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Age As More Than A Number: An Applied Geography Of Elderly Vulnerability To Heat Events In The Southeastern United States, John Darko

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

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Nuance As Praxis For Teaching About Mandated Reporting: Classroom Activities, Grace Pappas, Sam Harrell, Stéphanie Wahab

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

As social work instructors, we have observed students increasingly wanting to engage in critical conversations about mandated reporting. Few resources are available to support instructors in facilitating these conversations. This teaching note offers content and lesson plans for exploring mandated reporting as a moral duty, a harm, an ethical dilemma, and a legal mandate in the classroom. Together, these pedagogical tools can help instructors embrace nuance as a practice for teaching about mandated reporting.

The Adaptive Roles Framework: Trauma Adaptations And Identity Formation, Steffannie Roache

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Adaptive Roles Framework is a culturally grounded conceptual model that explains how individuals develop patterned behavioral, emotional, and relational strategies in response to family systems, culture, trauma exposure, and social environments. Rather than conceptualizing behavior through pathology or personality typology, the framework positions behavioral patterns as adaptive survival strategies, responses that increased safety, belonging, or stability within specific environments and were reinforced over time because they worked. The framework identifies seven adaptive roles observed consistently across individuals, families, workplaces, and communities: the Guardian, the Translator, the Assimilator, the Archive Keeper, the Time Jumper, the Intellectual Escape Artist, and the …

002-S4-Lna-114.01, Morehead State University. History Department.

Defending Savannah: History and Archaeology of the Gibson's Point Battery

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Common Article 2 And Non-State Reciprocity In The Law Of Armed Conflict, Eric Talbot Jensen, J. Stone Wilson

Emory International Law Review

The majority of today’s armed conflicts are waged between States and non-State actors. Because these conflicts are not between States, they do not fall under the coverage of Common Article 2 (CA2) of the 1949 Geneva Conventions which invokes the full corpus of international humanitarian law. However, the third paragraph of CA2, the “Reciprocity Clause”, was written to provide a mechanism for non-Parties to the Geneva Conventions to invoke the provisions of the Conventions in a conflict with a Party. State Parties agreed to be bound by the Conventions, even in conflicts with non-Parties, as long as those non-Parties agreed …

War Crime Or Ecocide? Ukraine’S Prosecution Of Environmental Crimes Committed By Russian Forces, Michael J. Kelly

Emory International Law Review

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Six Rivers National Forest Hazardous Fuels And Fire Management Project 2025 Orleans Complex Fire Effects From 9/13/25 - 9/14/25, James L. Parr, Nosheen Maung, Darby J. Lewis, Javier E. Margarito, Giancarlo Golloti

Environmental Science & Management Senior Capstones

The 2025 Orleans Complex affected the Klamath National Priority Landscape, designated by Congress as a priority to reduce fuel load and mitigate wildfire risk near rural, at-risk communities. To address the threat of large destructive wildfires, the 2023 Six Rivers Hazardous Fuels and Fire Management Project identified desired ecological conditions, using the right type of fire at the right time and place.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 2, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

James is the father of William 'Tater Bill' and John R. 'Pewter John' Stamper.

Stamper, James W. - Volume 4, Carter County Genealogical Society, Olive Stamper, Howard Pollitt

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of the James W. and Sarah (Moore) Stamper family in Carter County, Kentucky.

James is the father of William 'Tater Bill' and John R. 'Pewter John' Stamper

Stamper, Thomas Jefferson - Volume 1, Carter County Genealogical Society, Betty Stamper Wellman

Carter County Genealogy Collection

Genealogy of Thomas Jefferson Stamper Sr. family in Carter County, Kentucky.

