy: Instructional Case Studies For Technologists And Policymakers, David G. Hendry

Tech Policy Lab

The UW Tech Policy Instructional Case Studies position students to consider the deeply interactional processes of human values and technology. Within pedagogical bounds, students engage both technical and policy elements and develop design solutions. For instructors, the case studies have been written and formatted so that they can be appropriated for varied educational settings.

Each of the tech policy instructional case studies (see Table 1) follow this three-part pattern:

1. Background. The case studies begin with information on the technology and social context at hand. This introduces both the students and the instructor to the technical problem and the social …

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