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Skin Bacterial Metacommunities Of San Francisco Bay Area Salamanders Are Structured By Host Genus And Habitat Quality., Shannon Buttimer, Obed Hernandez-Gomez, Erica Bree Rosenblum

Natural Sciences and Mathematics | Faculty Scholarship

Host-associated microbial communities can influence physiological processes of macroorganisms, including contributing to infectious disease resistance. For instance, some bacteria that live on amphibian skin produce antifungal compounds that inhibit two lethal fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal). Therefore, differences in microbiome composition among host species or populations within a species can contribute to variation in susceptibility to Bd/Bsal. This study applies 16S rRNA sequencing to characterize the skin bacterial microbiomes of three widespread terrestrial salamander genera native to the western United States. Using a metacommunity structure analysis, we identified dispersal barriers for these influential bacteria between salamander …

Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2021-2022 Join Us in Engaging with the Imaginations of Unparalleled Visionaries

The language of the circus and dance movement highlight the physical potential of the acrobatic body as performers are confronted by a landscape in transformation. Circus and danced movement induce a slow metamorphosis of humans and organic matter, as performers confront nature, accompany it, dodge it, collide, and merge with it. Nothing here has a beginning or an end, but is part of a continuum.

Saving Tigers In America:- Part 1, Andrew Rowan

Tales of WellBeing

In the first of three articles, WBI President Andrew Rowan describes the history of how America arrived at the point where it has twice as many tigers as there are wild tigers in the rest of the world.

Fractales, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2020-2021 Launch of PEAK HD and PEAK PLUS

The language of the circus and dance movement highlight the physical potential of the acrobatic body as performers are confronted by a landscape in transformation. Circus and danced movement induce a slow metamorphosis of humans and organic matter, as performers confront nature, accompany it, dodge it, collide, and merge with it. Nothing here has a beginning or an end, but is part of a continuum.

Style Matters, Robbin Ray

UNH Today Archive

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How Can Students Get Involved In Advocacy, Outreach, And Community Service?, Ashley Murphy

UNH Today Archive

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Russia’S Constitutional Dictatorship: A Brief History, Cindy Skach

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

Why is the word impeachment so terrible? After all, if the Congress passed such a motion it would have no legal force. A popularly elected president could not be removed from power by the Congress, especially this Congress, which had long ago lost the people’s trust.¹

Voter Id: Combating Voter Fraud Or Disenfranchising? A Comprehensive Analysis Of Voter Id Laws, Native American Disenfranchisement, And Their Intersection, Will Hyland

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

This note discusses the contentious issue of voter ID laws and their ability to disproportionately affect various racial and ethnic groups, with specific attention paid to such laws’ effects on Native Americans. Since the 2000 election catastrophe and subsequent changes to our election system, voter ID laws have become a hot-button issue. Many states have enacted voter ID laws in the years since, some of which have resulted in restrictive voting requirements that may result in disproportionately discriminatory voter disenfranchisement. This note willa first give a general overview of the complicated and convoluted recent development voter ID laws, a history …

Antonio Caballero: Conflicting U.S. Anti-Terrorism Law And U.S. International Bankruptcy Law, Jordan M. Zornes

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

Antonio Caballero sought retribution for his father’s kidnap and murder in the way Congress has made it possible: the American Court System. Caballero obtained a default monetary judgment against Colombian guerrilla forces, but as expected in collecting against a terrorist organization, it was an uphill battle. When finding attachable assets, Caballero must act fast, but in the present case, an international bankruptcy proceeding sought to thwart his legitimate efforts to satisfy his judgment. The question is: should Caballero win in “race to the courthouse” fashion, or does the international bankruptcy stay lead to an orderly distribution of assets? This note …

Red Snapper Data Caught In The Gulf Of Mexico And Atlantic Between 2005-01-01 And 2016-08-31, David Portnoy

C-IMAGE data

The dataset of contains sex, adult or juveniles, fork length, total length, and standard length of red snapper caught in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic 2005-01-01 and 2016-08-31.

