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Civil Procedure: Personal Jurisdiction And The Fifth Amendment, Scott Dodson

The Judges' Book

Since Pennoyer v. Neff, the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause has constrained the exercise of personal jurisdiction by state courts. The Fourteenth Amendment permits state courts to exercise personal jurisdiction in four circumstances: (1) consent, (2) in-state service on an individual, (3) residency or citizenship in the state, and (4) minimum contacts with the state such that personal jurisdiction would not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. Confining state-court personal jurisdiction to connections between the litigant and the forum state serves not only litigant interests of fairness and reasonableness but also federal interests of interstate harmony.

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Employment Law: Governance And Guardrails: Artificial Intelligence And Low-Wage Workers, Seema N. Patel

The Judges' Book

“It’s like magic.” In August 2014, the New York Times reported on how Kronos scheduling software—which uses which uses real-time inputs, including weather forecasts, historical sales data, and nearby events, to predict customer traffic—had created a “chronic crisis over the clock” for Starbucks’s 130,000 baristas. For one barista, Jannette Navarro, the Kronos app controlled everything from how much sleep her four-year-old son might get to what groceries she could afford that month. The software was installed directly onto workers’ personal phones without consultation, negotiation, or notice. What seemed “like magic” to a Kronos executive wreaked havoc on workers’ lives.

A …

Lifting The Political Fog: People, Power, And Antislavery Politics In Upstate New York, 1848-1861, Nicholas Thony

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

This work details the ascendance of the political antislavery movement in upstate New York, focusing on the roles a diverse array of actors played in constructing an unlikely Republican coalition of conservatives, reformers, black New Yorkers, nativists, prohibitionists, and abolitionists in the years preceding the Civil War. In weaving together the parallel and inextricable stories of powerful newspaperman Thurlow Weed, female reformers like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and black communities across the state, I argue the success of the political antislavery movement resulted from their combined efforts. Thurlow Weed was one of the most important politicians of …

Science Sojourners: The (Un)Making Of Women Scientists From China To America, Jane Jia-Yin Wang

Electronic Theses & Dissertations (2024 - present)

Science is often imagined as a borderless profession in which knowledge, careers, and talent circulate freely across national boundaries. Yet scientific careers remain embedded within institutions that correspond to immigration regimes, geopolitical tensions, and unequal social structures. Drawing on 32 in-depth interviews with early-career Chinese women scientists trained in the U.S., this dissertation examines how globally mobile scientists navigate decisions about careers, migration, and everyday life between China and the U.S.

Rather than treating migration as a series of discrete decisions driven by labor markets or state policies, this dissertation argues that career and life orientations are fundamentally intertwined through …

Synthesis Of The Naga(S1−Xsex)2 Solid Solution From Mechanically Activated Precursors, Louisiane Verger, Julien Trébosc, Santhoshkumar Sundaramoorthy, Amitava Choudhury, Olivier Hernandez, Eric Furet, Sébastien Chenu, David Le Coq, Laurent Calvez, Olivier Lafon

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

NaGaS₂ and NaGaSe₂ are two recently discovered compounds that crystallize in the same structure type. In this work, NaGa(S_1−xSe_x)₂ (x = 0.5, 0.75 and 1) are prepared using an alternative synthesis route, mechanochemistry followed by heat treatment. Na₂S, Na₂Se, Ga₂S₃ and Ga₂Se₃ are milled in stoichiometric proportions. Differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (²³Na and ⁷¹Ga) show that the compounds after milling are composed of crystalline NaGa(S_1−xSe_x)₂ with an amorphous part. …

Law Center Materials Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Alabama Law Center Materials Collection mainly consists of printed and physical ephemera from the building phase and opening of the University of Alabama Law Center in the 1970s.

Howell T. Heflin Memorabilia Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The Howell T. Heflin Memorabilia Collection consists of framed and desktop memorabilia from the former Howell T. Seminar Room at the Birmingham-Southern College Library.

