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Orda Weekly Update, 2021.02.15, Office Of Research Development Administration

ORDA Weekly Update

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What Judges Can Do About Implicit Bias, Jerry Kang

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

“Implicit bias” was not well known in legal communities twenty years ago. But now, the idea of implicit bias circulates widely in both popular and academic discussions. Even the casually interested judge knows a great deal about the topic. Still, even as the problem of implicit bias has grown familiar, potential solutions remain out of focus. Specifically, what can judges do about implicit bias, in their capacities as managers of a workplace, as well as vessels of state power?

In 2009 I wrote a Primer for the National Center for State Courts, which described the challenge of implicit bias to …

Old Doctrine, New Application Crossword Puzzle, Vol. 57, No. 2, Vic Fleming

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Second Amendment Animus, Jacob D. Charles

Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court’s animus doctrine has proven surprisingly adaptive. The Court has employed the doctrine not just in the typical equal protection context from which it arose, but also to claims that religious conduct or beliefs are the target of legislative hostility. Animus law and scholarship are flourishing after several invocations of the doctrine in the high Court’s recent Terms. Coinciding with these developments, gun-rights advocates and other supporters have increasingly railed against the hostility with which they believe government officials are treating the Second Amendment. This Essay connects these developments, mapping three types of gun-supporter claims that sound in …

Unpacking Third-Party Standing, Curtis A. Bradley, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

Third-party standing is relevant to a wide range of constitutional and statutory cases. The Supreme Court has said that, to assert such standing, a litigant must ordinarily have a close relationship with the right holder and the right holder must face obstacles to suing on their own behalf. Yet the Court does not seem to apply that test consistently, and commentators have long critiqued the third-party standing doctrine as incoherent. This Article argues that much of the doctrine’s perceived incoherence stems from the Supreme Court’s attempt to capture, in a single principle, disparate scenarios raising distinct problems of both theory …

Lift 2021 Fall / Winter

Lift: The Alumni Magazine of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU)

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The Legal Exploitation Of Farm Animals: ‘Unnecessary Suffering’ In A Nation Of Animal Lovers, Megan Parker

Plymouth Law Review

This article examines the necessity of farm animal suffering in the farm-to-fork process. Given the interdisciplinary nature of animal welfare, it covers a broad range of influencing factors, such as law, animal sentience science and the ethical dilemma of meat eating, including the ‘meat paradox’ and its effects on animal welfare. The current animal welfare law is outlined and the rise in veganism, thanks to social media, is discussed. The legal application of the term ‘unnecessary suffering’ is considered in detail, discussing whether the term, in its current form, is fit for purpose and the possibility of legal personhood for …

From Deciding To Study Law, To My Experience So Far As A Law Student, Mollie Pellowe

Plymouth Law Review

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Editorial, Hugo De Rijke

Plymouth Law Review

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Privilege And Health: The Inequitable Distribution Of Contemporary Environmental Harm, Rosie Holding

Plymouth Law Review

This article examines the modern concept of environmental justice (EJ) with a focus on the inequitable distribution of environmental harm stemming from contemporary global issues. The article takes an expansive, global view of issues by analysing country-specific case studies. These case studies include assessing the impact of wildfires in California, sea level rise in the Maldives and air pollution in the UK. Through the lens of EJ and social justice, it is argued that negative impacts and harm resulting from environmental disasters are disproportionately borne by vulnerable populations. These vulnerable populations include low-income, less affluent communities. It also includes those …

Honors In Practice, Volume 17 (2021)

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Contents

Editorial Policy, Deadline, and Submission Guidelines

Dedication to Elaine Torda

Editor’s Introduction • Ada Long

Founders Award Acceptance Speech (18 December 2020) • Jeffrey A. Portnoy

Coordinating Multi-Campus Honors Programs and Colleges • Larry R. Andrews

From Program to College: The Vision and Curriculum Evolution of the Virginia Tech Honors College • Stephanie N. Lewis, Anne-Lise K. Velez, Desen S. Ozkan, Raymond C. Thomas, and Kimberly A. Carlson

The Role of Admissions Practices in Diversifying Honors Populations: A Case Study • Andrea Radasanu and Gregory Barker

A View of Health as a Human Right: A Snapshot from an Honors …

Preparing For An Honors Capstone: Interdisciplinary Methods And Ethics In A Research Methods Course, Lauren Collins, Kylla Benes, Krista Manley

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Teaching interdisciplinary research methods to honors students across disciplines is complex. A pre-capstone seminar, The Art of Inquiry, centers ethical considerations within and beyond individual research interests, helping junior and senior students of all majors prepare for ethical, scholarly projects.

