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Addiction By Design: The Case For Mandatory Warning Labels On Social Media, Julia Michael Jan 2025

Addiction By Design: The Case For Mandatory Warning Labels On Social Media, Julia Michael

Student Works

No abstract provided.


The Drug Price Negotiation Program's Impact On Small Pharmacy Operations, Abraham Kazmir Jan 2025

The Drug Price Negotiation Program's Impact On Small Pharmacy Operations, Abraham Kazmir

Student Works

No abstract provided.


When Simplicity Fails: A Purposeful Approach To Causation In Fca Enforcement, Hye Sun Choi Jan 2025

When Simplicity Fails: A Purposeful Approach To Causation In Fca Enforcement, Hye Sun Choi

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Procedural Protection Or Political Pendulum: An Overview Of The Cross Examination Requirement In Title Ix Hearings Through Varying Presidential Administrations And An Analysis Of The Effects Of Khan V. Yale University, Charlotte A. Sweeney Jan 2025

Procedural Protection Or Political Pendulum: An Overview Of The Cross Examination Requirement In Title Ix Hearings Through Varying Presidential Administrations And An Analysis Of The Effects Of Khan V. Yale University, Charlotte A. Sweeney

Student Works

No abstract provided.


Partnership Law, Troy Christensen, Jeff Dorrill, Matthew Schindel, Madeline Ballard, Nick Beals Jan 2025

Partnership Law, Troy Christensen, Jeff Dorrill, Matthew Schindel, Madeline Ballard, Nick Beals

SMU Annual Texas Survey

No abstract provided.


Martha L. Wofford Jan 2025

Martha L. Wofford

Bryant University Commencement Speakers and Honorary Degree Recipients

Honorary Degree recipient and speaker at the Graduate Commencement Exercises.


A New State Constitutional Right To Informational Privacy: The Origins Speak, Albert E. Scherr, Neal Kurk Jan 2025

A New State Constitutional Right To Informational Privacy: The Origins Speak, Albert E. Scherr, Neal Kurk

Law Faculty Scholarship

[Excerpt] This article occupies the space between the ongoing, newly energized development of state constitutional law and the fraught public policy field of privacy protections. It analyzes a new state constitutional provision that is explicitly and exclusively about information privacy. The provision, Part I, Article 2b9 of the New Hampshire Constitution,10 reads as follows: An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.11 The provision extends an individual’s privacy right significantly beyond that of both the federal and New Hampshire state constitutions. It operates at the intersection of privacy and …


Collaborative Wildfire Governance Within The Southwest Idaho Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscape: Survey Results 2025, Mahmood Muttaqee, Cody R. Evers, Lindsay K. Campbell, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Olivia Awbrey, Kathryn Hixson, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen Jan 2025

Collaborative Wildfire Governance Within The Southwest Idaho Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscape: Survey Results 2025, Mahmood Muttaqee, Cody R. Evers, Lindsay K. Campbell, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Olivia Awbrey, Kathryn Hixson, Michelle Johnson, Erika Svendsen

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Collaboration plays a critical role in wildfire risk mitigation efforts. This study examines collaborative wildfire governance networks within Southwest Idaho, a priority landscape designated in 2022 under the USDA Forest Service's Wildfire Crisis Strategy (WCS). Through survey data from 64 respondents, the Fueling Adaptation study aimed to identify the structure, capacity, and gaps in governance networks addressing wildfire risk in Southwest Idaho and understand how WCS investments have influenced wildfire management in the area. The findings reveal a growing governance network centered on the USDA Forest Service and the Idaho Department of Lands and supported by numerous non-governmental organizations and …


False Venue Claims Signed Under Penalty Of Perjury, Lynn M. Lopucki Jan 2025

False Venue Claims Signed Under Penalty Of Perjury, Lynn M. Lopucki

UF Law Faculty Publications

In a study of venue for the one hundred ninety-five large, public company bankruptcies filed from 2012 through 2021, I discovered nine cases (5 percent) in which the companies’ venue claims were in apparent conflict with what the debtors themselves stated on their petitions to be the locations of the companies’ principal places of business and principal assets. Nor were the venue claims justified by domicile. Eight of the nine proceeded to confirmation in an improper venue.