V.23-1, 2021 Masthead

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

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Introduction To Symposium On Birth Rights And Wrongs, By Dov Fox, Peter Schuck

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

This symposium consists of four essays by leading academic commentators developing their distinctive takes on the book, followed by a conclusion by Professor Fox containing detailed responses to each of them. This introduction provides a very brief, largely descriptive tour d’horizon of the commentators’ essays.

The Moral Cost Of Compensatory Damage Claims In Reproductive Negligence Cases, David Wasserman

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

In this original and important work, Dov Fox makes a compelling case for rethinking and reformulating the way that negligent conduct by reproductive health professionals is understood, and in the way the harms resulting from that misconduct are rectified. He seeks a unified account of this negligence and harm that recognizes the “gravamen of the offense” as the wrongful interference with reproductive planning while also recognizing three distinct categories of adverse outcomes: deprived, imposed, and confounded procreation. Fox argues that the injuries in each category differ from each other sufficiently to justify the recognition of three distinct torts.

Birth Rights And Wrongs Extended, Reuven Brandt

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Dov Fox’s Birth Rights and Wrongs offers a largely compelling argument for expanding the scope of legal actions and remedies available to those whose reproductive choices are wrongfully frustrated by the actions of others. The dominant focus of the book is individuals who, due to the negligence and/‌or malice of medical professionals, suffer harms arising from reproduction imposed, denied, or confounded. A serious examination of these kinds of injuries is certainly appropriate given that medical professionals are increasingly involved in individuals’ reproductive plans and that serious harms may arise when desired medical interventions are improperly implemented. I will not take …

Birth Rights And Birth Wrongs Through A Common Law Lens: Why The No Liability Regime Is Likely To Endure, Richard A. Epstein

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Dov Fox’s recent book, the aptly named Birth Rights and Wrongs, is, as its title suggests, a study of the stark conflicts that arise in the highly contested area of reproductive rights. Fox makes the powerful case that the legal protection of reproductive rights, in all their protean forms, is systematically under-protected relative to two key benchmarks: the standards of ordinary decency, and social expectations. In my view, he has an acute awareness of these failures. But his greatest strength is also his greatest weakness, as he systematically ignores the great successes wrought through the current system, as disjointed …

The Two Problems

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Multimember Legislative Bodies and Intended Meaning.

Family Planning And Its Limits, Dov Fox

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

A doctor botches a vasectomy. Or says it’d be dangerous to keep a healthy pregnancy. Or misses a risk of passing along disease. Our laws do little to deter such reproductive negligence or compensate its victims. Some of this misconduct leaves people without the baby they desperately want. Other times, it foists on parents a child they’d set out to avoid. Or one with meaningfully different traits than what they were led to believe.

I call these three harms procreation deprived, procreation imposed, and procreation confounded.

Thousands of fertility patients were deprived of biological parenthood when their …

Joint Action, Intended Meaning, And (Statutory) Interpretation, Richard Ekins

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Smith and Jones (singular) is an exporting firm, an agent. It is formed by two partners, Smith and Jones (plural), acting jointly and is thus a small purposive group. Mary is the firm’s employee. She forms part of the group insofar as her acts will be acts of the firm. Mary acts on written instructions, which means that Smith and Jones jointly direct Mary by way of instructions to which they both agree, the agreement of each partner being signified by each signing a memorandum.

Smith and Jones jointly stand to Mary as superior to inferior. The firm has a …

Multimember Legislative Bodies And Intended Meaning, Jeffrey Goldsworthy

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Intentionalists agree that the meaning of an ordinary communication is either identical to or depends heavily on what the speaker or author intended it to be. But the “or” marks a disagreement between “subjective” intentionalists, such as Larry Alexander and Richard Kay, and “objective” intentionalists such as me.

Subjective intentionalists claim that the meaning of any communication is whatever its speaker intended it to mean. Objective intentionalists find this dubious because it seems possible for the meaning that people intend to communicate to differ from the meaning they do communicate. It surely cannot be the case that, whenever we speak …

(Hypothetical) Communication In (Hypothetical) Context, Gary Lawson

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

I will start with the second of our two “group minds” problems, involving potentially differing understandings of fruit, because I think it is conceptually simpler, or at least more amenable to an answer, than is the first problem.