“Movies, Tv Shows, And Memes . . . Oh My!”: An Honors Education Through Popular Culture And Critical Pedagogy, Evan W. Faidley

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Entertainment media and popular culture often overdramatize the college experience. An honors colloquium engages students in scholarly research and discourse involving thematic elements of academic life in popular culture. An interdisciplinary approach to race, class, the professoriate, Greek life, and foreign experience is espoused. Through a lens of critical social theory, students deconstruct misinformed “stories most often told” to reconstruct more cogent understandings of college life and student experience. With a curriculum designed to advance social justice through equitizing education and amending cultural perceptions, this colloquium helps develop self-motivated, self-regulated, and engaged learners.

Editor’S Introduction, Ada Long

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This journal of the plague year has attracted a record number of submissions, creating the thickest volume of Honors in Practice since its inception in 2005. The inclusion of essays in response to a Call for Papers about COVID- 19 is no doubt responsible for some of this torrent of submissions, but research essays have also come in at a greater rate than before, not to mention the “Brief Ideas about What Works in Honors.” As you will see, the essays on the pandemic’s effects on honors mostly make the best of a fraught and frustrating year for honors administrators, …

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2021, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

This issue focuses the environment; then, now, and future. BSU's Faculty do their part in examining critical environmental topics of the day. Student group address environmental issues through education and events. Professor Ivana George draws attention to the environment through her photography. Member of Class ’99 seeks answers to questions concerning climate change and hurricanes. Look at internships involving the environment and sustainability. A Professor and Librarian live sustainably. Three alumni do their part for social justice and the environment. Also featured, a message from President, plus Bridgewater and alumni news.

Are Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters Needed? The Science Behind Boosters, Rachel M. Burckhardt, John J. Dennehy, Leo L. M. Poon, Linda J. Saif, Lynn W. Enquist

Publications and Research

Waning vaccine-induced immunity coupled with the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to increases in breakthrough infections, prompting consideration for vaccine booster doses. Boosters have been reported to be safe and increase SARS-CoV-2-specific neutralizing antibody levels, but how these doses impact the trajectory of the global pandemic and herd immunity is unknown. Information on immunology, epidemiology and equitable vaccine distribution should be considered when deciding the timing and eligibility for COVID-19 vaccine boosters.

Taxing Buybacks, Daniel Daniel, Gregg Polsky

Articles

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The Eventual Decline Of Empirical Law And Economics, Saul Levmore

Articles

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Do Legal Origins Predict Legal Substance?, Anu Bradford, Yun-Chien Chang, Adam Chilton, Nuno Garoupa

Articles

There is a large body of research in economics and law suggesting that the legal origin of a country that is, whether its legal regime is based on English common law or French, German, or Nordic civil law--profoundly impacts a range of outcomes. However, the exact relationship between legal origin and legal substance has been disputed in the literature and not fully explored with nuanced legal coding. We revisit this debate while leveraging novel cross-country datasets that provide detailed coding of two areas of laws: property and antitrust. We find that having shared legal origins strongly predicts whether countries have …

Property Law For The Ages, Michael Pollack, Lior Strahilevitz

Articles

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A Methodist Response To Infant Mortality In The 19th Century: Public Health, Foundling Hospitals, And Abortion Curbs, Philip F. Hardt

The Asbury Journal

During the 1850s, infant mortality greatly increased in New York City and other large cities. One of the leading physicians to address this problem in New York City was Dr. David Meredith Reese, an active Methodist layman, who was also involved in many other issues of the day: phrenology, colonization, and Bible reading in the schools. In 1857, his Report on Infant Mortality in Large Cities was published in which he both examined its extent and sources and also suggested ways to reduce it. Strikingly, two of his recommendations for its reduction coincided with efforts already underway. For example, his …

Strategic Plan 2021-2027, Tennessee. Wildlife Resources Agency

Strategic Plan 2021-2027

This Strategic Plan strives to anticipate and balance the needs of the wildlife and the public, and to develop strategies that will protect, enhance, and effectively manage our wildlife resources over the next six years.

