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A Social Status Theory Of Defamation Law, Yonathan A. Arbel

Articles

Despite deep inequality in social status and social capital in American society, legal scholarship has done relatively little to understand the structures that produce status and maintain its distribution. The Article argues that defamation law plays such a role. The orthodox view is that defamation law's goal is to protect dignity. This view was expressed in a famous Supreme Court holding in 1966, which held that defamation law is necessary to protect "the essential dignity" of "every human being. " The later seminal work of Robert Post cemented it. Seemingly unrelated, scholars of defamation law have found its structure mystifying, …

Territorialising The Cloud Or Clouding The Territory? Volumetric Vulnerabilities And The Militarised Conjunctures Of Singapore's Smart City-State, Orlando Woods, Tim Bunnell, Lily Kong

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

This article explores how the volumetric characteristics of cloud computing can create new expressions of territoriality, which in turn can reveal new axes of vulnerability and threat. Whilst recent work in political geography has sought to “locate” the cloud through analyses of data centre geographies and data-driven processes of smart urbanism, we look beyond the material plane and consider the amorphous territorialities of voluminous data instead. As much as these data are acted on by the legal-regulatory mechanics of the state in a bid to territorialise them, so too do these data volumes serve to cloud, and thus obscure, territory. …

The Sacred Dimensions Of The Bri's Infrastructural Commons, Orlando Woods, David A. Palmer

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Whilst the idea of infrastructure has animated scholarship for the past twenty years at least, there remains a need for more expansive understandings of what infrastructure is, and what it can be. The speed, scale and material disruptiveness with which many of the infrastructural megaprojects that constitute China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have been developed both underpin and validate this need. Whilst the effects of the BRI are both manifold and diffuse, all of them expose situations of infrastructural complexity. Rather than considering the BRI simply as the imposition of new material infrastructures on a landscape, we posit the …

Measures Of Justice: Researching And Evaluating Lay Legal Assistance Programs, Tanina Rostain, James Teufel

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In recent years a national movement to train lay advocates and advisors to assist people with their common justice problems has emerged in the United States. A host of new programs have launched that allow trained navigators and justice workers to provide legal assistance. These programs – developed in Alaska, Delaware, South Carolina, Arizona, and Utah, among other places – vary in their substantive focus, the skills they impart, and their approaches to reaching the people and communities they seek to help. The proliferation of lay legal assistance programs creates research imperatives and opportunities. These programs need to be assessed …

Felony Disenfranchisement And Voter Turnout: Randomized Trials In Iowa And Washington, Alexander Billy, J.J. Naddeo, Neel U. Sukhatme

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Prior to the 2022 midterm elections, we conducted large-scale randomized controlled trials in Iowa and Washington aimed at increasing voter turnout among newly enfranchised individuals with past felony convictions. Alongside national and grassroots partners, we designed and implemented experiments to ascertain the effectiveness of alternative outreach mechanisms, including targeted mailers and digital ads. We did not detect statistically significant or economically meaningful effects on voter registration or turnout; most observed effects were precise nulls. The absence of measured impact is likely attributed to low digital engagement with our online ads as well as extensive voter outreach already conducted by our …

Just What Are You Trying To Prove? The Relevance Of History To Constitutional Theory And Practice, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Unity In The Church Across Traditions: How Abraham Kuyper's Ecclesiology Helps Further Contemporary Ecumenical Engagement Between Protestants And Catholics, Vincent Keane

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal (Book Review), Benjamin Gibson

Pro Rege

Reviewed Title: Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal by Matthew Martens. Crossway, 2023. 416 pp. ISBN: 9781433581823.