Thomas is the eighth child of John R. 'Pewter John' and Sarah 'Sallie' Stamper

Ghosts At The Gate: A Call For Vigilance Against Ai-Generated Case Hallucinations, Christina Frohock

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

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The Three Lives Of Mamengwaa: Toward An Indigenous Canon Of Construction, Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Articles

For too long, tribal judiciaries have been an afterthought in the story of tribal selfdetermination. Until the last half-century, many tribal nations relied on federally administered courts or had no court systems at all. As tribal nations continue to develop their law-enforcement and police powers, tribal justice systems now play a critical role in tribal self-determination. But because tribal codes and constitutions tend to borrow extensively from federal and state law, tribal judges find themselves forced to apply and enforce laws that are poor cultural fits for Indian communities—an unfortunate reality that hampers tribal judges’ ability to regulate and improve …

The New Substantive Due Process, Leah M. Litman

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After the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, commentators made much about the possible demise of substantive due process—the idea that the Constitution safeguards certain substantive liberties that are not specifically or explicitly spelled out in the Constitution. Judges and scholars are debating which substantive due process decisions are next on the chopping block and whether the entire domain of substantive due process is in jeopardy. But a curious thing happened as the Court scaled back and openly questioned the traditional individual-rights line of substantive due process: Rather than eliminating it entirely, the Court seems to have transposed it elsewhere. …

Memory, Resistance, And Doubt, Richard Primus

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Burroughs v. United States is not a famous case. But it could be. Its central character was a famous man. James Cannon, Jr., was a bishop in the Methodist church, a player in the worlds of business and banking, a ruthless political power broker, and a zealous Prohibitionist. In Virginia, where he lived, his role within the Democratic Party earned him the informal title of “the dry boss of the state,” and his influence extended well beyond the Old Dominion. Indeed, the essayist H.L. Mencken identified Cannon as the most important Prohibitionist in the country. “More than any other man,” …

Feedback Loops: Challenge & Recovery, Patrick Barry

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About halfway through the course on feedback I teach to law students, I tell them to take out their calendar and look over their recent schedule. How many days in the previous few weeks, I ask them, felt like "challenge days"? I explain that challenge days are days when you have to perform at a high level, whether because a major task requires a lot of your energy and mental bandwidth-studying for a big test, preparing for a tough negotiation, dealing with an unexpected family crisis-or because the time available to handle a lot of minor tasks seems cruelly inadequate. …

Labor Law, Ownership, And The Firm, Sanjukta Paul

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In shaping economic coordination within and across both firms and markets, one significant action of law is to allocate privileges or rights between people or groups of people. These include the right to coordinate with other people or groups of people in particular ways regarding core economic decisions-a type of activity that is not always or in all circumstances legally permissible. An area that makes this more general action of law especially concrete is antitrust or competition law, with its collection of "exemptions." Antitrust's formal and informal exemptions quite directly allocate economic coordination rights, for particular kinds of activity, and …

Creditors, Shareholders, And Losers In Between: A Failed Regulatory Experiment, Albert H. Choi, Jeffery Zhang

Articles

In the aftermath of the 2007–08 Global Financial Crisis, regulators encouraged many of the world’s largest banks to hold a new type of regulatory instrument with the goal of improving their safety and soundness. The regulatory instrument was known as a “CoCo,” short for contingent convertible bond. CoCos are neither debt nor equity. They are something in between, designed to give the bank a shot in the arm during times of stress. Many of the largest international banks have issued CoCos worth hundreds of billions of dollars. After more than ten years—a decade that includes the collapse of Credit Suisse …

Ai And Tribal Court Practice, Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Articles

American Indian tribal court practice resides at the intersection of two difficult legal problems. First, because tribal justice systems are usually very young and dynamic, awareness and analysis of tribal law is underdeveloped. Second, because tribal nations are not governed by state or federal law, tribal law is culturally unique. Tribal court practitioners often find that even routine legal matters will involve questions of first impression in the jurisdiction. All of this is to say tribal court jurisprudence is intensely jurisgenerative.