Designed Lands©Apes—Ar©Hitecture, Sculpture, Visual Art, Shape, Pi©Torial Work, Or . . . Nothing At All?, Richard H. Chused

Articles & Chapters

This article arises from the saga of the construction and eventual destruction of a landmark landscape architectural work by the well-known artist Mary Miss that was constructed adjacent to the Des Moines Art Center called Greenwood Pond: Double Site. The project’s demise is emblematic of the remarkably ambiguous copyright problems that surround such artistic creations. They do not neatly fit into any category of copyrightable works. Though they may contain sculptural works, their overall designs are rarely totally sculptural. While architects typically draw plans and “sculpt” a landscaped space, the results usually are not “buildings,’ as required by the definition …

William Bacon Oliver Collection, University Of Alabama School Of Law

Manuscript Collections

The William Bacon Oliver Collection consists of books, papers, memorabilia, and clothing from William Bacon Oliver, United States Representative from Alabama.

Preserving Large-Scale Railroad Infrastructure Sites: The Louisville And Nashville Ravenna Yard As A Case Study, Zachary Jones

Graduate Final Projects

This project consists of a draft National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nomination for the Ravenna Louisville and Nashville Railyard, located in Irvine, Kentucky. Developed in the early twentieth century as the operational center of the L&N Railroad’s Eastern Kentucky Division, the rail yard played a significant role in the transportation of coal and other natural resources while contributing to the growth of the towns of Ravenna and Irvine. Through the review of historical resources, field documentation, and examination of preservation scholarship, this project evaluates the historical significance and integrity of the surviving rail yard resources and argues for their …

Evaluation Of The Healthy Eating And Recovery Together (Heart) Digital Health Intervention To Support Head And Neck Cancer Caregivers And Survivors, Katherine R. Sterba, Jessica L. Burris, Rong Duan, Benjamin A. Toll, Kent Armeson, Christina Sithideth, Bhishamjit Chera, Kenneth Ruggiero, Evan M. Graboyes

Psychology Faculty Publications

Background: Head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors and their caregivers face significant challenges at the end of treatment and interventions are critically needed to support their needs. The Healthy Eating and Recovery Together (HEART) intervention includes a needs assessment and tailored care plan for dyads and an application (App) for caregivers. The objectives of this trial were to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and short-term effects of HEART on unmet needs and depression in HNC survivors and caregivers.

Methods: In a single arm clinical trial, HNC caregivers and survivors (n=23 dyads) completed baseline surveys followed by an in-person or virtual HEART …

Listening To Teachers, Deborah Rivas-Drake, Victoria Vezaldenos, Laura Ann Jacobs, Dawn P. Witherspoon, Jozet Channey, Enrique Neblett, Christia Spears Brown, Tiffany Yip, Gabriela Livas

Psychology Faculty Publications

Teachers are uniquely positioned to promote racial and immigration justice in schools. This study draws on interviews with a U.S. educator sample (N = 26; 50% ethnoracially minoritized; 42.3% pre-K or elementary, 15.4% middle school, 34.6% high school) from a needs assessment for a public scholarship effort aimed at providing resources to advance anti-racism and anti-xenophobia. Combining a rigorous and accelerated data reduction (RADaR) method and reflexive thematic analysis, we developed 8 themes: 5 pertaining to substantive issues, 2 to format concerns, and 1 integrating both substance and format issues. Our expansive approach in the present study, including educators from …

Racial/Ethnic Identity Moderates Changes In Skill Use And Therapeutic Alliance But Not Anxiety Or Depression In The Unified Protocol, Matthew W. Southward, Alex G. Urs, Thomas G. Adams, Shannon Sauer-Zavala

Psychology Faculty Publications

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White patients but may report weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how racial/ethnic background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, and therapy skill use in the Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, M_age = 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) with emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. Participants rated their past-week anxiety, depression, and skill use before each session and the strength of the alliance after each session. We tested whether racial/ethnic background moderated the slopes of …

Designing Narrative-Based Ai Assistance For Sensemaking In Collaborative Environments: Case Studies In Education And Dementia Care, Dylan Edward Moore

Dartmouth College Ph.D Dissertations

This thesis addresses a gap in the human-computer interaction literature regarding the design, development, and evaluation of narrative-based AI assistance for collaborative, complex problem solving. I explore this design space through three case studies across the domains of education and dementia care. This work encompasses multi-year industry partnerships and longitudinal fieldwork, user-centered design, dataset curation, model training, and system evaluation.

