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The Future Of Working Families In A Riven Political And Moral Economy, Deborah Dinner

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Glass Cliff Off An Ivory Tower, Katharine Traylor Schaffzin, Katie Kempner

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Some Thoughts On Outsiders Within The Legal Academy, Jamelia N. Morgan

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

What Do We Have To Lose? The Lasting Legacies And Lost Promise Of Feminist Legal History, Serena Mayeri

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Is The Fourth Amendment Sexist?, Alexandra Mckee

UMKC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Origin And Future Of Shield Laws, David S. Cohen, Rachel Rebouché

UMKC Law Review

This Essay describes the origin and future of so-called shield laws—novel state legislation designed to protect legal abortion care from out-of-state attack. These laws have facilitated an increase in the number of abortions even in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Essay, after detailing shield laws’ origins (Part II) and content (Part III), highlights how shield laws have operated and succeeded over the last three years (Part IV) as well as the challenges mounted against shield laws and shield providers (Part V). Although state lawsuits and the possibility …

To Swear Or Not To Swear: Exploring The Role Of Profanity In Influencer Marketing, Mahdi Niknejad Moghadam, Vijay Mahajan

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

Influencers play a central role in promoting products and services on digital platforms. Understanding the impact of their linguistic choices, including the use of profanity, is therefore important for marketers seeking to engage target audiences. This study investigates how influencers’ profanity usage shapes user engagement. The authors analyze videos shared by influencers on a popular video-sharing platform and extract auditory, visual, and verbal features using a range of machinelearning tools. The findings indicate that profanity in focal content is associated with lower engagement, with a substantially larger effect in categories where profanity is less normatively expected. This negative effect is …

Contemporary Law And Economics, Adam Chilton, Joshua C. Macey, Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law Review

Law and economics (L&E) emerged as a field in the middle of the twentieth century, it focused on using economic theory to study the common law. During this period, L&E offered insights so novel that it not only profoundly influenced legal doctrine, but the movement’s key figures also became some of the most cited and acclaimed scholars in the American academy. The field of law and economics has since continued to grow and become more technically sophisticated, but it is also a less cohesive movement. Moreover, L&E has been misunderstood and misrepresented by the emerging law and political economy (LPE) …

When Should The Legal System Help Redistribute Income?, Jacob Goldin, Zachary Liscow

University of Chicago Law Review

Should legal rules be designed exclusively based on efficiency considerations, or should they also attempt to promote an equitable distribution of social resources? The answer traditionally associated with scholarship in law and economics is that they should focus only on efficiency. Even for a society that cares about achieving an equitable distribution of resources by income, the argument goes, it is generally better to adopt legal rules based exclusively on efficiency considerations while relying on the income tax and transfer system to promote distributional goals.

However, even proponents of the claim that social welfare is best promoted through the adoption …

Realism, Law And Economics, And Lpe Now, Amy Kapczynski

University of Chicago Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law And The Self-Coordinating Market Idea, Sanjukta Paul

University of Chicago Law Review

“This emotional pronouncement of value judgments condemning emotion and value judgments seems to [me] a symptom of a defective sense of humor. The attempt to build a social science on these foundations suggests that the human race, and especially a large proportion of its ‘best minds,’ having at long last (a very long last) found out that the objects of nature are not like human beings—are not actuated by love and hate and caprice and contrariness, and subject to persuasion, cajolery, and threats—have logically inferred that human beings must be like natural objects, and so viewed by the seeker of …

Reading Migration Through Film: Using America, America, And ¡Alambrista! As Primary Sources, Joshua L. Kenna, Matt Stevenson

Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of this project was to:

• Engage pre-service social studies teachers in analyzing films from the National Film Registry.
• Develop inquiry-driven lessons where students use film as historical evidence.
• Model how media reflects cultural, political, and social conditions across time.

Contents, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Against Privacy Essentialism, Daniel J. Solove

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Trademasks, Matthew Sipe

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Parents At The Schoolhouse Gate, Emily Gold Waldman

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pocket Arbitration!, D. Mclean Campbell

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Opting Out Of Privacy: United States V. Chatrie And The Erosion Of Fourth Amendment Protections, Chloe H. Iurillo

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement In Systemic Sclerosis: A Case Series And Review Of Short- And Long-Term Outcomes, Chris T. Derk, Ahmadreza Badali, Esra Mehmetoglu, Anvitha Mummadisetty, Amit Syal, Konstantinos Parperis

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Objectives: A higher frequency of valvular heart disease is seen among Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients. Advanced aortic valve stenosis leads to significant morbidity in these patients with multiple other comorbidities. In this study, we aim to define the short- and long-term outcomes of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures in SSc patients. Methods: We undertook a retrospective chart review of all patients with SSc who underwent a TAVR procedure at our institution over a defined 11-year period. Demographics as well as short- and long-term outcomes were identified. Results: Fourteen SSc patients underwent a TAVR procedure between 2012 and 2023. They …

The Supreme Court's Policy Favoring Arbitration And Its Limits, George A. Bermann

Faculty Scholarship

While the federal policy favoring arbitration is codified in the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the strength of that policy depends on the treatment that arbitration receives in federal courts and in the United States Supreme Court in particular.

