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Between Shut It Off And Keep It On: The Legality Of Internet Shutdowns Under International Law, Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Internet shutdowns are on the surge across the globe, at least four dozen states-imposed internet shutdowns in 2024 alone, in armed conflicts and other situations. In some states where an authoritarian propensity or “digital sovereignty” reigns, internet shutdowns are being imposed to control political narratives during the conduct of hostilities. These states justify their actions using a “shut it off” argument, claiming that the internet is a luxury and further asserting that access to the internet may be overridden by national security or other justifications. On the other hand, there are states that advance open access to the

Internet shutdowns …

Lawfare’S New Frontier: International Commercial Arbitration In The Shadow Of Sanctions, Sophie Yue Zhao, Han-Wei Liu

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Article examines how international commercial arbitration is being reshaped by economic statecraft through the lens of lawfare—the strategic use of law as a substitute for traditional coercive tools. Building on Orde Kittrie’s framework, it identifies two modalities of State-driven lawfare affecting arbitration. Instrumental lawfare operates where domestic legal measures displace arbitral authority, exemplified by Russia’s assertion of exclusive jurisdiction over sanctions-related disputes. Compliance-leverage lawfare, by contrast, does not bar arbitration outright but raises the costs and risks of participation, evident in restrictions on legal services and banking access that complicate representation and payment in arbitral proceedings. Beyond State action, …

Improving Case Management For Refugee Child Brides, Harper Kelly Esterle

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

A significant number of forcibly displaced persons throughout the world are not only children, but children who are married. When these married minor refugees arrive in host countries, they are often met with concern, judgment, or a critical lack of understanding or regulated procedure for handling their immigration cases. Children are often forcibly separated from their partners and thus isolated from the only family they came with, or they are forced to undergo an extensive judicial review process that, by the time it is resolved, is no longer relevant as the married minors at issue have since reached the age …

Institutionalizing Protection Of Climate Migrants Through A Global Framework Convention On Climate-Induced Migration, Caroline Spencer

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Climate change poses an urgent global challenge, threatening to internally displace 216 million people across six regions by 2050. While it is difficult to predict the extent of crossborder migration, there is no question that climate change will drive cross-border migration. Human rights law and international climate change law require states to protect climate migrants’ human rights; however, the current international framework is inadequate and exhibits a significant protection gap. States possess an obligation under both international human rights law and climate change law to pursue adaptation measures that protect and restore affected human rights, including ensuring protection against refoulement. …

Growing In The Shadow Of Mental Illness: Quality Of Life, Health Status, Social Functioning, And Health Care Utilization Among Adults To Parents With Severe Mental Illness, Alexander Shestiperov, Ilya Kagan, Orli Grinstein-Cohen

Individual Open Access Articles

Introduction: Adults who grow up with a parent with severe mental illness are exposed to prolonged developmental adversity, yet little is known about how this experience shapes multidimensional outcomes in adulthood. In particular, the roles of personal adaptive resources, childhood trauma, parental bonding, and morbidity in influencing quality of life, social functioning, and healthcare utilization remain insufficiently understood. This study aimed to examine the relationships between personal adaptive resources (resilience and general self-efficacy), childhood experiences (trauma and parental bonding), and adult outcomes, including quality of life, social functioning, morbidity, and healthcare utilization, as well as to examine the moderating role …

Open Education Mentoring Methods, Aamna Nayyar, Alex Sousa, Jennifer Jordan

OER at Tech Days

No abstract provided.

Brief Of Richard W. Garnett As Amicus Curiae In Support Of Defendant-Appellant And Reversal, John L. Rockenbach, Richard W. Garnett

Court Briefs

No. 23-3696
United States of America v. Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho

On Remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 25-6124

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Case No. 20-cr-288-DPM-1 Hon. D.P. Marshall Jr.

From the Summary of Argument

In light of Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections & Public Safety, Section 844(f)(1) of Title 18, as applied to Mr. Lung’aho, exceeds Congress’s constitutional authority. It is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that the federal government lacks a general police power. Therefore, there are real and enforceable limits on …

Coseismic Shallow Landslide Distributions Reveal Patterns Of Regolith Thickness In High Mountains, Suryodoy Ghoshal, Sarah Boulton, Tristram C. Hales, Georgina L. Bennett, Amy Beswick, Joshua N Jones, Shaun Lewin, Zoe Mildon, Martin Stokes, Michael Whitworth, Benjamin Campforts

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Earthquake-triggered landslides are a major source of sediment mobilization in steep mountain landscapes, yet the controls that organize regional patterns of coseismic shallow failure remain incompletely understood. Because shallow landslides occur within regolith, their initiation and magnitude depend strongly on near-surface material thickness, which is rarely measured directly in mountainous terrain. Here we introduce ShallowLandslider, a hybrid physical–statistical framework that combines critical-acceleration slope-stability calculations with stochastic realization of discrete landslide populations. We apply the model to two geomorphically distinct subregions affected by the 2015 ���� 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal and compare modeled and observed distributions of landslide area, elevation, …

Supervisor Need-Thwarting Behaviour And Followers' Turnover Intentions: A Conditional Moderated Mediation Model, Andrei Alexander Lux, Esme Franken, Geoff Plimmer

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Purpose: This study examines how supervisor need-thwarting behaviour relates to employee turnover intentions through needs frustration, and how interactional justice and job insecurity conditionally moderate this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through a two-wave survey of Australian workers (n = 359). The proposed conditional moderated mediation model was tested using Hayes' PROCESS Macro Model 11 in IBM SPSS v28.

