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Powering Up: Examining Frameworks For Community Engagement And Collective Tenant Action Around Energy Efficiency In New Haven, Ct, Alixandra P. Rachman

Public Health Theses

Energy is an essential household need to sustain health and wellbeing. Connecticut has one of the highest energy costs in the nation and leaves a majority of residents experiencing energy insecurity, where households are not able to meet their energy needs. Energy efficiency retrofits have been introduced as an effective solution to sustain thermal comfort indoors. Despite increased funding and resources for energy efficiency, federal and state programs continue to go widely unused by tenants for several reasons from health and safety barriers, tenant-landlord power imbalances, and administrative challenges to name a few. This thesis aims to describe Connecticut’s energy …

Bottom-Rung Appeals, Merritt E. Mcalister

Fordham Law Review

There are “haves” and “have-nots” in the federal appellate courts, and the “haves” get more attention. For decades, the courts have used a triage regime under which they distribute judicial attention selectively: some appeals receive a lot of judicial attention, and some appeals receive barely any. What this Article reveals is that this triage system produces demonstrably unequal results, depending on the circuit handling the appeal and whether the appellant has counsel or not. Together, these two factors produce significant disparities: in one circuit, for example, an unrepresented appellant receives, on average, a decision less than a tenth the length …

The Crisis Of Unrepresented Immigrants: Vastly Increasing The Number Of Accredited Representatives Offers The Best Hope For Resolving It, Michele R. Pistone

Fordham Law Review

The U.S. immigration system is exceedingly complex, and access to legal representation is the primary determinant in obtaining a just immigration outcome. Immigrants must navigate a byzantine, burdensome, and high stakes legal process, conducted in a language they often do not speak. They often must do so without any legal representation. Unlike criminal defendants, immigrants are not entitled to government-funded lawyers. Legal services organizations, such as Legal Services Corporation, that receive any federal funding are prohibited from providing legal representation to most immigrants. Faith-based and charitable legal services organizations provide some legal representation to immigrants through attorneys, staff members, and …

Children's Health Defense V. Washington Post, Northern District Of Texas

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Nicolet Law V. Bye Goff, Western District Of Washington

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Advancing Protective And Promotive Factors Through The Magic City Acceptance Academy, Matthew Fifolt, D. Keith Gurley, Dwayne White

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Journal

Introduction: In 2021, leaders in Birmingham, Alabama established one of the first LGBTQ-affirming charter school in the United States to serve students who have dropped out, are not thriving in traditional schools, or are enrolled in home-school programs.

Methods: Using deductive analysis, our research team filtered data through the five pre-defined themes of the Youth Thrive Framework: (a) youth resilience, (b) social connections, (c) knowledge of adolescent development, (d) concrete support in times of need, and (e) cognitive and social-emotional competence.

Results: Study findings suggest that MCAA’s innovative and adaptive approaches to curriculum, discipline, and student engagement align with the …

Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide For The Modern Lawyer, Dyane O'Leary

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Plenty of people talk about technology changing the practice of law but what does it all mean for a lawyer’s everyday skills? The answers lie in Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide for the Modern Lawyer. This book is the first student-centered coursebook of its kind. It is a comprehensive instructional source combining background explanation of changes to the legal industry with practical guidance on topics such as electronically stored information, document proficiency, advanced research analytics, cybersecurity, automation, client-centered law practice management technology, and remote lawyering.

Geared toward readers at the early stage of their careers, Legal …

Tribute To Professor James Moliterno, Patricia Roberts, Soledad Atienza, Eleanor Myers, James S. Heller, Gary Tamsitt, Neal Devins, Peter Čuroš, Veronika Tomoszek, Maxim Tomoszek, Paul Žilinčík, Rongjie Lan, José M. De Areilza, Irina Lortkipanidze, Ján Mazúr, Javier Guillen, Lucia Berdisová, James Étienne Viator

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Patricia Baker V. Google, District Court Of District Of Columbia

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

The Problematic Structure Of Indigent Defense Delivery, Eve Brensike Primus

Michigan Law Review

The national conversation about criminal justice reform largely ignores the critical need for structural reforms in the provision of indigent defense. In most parts of the country, decisions about how to structure the provision of indigent defense are made at the local level, resulting in a fragmented patchwork of different indigent defense delivery systems. In most counties, if an indigent criminal defendant gets representation at all, it comes from assigned counsel or flat-fee contract lawyers rather than public defenders. In those assigned-counsel and flat-fee contract systems, the lawyers representing indigent defendants have financial incentives to get rid of assigned criminal …

Heeding The Voices Of Migrant Youth: The Need For Action, Randi Mandelbaum

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Unaccompanied: The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border. By Emily Ruehs-Navarro.