Courts in all jurisdictions play an important role in fashioning the treatment of arbitration agreements, arbitral proceedings and arbitral awards. However, the judicial role in this regard is especially pronounced in the United States, in view of the problematic state of legislation on the subject. The federal legislation on arbitration is 100 years old and has never been meaningfully amended. The …

Evidence And Assessing Verbatim Transcription Quality Of Black English And Standard American English, L. Alexander Walker Iii

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter explores the accuracy of private transcription services when transcribing Black English and Standard American English. Courts and lawyers in the US regularly rely on transcripts from such services, but third-party verification of their accuracy, especially with respect to their quality when faced with nonstandard language varieties, is lacking. This study draws on experimental methods to contrast the quality of transcription services offered by transcribers and AI route. The quantitative results show that transcription by humans and AI resulted in more mistakes when transcribing Black English than when transcribing Standard American English. Furthermore, a qualitative analysis reveals that these …

Fixel-Based Analysis Of Pretreatment Mri Identifies White Matter Abnormalities In Pediatric Anti-Nmdar Encephalitis, Daniel Ackom, Janine Taitt-Tap, Scott A. Beardsley, Ricardo Vega, Alyssa Jobe, Andrew J. D. Crow, Brian Schmit, Lileth Mondok, Pradeep Javarayee

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (anti-NMDAR) encephalitis is an autoimmune disorder in which conventional MRI often appears normal, leading to clinical–radiologic dissociation and hindering early diagnosis and monitoring. We retrospectively studied five pediatric patients with anti-NMDAR encephalitis and compared their pretreatment diffusion MRI to age- and sex-matched controls. Using fixel-based analysis (FBA), we quantified tract-specific white matter abnormalities at the individual level. All patients showed significantly reduced fiber density and cross-section, with patterns ranging from focal to widespread involvement. In two patients, FBA abnormalities corresponded to seizure lateralization on EEG despite normal MRI, emphasizing FBA's added value in detecting seizure-concordant injury. One patient, …

Selecting Without Replacement From A Population Of Bands Of Serially Connected Objects, James E. Marengo, Dominick Banasik, Joseph Voelkel, David L. Farnsworth

Articles

The sampling procedure from a finite population of objects that are serially attached into bands is described and analyzed. One object is randomly selected and removed at a time, which results in that object’s band being broken into two bands or shortened by one object. The main result gives the probability of choosing an object that is part of a band of serially connected objects of any specified size at each stage of the selection process.

Automating Junk Science, Lisa Waters

UC Law Journal

In the late twentieth century, the boom of forensic disciplines in criminal prosecutions helped drive mass incarceration to an all-time high. Yet scientific and legal inquiry revealed a disturbing truth: Most forensic methods accepted in criminal courts are entirely lacking in empirical support or scientific foundation—in other words, “junk science.” Forensic proponents have recently turned to computer algorithms, costly equipment, and proprietary trade secrets litigation to defend dubious techniques, ushering in a second wave of forensic reliance. But automated technology has masked rather than cured the foundational infirmities in these forensic fields.

This Article examines the growing trend of automated …

Masthead

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Acinetobacter Spp. With Lower Susceptibility To Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Enriched In Microbial Communities Of Frequently Used Sinks, M. C. Cruz, R. Ruhal, J. Lavin, S. Bridwell, N. Maghboli Balasjin, B. Raasch, R. Melton, Brooke K. Mayer, Christopher Marshall, Krassimira R. Hristova

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Sanitary environments that undergo frequent cleaning and disinfection may harbor microbial communities with potential health risks. While biofilms in healthcare settings are well studied, comparatively less is known about sink-drain microbiomes in public and educational buildings, where hundreds of people may interact with shared sink fixtures. This study characterized the spatial and temporal heterogeneity of sink-drain biofilm microbiomes in academic buildings. We sampled 16 sinks from two buildings (four floors each, with sinks closest and furthest to the bathroom entrance), which are cleaned daily with quaternary ammonium compound (QAC) disinfectants, during periods of low and high student traffic (during and …

Draft Final Quarterly Operations And Maintenance Report: Butte Treatment Lagoon System – Fourth Quarter 2025, Pioneer Technical Services, Inc.

Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area Superfund Site

No abstract provided.

Molecular Gas And Star Formation In Central Rings Across Nearby Galaxies, Damian R. Gleis, Sophia K. Stuber, Eva Schinnerer, Justus Neumann, Sharon E. Meidt, Miguel Querejeta, Eric Emsellem, Adam K. Leroy, Ashley T. Barnes, Frank Bigiel, Charlie Burton, Mélanie Chevance, Daniel A. Dale, Kathryn Grasha, Ralf S. Klessen, Rebecca C. Levy, Lukas Neumann, Hsi An Pan, Marina Ruiz-García, Mattia C. Sormani, Jiayi Sun, Yu Hsuan Teng, Thomas G. Williams

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Context. Nearby galaxies exhibit a variety of structures, including so-called central or (circum-)nuclear rings that are similar to the Milky Way (MW) Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). These rings are common in barred galaxies and can be gas-rich and highly star-forming. Aims. We aim to study the molecular gas content and star formation rate of central rings within nearby galaxies and link them to global galaxy properties, especially the bar morphology. Methods. We utilized 1″(≲100 pc) resolution CO(2–1) observations from the PHANGS-ALMA survey, visually identifying 20 central rings and determine their properties. For 14 of these rings, MUSE observations tracing star …

The Scoop, Vol. 12 Issue 12, March 2026, Health Sciences Library

Volume 12

Latest news and updates from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for March 2026. Please see page 2 for a text-only version of this issue!

Regulatory Cost Of Production In Napa County Vineyards, Lynn Hamilton, Michael Mccullough

Agribusiness

Regulatory costs are an increasing concern for California growers. Recent studies in Salinas Valley lettuce and San Joaquin Valley fruit, vegetable and row crops show that regulatory costs are growing at a much faster rate than costs of production. Napa County Farm Bureau contacted Cal Poly to conduct a case study of regulations accruing to Napa Valley vineyards. We interviewed one large (1000-acre) and one small (200-acre) vineyard in 2025 and documented the costs of complying with regulations in the following categories:

• Education and Training for Regulatory Compliance
• Air Quality
• Water Quality
• Surface and Groundwater Regulations …