Findings: Supervisor need-thwarting behaviour was positively associated with turnover intentions, both directly and indirectly through needs frustration. The indirect relationship was conditionally moderated by interactional justice and job insecurity. Interactional justice buffered the positive association between need-thwarting behaviour and needs frustration …

‘Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind’: Refugee Students And Internationalization Practices In Canadian Higher Education Institutions, Zuhra Abawi, Nidhi Menon

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

As of 2024, over 123 million people have been forcibly displaced due to war, persecution, climate catastrophe, and geopolitical instability. Among them, young people constitute a significant portion, many of whom aspire to rebuild their lives through higher education. Canada, a top destination for refugee resettlement, remains deeply inequitable for refugee access to postsecondary education. Although lauded for its commitments to diversity and inclusion, Canadian settler-colonial hierarchies and racialized politics of belonging continue to shape which displaced bodies are seen as deserving of education, opportunity, and protection. These dynamics underscore how forced migration, race, and higher education intersect within the …

Lost In Translation: How Higher Education Studies Conflates Latinx And International Latin American Experiences Through Misplaced Racialization, Eduardo Santander

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This autoethnographic study examines how higher education studies conflates international Latin American and domestic Latinx student experiences through what I term “misplaced racialization”, namely, the imposition of domestic racial categories onto international students that fundamentally misrecognizes their distinct positioning as temporary residents, adult-onset racialization subjects, and transnational knowledge holders. Colonial logics are not merely structural; they breathe through the field’s racial grammars. Drawing on Fricker’s (2007) hermeneutical injustice, I argue that higher education’s epistemological boundedness, its lack of native theory and reliance on borrowed American frameworks, does not merely contain colonial logics but is constituted by them, rendering those logics …

The Myth Of Familiarity: Racialization & Intra-Faith Marginalization In Malaysian Islamic Higher Education, Rangga T. Nugraha

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This article examines how intra-faith marginalization operates within South–South international student mobility, challenging the assumption that shared religion and linguistic proximity facilitate belonging. Drawing on an autoethnographic study of an Indonesian Muslim scholarship student in Malaysian Islamic higher education, the analysis introduces the myth of familiarity as a critical conceptual framing, describing how shared religious or cultural identity may produce more granular hierarchies of legitimacy, thereby contradicting the belief that similarity guarantees inclusion. Using neo-racism and symbolic violence, three narrative vignettes illustrate how hierarchies of piety, nationality, and class are enacted and normalized within a shared Islamic context. The findings …

Principles For An Antiracist And Decolonial Internationalization Based On "Pedagogy In Process: The Letters To Guinea-Bissau" By Paulo Freire, Bruno Pereira De Souza Andrade, Alexandre José Cadilhe

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This paper critically reflects on possible paths toward an antiracist and decolonial internationalization of higher education, grounded in the ethical, political, and pedagogical principles of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau. Theoretically and reflectively oriented, it combines an analytical reading of Freire’s work with a narrative synthesis of critical and decolonial studies on internationalization. The analysis is structured around three axes: (i) Decolonizing to internationalize; (ii) Internationalization as a practice of freedom; and (iii) Challenges and pathways for antiracist institutional practices. Given the commonly market-oriented character of internationalization, which perpetuates colonial legacies, Freire’s work provides a powerful …

Rules, Risk, And Racialization: Chinese International Students’ Experiences With Compliance And Care Through Non-Academic Misconduct Policies In U.S. Higher Education, Haishan Yang

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

This qualitative study examines how first-year Chinese international students (CIS) understand misconduct policies and procedures, and how those experiences relate to belonging. Drawing on interviews with 14 Chinese international undergraduates at a private research university, the study applies AsianCrit and IntlCrit to analyze how race, foreignness, and noncitizen status shape students’ encounters with institutional policy. Findings show students often learned misconduct policies through a hidden curriculum of compliance without clear institutional teaching. Participants described uncertainty and fear about the adjudication process and racialized experiences of hierarchy, otherness, and visa-related risk. Policies were accepted as necessary but rarely associated with trust …

A Narrative-Driven, Socratic Instructional Framework For Teaching Adversarial Cognition In Cybersecurity, Joshua K. Goossen

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

The Socratic method has demonstrated, in studies across law, medicine, and nursing, that dialectic structured questioning improves expert reasoning. Cybersecurity currently teaches tools and techniques but lacks Socratic dialogic leaving graduates underprepared for novel scenarios requiring cross-domain reasoning. Because law, medicine and nursing cultivate similar reasoning as security there is principled reason to expect reasoning benefits could transfer to security students. This paper argues that the correspondence warrants investigation. Investigation requires a named, teachable reasoning target analogous to clinical reasoning and we specify that target as adversarial cognition, a framework integrating adversary features, system architecture, implementation logic, governance structure, human …

