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A Feedback Loop Of Exclusion: The Treatment Of Bilingualism In The Courtroom, Simone Stover

Northwestern University Law Review

In the 1991 case Hernandez v. New York, the United States Supreme Court characterized bilingualism as a race-neutral trait that can be used to exclude individuals from jury service. This Note proceeds by demonstrating how the current state of the law undermines the interests of bilingual individuals and then proposes a solution. Focusing specifically on Hispanic bilingual Spanish speakers, this Note first employs Professor Jennifer Lackey’s multi-directional credibility model to show that bilingual Spanish speakers suffer injustice in the courtroom due to both credibility deficits and excesses. Following this analysis, it proposes a possible solution to this issue: an …

Closing Remarks, Mark L. Jones, Tyler Kelly, Rachel N. Ratajczak

Mercer Law Review Symposium

No abstract provided.

Panel 4: The Lawyer As Active Participant In Public Life - Moderator Tim Floyd, Doug Ammar, Gene R. Nichol, Teresa P. Tomlinson

Mercer Law Review Symposium

Meet the Panelists

Douglas B. Ammar has been an active presence at Georgia Justice Project (GJP) since its beginning in 1986. Starting as a volunteer, then joining as a staff attorney in 1990, Ammar has led GJP as executive director since 1995. GJP has sought to be advocates for clients not only by providing holistic criminal defense and social services, but also seeking systemic change in Georgia law that will reduce the number of people under correctional control and reduce barriers to reentry. During Ammar’s time as executive director, GJP has help change 22 laws in Georgia that have worked …

Afternoon Break, Mercer University School Of Law

Mercer Law Review Symposium

No abstract provided.

Panel 3: The Lawyer As Judge Or Other Neutral Actor - Moderator Kaleb Byars, Verda Colvin, Charles Geyh, Marc T. Treadwell

Mercer Law Review Symposium

Meet the Panelists

Justice Verda M. Colvin was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court by Governor Brian Kemp on July 29, 2021, after having been appointed to the Georgia Court of Appeals by Governor Kemp on April 9, 2020. She previously served as a Superior Court judge in the Macon Judicial Circuit which serves Macon-Bibb, Crawford, and Peach Counties having been appointed by Governor Nathan Deal on April 16, 2014. Judge Colvin grew up in southwest Atlanta. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Sweet Briar College in Virginia and her J.D. from University of Georgia School of Law. Before her …

Lunch, Mercer University School Of Law

Mercer Law Review Symposium

No abstract provided.

Panel 2: The Lawyer As Advocate - Moderator Pat Longan, Mark Brown, Jonathan Rapping, Christian Stegmaier

Mercer Law Review Symposium

Meet the Panelists

Mark R. Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned his bachelor of science degree from the University of Dayton in 1981. Following graduation from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1984, he earned his LL.M. at the University of Illinois (1988). He clerked for the Honorable Harry W. Wellford, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1984-1985) and served as a Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1993) under the chief justice of the United States. Brown currently holds the Newton D. Baker/Baker …

Morning Break, Mercer University School Of Law

Mercer Law Review Symposium

No abstract provided.

Panel 1: The Lawyer As Counselor - Moderator Daisy Floyd, Joan Heminway, D'Andrea Morning, Ben Parrish

Mercer Law Review Symposium

Meet the Panelists

Joan MacLeod Heminway is the Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law and former interim director of the Institute for Professional Leadership at The University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. She currently serves as a teaching fellow in the Haslam Leadership Scholars program and as a fellow of the C. Warren Neel Center for Corporate Governance, the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. When she joined the College of Law faculty in 2000, Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate …

Welcome And Opening Remarks, Rachel N. Ratajczak, Tyler Kelly, Karen J. Sneddon, Patrick Longan

Mercer Law Review Symposium

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between The Online English Ii Credit Recovery Score And The Florida Standards Assessment English Language Arts Score, Kerris A. Satchell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Online credit recovery (OCR) allows US students at risk of dropping out of school to retake courses to meet graduation requirements and eventually graduate from high school. The problem addressed in this study is that despite participating in online English II credit recovery (ELA II OCR), students in a rural school district in North Florida still had a high failure rate on the Florida Standards Assessment English Language Arts (FSA-ELA) exam. This quantitative project study aimed to determine whether there was a relationship between ELA II OCR and FSA-ELA scores using deidentified archival data provided by the local school district’s …

