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The Merging Of Ownership And Control, Tomer S. Stein

Georgia Law Review

What if shareholders controlled every decision their company made? This seemingly simple idea threatens to upend the modern corporation.

Shareholders own the corporation and directors and officers manage the corporation—a “separation of ownership and control” that has become a defining characteristic of our modern economy. Per conventional wisdom, the law enables separation of ownership and control by not prohibiting owners and employees from exercising their contractual freedom to hire and work for one another. But this article demonstrates that this widely held view is incomplete and detrimental to the economy. Much of the economic activity that utilizes the corporate form …

Delegated Contract Formation, Tyler B. Lindley

Georgia Law Review

It is well established that an agent’s act binds the principal only if the agent has actual or apparent authority, or if the principal ratifies the unauthorized act. But the legal status of the unauthorized agreement between the agent (purporting to act for the principal) and the third party remains unclear. Courts confusingly refer to it almost interchangeably as a “void” contract, as a “voidable” contract, and as a nonexistent or unformed contract. All three categories appear to fit uneasily, though: voidable contracts are presumptively valid and enforceable, void contracts cannot be ratified, and assent through ratification relates back to …

Federalizing Ncii Regulation: The Take It Down Act’S Approach To Criminalization, Platform Liability, And Threats To Disseminate, Trudi K. Sundberg

Georgia Law Review

For years, legal scholars, advocates, and victims have pushed for the federal criminalization of the nonconsensual publication of intimate imagery. Until now, regulation has been inconsistent across jurisdictions, often leaving victims without meaningful remedies or mechanisms for image removal.

The recent passage of the Take It Down Act has finally realized the goal of federal criminalization of nonconsensual intimate image distribution, including that of artificially generated images. The Act further initiates a framework for victim-led takedown procedures and engages with § 230 liability. Additionally, the Act addresses threats to disseminate such content, which is crucial to curb the spread of …

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Georgia Law Review

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State Constitutional Rights To Privacy, Tiffany C. Li

Georgia Law Review

This article examines state constitutional rights to privacy, presenting a comprehensive survey of all states that have explicit rights to privacy enumerated in their constitutions. Understanding state constitutional rights to privacy is particularly critical now in the wake of the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which significantly restricted the scope of federal constitutional privacy rights. As states have the authority to independently interpret their constitutions, state constitutional law may provide a path forward for privacy.

In lieu of relying on federal rights protection, individuals may now need to turn to state constitutional rights …

State Constitutional Development And The Criminal Procedure Revolution, Quinn Yeargain

Georgia Law Review

Questions about which rights, liberties, and guarantees are included in the U.S. Constitution’s protections, and how they are protected, have long produced animated debate among scholars, judges, and advocates. Yet, while today’s debates may seem familiar, they take place at a perilous time in our country’s trajectory. We are six decades removed from the Warren Court’s criminal procedure revolution, and just a few years into the Roberts Court’s full-throated embrace of originalist jurisprudence. Whether many of the protections we have come to know and recognize from the Warren Court—the exclusionary rule, Miranda warnings, and Gideon’s mandate—are subjected to re-evaluation …

Rescuing State Punishment Clauses From The Deferential Doctrine, William W. Berry Iii

Georgia Law Review

A number of state appellate courts read any sentencing decisions by lower courts that are “within the statutory sentencing limits” as constitutional or presumptively constitutional under both the Eighth Amendment and the punishment clause in their state constitutions. This “deferential doctrine” ignores both the individual rights of criminal defendants and the role of state courts in placing some constitutional limit on the sentencing schemes adopted by state legislatures.

In an age of mass incarceration and excessive spending on punishment, this blind deference state courts show state legislatures should end. This article demonstrates how and why state courts should use the …

A Governor's Duty To Ask, Jake Mazeitis

Georgia Law Review

As some federal constitutional protections contract, state constitutions are becoming an increasingly important source of individual rights. But state constitutional development involves either amendment or litigation, processes both slow and costly. Ten states offer a third path: They empower governors to request advisory opinions from their supreme courts. These governors, however, have rarely exercised this power.

