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The Impact Of Regulations On The Eastern Kentucky Coal Industry, Noah Friend

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law Symposia

In this session, Noah Friend discussed the impact of regulations on the Eastern Kentucky coal industry.

Healthcare Access, Disability Rights, And Olmstead Advocacy, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, Susan Jamieson, Talley Wells, Leslie Lipson, Ezra Young

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

An overview of the past, present, and future of healthcare access and disability rights law. Panelists will cover topics ranging from deinstitutionalization to the intersection of transgender rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Olmstead decision. This panel was organized in conjunction with the University of Georgia Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD). Moderated by Elizabeth Weeks.

Expanding Access Through Community Lawyering, Christine M. Scartz, Morgan Kauffman, Tirien Steinbach, Diane Park

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

Community lawyering can lead to expanded access to justice. Panelists who have successfully used community lawyering to get results will explain their work and demonstrate what determined, creative public interest lawyers can accomplish. Moderated by Christine Scartz.

Vulnerable Persons In Custody, Russell C. Gabriel, Jamie Roberts, Rachel Grossman, Leanne Purdum

Working in the Public Interest Conferences

Vulnerable persons face numerous issues when they enter custody. Panelists will cover prison, jail, and detention center issues with a focus on individuals who may be particularly vulnerable in these settings, including LGBTQ persons, undocumented persons, and those living in poverty. Moderated by Russell Gabriel.

Ag-Gag Laws, Lies, And The First Amendment, Justin Marceau

Distinguished Speaker Series

In this talk, Professor Marceau will discuss the intersection of free speech and lies in constitutional doctrine. “Ag-gag” laws criminalize actions that include secret filming by whistleblowers of animal abuses on factory farms. Using the proliferation of ag-gag laws as an example, Professor Marceau will identify and discuss investigative deceptions as a category of high-value lies that ought to receive rigorous free speech protection because of their instrumental value to securing and disseminating information essential to a well-functioning democracy. He will also identify, more generally, the types of limits that may be imposed on lying consistent with the First Amendment

Program, Emory Law Journal

Randolph W. Thrower Symposium

In light of recent global events, the 2017 Thrower Symposium panelists explored a vast array of issues and threats confronting our nation in the twenty-first century. These topics include cybersecurity, applicable law doctrines, corporate responsibility, new technologies and their effects on national security, immigration, domestic terrorism, and cross-border security. The breadth of these topics demonstrated the need for organized and thoughtful discussion.

#Lawhacks: Websites That You Wish You’D Known About Sooner Highly-Useful Websites For Conducting Legal Research At The Local, State And National Levels, Zanada T. Joyner

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

For many of us when conducting legal research typing a few random words or phrases into a search box yields results that are wholly unusable. It is helpful to have a collection of websites on hand where legal researchers can find reliable information quickly. Herein is a listing of websites that contain useful legal information at the local, state, and national level. This list is by no means exhaustive but, instead serves as a good starting place legal researchers developing a “go-to” collection of internet resources that you can use in your practice.

Federal Law And U.S. Government Information: Exploring A Wealth Of Resources, Carol A. Watson

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

The federal government provides a plethora of free legal resources that are useful for attorneys conducting legal research tasks. In addition to providing inexpensive alternatives to commercial databases, online federal resources offer many bells and whistles such as multimedia, unique searching options, and even crowd-sourcing, that enhance their content.

Legal Research In The Age Of Social Media, Endia S. Paige

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Provides an overview of the most popular social media platforms used by adults i the United States and gives insight into how attorneys can use them to conduct legal and investigative research.

Lucky 13: Research Resources For Georgia And The Other States, Sharon Bradley

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

The title refers to the fact that Georgia was one of the original thirteen colonies and that Georgia researchers are lucky to have access to a good number of free, online legal resources.

Don’T Worry Be “Appy” Valuable Legal And Productivity Apps For Attorneys, Thomas J. Striepe

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Explains different types of apps, and presents helpful ones to make legal research and general office work more efficient and portable.

Good, Bad And Ugly: Finding Intelligence Online, Suzanne R. Graham

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

For investigative research, the internet is a helpful tool, but it is not a perfect or a complete toolkit. For a variety of reasons, not all types of questions can be found, and not all people or businesses have significant digital footprints. Social media sites, public databases, and search engines facilitate the kinds and success of research possible online. However, it remains important to know which tools offer what types of information and any limitations in accuracy and currency.

Found It! Getting The Most Out Of Your Web Searches, Anne Burnett

Continuing Legal Education Presentations

Aims to provide advanced tips and strategies for crafting effective search queries as well as providing suggestions for resources useful for specific purposes. Emphasis on Google's advanced searching tools, because of that search engine's popularity, but most other general search engines allow for similar strategies to increase relevancy in retrieving results.