Latino Young Adults’ Experiences As Children And Adolescents With Incarcerated Parents, Anna Garcia

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Parental incarceration has a significant impact on children’s and adolescents’ lives, including emotional and mental well-being, which can carry to their adulthood. Although parental incarceration has been researched, the lived experiences and mental health needs of Latino children and adolescents of incarcerated parents have not been explored. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to understand the recollections of young Latino adults about their lived experiences and mental health needs as children and adolescents with incarcerated parents. Data were collected through semistructured participant interviews with open-ended questions. Participants were 10 Latino young adults who had experienced having at least …

Back To The Future: Introduction To Spss, John Connolly

Day Family Research Lab Workshop Series

This workshop covered how to use SPSS for basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including tabulating and plotting data, testing hypotheses, ANOVA, regression, and non parametric tests.

Forgotten Victims: Recommendations For Social Care On The Impact On Children Of Their Parent’S Incarceration, Karla Kane Ms, Susan Flynn Dr

Journal of Social Care

In the wake of parental incarceration, remains the plight of children who are hidden and seldom appreciated victims. In this article, findings of a novel study into key dimensions of the impact of parental incarceration on children will be presented, including socioemotional and behavioral harm, and disenfranchised grief. The study employed a critical literature method which applied in-depth thematic analysis to a sample of twenty peer-reviewed international publications. Findings reveal that due to direct and indirect harm caused to children arising from parental criminality and the ineptitude of the criminal justice system, children are being punished despite no fault being …

The Comment, October 3, 2024, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Ksu Concert Choirs | "Vivid Voyages"

Bailey School of Music Concert Programs

KSU Concert Choirs presents, "Vivid Voyages"

Robotic Judges: A New Step Towards Justice Or The Exclusion Of Humans?, Karem Sayed Aboelazm, Khalid Mohamed Dganni, Fady Tawakol, Hanadi Sharif

All Works

Objective: The paper addresses how artificial intelligence can play this distinctive role at present and the vision for its development in the future. Theoretical Framework: The paper addresses the advantages enjoyed by human judges regarding cases, issuing judicial rulings and decisions, and resolving disputes. Additionally, it will discuss artificial intelligence's place in this area and the benefits it can bring to the table to promote fairness, impartiality, and objectivity in court decisions. Method: The analytical approach was used to extract the working mechanisms of artificial intelligence in this field and identify cases of bias based on practical practice and the …

Law And Literature Studies As A Basis For High-Quality Ethics Cle Programs, David S. Caudill

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Categorical Differences: Social Identity Heuristics Predict Differences In Cognitive Empathy, Corey Ronald Sims

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The current study aimed to identify if there was a relationship between cross-ethnic racial identity and cognitive empathy for others and whether social and personal identities mediated this effect. Self-categorization theory was used as the theoretical framework. In this study, it was hypothesized that cross-ethnic racial identity significantly predicts empathic accuracy, and that social and personal identities mediate this relationship. A non-experimental, researcher-designed survey was used to collect participant data and demographic characteristics. Participant inclusion criteria were an age between 18 and 55, U.S. citizenship, and a self-identification as Asian American, Black American, Hispanic American, or White American. The Cross-Ethnic …

The Perspective Of Formerly Incarcerated African American Men During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Iyesha Shauntae' Franklin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The confluence of two devastating circumstances—the COVID-19 pandemic and the crowded, insalubrious living conditions in American jails as a result of mass incarceration, brought about an epidemic of an unprecedented magnitude. The large jail population, highly susceptible to infections due to overcrowded conditions, experienced exponential spread of the virus. While earlier research examined unhealthy situations related to the prison environment and their effects on inmates, the focus of such studies was not typically major crises or disease outbreaks in prisons. This qualitative phenomenological study used 10 participants located in the southeastern United States as a case study to better understand …