Specifically, the first case study considers a story-based web platform for teaching AI literacy through peer-generated, personalized narrative scaffolding. Learners on the platform showed significant knowledge gains and other learning-related outcomes. To describe the novel design of this system, I …

Dred Scott By Any Other Name: The New War Over Abortion And The Right To Travel After Dobbs, Wesley Mark Kimler

SPARK Symposium Presentations

After the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford and the Fugitive Slave Acts, slave states could effectively undermine the laws of free Northern states and deny African Americans the constitutional right to travel. Today, the denial of that right is faced by a different group. Where once the right to travel was denied to African Americans, it is now being denied to women and pregnant people. In addition to banning abortion, several states have enacted so-called "abortion trafficking" laws which make it a crime to assist a minor in procuring an abortion, even if that abortion is to take place …

Generating A Gfp Reporter Via Crispr To Visualize Ssa4 Export, Aara Khairollahi, Rebecca Adams

SPARK Symposium Presentations

In eukaryotic cells, the transport of mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a very regulated process controlled by nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). During stress conditions, such as heat shock, most mRNA export is inhibited in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yet the transcript for SSA4, a gene responsible for refolding denatured essential proteins, is exported. The mechanism behind this selective export remains unknown. To investigate this, we used CRISPR-Cas9 to generate a reporter strain in which the SSA4 open reading frame was replaced or inserted with green fluorescent protein (GFP). This reporter is designed to produce GFP only under conditions that …

Lifestyle Factors' Effect On Political And Religious Behavior, Madison A. Price

SPARK Symposium Presentations

There is a general understanding of an individuals’ political/religious beliefs when you analyze predictors like support of same sex marriage or views on abortion, but there is not a ton of research on how everyday lifestyle factors might affect how someone aligns themselves politically or religiously. Researchers have begun to expand the horizons of political and religious research by investigating how income, health, and politics affect religion (Francis-Tan & Tian, 2022), but there is a need to expand into more specific lifestyle factors. Which brings reason to question a few things: what lifestyle and demographic factors predict how religious someone …

Reliability Of Staged Maximal Aerobic Capacity Protocol Using A Combined Upper- And Lower-Body Air-Braked Ergometer, Jack J. Livingston

Graduate Studies Theses and Dissertations 2026

Maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂max) is widely recognized as the preeminent measure of aerobic capacity and is typically assessed using graded exercise testing (GXT). This study examined the test–retest reliability of VO₂peak and associated physiological responses during a staged GXT performed on a combined upper- and lower-body air-braked ergometer. Fifteen recreationally active adults (9 males, 6 females; age: 26.9 ± 7.2 years; body mass: 75.1 ± 11.0 kg) completed one familiarization session and two trials separated by ≥72 hours. Participants performed a staged GXT (40 RPM start, +3 RPM every 3 min to exhaustion) on a combined upper- and lower-body air-braked …

Temporal Patterns Of Storm Surges: Event-Identification, Clustering, And Count Modeling, Ariadna Martin Oliva

Graduate Studies Theses and Dissertations 2026

Coastal regions face compounding risks when extreme events strike in rapid succession, yet most statistical frameworks treat such events as independent, a simplification that can critically underestimate hazard. This thesis addresses that gap through three interconnected contributions focused on the temporal clustering of storm surges at the global scale. A new automated method is developed to extract independent storm surge events from continuous tide gauge records. By leveraging event correlations and a soft-margin approach that accounts for local variability, the method identifies characteristic event durations across 1,485 global tide gauge stations, revealing the influence of both local site conditions and …

Wormfood, Susan Mesler-Evans

Graduate Studies Theses and Dissertations 2026

A collection of seven fiction short stories focused on death and mortality, with genres represented including horror, fantasy, science fiction, and literary. The stories include an ecological epistolary narrative set in the near-future, a modern retelling of Hamlet, a Biblical flood narrative, a polyphonic retelling of the Bluebeard myth, a realist drama about abuse and healing, a darkly comic story of a woman planning for her own death, and a sci-fi story about two robots defying their programming to save a flower from destruction.

No Shelter: The Criminalization Of Homelessness And The Gaps In Constitutional Protections If Robinson Is Overruled, Shelby Stansbury

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

"We All Came Back For Them. We Remembered": A Review Of Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search For Justice At The Dozier School For Boys, Molly Nowak

Nebraska Anthropologist

Review of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys (2022) by Erin Kimmerle.