Although it is routine for large, public companies and the courts in which they file to ignore the Bankruptcy Code and Rules, these …


Inevitable Errors: Defamation By Hallucination In Ai Reasoning Models, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Andrew Daves Jan 2025

Inevitable Errors: Defamation By Hallucination In Ai Reasoning Models, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Andrew Daves

UF Law Faculty Publications

Over the last millennium, defamation law has adapted to many new information technologies, including the printing press, the telegraph, and the internet. Now, defamation law must adapt to the challenges presented by generative artificial intelligence, and specifically the propensity of Large Language Models to produce defamatory hallucinations. In this article, we unite the lessons of legal history with cutting-edge computer science research in developing a legal framework for addressing defamatory hallucinations produced by AI reasoning models. This article breaks new ground by recognizing both the inevitability and even desirability (in some instances) of AI hallucinations. We argue that defamation law …


The Second Life Of Information, Thomas D. Haley Jan 2025

The Second Life Of Information, Thomas D. Haley

UF Law Faculty Publications

Information permeates every aspect of modern life. It is the price we pay for access to online services and the form in which we embody creative works. Law and policymaking tend to focus on first-order uses and transactions; information for access serves as the paradigmatic example. But information enjoys a robust second life—one that constitutes the true value and power that drives firms’ decisionmaking—as assets. Once aggregated and assetized, the power and risk associated with information increases exponentially.

To explore the implications of information’s second life, this Article introduces the concept of “untethered information.” Assetization depends on severing the connections …


Barriers To Insurance Innovation, Peter Molk Jan 2025

Barriers To Insurance Innovation, Peter Molk

UF Law Faculty Publications

In exchange for a payment, insurance companies assume risks from policyholders. Because of their ability to aggregate and diversify many risks, insurers can offer this service at a price that is attractive to policyholders. Yet there are risks that insurers refuse to cover, even though the insurer appears to be in at least as favorable a risk-bearing position as is the policyholder. Property insurance contracts, for example, place on policyholders the risk that rebuilding costs will be greater than expected, or that a home will be destroyed by flood or nuclear damage, or that exposure to natural hazards will change …


The Gym-Pire Strikes Back: Is The Eighth Circuit's Vacatur Of The Ftc's Click-To-Cancel Rule The End Of The Regulatory Workout For The Health And Fitness Industry?, Nicholas J. Christopolis Jan 2025

The Gym-Pire Strikes Back: Is The Eighth Circuit's Vacatur Of The Ftc's Click-To-Cancel Rule The End Of The Regulatory Workout For The Health And Fitness Industry?, Nicholas J. Christopolis

UF Law Faculty Publications

There is a broader regulatory battle in which subscription-based businesses, particularly in the health and fitness industry, are being reined in by increasingly aggressive consumer protection regimes. This Article examines this conundrum facing regulators and affected businesses in four parts. Part I explores the concept of negative option marketing, the FTC’s theory of harm and justification for promulgating the Rule in the modern subscription economy, and the compliance burdens it would have imposed on the health and fitness industry. Part II explains the pushback from the health and fitness industry that delayed enforcement, created loopholes, and helped fuel the lawsuits …


Restoring Public Trust In Elections: An Empirical Study Of How Campaign Finance Reform Can Restore Public Trust In Elections, Matthew Dale Kim Jan 2025

Restoring Public Trust In Elections: An Empirical Study Of How Campaign Finance Reform Can Restore Public Trust In Elections, Matthew Dale Kim

UF Law Faculty Publications

The American public has become deeply distrustful of elections. This distrust is partly due to Supreme Court decisions curtailing campaign finance restrictions, on First Amendment grounds, to spending that creates an appearance of quid pro quo corruption. The Court’s reasoning assumes that, although the government has an interest in protecting the public’s trust in elections, campaign spending does not pose a threat to the public’s trust absent the appearance of quid pro quo corruption. However, it is unclear if campaign spending undermines the public’s trust in elections through means other than the appearance of quid pro quo corruption. If it …