Overview And Impact Of Young Feminist Organizing In Mexico: Rapid Evidence Assessment, Esperanza Basurto-Alcalde, Natalia E. Tenorio Tovar, Paulina Márquez González, Anel Julieta Bobadilla Negrete, Sonia Cruz Del Águila, Ricardo Regules-García

Adolescents and Young People

In Mexico, young feminists and youth-led feminist movements are already leading the way and pursuing radical approaches to addressing social injustice, such as gender-based violence (GBV), lack of sexual and reproductive health care, and gender discrimination. Although young feminist organizations (YFOs) in Mexico are showing an increasing ability to advocate for and effect change, there is limited systematized evidence on YFO strategies and impact. This Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) provides an overview of the YFO landscape strategies, and impact on policy and social change in Mexico from 2010 to 2023. Young feminists were defined as those aged 15 to 30. …

Rapid Evidence Assessment On The Landscape And Impact Of Young Feminist Organizing In Kenya, Chantalle Okondo, Beth Kangwana, S. Ndolo, N. Maina, Jerry Okal

Adolescents and Young People

Globally, adolescent girls, young women, and youth-led initiatives have been a crucial part of feminist and social justice struggles. In Kenya, young feminist activists, young feminist organizing / organizations (YFO) have been historically rooted in grassroots movements and are now being positioned and brought into formal spaces to play a vital role in rejuvenating, strengthening, and sustaining feminist activism. There continue to be power dynamics, systematic barriers, and harmful policies that underestimate, lock out, or disregard young feminists. This Rapid Evidence Assessment aims to provide an overview of the YFO landscape, strategies, impact on policy and social change, and challenges …

An Exploration Of The Landscape Of Young Feminist Organizing/Organizations (Yfo) In Kenya & Mexico, Jerry Okal, Ricardo Regules-García, Chantalle Okondo, Esperanza Basurto-Alcalde, Beth Kangwana

Adolescents and Young People

Over the last 10 years, numerous youth-led initiatives have emerged globally to address local development and social challenges. These initiatives focus on issues such as gender inequalities, women’s economic empowerment, gender-based violence (GBV), access to safe abortion, girls’ education, climate justice, and other social problems. The Population Council-Kenya and the Population Council-Mexico joined forces with young feminist organizations (YFOs), feminist academics, and other stakeholders to conduct participatory evaluation research. This research aimed to better understand the YFO landscape in Kenya and Mexico, including organization, operations, challenges, and shared experiences. The study provides an overview of youth-led feminist organizations in Kenya …

The Macau Sar Regulation Of Casino Gaming: Structural Features After The Reforms Of 2022–2024, Jorge Godinho

UNLV Gaming Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Looking Beyond The Loot Box: Video Game Industry Insights From Las Vegas’ Regulatory History, Amy Zhao

UNLV Gaming Law Journal

No abstract provided.

From Chips To Courtrooms: Las Vegas’ Balance Between Legal Penalties And Economic Realities, Hannah Gagow

UNLV Gaming Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Opening Up The In-House: A Model For Collaborative Holistic Services And Education In Law School Clinical Programs, Melina Healey

Scholarly Works

Individual in-house clinics too commonly operate autonomously behind separate walls. These barriers impair the meaningful holistic representation of clients and the educational opportunities of clinic students. This article provides an argument and framework for opening the doors between clinics to enrich clinic student education and enhance client representation. Part I identifies the benefits of holistic inter-clinic collaboration for both clinic students and the clients they serve. Part II shares a model for how to integrate education and client service across practice areas of clinical programs. A forthcoming article, published separately, will further describe how clinical programs can be improved by …

Use Of Koha Integrated Library System In Public University Libraries In Southwest Nigeria, Thomas Aanu Ojo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Koha is an open-source integrated library system (ILS) used for managing library functions. However, it is observed that Koha has not been fully utilised to carry out library operations by university libraries in the southwest, Nigeria. Therefore, this study examined the use of Koha ILS in public university libraries in southwest, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey. Twelve public university libraries in Southwest Nigeria where Koha was in use were used. All the 264 library personnel were enumerated. Self-designed instruments were used to collect data. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics. Cataloguing 181(76.4%), circulation 175 (73.8%) and OPAC modules …

Drying Techniques For Precooked Hybrid Rice To Ensure Quality Of Instantized Rice, Anne Adhiambo Okeyo, Kaushik Luthra, Justin Siebenmorgen, Alan R. Vazquez, Griffiths Atungulu

Food Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background and Objectives