Improving Mexico's Energy Security Framework: A New Role For The Navy?, Adriana Avila-Zuniga-Nordfjeld, Dimitrios Dalaklis

MARENER 2017

This analysis examines the decree presented by the President of Mexico and approved by the National Congress to reform the country’s legal framework and allow the shift of maritime safety and security responsibility, as well as port state control from a civil authority (Ministry of Communications and Transport, MCT) towards a military one (Ministry of Marine, MMAR). The previous failures of the Mexican Designated Authority, executed by the General Direction of Merchant Marine (GDMM) from MCT resulted into an important number of security incidents and maritime accidents which have contributed in turn not only in loss of property at sea, …

2017 Mlk Keynote Emory Douglas Program, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Emory Douglas

Martin Luther King, Jr. Series

Program for the 2017 MLK Keynote Address: Emory Douglas. An artist, educator and human rights activist, Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Best known for his political drawings and cartoons in the Black Panther Newspaper, he articulated the injustices experienced by African Americans living in the inner city, the growing militancy and organization among urban black youth in the face of police violence and the need for community-based social programs. 2017 MLK Keynote, Emory Douglas discusses the process, meaning and impact of his artwork then and now.

2017 Mlk Keynote Emory Douglas Educational Foldout, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Emory Douglas

Martin Luther King, Jr. Series

Educational foldout for the 2017 MLK Keynote Address: Emory Douglas. An artist, educator and human rights activist, Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Best known for his political drawings and cartoons in the Black Panther Newspaper, he articulated the injustices experienced by African Americans living in the inner city, the growing militancy and organization among urban black youth in the face of police violence and the need for community-based social programs. 2017 MLK Keynote, Emory Douglas discusses the process, meaning and impact of his artwork then and now.

2017 Mlk Keynote Emory Douglas Educational Foldout, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Emory Douglas

Martin Luther King, Jr. Series

Educational foldout for the 2017 MLK Keynote Address: Emory Douglas. An artist, educator and human rights activist, Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Best known for his political drawings and cartoons in the Black Panther Newspaper, he articulated the injustices experienced by African Americans living in the inner city, the growing militancy and organization among urban black youth in the face of police violence and the need for community-based social programs. 2017 MLK Keynote, Emory Douglas discusses the process, meaning and impact of his artwork then and now.

2017 Mlk Keynote Emory Douglas Program, Center For Social Equity & Inclusion, Emory Douglas

Martin Luther King, Jr. Series

Program for the 2017 MLK Keynote Address: Emory Douglas. An artist, educator and human rights activist, Emory Douglas served as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Best known for his political drawings and cartoons in the Black Panther Newspaper, he articulated the injustices experienced by African Americans living in the inner city, the growing militancy and organization among urban black youth in the face of police violence and the need for community-based social programs. 2017 MLK Keynote, Emory Douglas discusses the process, meaning and impact of his artwork then and now.

Spaceways: Airspace In Outer Space, Scott Haeffelin

Space Traffic Management Conference

Forecasted future demand in space travel is driving the need for the development of space traffic management. Currently, orbital space traffic is mostly unregulated with internationally agreed upon best practices and self-interest driving space operators to avoid collisions with other spacecraft. This paper explores the future of space travel by presenting a concept of creating “airspace in space” or spaceways to manage the ever growing volumes of space traffic. Spaceways are analogous to airspace for aircraft with the goal of increasing levels of safety and reducing probabilities of collision. These goals can be achieved by creating traffic rules, defining valuable …

The Reporting Requirements Of The U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act: Status, Analysis, And Legal Implications, Michael S. Dodge

Space Traffic Management Conference

In November of 2015, President Obama signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) into law. The CSLCA addresses many subjects orbiting the field of space activities, although much of the attention respecting the law has focused on the role of government astronauts, the processes associated with licensing private remote sensing systems, or the authorization of space resource extraction; yet, a curious theme has found itself woven throughout the fabric of the law—the requirement to report to Congress the results of studies and inter-agency discussions impacting on various components of current or proposed activities. The legal and regulatory implications …

The Future Of International Spaceport Regulations: Which Response To Expect From The International Community?, Valentin Degrange

Space Traffic Management Conference

As humanity is today well into the 21^st century, we witness the appearance of new prospects for the utilization and exploitation of outer space, making outer space increasingly “contested, congested and competitive”¹. Many aspects of our daily lives have already come to depend on our occupation of Low Earth Orbits (LEO) and Geostationary Earth Orbits (GEO). As the number of space-related activities increases exponentially though, most notably in its commercial facet, so does the need for new spaceports and adequate regulations for the increased space traffic that will follow. The “big sky” theory which protected airborne travelers …

Space Traffic Management Concepts Leveraging Existing Frameworks, Stephen K. Hunter