This article argues that a governor’s refusal to seek such advice violates the constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law; specifically, the law respecting the separation of powers. Drawing on an empirical analysis, I first show that governors are generally shy to ask for …

“That Middle School Is Trash!!!!”: Public Knowledge About Local Schools On Social Media, Ashley Carey

Education Faculty Publications

Purpose: Americans frequently turn to online social networking sites (OSNs) as a source of news and information. Yet the role of OSNs in knowledge formation about local public schools remains underexamined. This study explores how public knowledge about local schools is constructed on Facebook. Research Methods/Approach: This ethnographic case study centers on a large “private” Facebook group in the community of Oldtown (pseudonym). Drawing on digital public sphere theory, this study examines who posts about the schools on Facebook, what they post, and how interaction shapes the collective knowledge about local schools on Facebook and beyond. Findings: Posts with the …

Kittens, Community, Kids, And Classrooms: Exploring And Embracing Empathy, Maureen F. Ruby

Education Faculty Publications

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Csbs Statements, V26, 2025, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

From the Dean --- 3
Shaping Tomorrow --- 4
Helping Students Cross the Finish Line --- 10
Beyond the Uniform --- 12
Finding the Right Fit --- 14
From Patient to Colleague --- 16
Diplomacy in Action --- 18
College News --- 20
Panther Spotlights --- 24
Annual Giving --- 26
Class Notes --- 39

Unveiling Ai Maturity Dimensions For Strategic Transformation In Supply Chain Management, Lordt Becklines, Omar F. El-Gayar

Research & Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a cornerstone technology in reshaping how supply chains operate, compete, and evolve in the digital era. As supply chains grow more interconnected and data-driven, the strategic integration of AI offers significant potential to optimize logistics, enhance forecasting accuracy, drive sustainable practices, and elevate resilience against global disruptions. However, a critical challenge persists: despite widespread enthusiasm for AI, organizations often lack a robust, standardized Capability Maturity Model (CMM) that can diagnose their readiness, benchmark progress, and guide incremental adoption within the unique and multifaceted contexts of Supply Chain Management (SCM). This TREO Talk addresses this …

Afghan Students Are More Than Just English Learners, Farilla Saboor

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This thesis examines the strengths that Afghan students and their families bring to U.S. schools and how these strengths are often overlooked. Drawing on my experience as an Afghan immigrant, math teacher, and bilingual instructional aide, I explore how Afghan students, parents, and teachers describe these cultural, linguistic, and relational assets that shape students’ learning and sense of belonging. I use the Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) and Funds of Knowledge (FoK) as guiding frameworks to understand the aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, navigational, and resistant capital present in participants’ experiences (Moll et al., 1992; Yosso, 2005).

I conducted qualitative interviews with …

Associational Seaweed Defense Reduces Sea Urchin Grazing On Bull Kelp: Potential Use In Restoration, Brayden Tate Wiley

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Kelp forests are declining globally under warming seas, altered predator–prey dynamics, and intensified herbivory, with sea urchins often driving shifts from canopy-dominated forests to persistent urchin barrens. Management commonly relies on labor-intensive urchin removals, with variable success, underscoring the need for complementary, ecosystem-based tools that directly reduce urchin grazing pressure. Focusing on far northern California kelp forests, we combined subtidal surveys, field experiments, and laboratory feeding assays to assess whether the understory alga Desmarestia cf. herbacea can provide associational defense for bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) by physically deterring purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) grazing and offering low …

Use Of Public Information For Prospecting And Nest Site Selection By Western Bluebirds (Sialia Mexicana), Fatime Wadad Jomaa

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Public information that provides an estimate of reproductive success, in addition to information gained through direct environmental sampling, may provide an efficient way for individuals to assess future breeding site quality. I investigated the hypothesis that prospecting Western Bluebirds (Sialia mexicana) use post-breeding public information to select nest sites the following year across winegrape vineyards in Napa Valley. In late summer of 2023, I installed 200 nest boxes across 10 vineyards without prior box history. To simulate conspecific presence and successful breeding, boxes within 5 experimental vineyards were designated either full-treatment (boxes directly broadcasting adult song and nestling …

