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"Flip. Tap. Listen." Getting The Most From Your Oyez Scotus Apps, Debbie Ginsberg

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This Brown Bag explored ways to use and share Supreme Court content in the classroom. Presenters focused on OyezToday for iPhone/iPad/Android, but suggestions apply generally to PocketJustice (the con law app). (With special guest Professor Jerry Goldman.)

Visual Communication, Emily Barney

Presentations

This workshop covered:

• Using illustrations to communicate more effectively
• Ensuring your use is legal (copyright, licensing, etc.)
• Search tips to find great free images
• Creating Illustrations: Maps, MindMaps, Charts, Word Clouds

Report From The Dean 2011, Iit Chicago-Kent College Of Law

Dean's Reports

Annual Dean's Report featuring alumni David Roche ('84), Tamara Starks ('11), Justina Molzon ('85), Lester McKeever ('71), Howard Smith ('11), Standish Willis ('83), Ann Cresce ('94), and faculty reflections on Chicago-Kent's evening program.

Blended Liability For A Blended Tort: The Interaction Between At-Will Employees, Non-Compete Covenants And Tortious Interference Claims, Jeremy V. Farrell

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

No abstract provided.

Discrimination V. Retaliation: What Level Of Harm Is Necessary To Establish A Cause Of Action Under Title Vii?, Brendan Hanner White

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

No abstract provided.

A Critique Of Supplying The Nlrb With Social Science Expertise Through Party/Amicus Briefs, Xenia Tashlitsky

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

No abstract provided.

Attention Black Applicants: Be Cautious Of "Unequal" Opportunity Employers And How Racially Motivated Stereotypes And Grooming Policies Can Impede Your Employment Outlook, Travis M. Sumter

Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition

No abstract provided.

Case: United States – Measures Affecting Imports Of Certain Passenger Vehicle And Light Truck Tyres From China, Kyle R. Smith

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Culture Wars: Protection Of Cultural Monuments In A Human Rights Context, Kruti J. Patel

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Case: In The Case Of The Prosecutor V. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Jonathon Handelman

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Chilean Competition Law And Policy: The Extraterritorial Transplantation Of American Antitrust Law And Chicago School Of Economics In The Chilean Context, Michael David Bauer

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The New American Approach To Cultural Heritage Protection: Granting Foreign Aid For Iraqi Cultural Heritage, Priscilla Singer

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Former-Citizenship Restitution: A Proposal For An Equitable Resolution Of Confiscated Lithuanian Property, Cheryl E. Stovall

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Doing Business Under The Hot Sun: How Small Firms Do Business And Process Conflicts In Kenya, Elin Cohen

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Case: Raffray Taddei V. France, Emily Dosch

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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We Could Tell You, But Then We'd Have To Kill You: How Indigenous Cultural Secrecy Impedes The Protection Of Natural Cultural Heritage In The United States, Audrey Mense

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Nottebohm's Nightmare: Have We Exorcised The Ghosts Of Wwii Detention Programs Or Do They Still Haunt Guantanamo?, Cindy G. Buys

Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Search Your Email And Files In A Flash, Debbie Ginsberg

Presentations

Debbie Ginsberg demonstrated how to use X1 to search your email, files, calendar, and more.

United States – Definitive Anti-Dumping And Countervailing Duties On Certain Products From China, Sungjoon Cho

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

New Energy Geopolitics?: China, Renewable Energy, And The "Greentech Race", Joel B. Eisen

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Commentators believe that programs in China promoting development of new renewable energy capacity have produced astonishing achievements in a short period of time. Evoking the "space race" between the United States and the U.S.S.R. after the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957, observers contend that the United States and China are in a "greentech race" to secure international leadership in the development and deployment of renewable energy. As U.S. Energy Secretary Chu has put it, many believe this is a modern "Sputnik moment." This Article finds that China's programs and initiatives are indeed leading to considerable success, but, using …

The Art Of Subsidizing Fuel-Free Electricity Under The European Economic Area Agreement As Illustrated By Norway's Reversion Instrument, Peter Ørebech

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The purpose of this article is to scrutinize legal barriers to state aid instruments in transforming fuel-based electricity into renewable energy, the subsidy prerequisites by which the national state may champion fuel free power production. Subsidy is illustrated by the 2004 Official Norwegian Report's (NOU) disapproval of the Norwegian Reversion Institute (NRI), as a result of a waiver clause to the benefit of municipal power plants. A licensing period of sixty years is final. Relicensing is not possible; only private leasing may occur.

