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(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2011)This is a response to William W. Bratton & Michael L. Wachter, The Political Economy of Fraud on the Market, 160 U. PA. L. REV. 69 (2011). Bratton and Wachter argue that fraud-on-the-market class actions (FOTM) should be ...
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(2009-04-22)Department: Community Research and ActionEvery week in America thousands of children who are at risk of suffering abuse and/or neglect are removed from the homes of their caregivers and placed into their state’s foster care system. The individuals responsible ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Special EducationPurpose. Black history as represented in social studies textbooks often lacks depth demanded by historians and authenticity required for cultural relevance to African American students. However, important Black historical ...
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(2010-07-16)Department: EconomicsThrough a unique collection of compositional (e.g. balance sheets and note discounts) and environmental (e.g. bond portfolio values and passenger travel costs) data for most of the antebellum banks, this dissertation ...
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(2003-02-20)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe Vanderbilt University Free Electron Laser (FEL) is a tunable source of pulsed infrared radiation with pulse characteristics unlike those of most laser systems. A primary objective of the research presented in this ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: MathematicsIn this thesis, we study rigid von Neumann algebras from the framework of Voiculescu’s free probability. A rigid von Neumann algebra or a Property (T) von Neumann algebra generalizes the well known notion of Property (T) ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2008-02-22)
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(Columbia Law Review, 2018)The 2016 presidential election was one of the most divisive in recent memory, but it produced a surprising bipartisan consensus. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders all agreed that U.S. trade agreements should ...
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(2015-04-09)Department: PhilosophyIn this dissertation I examine the relationships between freedom and slavery through the intersections of food and agriculture. Qualified in various ways, contemporary research across disciplines supports the view that, ...
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(2010-09-06)Department: PhilosophyThe core commitment of liberalism is that individual liberty is in some sense primary. There is, however, much disagreement over the concept of liberty itself. In this dissertation, I attempt to determine which conception ...
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(2009-06-24)Department: Community Research and ActionProstitution, drug addiction, and their surrounding issues have long been topics of political, theoretical, and practical import. Furthermore, they offer a particularly insightful lens through which to interrogate concepts ...
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(2011-07-25)Department: PhilosophyThis project will concern itself with crafting an argument in favor of the legalization of assisted suicide as a viable medical treatment. It will do this in two ways; first by comparing the physical and experiential ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Graduate Center for South American Studies, 1963-08)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-28)
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(2015-10-13)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the activities and experiences of a small group of American missionaries, Southern Baptists, who went to Rhodesia to spread their faith, but often found themselves caught between the movement for majority ...
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(2022-03-30)Department: HistoryFormerly enslaved women sought to secure and define freedom for themselves during the course of the American Civil War. Taking advantage of the chaos of war, which fractured the stability of the institution of slavery in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2004-04-14)