Due to the emergence of new hybrid rice cultivars, rice processors must refine their processing protocols to maintain the production of high-quality products. This is crucial for the instant rice processing industry. Therefore, this study aims to refine current convective heated air-drying processing methods to suit the new hybrid rice cultivars intended for instant rice production. New strategies to dry cooked rice were investigated. These included drying in a stepwise manner with high (230–200°C) and medium (190–160°C) air temperatures and drying at constant high (200°C) and medium (160°C) air temperatures. Changes in quality attributes of two new …

The Problem Of Attendance At Religious Services By People With Disabilities: History And Contemporary Issues In Ukraine, Olga Polumysna, Валерій Булатов

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

This article analyzes previous scientific works by scholars who have researched the problem of religious service attendance by people with disabilities. It also employs contemporary scientific methods, including experience generalization, systematization, and comparative-historical analysis. The scientific novelty lies in exploring aspects of the crisis in religious services for people with disabilities that have emerged due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the issue, including its key aspects, will help to develop a more complete understanding of the topic. This study holds practical significance, as it opens up the potential for developing methodological recommendations based on the …

Dissenting Authority, Guyora Binder

Journal Articles

This essay explicates J.B. White’s rhetorical conception of authority as a potentially collaborative achievement and contrasts it with the conception of authority as surrender of judgment prevailing in legal philosophy. On White’s view, authority is not an instrument held and deployed, but is conferred, like respect. This conception of authority illuminates three puzzles concerning the relationship between dissent and legal authority. First, Legal Positivism’s purportedly descriptive account of law insists it must claim an authority to govern independent of justice and assent. Yet law’s language is replete with justice-based appeals for popular assent. White’s reading of the practice of legal …

The War On Higher Education, Athena D. Mutua, Jonathan Feingold, Angela Harris, Emily M. S. Houh, Matthew Patrick Shaw, Francisco Valdes

Journal Articles

Higher education is under assault in the United States. Tracking authoritarian movements across the globe, domestic attacks on individual professors and academic institutions buttress a broader campaign to undermine multiracial democracy and the institutions that sustain and safeguard it. Reflecting on the past academic year, this essay charts the increasingly brazen right-wing efforts in the U.S. Congress and the States to erode academic freedom and university independence— two pillars of our democratic republic. We also identify a bi-partisan source of higher education’s present precarity: the neoliberal policies that precipitated the privatization and corporatization of universities across the country.

From Trade To Rights And Green Governance: Unveiling The East African Court Of Justice’S Jurisprudential Metamorphosis, Mihreteab Tsighe Taye

Journal Articles

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A Novel And An Efficient Codas Technique To Solve Real-Life Magdm Problems In Fermatean Neutrosophic Environment, S. Bhuvaneshwari, C. Antony Crispin Sweety, Akanksha Singh, Said Broumi, Mohamed Talea, Prasanta Kumar Raut

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

As a generalization of fuzzy sets and intuitionistic fuzzy sets, neutrosophic sets, and their combinations have been developed to represent uncertain, imprecise, incomplete, and inconsistent information existing in the real world. A neutrosophic set has the potential to be a general framework for uncertainty analysis in various spectra. On the other hand, the idea of Fermatean neutrosophic sets (FNSs) is the hybrid model of Fermatean fuzzy sets and neutrosophic sets, developed to enable the analytical management of ambiguous data from relatively typical real world decision-making scenarios. In this work, we develop an algorithm to compare the Fermatean neutrosophic set and …

Modified Non-Linear Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers: Theory And Applications In Integral Equation, A. Mohammed Shapique, E. Mathivadhana

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

Existing methods for handling uncertainty and imprecision often fall short in addressing complex real-world problems. To overcome these limitations, this paper introduces a novel Generalized Non-Linear Triangular Neutrosophic Number (GNLTNN) that effectively captures uncertainty, indeterminacy, and falsity. By analysing GNLTNN through (α, β, γ)-cuts and defining arithmetic operations using the max-min principle, we provide a robust framework for handling neutrosophic information. The proposed neutrosophic Laplace transform method enables efficient solutions to integral equations involving non-linear neutrosophic numbers. The efficacy of our approach is demonstrated through graphical representations