Textbook List - Summer 2023, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

Class Schedule - Summer 2023, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

Lived Experiences Of Technology-Based Legal Resources, Michael Ray Stanley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractLack of access to United States civil courts by individuals who cannot afford or are otherwise unable to retain legal counsel has attracted the interest of policy makers and members of the legal community in recent years. The literature revealed a wide range of efforts and public and private resources that have been employed to address the problem. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences, perceptions, and insights of individuals in a medium-size Michigan city who had utilized services that deliver legal resources by technology-based platforms. Social construction of targeted populations and the technology acceptance model …

The Experiences Of Female Sexual Minority Service Members After 2013, Ada I. Rivera

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In 2010, the United States Armed Forces ended the policy Don’t Ask, Don’t Tellthat excluded sexual minorities from being able to serve openly in the military. Full military benefits were extended to them and their family members in 2013. Despite these changes, victimization, stigma, and discrimination have continued to impact the lives of service members who identify as a sexual minority, as the result of microaggressions due to their sexual orientation. Past literature has examined experiences of sexual minorities, but little research has focuses on sexual minority women whose minority gender identity creates greater risk to experience micro assaults with …

Lived Experiences Of Technology-Based Legal Resources, Michael Ray Stanley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractLack of access to United States civil courts by individuals who cannot afford or are otherwise unable to retain legal counsel has attracted the interest of policy makers and members of the legal community in recent years. The literature revealed a wide range of efforts and public and private resources that have been employed to address the problem. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences, perceptions, and insights of individuals in a medium-size Michigan city who had utilized services that deliver legal resources by technology-based platforms. Social construction of targeted populations and the technology acceptance model …

This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Military Justice System: The 2022 And 2023 National Defense Authorization Acts, David A. Schlueter, Lisa M. Schenck

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

For the past decade there have been numerous and significant changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), the statutory basis for the military justice system. Although the Military Justice Act of 2016 made major changes to the UCMJ, the calls for change continued. One of the most-often heard calls for reform over the last decade has suggested removing commanders from the military justice system. In the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress amended the UCMJ to dramatically reduce the commander’s role in what Congress specified as “covered offenses" such as sexual assault and provided that those listed offenses …

A Behaviorial Economics Analysis Of Will Making Preferences: When To Begin And Who Should Have The Most Input?, Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Bridget J. Crawford, Stephen Whyte, Uwe Dulleck

Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols. 28:2 onward (2019-present)

No abstract provided.

Built For Business: The Commercial Need For Aggregate Litigation, Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Commercial actors long have argued that class actions are bad for business. But for even longer, business groups have supported other types of aggregate litigation that closely resemble class actions, such as expansive federal bankruptcy. While critics have successfully limited national aggregation via class actions, they have not even attempted to criticize aggregation via bankruptcy.

Why have business groups attacked aggregate litigation in some cases and supported it in others? This Article provides an answer by examining aggregation's origins and development, and what emerges, it turns out, is very much the opposite of what aggregation's pro-business critics would have us …

Contingency Fee Conflicts: Attorneys Push For Quick-Kill Settlements When Their Clients Would Be Better Off Going To Trial, Steve Calandrillo, Chryssa V. Deliganis, Neela Brocato

Articles

Despite the checkered history of contingency fees in the practice of law, attorneys often claim that such fee arrangements perfectly align the interests of lawyer and client. After all, contingency fee lawyers proclaim in TV ad after TV ad, "we don’t get paid unless you win." That superficial logic does not withstand economic scrutiny. Utilizing a behavioral economics lens, this Article demonstrates that contingency fee arrangements give attorneys excessive incentives to settle cases that their clients would be better off taking all the way through trial. In addition to highlighting this undertheorized problem in law, we offer normative recommendations to …