Unsettling The West: Migration Routes And Homesteading Through Oral Histories, Sidney Wickham

Nebraska Anthropologist

Westward expansion in the nineteenth-century United States has long been framed through settler-centered historical narratives that emphasize progress and national development. This article employs oral history as an ethnographic method to examine migration routes and homesteading experiences in Nebraska and the broader Midwest, foregrounding how memory, storytelling, and lived experience function as cultural practices. Drawing on interviews with descendants of homesteaders, community members, and museum professionals, alongside diaries, newspapers, and archival materials, this study analyzes how migration was remembered, narrated, and transmitted across generations. Rather than treating overland trails and homesteads as singular pathways of movement, this research situates them …

North Korean Archaeology And Archaeological Interpretation In The Twentieth Century, Gabrielle E. Stoddard

Nebraska Anthropologist

This paper examines how political unrest in North Korea during the twentieth century affected Korean Archaeology. During the occupation of the Korean peninsula by the Empire of Japan during 1910–1945, Japanese scholars embarked on the study of archaeology in Korea. Japanese archaeologists used Korean archaeological data and materials to push a colonial viewpoint that Korea was a weak state that could not advance without oversight from a conquering nation. After Korea was liberated by the Soviet Union and the United States in 1945, it was divided into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). …

Clinical And Community-Based Recovery Models: The Focus On How They Can Be Better Together, Alicia Wilder

Graduate Research Papers

Two of the main pathways for individuals to access recovery services are clinical and community-based. The clinical model focuses on medical stabilization and treatment, followed by community-based care that provides peer-driven support and sustainability through connection. The purpose is to examine how recovery models aim to support those in recovery and pinpoint the ways they can integrate medical and social systems to meet client needs. Comparing the two will allow us to understand how each model supports sustained recovery and overall well-being. The question that will be researched in this study is: How do acute clinical treatment and community- based …

Sight Or Sound?: A Review Of The Literature, Benjamin Chavers

Graduate Research Papers

This literature review examines the longstanding pedagogical debate between rote (aural) and note (notation-based) approaches to music learning, exploring their respective impacts on student performance, retention, and overall musicianship across diverse educational contexts. Drawing on historical, cultural, and empirical research, the study synthesizes findings from non-traditional settings (including culturally transmitted music practices and music education for visually impaired learners), instrumental and vocal classrooms, and general music environments. The literature reveals that rote learning, deeply rooted in global musical traditions and early American pedagogy, supports rapid skill acquisition, audiation, and expressive performance, particularly among beginning and younger learners. Conversely, note-based instruction …

The Regulation Of Technological Innovation In Financial Services: A Comparative Approach With Respect To Digital Assets And Artificial Intelligence, Howell E. Jackson, Katja Langenbucher

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Tennessee Archivist 45, No. 1, Society Of Tennessee Archivists

Tennessee Archivist newsletters

Winter 2026 issue of the Tennessee Archivist, a newsletter produced by the Society of Tennessee Archivists.

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 62, No. 1, Eve M. Brank, David J. Dreyer, Reba Ann Page, Ana Cienfuegos-Silvera

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Contents

Creating “Buy-in” for Juvenile Restorative Justice Programs: Lessons from Nebraska’s Community Mediation Centers, Kristen M. Blankley, Lisa M. PytlikZillig, and Ashley M. Votruba

Consensus and Conflict Over Context: Select Criminal Law and Procedure Cases from the Supreme Court’s 2024-25 Term, Eve Brensike Primus and Elena Schultz

In the Shadow of Trauma: Opportunities and Obstacles of Restorative Justice with Young People Who Offend, William R. Wood

Restorative Transitional Justice: The Judicial Role in Colombia’s Peace Tribunal, Gabriel Rojas-Andrade

Editor’s Note: Restorative Justoce: Repairing Harm, Rebuilding Community, Eve Brank

Thoughts from Canada: Restorative Justice Through Prohibition on Arrest, Wayne K. Gorman …

Driving Into The Past: Road Logs And The History And Geology Of The Eastern Sierra Of California, Char Miller

Eastern Sierra History Journal

Road Logs are a pedagogical tool that geologists use on field trips with their students. Dee Trent's 1982 Road Log, which reproduced in this issue of ESHJ, also functions as a cultural artifact; it demonstrates what was known then, and how that scientific knowledge and the human geography of the region has changed over time.