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Marinship Park's Green Infrastructure Plan, Parris Hunt

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects

Marinship Park’s Green Infrastructure Plan looks to improve Marinship Park by adding amenities that promote community engagement and protect or help the environment. The background information mentioned in the plan is relevant to the history in the study area. The plan later discusses environmental conditions and problems that support why this plan is needed. The methods section is after the precedent plans, and it entails the research questions, stakeholder outreach methods, and analytical methods. The research method section states that case studies and surveys are the best ways to gather data and collect responses for the research questions. The real-life …

Quantifying Parkland: Data-Informed Classification System Recommendations For Chesterfield County, Megan F. Negri

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects

This plan evaluates and redefines the park classification system for Chesterfield County Department of Parks and Recreation to improve how parks are understood, managed, and planned over time. It responds to limitations in the County's existing acreage-per-capita level of service (LOS) standard, which does not accurately account for park function, provision of amenities, or equitable distribution in relation to population density. Using a comprehensive park inventory and SPSS two-step fixed cluster analysis, the study developed and evaluated three alternative classification models consisting of four, five, and six park categories. Findings indicate that park function is strongly defined by amenity composition …

Restorative Sustainability On Richmond's Fall Line Trail: Opportunities For Addressing Urban Resilience And Historical Inequity In Southside Through Sustainable Design Standards, Sera S. Erickson

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects

Linear parks and urban trails not only serve a unique function as both green space and active transportation infrastructure, they present opportunities to address historical inequities in frontline communities through intentional investment in green infrastructure and sustainable practices. Using equity-based sustainable design frameworks leads to reparative planning solutions by operationalizing the restoration of both social and environmental aspects of communities. This plan uses the City of Richmond's framework released by the Office of Sustainability, the Sustainable Design Standards (SDS), to analyze the Richmond section of the Fall Line trail, a 43 mile regional shared-use path that will connect 7 localities …

Rva Parkland Acquisition & Maintenance Strategy, Natalie E. Somerville

Master of Urban and Regional Planning Capstone Projects

Parks and green spaces offer myriad benefits to physical and mental well-being, environmental health, climate resilience, and community connection. Richmond, Virginia has added several new parks in recent years. However, there are still gaps between existing conditions and the City’s goal of having all residents live within a 10-minute walk of a quality park. The plan presents a land acquisition and maintenance strategy for future parkland expansion in the City of Richmond. Three questions guided the research: 1) which areas in Richmond are priority areas for creating new parks? 2) what processes should Richmond use to acquire land to expand …

Legal Semiotics, Political Ontology, & Merging Chronotopes Of Identity Through The Federation Of Aboriginal Nations Of The Americas, Kevin T. Inglesby

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This dissertation studies the concept of self-determination related to a confederation known as the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas. It addresses three main questions: How does FANA represent an institution of legal cooperation? In what ways does cultural capital become reproduced? And what are key principles for the Federations’ code of unity? Self-determination is a core principle of international law and may be identified through treaties and social conventions like Wunnandry. The study explores an interdisciplinary approach to American Indian selfdetermination through a focus on applied anthropology, cultural heritage, and Peircean legal semiotics to problematize some historical approaches …

Peer Mentorship Among Women Staff In Higher Education Organizations: A Phenomenological Study, Katherine Marie Booher

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The role of higher education within U.S. society has broadened. As colleges and universities expand their work beyond the core teaching and research functions, staff become more involved in mission-delivery than they have been historically. In the past, staff primarily served in supportive roles, but now also lead initiatives such as outreach and community engagement, workforce and economic development, international programs, and more. This broadening mission underscores the importance of staff within the higher education organizations’ mission-delivery functions. However, the execution of this work is hindered by staff attrition in positions primarily filled by women. The current literature on mentorship …

The Silent Epidemic: Deadly Outcomes Of Undiagnosed Hiv/Aids In Young People, Raksha Ramdas

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When Therapy Becomes The Trigger: An Antibiotic With A Twist, Hinal Rathi, Roshini Raghu, Parekha Yedla

