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Newsroom: Vox: Mancheno '13 On Orlando 6-23-2016, Luis F. Mancheno, Vox, Roger Williams University School Of Law Jun 2016

Newsroom: Vox: Mancheno '13 On Orlando 6-23-2016, Luis F. Mancheno, Vox, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: What The Tragedy In Orlando Means For Rwu Law 6/17/2016, Michael Yelnosky Jun 2016

Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: What The Tragedy In Orlando Means For Rwu Law 6/17/2016, Michael Yelnosky

Law School Blogs

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Evaluation Of Iowa’S Anti-Bullying Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Marizen Ramirez, Corinne Peek-Asa, Joseph Cavanaugh Jun 2016

Evaluation Of Iowa’S Anti-Bullying Law, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Marizen Ramirez, Corinne Peek-Asa, Joseph Cavanaugh

Faculty Scholarship

Bullying is the most common form of youth aggression. Although 49 of all 50 states in the U.S. have an anti-bullying law in place to prevent bullying, little is known about the effectiveness of these laws. Our objective was to measure the effectiveness of Iowa’s anti-bullying law in preventing bullying and improving teacher response to bullying.


Men, Women, And Optimal Violence, Mary Anne Franks Jan 2016

Men, Women, And Optimal Violence, Mary Anne Franks

Articles

While both men and women can, and do, use violence against each other, men's violence against women is far more common, less justified, and more destructive than women's violence against men. One of the reasons for this asymmetry is that men do not fear retaliation for violence against women, whereas women do fear retaliation for their use of violence against men. The distribution of violence between the genders, then, is suboptimal. Society would be better off as a whole if more women were willing to engage in justified violence against men, and fewer men were willing to engage in unjustified …


Submission To Senate Has Asked The Legal And Constitutional Affairs References Committee 'Inquiry Into The Need For A Nationally-Consistent Approach To Alcohol-Fuelled Violence', Julia Quilter, Luke Mcnamara Jan 2016

Submission To Senate Has Asked The Legal And Constitutional Affairs References Committee 'Inquiry Into The Need For A Nationally-Consistent Approach To Alcohol-Fuelled Violence', Julia Quilter, Luke Mcnamara

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

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Securing Child Rights In Time Of Conflict, Diane Marie Amann Jan 2016

Securing Child Rights In Time Of Conflict, Diane Marie Amann

Scholarly Works

Each term in the title of this essay seems simple, yet provides much food for analytical thought. The essay thus explores: what is “conflict,” and whether there is a “time” when it is not present; who is a “child”; whether and to what extent children enjoy “rights”; and, finally, how local, national, and international regimes go about “securing” those rights. The essay – based on a talk given at the 2015 International Law Weekend in New York – concludes with a glance at a new potential avenue for child security: the Sustainable Development Goals which the U.N. General Assembly adopted …