Flaws In The Preemption Defense To Liability Claims Against Generic Drug Manufacturers, Lars Noah Jan 2025

Flaws In The Preemption Defense To Liability Claims Against Generic Drug Manufacturers, Lars Noah

UF Law Faculty Publications

More than a dozen years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court decided that federal preemption protects manufacturers of generic (but not brand-name) drugs from most types of products liability claims. This seemingly arbitrary distinction sprang from a peculiarity in the regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That agency soon thereafter proposed to modify its rules in order to eliminate this asymmetry in how the implied preemption defense worked to bar inadequate warning claims, but its effort ultimately failed, while lower courts have confronted some creative efforts to circumvent the special protection enjoyed by generic drug manufacturers. …


Do Ais Dream Of Electric Boards?, Robert J. Rhee Jan 2025

Do Ais Dream Of Electric Boards?, Robert J. Rhee

UF Law Faculty Publications

When artificial intelligence (“AI”) acquires self-awareness, agency, and unique intelligence, it will attain ontological personhood. Management of firms by AI would be technologically and economically feasible. The law could confer AI with the status of legal personhood, as it did with the personhood of traditional business firms in the past, thus dispensing with the need for inserting AI as property within the legal boundary of a firm. As a separate and distinct entity, AI could function independently as a manager in the way that legal or natural persons do today: i.e., AI as director, officer, partner, member, or manager. Such …


"May It Please Her Honor": The United States' First Women Judges, 1870-1930, Elizabeth D. Katz Jan 2025

"May It Please Her Honor": The United States' First Women Judges, 1870-1930, Elizabeth D. Katz

UF Law Faculty Publications

Between 1870 and 1930, hundreds of women served as judges in the United States. While a small number compared to the men who served, these pathbreaking officials were particularly visible and influential in women's efforts to secure political rights and advance in the legal profession. Women's progress in obtaining judgeships developed in a regional pattern, with women in the Midwest and West able to secure earlier and broader jurisdiction positions than their counterparts in the Northeast and South. Seeking access to the judiciary, women in conservative states made gendered arguments about women's supposed superiority in overseeing cases involving women, children, …


The Elected Judge, Matthew Dale Kim Jan 2025

The Elected Judge, Matthew Dale Kim

UF Law Faculty Publications

Many legal scholars and jurists oppose electing judges. Their core criticism against judicial elections is that elected judges are incentivized to avoid issuing unpopular, countermajoritarian decisions in constitutional law cases and thus fail to safeguard minority rights against abuses of the majority. Scholars have described this problem as the elected judges’ “majoritarian difficulty.” Numerous empirical studies suggest that elected judges do, in fact, fear electoral backlash and allow majoritarian demands to affect their decision-making.

This Article asks whether such fears are warranted. Elected judges should not allow majoritarian pressures to affect their decision-making unless the American public is aware of …


Suffolk University Law School Course Catalog, 2025-2026, Suffolk University Jan 2025

Suffolk University Law School Course Catalog, 2025-2026, Suffolk University

Suffolk University Law School Academic Catalogs

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A Study Of Neural Compression Techniques For Image Compression Using A Novel Algorithmic Lossless-Ness Criteria, Abhishek Prasanna Simha Jan 2025

A Study Of Neural Compression Techniques For Image Compression Using A Novel Algorithmic Lossless-Ness Criteria, Abhishek Prasanna Simha

Theses

Neural compression methods claim near-lossless reconstruction capabilities based on traditional metrics such as PSNR and MS-SSIM. However, their impact on downstream machine learning tasks remains largely unexplored. This thesis evaluates three state-of-the-art CompressAI models (Cheng2020-anchor, bmshj2018-hyperprior and mbt2018 ) on high-resolution satellite imagery using semantic segmentation as a downstream task benchmark. We introduce the idea of algorithmic losslessness with respect to a downstream machine learning task and use it to benchmark existing state-of-the-art neural compression algorithms. We also compare the results with non-neural compression techniques. We conducted experiments on 11 urban satellite images using two segmentation approaches: MMSegmentation (7 classes) …


