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Neighborliness Vs. Car Culture: Traffic Violence, Pedestrian Deaths In Philadelphia, And Vision Zero's Concept Of Equity, Regina Austin

Journal of Law and Mobility

Vision Zero (VZ) is a transportation policy adopted by major cities like Philadelphia that aims to reduce or eliminate traffic violence, primarily through improvements in the transportation infrastructure. VZ prioritizes engineering (over enforcement), community engagement, and perhaps most importantly, equity. In the battle for superiority among users of land-based travel modes in America, automobile drivers have benefited from arterial highways that speed traffic flows around and through urban enclaves to reach center city business districts and from a car culture that encourages dominant behavior behind the wheel. Pedestrians have been among the losers.

In Philadelphia, as elsewhere, pedestrians who are …

Safer Futures: Strategies For Enhancing Collaboration Between Law Enforcement And Child Welfare Agencies In Preventing Fatal Child Abuse, Kayla M. Brown

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

State V. Mather, 317 A.3d 728 (R.I. 2024), Casey Rivera

Roger Williams University Law Review

No abstract provided.

The History Of Policing And The Impact On Minority Communities: The Case Against Police Abolition, F. Lee Francis

MC Law Review

This article critically examines the implications of former FBI Director James Comey’s assertions regarding the rise in violent crime and the phenomenon known as “The Ferguson Effect,” which posits that law enforcement officers are increasingly hesitant to engage in proactive policing due to fear of public backlash and viral scrutiny. Comey’s comments, made in a 2015 speech, sparked significant debate about the psychological impact of heightened scrutiny on police behavior and the potential consequences for public safety.

Through a multi-part analysis, the article first traces the historical development of policing in ancient civilizations and its evolution in the United States …

Free Speech And Anti-Democratic Violence, Andy J. Carr

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

The resurgence of far-right extremist groups—like “sovereign” militias, white supremacists, and avowedly fascist gangs—has exposed the First Amendment’s vulnerabilities to the “leaderless resistance” model of extremist organizing. This model, first popularized by white supremacist Louis Beam, specifically aims to insulate extremist leaders from liability when their followers engage in violence. It does so through fragmented structures and coded messages: Leaders use indirect references in speaking to disparate followers, without specificity (of targets) or immediacy (of corresponding violence), as required, e.g., for “incitement” under Brandenburg v. Ohio.

This Article makes three contributions. First, it articulates this “gap” with precision, drawing …

No Way Home: Poland And Lithuania’S Asylum Violations In The Belarus Border Crisis, Julia Kaluta

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Missing & Murdered Indigenous People, Victoria Giordano

Student Works

No abstract provided.

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 …

Administrative Forum Shopping, Amy L. Stein

UF Law Faculty Publications

Allowing private parties in litigation to stack the deck in their favor through forum shopping is standard fare in the United States. But not everyone realizes that public legislators engage in a similar exercise when they stack the deck in one party’s favor through “jurisdiction-stripping” or “jurisdiction-channeling” provisions. Congress can strip federal courts of all or some of its jurisdiction, channel jurisdiction over a particular class of cases into one particular court, and even strip the U.S. Supreme Court of its appellate jurisdiction. Understandably, this last category has received the most attention, as scholars are drawn to the penultimate conflict …

The Constitutionality Of Assisted Outpatient Treatment, E. Lea Johnston

UF Law Faculty Publications

States are increasingly turning to assisted outpatient treatment (more accurately called preventive outpatient civil commitment, or POC) to ameliorate the mental health and homelessness crises. These laws authorize court-ordered community treatment for individuals with mental illnesses and histories of treatment noncompliance. The treatment aims to prevent psychiatric deterioration before it leads individuals to endanger themselves or others. Affected individuals pose no immediate danger, typically can make rational treatment decisions, and may reside in the community. These laws dramatically extend states’ means of social control and cannot be easily justified by traditional understandings of state police power or parens patriae commitment …

Salerno And The Second Amendment, Jacob D. Charles

SMU Law Review

The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment is beginning to take more concrete shape. In United States v. Rahimi, the Court rejected a challenge to the federal prohibition on gun possession by those subject to certain kinds of restraining orders. In that case, the Court’s analysis hinged in part on the difficulty of successfully waging facial constitutional challenges. It confirmed that the teaching of United States v. Salerno—that a statute is only facially unconstitutional if it has no valid applications—applies fully to the Second Amendment. Although it relied on this procedural lesson from Salerno, the justices overlooked Salerno’s …

