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(Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2007)In passing a watered-down piece of legislation (in July 2006), the Senate missed a critical opportunity to truly strengthen Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and protect voters against voting rights violations on a ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Divinity School, 2008-08-18)
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(2021-12)This capstone project seeks to identify factors that contribute to selecting Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta campus, as a school of choice for prospective students, and provide evidence-based recommendations for ...
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(2021-06-08)Department: Community Research & ActionThis dissertation examines contemporary urban land-use and housing conflicts in Cape Town, a racially segregated and unequal city. I follow Reclaim the City (RTC), a movement of predominantly Black, poor and working-class ...
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(Lexington Theological Quarterly, 1995)
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(Virginia Law Review, 2011)The framework for judicial review of agency statutory interpretations is based on a legal fiction – namely, that Congress intends to delegate interpretive authority to agencies. Critics argue that the fiction is false ...
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(Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and law, 2008)Our society and laws allow a space for a multitude of identities and forms of expression. Many kinds of differences are legally protected in various ways, such as differences in race, religion, and gender. Sometimes ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-16)I argue that one of the most major focuses in Toni Morrison’s novels is the exploration of trauma, specifically the forms of trauma that have afflicted the African American community. Although Morrison’s novels predominantly ...
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(The Journal of Legal Studies, 2005)Survey respondents assessed the risks of terrorist attacks and their consequences and were asked how their assessments changed from before September 11 to the present. This paper analyzes those current and recollected risk ...
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(London: Charles Knight, 1824)
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(Hastings Law Journal, 2006)This article challenges the accepted wisdom, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in Gault, that procedures in juvenile delinquency court should mimic the adult criminal process. The legal basis for this challenge ...
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(Yale Law Journal, 2013)The preponderance standard is conventionally described as an absolute probability threshold of 0.5. This Essay argues that this absolute characterization of the burden of proof is wrong. Rather than focusing on an absolute ...
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(2013)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2018-05)Regarding adult learners Kasworm (2008) aptly stated, "learning is an act of hopeÓ (p. 27). Adult learners" (those classified as students over the age of 24) motivation for pursuing higher education is a story of hope in ...
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(Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 2010)The prohibition on the use of reprisals is widely regarded as one of the most sacrosanct statements of the jus in bello applicable to the conduct of modern hostilities. The textual formulations are stark and subject to no ...
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(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2017)This article explores the growing federalism tensions in efforts to expand the nation’s energy transportation infrastructure — the electric transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, natural gas import and export terminals ...
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(Environmental Law, 2007)Much has been written lately in legal scholarship about the role of science in policy and the role of policy in science - and perhaps in no field of law has more been said about them than environmental law. Yet asking the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2003-04-11)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-09-10)This poster explores the spatial and temporal pattern of muscle activation during stationary cycling using surface EMG (Electromyography) and mfMRI (Muscle functional MRI). Two females and two males, all four recreationally ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-03-25)