Because tribal law is often unsettled or indeterminate, the costs of discovering and applying this law are occasionally high. …

Keynote: Promoting Disability Equality Behind Bars, Margo Schlanger

Articles

A few years back, I finished a five-year appointment as a “settlement monitor” in a state prison system for a civil rights case about deaf and hard-of hearing people incarcerated there. With the consent of the parties, I had been appointed by a federal court to spend time in the state’s prisons, talking to prisoners and staff, and reviewing records and facilities. I saw some obvious problems. I recall one deaf prisoner; he used American Sign Language to communicate and could not speak at all. He was found to have committed a disciplinary infraction at a proceeding where he could …

Environment Scan Of Generative Ai Infrastructure For Clinical And Translational Science, Hua Xu, Jiang Bian, Chunhua Weng, Yifan Peng, Betina Idnay, Zihan Xu, William G. Adams, Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Nicholas R. Anderson, Neil Bahroos, Douglas S. Bell, Cody Bumgardner, Thomas Campion, Mario Castro, James J. Cimino, I. Glenn Cohen, David Dorr, Peter L. Elkin, Jungwei W. Fan, Todd Ferris, David J. Foran, David Hanauer, Mike Hogarth, Kun Huang, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Manoj Kandpal, Niranjan S. Karnik, Avnish Katoch, Albert M. Lai, Christophe G. Lambert, Lang Li, Christopher Lindsell, Jinze Liu, Zhiyong Lu, Yuan Luo, Peter Mcgarvey, Eneida A. Mendonca, Parsa Mirhaji, Shawn Murphy, John D. Osborne, Ioannis C. Paschalidis, Paul A. Harris, Fred Prior, Nicholas J. Shaheen, Nawar Shara, Ida Sim, Umberto Tachinardi, Lemuel R. Waitman, Rosalind J. Wright, Adrian H. Zai, Kai Zheng, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Bradley A. Malin, Karthik Natarajan, Nicholson Price, Rui Zhang, Yiye Zhang

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This study reports a comprehensive environmental scan of the generative AI (GenAI) infrastructure in the national network for clinical and translational science across 36 institutions supported by the CTSA Program led by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) at the United States. Key findings indicate a diverse range of institutional strategies, with most organizations in the experimental phase of GenAI deployment. The results underscore the need for a more coordinated approach to GenAI governance, emphasizing collaboration among senior leaders, clinicians, information technology staff, and researchers. Our analysis reveals that 53% of …

Physicists As Environmental Experts, Rachel Rothschild

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The question of which scientists are qualified to provide expert guidance in legal controversies is a perennial debate among scholars, judges, and lawyers. Scientists who participate in legal disputes can achieve enormous power and influence, not only over the case at hand but over long-term developments in legal doctrine. While these issues arise in many areas of the law, environmental litigation has been a particularly active site of contestations over epistemic authority. Courts have frequently relied on scientists to understand whether the government is justified in regulating pollution and who may be liable for environmental and public health harms.

This …

Voter Harassment And The Limits Of State And Federal Power, Ellen D. Katz

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Acts of voter harassment are often difficult to prevent. One longstanding, albeit underused, tool for addressing such harassment is found in section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Continued use of the provision, however, is threatened by recent decisions restricting private enforcement of the VRA. This Essay examines one challenge to such enforcement, exploring the linkage between section 11(b)’s prohibition on voter intimidation and the enforcement of constitutional voting guarantees, on which private enforcement of the provision presently depends. It invites consideration of the idea that this linkage is sufficient and private enforcement is appropriate because section 11(b) provides …

Clinicians In The Loop Of Medical Ai, W. Nicholson Price Ii

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As medical AI begins to mature as a health-care tool, the task of governance grows increasingly important. Ensuring that medical AI works, works where it’s used, and works for the patient in the moment is a challenging, multifaceted task. Some of this governance can be centralized—in review by FDA or by national accreditation labs, for instance. Some must be local, performed by the hospital or health system about to use the product in their own, unique environment. But a large amount of governance is left to the individual provider in the room, the human in the loop who presumably knows …

Minor V. Happersett And The Repudiation Of Universal Suffrage, Ellen D. Katz

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Nearly 150 years ago, Minor v. Happersett rejected a constitutional challenge to a Missouri law that excluded women from the electorate. Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment forty-five years later is often said to have “overturned” Minor. In fact, the Amendment did no such thing. Minor held that voting is not among the privileges of citizenship protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Nineteenth Amendment says nothing to the contrary, and instead bars laws and practices that deny or abridge the right to vote “on account of sex.” Minor remains good law today.

