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Aversive Racism And Implicit Biases In Civil Rights Workers, Anne Nm Hobbs
Aversive Racism And Implicit Biases In Civil Rights Workers, Anne Nm Hobbs
Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The aim of this study was to gain a better understanding of implicit mechanisms that perpetuate inequality. The vast majority of claims of discrimination in this country are filtered through the lens of a civil rights investigator. It is critical to our understanding of civil rights enforcement, and inequality overall, to assess the potential for implicit bias processes of non-judicial government employees to impact the outcome of discrimination cases. Social psychologists have long established that the human brain processes information in highly effective ways that may make it prone to stereotyping and error. I used a vignette methodology to assess …
Space Tourism, Private Spaceflight And The Law: Key Aspects, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Space Tourism, Private Spaceflight And The Law: Key Aspects, Frans G. Von Der Dunk
Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program: Faculty Publications
The arrival of ‘space tourism,’ or more appropriately ‘private spaceflight,’ requires the law of outer space to change and adapt to this revolutionary development, as deriving precisely from the principled private participation in these activities. After defining the proper concepts, this paper discusses key legal aspects of authorization and supervision, liability and registration, and how they re.ect and impact on space tourism. Key legal aspects related to certification of craft, crew and passengers, while not yet much articulated at the international level will also be touched upon precisely in order to demonstrate that the law could well be driven first …