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Uncovering Recurrent Oral And Genital Lipschütz Ulcers As An Initial Manifestation Of Immunodeficiency In A Sexually Inactive Adolescent, Raksha Ramdas

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Misleading Edema: When Pancreas Was To Blame; A Case Of Ectopic Cushing Syndrome, Soumit Sharma, Vasudha Reddy, Jesse Faulk, Madan Gowda

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A Rare Case Of Paraneoplastic Neuromyelitis Optica Secondary To Colonic Adenocarcinoma Responding To Folfiri Chemotherapy, Soumit Sharma, Ahmed Qaedi, Kelsey Ivey

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Hypopituitarism Secondary To Hiv-Associated Pituitary Toxicity Despite Viral Suppression: A Rare Presentation Of Adrenal Crisis, Soumit Sharma, Allison C. Estep, Pierce Elliot, Farrah Ibrahim

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When Edema Means More: Membranous Nephropathy Complicated By Fatal Hemorrhage, Rye Shiver, Luke Stone, Taylor Addison, Shivana Malhotra

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From Skin To Skull: Basal Cell Carcinoma Complicated By Calvarial Osteomyelitis, Laci Turner, Ahmed Qaedi, Anna Cash, Eesha Chitneni, Farrah Ibrahim

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Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy With Overlap Connective Tissue Features: Treatment With Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy, Soumit Sharma, Ashley Kimbel, Farrah Ibrahim

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More Than A Fall: A Minor Injury Unmasking Disseminated Mssa Infection, Claudia Warden, Anna Cash, Ross Hardin, Kelsey Ivey

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Delayed Bladder Cancer Diagnosis In An Adult With Spina Bifida: Gaps In Transition Of Care, Lillian Royston, Joseph Pettus

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Psychopharmacologic Long Qtc In Pediatric Patients, Alexis Rutland, R Jake Beede, Clinton Martin, Janaki Nimmagadda

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A Malignancy In Disguise: Metastatic Rectal Cancer Mimicking Heart Failure Exacerbation, Claudia Warden, Jenny Navoa, Ross Hardin, John Fanning

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Reframing The Sec’S Disqualification Waiver Decision-Making Process To Protect The Public Interest, Kayla A. Winters

Emory Law Journal

Federal securities law aims to protect investors and the public from fraudulent securities transactions. If an actor violates these laws, the public bears the costs through investor losses, market volatility, reduced economic activity and growth, and general distrust in the market. Entities that face securities enforcement for violations bear sanctions like civil monetary penalties and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains. They also experience collateral consequences, such as disqualifications, that are automatically triggered by the imposition of sanctions or criminal conduct. The purpose of disqualifications is to enable the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to safeguard investors and capital markets from issuers …

A Compulsory License Is Not Enough: How Implementing A Statutory Limit Can Reduce Costs And Increase Creativity In Music, Muntasir Ali

Emory Law Journal

Music sampling has been a staple in the hip-hop and electronic genres for decades, yet artists continue to struggle with legal and economic barriers to sampling others’ works without facing copyright infringement liability. Because copyright law recognizes two distinct types of copyrightable works for music—musical compositions and sound recordings—artists must clear both copyrights to have a legal sample. The existing sample licensing regime is prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, and convoluted, often creating a “holdout” problem where just one party can prevent the release of new, creative music. This has led to “cultural erasure” in the digital streaming era, where seminal works …

Esg Is Not Libertarian: A Response To Jonathan Macey, Allen Mendenhall, Daniel Sutter

Emory Business Law Review

Investing, like any market activity, is voluntary. Investors may invest however they wish, whether to maximize returns, minimize risk, or support what they view as good causes. Is the current Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) movement a libertarian embrace of socially responsible investing, as Jonathan Macey has argued? We answer with a definite no for several reasons. Government policies impel much ESG investment, most prominently through clean energy transition and financial regulations. Most ESG investment dollars stem not from investor decisions but from potential opportunism by managers of public pensions and sovereign wealth funds. Much investor activism for ESG results …