Loss Of Lgl1 Increases Expression Of C-Jun And Dcx In The Svz And Rms Of The Mouse Brain, Madison Leigh Gutierrez

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive and treatment-resistant subtype of glioma, accounts for the majority of brain tumor–related mortality. A defining feature of GBM is its ability to invade healthy brain tissue through extensive cell migration, which severely limits the effectiveness of surgical and pharmacological treatments. Increasing evidence suggests that GBM cells activate gene programs known to drive normal neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) migration; however, the precise molecular mechanisms shared between NSPCs and GBM cells remain poorly understood. Lethal (2) giant larvae 1 (Lgl1), a conserved cortical cytoskeletal protein, has emerged as a key regulator of polarity and migration. …

The Mediating Effect Of Injury On The Relationship Between Running Mileage And Depressive Symptoms In Division 2 Cross Country Athletes, Jaxon Leduc

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Training for a cross-country season requires athletes to accumulate a high volume of training miles at different intensities. Over a period of months and years, consistent high training volumes have been shown to contribute to overuse injuries in cross country athletes. Injuries have been shown to negatively impact athlete’s mental health; this is especially true in student athletes. The purpose of this research is to explore the mediating effect of injuries on the relationship between training volume and mental health in collegiate cross-country runners. Participants in this study were 40 members of NCAA Division 2 Cross Country teams with eligibility …

Human Perception Of Ai Capabilities At Classifying Perturbed Roadway Signs, Katherine R. Garcia, Jing Chen, Yanru Xiao, Scott Mishler, Cong Wang, Bin Hu

Psychology Faculty Publications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is crucial to numerous functions required for driving automation systems, including the computer vision techniques used to detect the roadway environment and make real-time decisions. However, the images used as inputs to the AI system may be maliciously perturbed, or manipulated, causing the AI system to make an incorrect classification. In this study, we examined humans’ perception of the AI’s computer vision capability of classifying various road sign images, including the original images, images with two different types of malicious attacks, and images that are scrambled randomly at the pixel level. Our results showed that participants rated …

The Downstream Well-Being Effect Of Encounters With The U.S. Criminal Justice System, Christopher A. Sanders, Laura A. King

Psychology Faculty Publications

This study examines the relationship between encounters with the criminal justice system and psychological well-being in a large U.S. sample. This project builds upon previous research about the negative outcomes tied to such encounters by examining potential long term negative effects on people’s subjective well-being and sense of meaning and purpose in life. Panel study participants indicated their lifetime exposure to the criminal justice system, and then, about two years later, indicated their current subjective well-being and sense of meaning and purpose in life. Our findings reveal that the number of past police arrests is associated with reductions in well-being, …

Effectiveness Of Research Plans: A Case Study, Thomas "Tj" Striepe, Savanna L. Nolan

Faculty Datasets

This article presents a case study examining whether the creation and use of research plans enhance the effectiveness of legal research by law students. Despite their emphasized role in legal research pedagogy, research plans are often underutilized by students in their summer jobs, clinical work, and post-graduate employment. Through a three-part study, the authors surveyed upper-level students about their use and impressions of research plans, analyzed performance outcomes from a research simulation involving a legal hypothetical, and evaluated five years of assessment data from a 1L Legal Research course. While the experimental study did not yield statistically significant results, students …

Review: Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time And Medieval Life, Kaitlyn Garrett

Quidditas

In a topical addition to the Medieval Lives series, Adler and Strohm's Alie Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life provides an overview of the average medieval person's keeping of, value of, and relationship to time. Gillian Adler, Assistant Professor of Literature and Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College, and Paul Strohm, professor emeritus at Columbia University, combine literary backgrounds to delve into both technical forms of timekeeping and abstract interpretations of time, including "timescapes" and philosophies of passing time and human aging. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme educates readers on technical forms of timekeeping as well as …

Responding To A Non-Responsive Response, Brant A. Gardner

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

James Lucas had the opportunity to respond to the review of the book that he and Jonathan Neville wrote, By Means of the Urim & Thummim. He elected not to really respond to the issues I brought up but rather summarized his essential points. That doesn’t leave much to respond to. However, there is a continuing misunderstanding of how historians work that I feel must be underscored.