New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 81 Proceedings: A Proposal To Better Protect The Best Interests Of An Alleged Incapacitated Person, Casey Marsh

Touro Law Review

Guardianship proceedings under New York Mental Hygiene Law Article 81 are intended to protect the personal needs and property management of an alleged incapacitated person. A guardian appointed for a person is responsible for making decisions in line with the best interests and wishes of his or her ward. While guardians serve a very important purpose, the current procedures of guardianship proceedings allow too much room for family members to bring a proceeding without the alleged incapacitated person’s best interests in mind. Often, people bring guardianship proceedings to fish for information on family members or to circumvent a future Surrogate’s …

Toward A Biblical And Missiological Framework For Transformational Advocacy In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Michelet William

Dissertations

Problem

Adventists have been inconsistent in dealing with inequality and injustice in society, swaying between silence, accommodation, positional statements, and direct advocacy approaches. Although advocacy has become more prominent among Adventist thinkers since the end of the twentieth century, there is a lack of empirical data which answer questions related to contemporary Adventists' beliefs and practices in relation to advocacy in the context of mission. Concomitantly, there does not yet exist a documented or articulated Adventist missiological perspective on advocacy.

Research Questions

(1) What part, if any, has biblically-based social advocacy played in Adventist mission history? and (2) What do …

The End Of Asylum Redux And The Role Of Law School Clinics, Elora Mukherjee

Faculty Scholarship

The Biden Administration has perpetuated many of the prior administration’s hostile policies undermining access to asylum at the southern border. This Essay first examines these policies and then identifies emerging opportunities for law school clinics to address these new challenges, including by serving asylum seekers south of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Family Law For The One-Hundred-Year Life, Naomi Cahn, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

Family law is for young people. To facilitate child rearing and help spouses pool resources over a lifetime, the law obligates parents to minor children and spouses to each other. Family law’s presumption of young, financially interdependent, conjugal couples raising children privileges one family form — marriage — and centers the dependency needs of children.

This age myopia fundamentally fails older adults. Families are essential to flourishing in the last third of life, but the legal system offers neither the family forms many older adults want nor the support of family care older adults need. Racial and economic inequities, accumulated …

Mdl For The People, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Scholarly Works

By the terms of its own statute and the limits of its constitutional authority, multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) is designed to transfer and coordinate individual lawsuits then return plaintiffs back to their chosen fora for case-specific discovery and trial. Because each plaintiff is present and has her own lawyer, there is no need for the judge to police conflicts of interest or attorney loyalty as in the MDL’s kin, the class action.

But these assumptions do not match the empirical reality. Remand is rare. MDL judges resolve ninety-nine percent of the cases before them. And to some attorneys, the people of …

Changemakers: From The Classroom To The Courtroom: Miguel Garcia, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Changemakers: Elevating Conversations Around Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Promoting Cognitive Complexity Among Yezidi Youth Impacted By Isis In Kurdistan, Iraq, Sara Savage, Jessica Francar, Kristin Perry

Journal of Strategic Security

This article reports on the results of an intervention to promote the reintegration of Yezidi children and youth in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, who had been in ISIS captivity or were displaced by ISIS, by increasing their cognitive complexity through experiential learning. The article explores the challenges faced by this demographic, including trauma and exclusion. It looks at the impact of a group-based curriculum designed to increase cognitive complexity (measured by integrative complexity), and discusses how the intervention addressed socio-cognitive needs in order to support reintegration. The intervention was piloted with young people associated with ISIS and those displaced …

แนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคกรณีติดตั้งแผงโซลาร์เซลล์เพื่อผลิตไฟฟ้าจากพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัย, อารียา พยัคฆาภรณ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านได้รับความนิยมเพิ่มขึ้นเป็นอย่างมากในปัจจุบัน และมีแนวโน้มจะมากขึ้นอีกในอนาคต อย่างไรก็ดี ด้วยลักษณะเฉพาะแผงโซลาร์เซลล์ ซึ่งเป็นสินค้าที่ผู้บริโภคต้องมีความรู้ ความเข้าใจในตัวสินค้า และเป็นการลงทุนระยะยาวที่ใช้เวลาการคืนทุนค่อนข้างนาน จึงมีความจำเป็นที่ผู้บริโภคจะต้องได้รับสัญญาที่มีข้อกำหนดระบุถึงสาระสำคัญของสินค้า ตลอดจนสิทธิหน้าที่ของผู้บริโภคและผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ ประกอบกับปัจจุบันประเทศไทยยังไม่ได้มีกฎหมายว่าด้วยการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคกรณีของการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัยเป็นการเฉพาะจากการศึกษาแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคด้านสัญญากรณีติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัยของต่างประเทศ ได้แก่ รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย สหรัฐอเมริกา เครือรัฐออสเตรเลีย ประเทศญี่ปุ่น และประเทศมาเลเซีย พบว่ามีแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคด้านสัญญาที่แตกต่างกัน โดยแบ่งรูปแบบการบังคับใช้กับผู้ประกอบธุรกิจได้เป็น 2 รูปแบบ คือ บังคับใช้โดยกฎหมาย และ อาศัยความสมัครใจของผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ เมื่อผู้วิจัยวิเคราะห์และเปรียบเทียบกับบริบทของประเทศไทยแล้ว พบว่าแต่ละรูปแบบการบังคับใช้มีความเหมาะสมกับประเทศไทยในสถานการณ์ที่แตกต่างกัน กล่าวคือ ในช่วงระยะเริ่มต้นที่ผู้บริโภคเริ่มสนใจการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์ และยังไม่ได้ปรากฏข้อร้องเรียนเกี่ยวกับการเอารัดเอาเปรียบผู้บริโภคจากผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ การบังคับใช้เป็นกฎหมายจึงยังไม่อาจกระทำได้ เพราะตามแนวปฏิบัติในการออกประกาศของคณะกรรมการว่าด้วยสัญญาให้เป็นธุรกิจควบคุมสัญญาจะต้องปรากฏสถิติข้อร้องเรียนก่อน ผู้วิจัยจึงเสนอให้มีการเผยแพร่แบบสัญญามาตรฐานสำหรับการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์ภาคครัวเรือนบนเว็บไซต์ของกรมพัฒนาพลังงานทดแทนและอนุรักษ์พลังงาน อันเป็นแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภครูปแบบสมัครใจในระยะเริ่มต้นก่อน แต่หากในอนาคตปรากฏข้อร้องเรียนเช่นว่านั้น ผู้วิจัยเสนอให้นำรูปแบบการบังคับใช้เป็นกฎหมาย หรือ รูปแบบที่อาศัยความสมัครใจของผู้ประกอบธุรกิจมาปรับใช้ตามความเหมาะสมต่อไปในประเด็นเรื่องหน่วยงานกำกับดูแล ผู้วิจัยเสนอให้สำนักงานคณะกรรมการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภค (สคบ.) เป็นหน่วยงานผู้มีหน้าที่มีอำนาจกำกับดูแลธุรกิจติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัย ด้วย สคบ. มีบุคลากรที่มีความเชี่ยวชาญในด้านการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคมากกว่าสำนักงานคณะกรรมการกำกับกิจการพลังงาน (สำนักงาน กกพ.)

Easing The Burden Of Survivors Of Domestic Violence Through The "One Family, One Judge" Court Model: Why Integrated Domestic Violence ("Idv") Courts Should Be Instituted Throughout The United States, Elka B. Blonder

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note advocates for the implementation of Integrated Domestic Violence (IDV) Courts nationwide, arguing that these courts provide a more efficient and supportive system for survivors of domestic violence by consolidating criminal, civil, and family cases under a single judge. This "one family, one judge" model aims to reduce the fragmentation and trauma survivors face in traditional court systems, offering a holistic approach that enhances survivor safety and offender accountability.