As outlined, my basic criticism is that the NOU confuses interstate distortion of competition as it is …

Smart-Grid: Technology And The Psychology Of Environmental Behavior Change, Stephanie M. Stern

Chicago-Kent Law Review

There is a schism in the legal scholarship between scholars who argue that value, norm, and information campaigns can induce pro-environmental behavior and those who contend that structural, psychological, and social forces sharply constrain behavior change. Both sides of this debate have neglected the critical and ever-increasing role of technology in addressing residential pollution. The example of electricity "smart grids" illustrates how technology engineered to override cognitive and behavioral limitations can comprehensively reduce household consumption and emissions. Electricity conservation suffers from multiple barriers to collective action, including large numbers of geographically dispersed polluters, low financial payoffs, and, the contribution of …

The Legal-Political Barriers To Ramping Up To Hydro, Dan Tarlock

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Hydroelectric energy is the oldest major source of non-carbon, renewable energy and is the only conventional renewable resource in the current energy mix. Increased hydro capacity would seem to be a key element of any United States energy policy designed to promote the greater use of renewable resources. However, for several decades hydro has been perceived as a mature, fully developed technology. This article argues that any effort to stimulate substantial new hydro capacity will face a series of environmental legal and policy constraints. Efforts to adapt to global climate change will further complicate efforts to increase hydro electric generation. …

Mercurial But Not Swift—U.S. Epa's Initiative To Regulate Coal Plant Mercury Emissions Changes Course Again As It Enters A Third Decade, Keith Harley

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The effort to establish national standards to control mercury air pollution from coal-fired power plants now spans twenty years, four presidential administrations, and remains undone. This note will briefly describe the failed twenty-year effort to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. It will show how United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) efforts during the (first) Bush and Clinton Administrations to construct mercury regulations were dismantled during the Administration of George W. Bush. During the second Bush Administration, U.S. EPA substituted a new regulatory approach that was ultimately repudiated by the federal judiciary as plainly inconsistent with the Clean …

Green Diesel: Finding A Place For Algae Oil, Fred Bosselman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The prospect of obtaining domestically-produced biodiesel from algae has attracted wide investor interest. Although many analysts predict that economic production is five to ten years away, the production process involves such a wide range of environmental and land use issues that it is not premature to begin thinking about the kinds of places in which "green biodiesel" could be efficiently made in the United States. Our land use and environmental laws were all drafted by people who never imagined the possibility that huge volumes of algae would be an important energy resource; nor could they have known that the location …

High-Income Child Support Guidelines: Harmonizing The Need For Limits With The Best Interests Of The Child, Laura Raatjes

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Providing for the needs of children of separated parents lies at the heart of state child support laws. But what about providing for the special needs of children of high-income obligors and ensuring consistency in a system often marked by unpredictability and high emotions? This Note examines the manifold problems that discretionary high-income child support decisions can cause: inequitable settlement, increased litigation, injured family structures, and inconsistent decisions. This Note also proposes a solution: to set higher thresholds for triggering a high-income analysis and to require high-income parents to contribute to post-secondary educational trusts. Finally, this Note explains that, as …

Table Of Contents - Issue 1, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

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Corporate Social Responsibility In The Oil And Gas Industry: The Importance Of Reputational Risk, David B. Spence

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Modern oil and gas production takes place in environments that are increasingly challenging, environments that pose very high levels of technical risk, as well as political, social, environmental, heal and safety risks. The people of the oil-rich nations of the world are growing more assertive politically and more sensitive to the environmental, health, and safety risks posed by oil and gas development. Governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and local people seek the means to control oil and gas development so as to minimize the risk of harm and provide redress in the event harm is done. Oil and gas companies have …

Of Nesting Dolls And Trojan Horses: A Survey Of Legal And Policy Issues Attendant To Vehicle-To-Grid Battery Electric Vehicles, Bryan Lamble

Chicago-Kent Law Review

2010 will not be remembered as the year when the domestic energy landscape changed, dominated as it was by environmental catastrophe and human calamity and tragedy caused by the search for and extraction of traditional fossil fuels. In fact, clean(er) energy and greater efficiency seem, in some ways, to be less of a reality at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century than many would have predicted (and hoped). Furthermore, a contentious mid-term election season (stoked by fears of massive deficits, rising national debt and ballooning government) dominated the headlines at the expense of what could prove …

Biotech Biofuels: How Patents May Save Biofuels And Create Empires, Adam Wolek

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The United States' primary transportation energy sources are fossil fuels, namely, gasoline and diesel. These products have high environmental, security, and financial costs. A strong emphasis has been placed on biofuels, especially ethanol and biodiesel, to lessen reliance on fossil fuels. Historically, high production costs, lack of infrastructure, return on investment anxieties, and concerns about scaling-up production have slowed the development of these alternative technologies. Today, biotechnological solutions are lowering productions costs and making large scale production more economically feasible. Patents can lessen anxieties about investment as they can provide longer-term protection and market exclusivity for patented technologies. As biofuels …