Joseph Smith Jr. As A Translator: The Book Of Abraham As A Case Study, Stephen O. Smoot

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This paper examines Joseph Smith’s approach to translation, using the Book of Abraham as a case study to explore the interplay between divine revelation and human participation in scriptural production. While the Book of Abraham incorporates both ancient and modern elements, its unique synthesis resists simple categorization as either an unblemished Abrahamic autograph or a purely nineteenth-century pseudepigraphon. Drawing on historical evidence and textual analysis, this paper aims to illuminate Joseph Smith’s role as both translator and revelator, offering insights into how Latter-day Saints might understand the complex process of producing sacred texts.

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Finding Peace Amidst Uncertainty, J. Anette Dennis

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

This BYU devotional emphasizes the power of faith and trust in Jesus Christ to bring us peace during chaotic times. Through personal anecdotes and testimonies, Sister Dennis illustrates how spiritual preparation and covenant relationships with God can provide protection, strength, and profound peace, even amidst life’s uncertainties and challenges. The address encourages individuals to build a firm spiritual foundation on our Savior, Jesus Christ, and trust in divine guidance to navigate life’s trials with confidence and resilience.

Key Direction In Seminary That Shaped Life Preparation Lessons, Jonathan E. Thomas

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

This article identifies the key direction given by S&I administration and other Church leaders during the years2015–24 to facilitate the teaching of topical lessons. It also examines how this key direction is reflected in the Life Preparation lessons in seminary curriculum. The strategic directions during these years pertain to the fundamentals of gospel teaching and learning, doctrinal mastery, deep learning, Christ-centeredness, the alignment between the seminary schedule and Come, Follow Me, the S&I strategic story, the Teaching in the Savior’s Way manual, and the revision of the objective of S&I. All of these combined directions and efforts led to the …

Interview With Byu–Hawaii President John Kauwe Iii, Fred E. Woods

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

This interview with President Kauwe traces Kauwe’s path from his time as a student at BYU to his appointment as the eleventh president of BYU–Hawaii. Kauwe shares insights into his Hawaiian heritage, academic and professional accomplishments, and his aspirations for the university. He underscores the vital role of faculty inbuilding students’ confidence, the distinct intercultural setting of BYU–Hawaii, and the centrality of the gospel in education. Reflecting on the rapid progression of his career, Kauwe also speaks about the importance of following divine guidance in our lives. The interview captures his dedication to promoting intercultural harmony and his deep testimony …

From Revolution To Restraint: The Domestic Origins Of France's Foreign Policy Of Non-Intervention In 1830, Annabelle Crawford

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

Many prominent theories of international conflict would predict that in the aftermath of the 1830 revolutions, France should have gone to war with the conservative powers of Europe on behalf of Belgium. However, despite military and political opportunities for war, incentives to spread or counter France’s new liberal ideology, and misunderstandings between France and the other European powers, French leaders and leaders of the conservative great powers alike actively pursued a European peace. This presents a theoretical puzzle: why wasn’t there a conflict between the French revolutionary state and other European states in the aftermath of the July Revolution?

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Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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A Letter From The Editor, Hannah Smith

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

This edition of Sigma explores several critical and complex issues in today’s political discourse, including the global effects of U.S. intervention, the link between public support for wars and militant desertion, the influence of public goods distribution on terrorism, and the domestic divisions and radicalization that sparked the French Revolution. Despite their challenging nature, each article offers valuable insights, refining our empirical understanding of these global phenomena and deepening our grasp of the truth.