Online Education And Its Impact On University Students’ Mental Health In The West Bank And Gaza Strip: A Cross-Sectional Study, Bilal Hamamra, Abdelkareem Daragmeh, Oqab Jabali, Guido Veronese, Fayez Mahamid

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

Background: The educational performance stress during the pandemic outbreak has added to the many factors of pressure that students are exposed in Palestine. In addition to economic distress, mobility and access restrictions, lack of digital literacy and competence, and constant internet interruptions have added new burdens and significantly impacted university students' mental health. Objectives: This research examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of students in Palestinian universities. Methods: Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we identified the economic and political factors, access to educational portals, academic demands, and the general lack of interest …

Commonwealth Times 2024-10-02

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Geospatial Imagery In Myanmar For Mass Atrocity Prevention, Elisenda Calvet-Martínez

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This paper aims to explore to what extent the usage of geospatial imagery can serve as a tool for atrocity prevention in a context of armed conflict and post-conflict. While most attention has been paid to the use of geospatial imagery to document mass atrocities for advocacy and accountability purposes, less attention has attracted the potential of this technology as a preventive tool. In the case of Myanmar, a special interest is on how to advance in the use of geospatial imagery to guarantee the safe return of the Rohingya refugees and how to prevent acts of genocide after the …

Conceptualizing Great Power Perpetrators, Federica D'Alessandra

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

For over a decade, shifting geopolitics, a changed global security environment, and countless failures of diplomacy have raised important questions on how to collectively grapple with a widely-perceived “crisis of multilateralism,” and reignited debate on the fitness of the UN Security Council to deliver on its mandate under these circumstances. Among other issues, ongoing polarization when not outright “gridlock” among the Permanent Members (P5) has fueled the Council’s apparent inability to respond to threats to civilian life and to countless mass atrocities around the world. Even worse, as this article argues, some P5 today possess both the willingness and unprecedented …

Contextualized Transitional Justice Policy Development In Uganda: Differentiating Between Normativity Types In Evidence-Based Problem Analysis, Saghar Shahidi Birjandian

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article discusses the fundamental impact of normativity on producing evidence-based guidance for context-sensitive transitional justice policy. It draws on lessons learned from Uganda’s complex transitional justice context and extensive fieldwork to demonstrate the necessity and the means to differentiate between belief-based normativity and evidence-based normativity in conducting problem analysis as a crucial site that determines the integrity of evidence-based guidance. It also establishes that evidence-based normativity guiding problem analysis must include empirical evidence of societal dynamics and views of affected communities or there is a significantly higher risk of belief-based normativity decontextualizing strategy development. Findings establish significant substantive differences …

Professor Kirk D. Burkhalter ’04 Answers The Nyls 10, Allison Gillingham

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

Beyond Assistance: Amplifying The Lived Experiences Of Marginalized Communities Navigating Support Service Systems In Mississippi, Karla Mccullough, Rodney Washington, Angela A. Omondi

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

Background

Perceived dehumanizing experiences when interacting with social assistance caseworkers and providers can contribute to negative perceptions of the service system that may impede enrollment and retention of families in need thereby contributing to health disparities.

Purpose

This study aimed to use secondary analysis of qualitative data to explore the interaction between social services workers/providers and recipients from the perspectives of families seeking social support services in Mississippi.

Methods

This study analyzed secondary qualitative data from a sample of (n=15) representatives in Mississippi. Data was analyzed using a thematic analysis approach.

Results

Participants reported perceived dehumanized experiences such …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, Fall 2024, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2024

"Echoes Of Redemption : A Journey Through The Lens Of Reintegration", Vishwa Patel, Melanie Sota

Expo Student Presentations

2024 Fall Expo Poster Presentation

Criminal Justice Update - October 2024, Mia Agudelo

Criminal Justice Updates

The Criminal Justice Update is a monthly newsletter created by the Adams County Bar Foundation Fellow providing updates in criminal justice policy coming from Pennsylvania's courts and legislature as well as the US Supreme Court.

Contents:

• Updates from PA Governor's Office
• Updates from the PA Legislature
• Updates from the Courts
• U.S. Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure (no updates this month)
• PA Supreme Court: Criminal Law & Procedure
• PA Superior Court: Criminal Law & Procedure