The Fox Effect? Implications Of Recruiting Corporate Law To Combat Misinformation, Lili Levi Jan 2025

The Fox Effect? Implications Of Recruiting Corporate Law To Combat Misinformation, Lili Levi

Articles

In 2023, Fox Corporation settled U.S. Dominion’s defamation action over Fox News’ broadcast of false election fraud claims after the 2020 presidential election for the staggering sum of $787.5 million. Now, a shareholder derivative action is pending in Delaware against the company’s board of directors for breach of state corporate law fiduciary oversight duties for their failure to prevent such defamatory programming. Beyond the specifics of the case, this development portends the emergence of a new politico-legal strategy—using corporate governance requirements as a weapon to promote press accountability and combat misinformation in public discourse. The question addressed in this Essay …


Supporting The Development Of Emotion Regulation For Engagement In Occupation, Alexis Karen Smith Jan 2025

Supporting The Development Of Emotion Regulation For Engagement In Occupation, Alexis Karen Smith

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Purpose: Many children with mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental health conditions internalize and externalize symptoms of anxiety, depression, and anger at higher rates compared to children without these conditions (Tajik-Parvinchi, 2021). Difficulties with emotion regulation may lead to heightened experiences of symptoms from mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental health conditions (Tajik-Parvinchi, 2021). Occupational therapy practitioners can support children with emotional dysregulation by using evidence-based best practices. The identified problem is the application of evidence-based emotion regulation evaluation and interventions to support children with difficulty in emotion regulation and their caregivers. The challenge of implementing evidence-based emotion regulation services is limited research and …


Benefits Of Nature-Based Play For Children: An Educational Resource For Parents, Kaitlyn Peterson Jan 2025

Benefits Of Nature-Based Play For Children: An Educational Resource For Parents, Kaitlyn Peterson

Occupational Therapy Capstones

Background: In recent years, children’s use of technology has increased, decreasing the time they spend playing in natural contexts and time spent building the parent-child relationship. The lack of time spent in outdoor contexts has negative influences on the child’s overall health and well-being. The time a child spends with their parent is vitally important for a child’s development, view of the world, and sense of belonging. Parents assist children throughout development by supporting their understanding of themselves and the world, along with supporting the child’s ability to communicate with their parents. Interactions with technology, particularly overuse, can influence a …


Age Segmentation In The Life Coaching Industry: A Needs-Based Approach, Timothy Reisenwitz Jan 2025

Age Segmentation In The Life Coaching Industry: A Needs-Based Approach, Timothy Reisenwitz

Atlantic Marketing Journal

Life coaching is the second-fastest-growing industry in the world. Most previous research has used a results-based approach with relatively small sample sizes. The current research uses a needs-based approach to identify whether older or younger consumers are better candidates for a life coaching session or program. A hard-copy questionnaire used existing scales based on industry indicators to identify viable life-coaching clients. A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was used to analyze the data, with gender as the covariate or moderating variable. Results showed that younger consumers are generally better candidates for life coaching, while gender was only significant for one …


From Backlash To Brand Loyalty: How Self-Congruity And Generation Shape Consumer Intentions After A Failed Influencer Campaign, Dexter L. Purnell, Kimberly V. Legocki, Steven R. Barnes, Jessica Chapman Jan 2025

From Backlash To Brand Loyalty: How Self-Congruity And Generation Shape Consumer Intentions After A Failed Influencer Campaign, Dexter L. Purnell, Kimberly V. Legocki, Steven R. Barnes, Jessica Chapman