Agency Capture In Immigration Law, Shalini Bhargava Ray

SMU Law Review

Debates over administrative law doctrine and practice have long occurred in the shadow of agency capture, a phenomenon by which private interests co-opt an agency’s public mission. Scholars posit that capture often operates through the migration of agency personnel to the very industries they previously regulated and vice versa, referred to as the “revolving door.” The tremendous administrative law literature on agency capture, however, has never systematically addressed the potential relevance of capture to immigration regulation and enforcement. Given the vastness of the immigration bureaucracy, the massive annual appropriations it commands, and immigration’s salience in public discourse, the possibility of …

The Mutability Of Dangerousness: Domestic Violence And Second Amendment Restoration After Rahimi, F. Lee Francis

SMU Law Review

This Article considers whether the Constitution permits the permanent disarmament of individuals once deemed dangerous—particularly in cases involving domestic violence. In United States v. Rahimi, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that the Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, subject only to regulation consistent with historical tradition. That tradition, as examined under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, does not support lifetime bans absent an ongoing threat.

The Article argues that dangerousness is not immutable. Founding-era laws recognized disarmament as a temporary, conditional measure tied to present conduct, not a …

Criminal Law— Addressing Probation Revocation Policies In Arkansas, Hunter Willis

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hydrogen Readiness In Aviation & Challenges- Technology Meets Regulation And Market Demand, Eva Maleviti

Publications

Where technology meets regulation and market demand.

An Argument For A Right To Education For Undocumented Youth In Light Of Daca’S Uncertain Future, Minnie Blackman

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

Undocumented youth are facing increasingly difficult circumstances in which to integrate into U.S. society both socially and economically. A primary reason for this phenomenon is the current antagonistic sentiments surrounding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. These sentiments have created a lack of trust in this program, with fewer undocumented youth applying for DACA status, which would allow many of them to apply to public colleges and universities at in-state tuition rates. Previous research has implied that state laws have the potential to create a property interest in education, and, as such, it must be protected from arbitrary …

Do Federal Circuit Courts Of Appeal Provide Adequate Assistance To Self-Represented Litigants? A Review Of The Circuits’ Websites Resources, Jona Goldschmidt

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

No abstract provided.

Forecasting Hourly Police Call For Service Volumes: A Comparative Analysis Of Statistical, Machine Learning And Neural Network Models For Operational Planning., Patrick Duggan

ICT

Accurate demand forecasting is critical in operational settings where resource allocation and planning decisions depend on anticipated service volumes. Transactional systems that capture timestamped records provide valuable data sources for developing demand forecasts. This study examines hourly call volume forecasting using New Orleans police calls for service data, comparing the performance of statistical models, tree-based methods, and recurrent neural networks.

The research evaluates four primary modelling approaches: ARIMA models representing traditional statistical methods, XGBoost and Random Forest as a tree-based ensemble technique, and Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) as deep learning alternatives. A naive seasonal model serves as the baseline benchmark. …

In Support Of Free Speech On Food Production, Nicole Ligon

Scholarly Works

In May 2024, Florida and Alabama became the first states to ban the production and sale of lab-grown meat. Driven by a desire to protect the traditional agriculture industry, these new laws impose severe penalties on anyone found to have even stored lab-grown meat products in their home. The legislation follows in the footsteps of other laws aimed at offering the traditional agriculture industry additional protections. Florida, Alabama, and eleven other states already have “food disparagement laws” that make it easier to punish critics of traditional agriculture companies. Additionally, six states, including Alabama, currently have laws aimed at stifling undercover …

The Expressive Power Of Protecting Intimate Privacy: A Comparative Study Of Legal And Platform Measures, Danielle Keats Citron, Jonathon W. Penney, Alexis Shore Ingber

Articles & Book Chapters

Intimate privacy violations exact profound costs to freedom, including chilling victims into silence; denying them sexual agency; and eroding trust critical to intimate expression and sharing. Effective intimate privacy protections could mitigate these harms via law’s expressive function—sending a message or “signal” that victims of intimate privacy invasions are valued, and their expressions worthy of protection. However, without proof, skepticism is warranted about potential expressive functions as there has been an absence of proof to back up these claims. This Article aims to help fill this void, making a theoretical and empirical case for a positive expressive impact of both …

Searching For The City - A Study Of Tourism And Urban Development, Ethan Miskelly Paul

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis uses an interdisciplinary study of urban tourism development to examine a number of points of interest with regard to urban tourism governance. It explores what motivates cities to plan development projects intended to attract tourism, what distinguishes the city as ‘place to visit’ from ‘place to live’ from the perspective of a resident, and if tourism is a viable strategy for promoting sustainable development and resident wellbeing in an urban environment.