Oppression On The Blockchain, Erwin J. Kwok, Moin A. Yahya

Emory Business Law Review

When Ethereum (ETH) shifted from a Proof of Work (PoW) protocol to a Proof of Stake (PoS) protocol, not all users were enthused. We use Ethereum’s shift from PoW to PoS as a case study for the broader question of whether developers of a blockchain owe its members certain fiduciary or fiduciary-like duties. We argue that if done properly, in accordance to the rules governing the blockchain, then developers do not necessarily owe fiduciary responsibility to other members of the chain, but they nonetheless may owe fiduciary-like responsibilities to users inadvertently and negatively impacted. We argue these users may be …

Justice On Trial: Integrating Ethics In Law School Advocacy Courses, Veronica J. Finkelstein

Emory Business Law Review

The rule of law depends not only on legal doctrine and institutional design, but on the daily ethical choices of the lawyers who operate within the adversarial system. Trial lawyers, in particular, wield extraordinary power courtroom outcomes, yet law schools too often train future advocates to perform persuasive techniques without meaningful engagement with the ethical obligations that constrain those techniques and the lawyers who wield them. This article argues that the persistent separation between trial advocacy education and legal ethics instruction leaves law students ill-prepared for the moral complexities of litigation and threatens public confidence in the justice system.

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Summoning Firms: Promoting Democratic Stability And Economic Prosperity In Times Of Constitutional Crisis, Jon D. Michaels

Emory Business Law Review

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Illiberal Democracy, Merger Regulation, And Corporate Culture, Brian Jm Quinn

Emory Business Law Review

This Essay examines how the second Trump Administration has weaponized merger regulation and regulatory approval processes as tools of corporate capture in service of democratic backsliding toward an illiberal regime. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of competitive authoritarianism and illiberal democracy, this paper demonstrates how discretionary regulatory authority combined with weakened enforcement mechanisms creates opportunities for grand corruption that systematically undermines liberal democratic institutions.

This Essay accomplishes three primary objectives. First, it establishes the essential characteristics of illiberal regimes which maintain the facade of democratic institutions while systematically skewing the political playing field through selective enforcement and regulatory capture. Second, it …

No 'Dexit': Delaware's New Statutory Corporate Law Loosens The Restrictions On Controlling Shareholder Transactions In Response To Corporate Outlash Following Tornetta V. Musk, Reid A. Manabat

Emory Business Law Review

The recent Tornetta v. Musk decisions caused upheaval in the Delaware corporate community. Throughout 2024, shareholder executives have left or threatened to leave Delaware to incorporate elsewhere in a move termed “DExit.” The threat did not go unnoticed by Delawareans and lawmakers who contemplated a two-billion-dollar loss to the state’s tax revenue. Despite the courts’ willingness to require heightened scrutiny for conflicted-controller transactions, in recent years lawmakers have lowered the bar. I argue that Delaware’s new statutory corporate law does not adequately protect minority shareholders from conflicted controllers. First, the new statutory cleansing mechanisms ignore the unique dangers of conflicted-controller …

Human Rights Education For Children And Youth On Human Rights And Digital Technologies, Diane A. Desierto, Faisal Yamil Meneses, Notre Dame Global Human Rights Clinic

Journal Articles

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This document outlines the importance of human rights education for children and youth, particularly in relation to digital technologies, emphasizing the need for comprehensive, inclusive, and accessible educational frameworks.

Leading From Where You Are: How Projects Build Leadership Skills In Law Libraries, Susan Azyndar, Yan Yu

Journal Articles

Practical ways to develop leadership skills through collaborative projects–no title required.

Nostalgic Rhetoric: Unraveling An "Authentic" Past, Quinn Thomas Gienapp

Dissertations and Theses

Our changing awareness of time and memory can generate feelings of nostalgia that impact perceptions of the past, present, and future. Nostalgia should not be described as inherently good or bad. In certain contexts, nostalgia can be used as a positive or negative tool to convey values, arguments, and reactions to the past that are much more than simply appealing to feelings of longing. In this thesis, I examine how nostalgic rhetoric is used to convince individuals of various ideas surrounding memory, culture, and politics. In particular, I identify and describe three modes of nostalgic rhetoric: gratification, denial, and subversion. …