Racial Bias In Algorithmic Ip, Dan L. Burk

Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, Vols. 94-106 (2009-2022)

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Inclusivity In Admissions And Retention Of Diverse Students: Leadership Determines Dei Success, Danielle M. Conway, Bekah Saidman-Krauss, Rebecca Schreiber

Faculty Scholarly Works

Penn State Dickinson Law has been leading with an Antiracist admissions philosophy and corresponding plans for implementation before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Arguably, this approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)was not identified explicitly as a vision priority for the law school until July 2019, when Dickinson Law welcomed Danielle M. Conway as the first Black Dean and first woman Dean in the law school’s 186-year history. Dean Conway outlined four vision priorities to accomplish within her first five years at Dickinson Law. Vision priority number two calls upon the law school’s administrators to move the needle substantially on …

Health Ai For Good Rather Than Evil? The Need For A New Regulatory Framework For Ai-Based Medical Devices, Sara Gerke

Faculty Scholarly Works

Artificial intelligence (AI), especially its subset machine learning, has tremendous potential to improve health care. However, health AI also raises new regulatory challenges. In this Article, I argue that there is a need for a new regulatory framework for AI-based medical devices in the U.S. that ensures that such devices are reasonably safe and effective when placed on the market and will remain so throughout their life cycle. I advocate for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and congressional actions. I focus on how the FDA could - with additional statutory authority - regulate AI-based medical devices. I show that …

The (Unnoticed) Revitalization Of The Doctrine Of Equivalents, Daryl Lim

Faculty Scholarly Works

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Pioneer Tales (Vol. 5, No. 4), San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society

Pioneer Tales

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Physicochemical And Functional Property Modification Of Myofibrillar Protein By Phenolic Compounds Under Oxidative Stress, Anqi Guo

Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences

Polyphenol-rich spices and extracts of phenolic compounds are widely utilized in meat processing to modify product flavors. Chemically, polyphenols are reactive with myofibrillar protein (MP), the most functional fraction of all muscle proteins responsible for texture development in comminuted meat products. Such protein–polyphenol interaction is prevalent under oxidative conditions that are common in meat processing. As a large group of phytochemicals with diverse structures, phenolic compounds are known to interact with MP with varying efficacies. Yet, the structure-function relationship of polyphenols in eliciting modification of MP is poorly understood. The overall objective of this dissertation research was to elucidate the …

The Effect Of Oil Type, Oil Quality, Vitamin E, And Phytase Supplementation On Broiler Performance, Apparent Nutrient And Energy Utilization, And The Fatty Acid Profile Of Fat And Liver In Broiler Chickens, Richard A. Adefioye

Theses and Dissertations--Animal and Food Sciences

Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of oil type, oil quality, phytase, and vitamin E (VE) supplementation in broiler chickens. Experiment 1 used 378-day-old male by-product Cobb breeder chicks with 9 treatments, 7 replicates, and 6 birds per replicate, structured as a 2x2x2+1 factorial arrangement of treatments for 14 days. The first 8 treatments were based on a marginally non-phytate phosphorus (NPP) deficient diet (0.31%), while treatment 9 was a positive control (PC) diet with adequate NPP levels (0.45%). There were 2 levels of phytase (0 vs 1000 FTU/kg), 2 levels of oil quality (fresh soy oil; peroxide …

Animal And Plant Protein Oxidation: Chemical And Functional Property Significance, Youling L. Xiong, Anqi Guo

Animal and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Protein oxidation, a phenomenon that was not well recognized previously but now better understood, is a complex chemical process occurring ubiquitously in food systems and can be induced by processing treatments as well. While early research concentrated on muscle protein oxidation, later investigations included plant, milk, and egg proteins. The process of protein oxidation involves both radicals and nonradicals, and amino acid side chain groups are usually the site of initial oxidant attack which generates protein carbonyls, disulfide, dityrosine, and protein radicals. The ensuing alteration of protein conformational structures and formation of protein polymers and aggregates can result in significant …