It was not happenstance that the Nineteenth Amendment …

Perception Pending: What Do Patents Signal To Consumers?, Alexander Billy, Neel Sukhatme

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Patent law encourages inventors to label their products as “patented,” to mark their legal status and potentially secure monetary damages from infringing competitors. We examine whether such labels might have a separate and direct impact on consumers, by affecting how they view patented products and influencing what they purchase. We develop and conduct two experiments to isolate the impact of patent status on consumer behavior. In an online randomized experiment, we demonstrate how increasing the salience of patent status heightens consumers' beliefs that products are innovative and well made. We also reveal consumers' surprisingly sophisticated understanding of the patenting process …

Corporate Tax: Best Tool For Taxation's Regulation Goal, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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In this installment of Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah, Avi-Yonah explains the three primary goals of taxation — revenue, redistribution, and regulation — and shows how VAT, the individual tax, and the corporate tax each uniquely match one of the goals. On January 20 President Trump signed two executive orders related to international taxation, marking a sharp policy shift from the prior administration. The first renounced any prior U.S. commitments to the OECD/inclusive framework global anti-base-erosion (GLOBE) project, stating that “the Global Tax Deal has no force or effect in the United States.” The order argued that the GLOBE project infringed …

Should Congress Reform The Accumulated Earnings Tax?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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In this installment of Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah, Avi-Yonah explains why the shifting landscape of the corporate tax rate requires congressional intervention. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 2017 permanently cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, and the Republican victory in the 2024 presidential election means that the rate is unlikely to be raised in the next four years. This means that there is, once again, a large disparity between the top individual tax rate of 37 percent (scheduled to increase to 39.6 percent in 2026 unless Congress acts) and the corporate rate. The corporate …

Should Harvard And Other Large Nonprofits Be Taxed?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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In this installment of Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah, Avi-Yonah examines justifications for exempting Harvard University and other large nonprofits from tax and argues that treating those organizations like large C corporations would not be such a bad thing. The proposal to subject large university endowment investment income to the corporate tax rate of 21 percent instead of the current 1.4 percent rate has engendered significant debate. More recently, President Trump’s threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status and treat it as a taxable corporation has likewise been controversial. In their recent Tax Notes article, Harvey Dale, Daniel Hemel, …

Are We Trapped By Realization?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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In this installment of Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah, Avi-Yonah examines the downsides of the realization requirement and potential solutions to them. In an excellent Tax Notes article, Steven Sheffrin recently mounted the most convincing defense of the realization requirement I have read. He explained that the case for taxing unrealized capital gains is based on the Haig- Simons definition of income. In this definition, income equals consumption plus savings when savings includes both realized and unrealized capital gains. If asset prices change because of changes in future cash flows, Haig-Simons income can provide an appropriate guide for designing tax policies.

Gregory, Textualism, And Tax Shelters, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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In this installment of Reflections With Reuven Avi-Yonah, Avi-Yonah suggests that courts should adopt a consequentialist approach to tax shelter litigation that would acknowledge the long- term risks of enabling tax shelters and seek to prevent their recurrence. In his excellent article on Gregory v. Helvering, David Elkins says that the common assumption that the case was about abuse of the tax-free reorganization provisions of the code is mistaken. Therefore, he argues, both Judge Learned Hand and the Supreme Court were wrong when they focused on whether the transaction was a “reorganization” as intended by Congress. Instead, they should have …