Assessment Of Novel Protein Ingredient Arthrospira Platensis And Soybean Genotype Amino Acid And Oil Selection Improvements On Broiler Performance For A 28-42 D Feeding Period, Savannah C. Wells-Crofton, Kenneth B. Nelson, Garrett J. Mullenix, Craig W. Maynard, Michael T. Kidd

Poultry Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Two experiments were conducted to assess the efficiency of including the novel protein ingredient Arthrospira platensis or improved soybean meal in a broiler diet. The first experiment aimed to determine the feeding value of soybean meal produced from varieties of soybeans bred for increased amino acid content (SBAA) and improved oil content (SBO) compared to a conventional soybean variety in an ANOVA design fed to Cobb 500 female broilers for 28–42 d. The SBAA and SBO soybeans contained overall higher amino acid content and lower oligosaccharide content compared to the conventional soybean variety in addition to improved oil quality. The …

Is Distance From Innovation A Barrier To The Adoption Of Artificial Intelligence?, Jennifer Hunt, Iain Cockburn, James Bessen

Faculty Scholarship

Using our own data on Artificial Intelligence publications merged with Burning Glass vacancy data for 2007-2019, we investigate whether online vacancies for jobs requiring AI skills grow more slowly in U.S. locations farther from pre-2007 AI innovation hotspots. We find that a commuting zone which is an additional 200km (125 miles) from the closest AI hotspot has 17% lower growth in AI jobs’ share of vacancies. This is driven by distance from AI papers rather than AI patents. Distance reduces growth in AI research jobs as well as in jobs adapting AI to new industries, as evidenced by strong effects …

What The Warhol Court Got Wrong: Use As An Artist Reference And The Derivative Work Doctrine, Jessica Silbey, Eva Subotnik

Faculty Scholarship

In Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, the Supreme Court conflated “use as an artist reference” with preparing a “derivative work.” It did so on the erroneous assumption that permission to use a copyrighted work as an artist reference is a license to prepare a derivative work. But copyright law does not necessarily deem all uses of references for making new art to be the preparation of a derivative work. In other words, not all adaptations of an original work are infringing. Some may be neither derivative works nor substantially similar copies, and some may …

Advanced Online Continuing Legal Education: How To Leverage Technology-Mediated Education For Lawyers’ Lifelong Learning, Seth C. Oranburg

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Is Mcle Broken? Rethinking Continuing Legal Education For The Next Fifty Years, Yanneck Ostaficzuk

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Diverse Origins Of Near-Identical Antifreeze Proteins In Unrelated Fish Lineages Provide Insights Into Evolutionary Mechanisms Of New Gene Birth And Protein Sequence Convergence, Nathan Rives, Vinita Lamba, C.H. Christina Cheng, Xuan Zhuang

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Determining the origins of novel genes and the mechanisms driving the emergence of new functions is challenging yet crucial for understanding evolutionary innovations. Recently evolved fish antifreeze proteins (AFPs) offer a unique opportunity to explore these processes, particularly the near-identical type I AFP (AFPI) found in four phylogenetically divergent fish taxa. This study tested the hypothesis of protein sequence convergence beyond functional convergence in three unrelated AFPI-bearing fish lineages. Through comprehensive comparative analyses of newly sequenced genomes of winter flounder and grubby sculpin, along with available high-quality genomes of cunner and 14 other related species, the study revealed that near-identical …

Change In Expectations: A Policy Recommendation For Future And Current Nurse Educators, Kylateia Farrar-Stern, Amber Young-Brice

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Currently, there are no standardized requirements for pedagogical preparation for nurse educators at the state and national level. Various stakeholders have identified an issue in the preparation of nurse educators in academia. Current recommendations are that faculty have a master's or doctoral degree in nursing (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2017); however, requirements do not include educational preparation prior to or concurrent with starting a faculty position. This policy paper highlights a recommendation to require one of the following: the Certified Nurse Educator credential or certificate in teaching for educators without prior formal education in pedagogy. Outcomes of such …