Atlantic Marketing Journal

This study examines consumer responses to corporate social advocacy (CSA) surrounding Bud Light’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. We fielded a cross-sectional survey of U.S. beer drinkers (N = 386) measuring actual and ideal self-congruity, generational cohort, and purchase intention. Using PROCESS Model 4 with bootstrap confidence intervals, we tested whether self-congruity mediates the relationship between generation and purchase intention. Self-congruity strongly predicted purchase intention, and indirect effects of generation via both actual and ideal self-congruity were statistically significant. Conditional (contrast-specific) indirect effects were observed only for Gen X, indicating cohort-specific pathways from CSA to purchase intention through identity …


Omnichannel Retailing: An Exploratory Study Of Limiting The Customer Journey In A Digital-First Context, Terence L. Holmes, Edward C. Brewer, Elizabeth Patterson Jan 2025

Omnichannel Retailing: An Exploratory Study Of Limiting The Customer Journey In A Digital-First Context, Terence L. Holmes, Edward C. Brewer, Elizabeth Patterson

Atlantic Marketing Journal

A recent retail trend is the rise of “digital-first” firms, where their merchandise is sold primarily via online efforts. In this exploratory study we describe our investigation of the customer journey for a digital-first seller of cosmetics and personal care products. We collected qualitative and quantitative data from a customer survey and follow-up interviews. Results indicate that personal connections and actual product use are the two most important touchpoints customers consider in first discovering the seller and then building a relationship with the brand. We describe practical applications of the findings and suggest ideas for future research.


Podcast Advertising And Its Role In Higher Education Marketing, Mark D. Cistulli, Jason L. Snyder Jan 2025

Podcast Advertising And Its Role In Higher Education Marketing, Mark D. Cistulli, Jason L. Snyder

Atlantic Marketing Journal

Podcast advertising has become an important component in marketing campaigns for organizations to reach their target audiences. With the explosion of popularity of podcasts, so too does the opportunity for marketers to promote their products and services. In this study, we are focusing on the impact of a graduate program ad on attitudes and behavioral intentions associated with the university in the ad. Participants were exposed to part of a podcast with the ad embedded mid-roll and then responded to a survey about their evaluation of the ad and subsequent intentions to consider attending graduate school at the university advertised. …


Improving Regulatory Notice, Joshua Ulan Galperin, E. Donald Elliott Jan 2025

Improving Regulatory Notice, Joshua Ulan Galperin, E. Donald Elliott

SMU Law Review

Effective notice of law is the cornerstone of any legal system, and yet many federal administrative agencies do not give small businesses, NGOs, and interested citizens notice of the vast amount of new or modified law they produce. They merely publish the text in the Federal Register, which works tolerably well for larger enterprises but not their smaller competitors and citizens’ groups. Despite these facts, few scholars have explored how agencies provide notice of the law. Even fewer have proposed ways that agencies could improve the methods they use for giving more effective notice of significant regulatory changes and …


The Homeowner Strikes Back: The Rise Of Antisquatter Laws, Sam Fowler Jan 2025

The Homeowner Strikes Back: The Rise Of Antisquatter Laws, Sam Fowler

SMU Law Review

Beginning in 2024, a host of states across the country began enacting or considering new laws targeting squatting that seek to expedite the removal of squatters. Generally, these antisquatting laws create criminal penalties for squatters, allow sheriffs to remove squatters, and shorten the time for eviction. This wave of legislation is generally attributed to several viral videos and news stories about squatters that seem to game the system by moving into unattended homes, even those where the rightful owners or tenants are living, and then claiming they have a lease. The owners will generally call the police, who are unable …


Public Projection | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab Jan 2025

Public Projection | Wintersession 2025 Syllabus, Kameron Neal, Movement Lab

Course Materials

In this course, we will create site-specific projections that breathe new life onto the built environment. Working in the lineage of street art and guerrilla performance, we will explore the relationship between art, public space and the communities we inhabit. How is projection a tool of public communication? How can light and movement reshape architecture and human behavior? We will research sites, understand their stories, develop creative interventions, build prototypes and work collaboratively to design ephemeral public installations.