The precise question is how I would handle the problem of application of the fruit tax to tomatoes and kiwi if that problem came before me as a judge. That specification of interpretative role is crucial.

At the outset, we need one very important piece of information that is not provided: What is the governmental form of Lex? If Lex is a …

Using A Firearm, Using A Word: What Interpretation Just Is, Walter Benn Michaels

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

My response to these hypotheticals is going to be useless, although, I hope, in a useful way. It’s going to be useless because I’m an English teacher, not a lawyer, and I have no idea what Mary or the judge should do. But, of course, Larry Alexander and Steve Smith already knew this when they asked me to contribute. Presumably, it’s in my capacity as a theorist of interpretation and in particular (since the hypotheticals might be understood to raise particular difficulties for intentionalists) as an intentionalist theorist that they asked for my views. But, as an intentionalist theorist, I …

Plural Agents, Private Intentions, And Legal Interpretation, Scott Soames

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

The chief problem posed in Multimember Legislative Bodies and Intended Meaning is one in which lawmakers pass a tax bill supported by two equal groups with conflicting interpretations of the bill’s content. One believes it taxes imported tomatoes, among other things; the other believes it exempts tomatoes. They disagree because they received supposedly authoritative, but in fact conflicting, information about the meaning of “fruit” in the bill’s text. One group was told it is used with its biological sense, which includes tomatoes as edible seed-bearing reproductive parts of a plant. The other group was told that “fruit” is used with …

Commentary, Stanley Fish

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Suppose you are walking in the corridors of a law firm and you hear a person in one of the offices say “You have no consideration.” What do you take the speaker to have said or meant? You might reasonably assume that you have overheard a snatch of a conversation between a lawyer and a client who is being told that he cannot allege breach of contract because in the conversation he reports between himself and the one he would accuse there was an absence of reciprocally offered inducements of the kind “if you do X, I will do Y” …

Intentional Procreation, Robin L. West

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

Dov Fox’s book Birth Rights and Wrongs makes the case for the development, through judicial decision-making, of various torts that would respond to the disruption of intentional conception, contraception, gestation and childbirth, where those intentions are thwarted because of the negligence of professionals employed to assist or guide consumers of their services in reaching their reproductive goals.

Formalist Textualism And The Cernauskas Problem, Larry Alexander

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues

In a recent article, Tara Grove distinguishes between what she calls “formalist textualism” and “flexible textualism.” Formalist textualism is really another term for literalism, in which statutory and constitutional language is given its semantic meaning—presumably its meaning at the time of enactment—in its “semantic context.” Grove illustrates the latter by pointing out that the phrase “domestic violence” appears in a statute that also mentions “insurrection,” thus suggesting that domestic violence there refers to acts similar to insurrection rather than to spousal abuse.

Flexible textualism, on the other hand, looks beyond the semantic meaning of the text and its semantic context …

Gratitude For Family, Friends, And Traditions, December 16, 2021, Tisa Mason Ed.D.

Heart of a Tiger Columns

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Legal Education Reform In Africa: Time To Revisit The Two-Tier Legal Education System, Okechukwu Oko

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

The two-tier legal education system has become increasingly ineffective by virtue of the evolution of changes in legal practice and Africa’s unique conditions and circumstances. The problem is rooted in the fact that some African countries adopted the two-tier legal education system on the assumption that what worked in Britain offered a prescription for success in Africa. However, the two-tier legal education system has been ineffective in Africa because the infrastructure—pupilage, apprenticeship, continuing legal education—that complements and anneals it is not widely available in Africa. Where these elements exist, they tend to be frail and unreliable. Africa’s urgent challenge is …

Pandemic Highlights Importance Of Uab/Ascension St. Vincent's Alliance, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

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Longest-Term Covid Patient Goes Home, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

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Planned Endowed Chair Gifts To Advance Alzheimer's And Als Programs, Uab Heersink School Of Medicine News

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