These questions are ever more relevant as tourism itself comes to represent a major driver of the global economy. Beginning with a review of the relevant literature …

Portland's Urban Doom Loop, Noah Rappaport, Avery Kageyama, Austen Knight

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this analysis we define the system boundary as Portland's downtown core, encompassing the downtown and immediately adjacent districts immediately affected by the effects of the "Urban Doom Loop." We selected this boundary for the concentration of reinforcing feedback loops. In Portland's downtown core remote work, commercial vacancy, homelessness, public safety concerns, and narrative media depiction of decline converge and amplify each other most intensely. Media focus on downtown disproportionately shapes public perceptions of the entire city. Interventions by city agencies are being proposed to take place there. While acknowledging that Portland's challenges extend beyond the downtown core, we intentionally …

Movement Public Health: Addressing The Links Between Public Health And Carceral Systems, Marie Fatima Hyacinthe

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation is an interdisciplinary exploration of the links between public health and carceral systems, the connections between academic scholarship and advocacy, and the role of public health research in social justice movements. This dissertation begins with in-depth interviews with academic researchers and anti-carceral organizers, as well as analyses of my own experiences taking part in protests and mutual aid work, which ground conversations on the meaning of safety and care, and the role of public health. The second chapter is a systematic literature review and synthesis where I analyze academic literature about public health and carceral systems, assessing it …

A Mixed Methods Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Restorative Practice In The Classroom, Crystal Brown

Doctor of Education Dissertations

This mixed methods study explored the perceptions of teachers in North Carolina alternative schools regarding the implementation and impact of restorative practices (RPs) on professional practice, student behavior, academic progress, and reentry outcomes after behavioral incidents. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used, beginning with an 18-item Likert scale survey completed by 30 educators and followed by 10 semi-structured interviews. Quantitative findings revealed moderate agreement that RP improved classroom management and conflict resolution, though academic and attendance gains were limited. Qualitative findings offered deeper insight into how restorative circles cultivated trust, accountability, and student voice, enabling more effective student-teacher …

Career And Technical Education: Evaluating The Benefits Of Partnerships Among Schools And Organizations, Rosalynn Tennie

Doctor of Education Dissertations

Employers are experiencing skill gaps when hiring employees. Employability skills are taught in high school through Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses. High school students receive hands-on experience through work-based learning opportunities such as internships with the help of organizations in the community. The partnership between schools and organizations is vital to the success of internships. This study investigated the lived experiences of organizations that offered internships to high school students. The study focused on a school district in the northeastern central region of North Carolina. The primary method of data collection used in the study was interviews. The interviews …

Facial Recognition Technology And Wrongful Arrests In The Digital Policing Era, Jannice Cebreros

Washington Law Review Online

This Essay examines the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by law enforcement agencies, the implications of such use, and the disproportionate impact the use has on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Law enforcement officers are increasingly using FRT for the purpose of identifying suspects. Essentially, law enforcement officers will take a “still image” of a suspect, upload this image into a database, and find a potential match, which the officers then use to identify an individual. This Essay argues that legislatures must enact law that limits the use of FRT by law enforcement agencies, especially when …

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Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

The Interaction Between Privacy Laws And Restrictive Licensing Agreements In Cross-Border Satellite Imagery, Ida Samardar

IP Theory

No abstract provided.

Teaching Students To Be Resilient: A Campus-Wide Approach, Connie Horton, La Shonda Coleman, Brad Dudley, Stacey Lee Gobir, Sergio Gallardo Palma

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

In response to escalating mental health concerns among college students, Pepperdine University developed the Resilience- Informed Skills Education (RISE) program to equip students with resilience skills. The biblically sound and research-based curriculum focuses on six dimensions: physical, social, cognitive, spiritual, service, and life skills. All first-year students learn resilience skills through the RISE small-group program. Numerous additional opportunities are made available, including resilience coaching, a resilience interest living community, lunch and learns, a yearly summit, a podcast, a newsletter, and a variety of engaging campus programs. Student leaders have been key to the positive response to RISE, as have partnerships …

A Study Of The Tap In Center Movement: How Collaboration In The Legal System Is Reducing The Negative Impact Of Bench Warrants And Restoring Justice In Communities, Patrick C. Brayer

Nebraska Law Review

While many aspects of the criminal legal system have been criticized for the harm judicial institutions inflict on communities, a unique legal initiative is garnering praise from observers across the nation. What started as a local effort to help residents withdraw bench warrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic has blossomed into four independent legal service centers in three separate Midwest metropolitan areas called Tap In Centers. The primary mission of the Centers is the recalling of bench warrants issued when criminal defendants fail to appear for court or pay a fine; however, the needs of the individual and the community guide …