Mission In Our New Global Context, Michael Amaladoss, Sj

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Theology And The New Cosmology: A Quantum Leap In Theological And Spiritual Insight, Kathleen Coyle, Ssc

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Towards Fullness Of Life: Women’S Resources For The Transformation Of The Church, Amelia Vasquez, Rscj (+)

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

The New Quest For Asian Christian Identity Guidelines From The Pioneers Of The Past, Aloysius Pieris, Sj (+)

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Honoring And Celebrating The Lives Of Our Eapi Ancestors, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, Sj; +Fr. Felipe Gomez, Sj (+); Sr. Amelia Vasquez, Rscj; +Fr. Aloysius Pieris, Sj (+)

Asia Pacific Mission Studies

No abstract provided.

Notch2 Vus Interpretation In Pediatric Cholestasis: A 365-Variant Landscape And Genotype-Phenotype Analysis Of 7 Cases, Brett J. Hoskins, Tiziano Pramparo, Shannon M. Vandriel, Chaowapong Jarasvaraparn, Michael J. Wilsey, Voytek Slowik, Lakshmi Kunam, Janis M. Stoll, Ruben E. Quiros-Tejeira, Simon Lam, Wikrom Karnsakul

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Background/Objectives: Interpretation of NOTCH2 variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) remains challenging in pediatric cholestasis and suspected Alagille syndrome (ALGS) due to incomplete penetrance, phenotypic variability, and extensive genetic variation. Although disease-specific variant classification criteria have identified pathogenic hotspots within epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like repeats 8-12 and ankyrin repeat domains 3-6, characterizing these VUSs requires a robust framework. Methods: We reviewed aggregate deidentified data from 519 multigene cholestasis panel entries and evaluated genotype-phenotype data from a consortium cohort of 7 pediatric patients with heterozygous NOTCH2 VUSs using a clinical-genomic prioritization framework informed by disease-specific ACMG criteria and domain location. …

A Linguistic Approach To Revelation 19:11–20:6 And The Millennium Binding Of Satan [Review] / Alan E. Kurschner, Stanislav Kondrat

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Conspiracy/Theory [Review] / Joseph Masco And Lisa Wedeen, Eds., Valentin Zywietz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Love Is! A Journey Of Grief, Grace, And Gratitude [Review] / Frank M. Hasel., Angelika Kaiser

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Conspiracy Theorizing: Analysis And Scriptural Critique [Review] / Gerald Arbuckle., Valentin Zywietz

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Immanuel Kant On The End Of All Things Philosophical Eschatology As Theo-Political Critique, Daniël Muller

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

Immanuel Kant is his apocalyptically inflected essay “The End of All Things”. Throughout this text, Kant reflects upon the question of why humans expect an end to the world at all. What appears to be a series of mere metaphysical ruminations turns out to be a satirical critique of the new Prussian government’s religious policies. In this article, I argue that Kant, by teasing out moral, temporal and teleological meanings of “the end”, uses eschatological grammar to mount an ironic prophetic critique of the political enforcement of a particular type of religion by self-proclaimed Christian politicians.

Observations On Current Adventist Interpretations Of Daniel 11, Tarsee Li

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

of Daniel 11 are at least partially due to the ambiguities of the anaphoric references in the chapter. This study attempts to clarify some of the ambiguities by applying de Regt’s rules for the identification of anaphoric references. The author does not present his own interpretation of the chapter but offers brief observations on some current Adventist interpretations.

An Epistemological Reading Of Second Peter With An Application To Theological Discourse, Terry Robertson

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

community (2 Pet 1), contrasted with those of the false teachers (2 Pet 2), are applied to a truth versus error issue (2 Pet 3). The theme developed in 2 Peter of “growing in knowledge” may be viewed as relational, performative, and consequential. The Christian disciple is equipped to “be not deceived” and to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet 3:17–18 NIV)—both in the discernment and proclamation of truth. I propose that Peter’s message speaks to theological discourse, how members of the learning community who pursue biblical theology engage one another …

Theories Of Creation Day Inception: Their Nature, History, And Features, Brian Hollis

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

The debate over creation day inception, when the creation days commenced according to the day one account of Gen 1:3–5, has persisted since the earliest times of Christianity. This article explores why this debate has continued so long by surveying the history of the debate and by examining the components of the major theories which have been proposed. The connection of the debate to other theological disputes, along with the fact that neither morning nor evening theory has satisfactorily addressed the temporal challenges of the day one account as yet, have both contributed to the persistence of this debate. Though …

I Think, Therefore I Am I Am, Therefore I Think, Zrinka Tomašić

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This work is bringing forward questions about animal, plant, inanimate objects (including AI and molecules, atoms and subatomic particles) and even post-mortem consciousness. It gives examples and researches that are made and still being made. It connects the real examples with the philosophic thought past and present, Western and Chinese. It even mentions the research assignment about plant consciousness that is suitable for school children to do. And, although it has so many examples in biology, philosophy, physics and other fields, in the end it asks a question „Are they really conscious“ to every reader to reflect on. To come …