Space Traffic Management Conference

Leveraging existing U.S. regulatory frameworks, as well as international organizations, will dramatically shorten the time needed to develop an effective Space Traffic Management concept. Both the Department of Defense and the Department of Transportation have been working with the U.S. Congress to define and develop a Space Traffic Management concept that will allow the Office of Commercial Space Launch to begin a new mission that will help to ensure the safety and resilience of the space domain. Outside observers can easily see forward progress toward this, still, undeveloped concept. This paper explores potential final U.S. Space Traffic Management concepts that …

A Novel Approach For Controlled Deorbiting And Reentry Of Small Spacecraft, Larry H. Fineberg, Justin Treptow, Timothy Bass, Scott Clark, Yusef Johnson, Bradley Poffenberger

Space Traffic Management Conference

No abstract provided.

Program

Health Law & Policy Conferences

No abstract provided.

The Conflict In Syria: Should The United States Get More Involved?, Jacob Peoples

Posters-at-the-Capitol

The purpose of this research is to explore the relations between Syria, Russia, and the United States in the Syrian civil war. The relationship has been in turmoil because of the complexities of the situation. Syria has been a designated state sponsor of terrorism since December 29, 1979, five years before the next designated state of Iran. Syria is a very important and strategic country and now more than ever has a large risk of being completely overrun by the newest terrorist group ISIS. The turmoil is possibly stemming initially from the result of a failed 1957 Central Intelligence Agency …

United States Federal Courts And Inter-Branch War Powers, Erica Lindsey Fields

Posters-at-the-Capitol

US Federal Courts and Inter-Branch War Powers

Author: Erica Fields, with Dr. Jasmine Farrier and Dr. Laura Moyer

Department of Political Science- University of Louisville

Introduction

When a separation of powers issue arises between the branches of the United States government, they can seek remedy in the federal courts. This has become especially relevant in the area of war powers. Over the past 40 years, members of Congress have challenged Presidential encroachment of war powers 10 times in the courts.

Purpose

To determine if the rulings in the 10 war powers cases could best be explained by the ideologies of …

National Security In The Information Age: Are We Heading Toward Big Brother?, William C. Banks, Jake Laperruque, Douglas Cox, Lt. Colonel Jeffrey Addicott, Paul Gill, Douglas A. Ramseur, Thomas J. Ridge

University of Richmond Law Review Symposium

Symposium Welcome: Alexander McDaniel, Symposium Editor, University of Richmond Law Review, and Wendy C. Perdue, Dean of the University of Richmond School of Law. (9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.)

“How Does the Government Collect Data Through Surveillance?” Panel Discussion: William C. Banks, Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law and Founding Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, and Jake Laperruque, Privacy Fellow with The Constitution Project. Professor Paul D. Crane, Associate Professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, served as moderator. (9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.)

“How Does the Government Retain and …

Designing Laboratories For Small Scale Digital Device Forensics, Richard P. Mislan, Tim Wedge

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

The ubiquity of small scale digital devices (SSDD), the public’s ever increasing societal dependence on SSDD, and the continual presence of SSDD at all types of crime scenes, including non-technical and violent crimes, demand a formalized curriculum for the education and training of future cyber forensic examiners. This paper presents the various SSDD forensics labs currently in use and under development for future use at the Purdue University Cyber Forensics Laboratory. The primary objective of each module is to provide specific real-world cases for the learning, comprehension, and understanding of hands-on investigative techniques and methodologies. The purpose of this paper …

Network Forensic Investigation Of Internal Misuse/Crime In Saudi Arabia: A Hacking Case, Abdulrazaq Al-Murjan, Konstantinos Xynos

Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law

There are ad-hoc guidelines and a limited policy on computer incident response that does not include computer forensic preparation procedures (e.g. logging incidents). In addition, these guidelines do not consider the requirement of Islamic law for admissible evidence at an organisational level in Saudi Arabia. Network forensic investigation might breach the Saudi law if they follow ad-hoc or international digital forensic standards such as Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) guidelines. This might put the organisation in a costly situation when a malicious employee sues an Islamic court. This is because the law of Saudi Arabia is complying with Islamic …

Don’T Share This Item! Developing Digital Collections And Services In A Consumer‐Licensed World, William M. Cross, Darby Orcutt

Charleston Library Conference

Libraries have always faced unique challenges in providing non‐academic content for academic use, but the digital age has brought particular problems of “one size fits all” consumer purchase models and vexing methods of digital rights management (DRM), wrapped up with a large bow of legal uncertainty for many institutions. These proceedings describe some practices for sharing consumer‐licensed popular materials and confronting legal and technical barriers, as well as what some libraries are considering and encountering in applying the law, fair use, user expectations, and common sense in developing collections and services around digital content that is geared directly to end …