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Brent T. White named Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs of Golden Gate University
Full text linkGolden Gate University President David Fike is proud to announce the appointment of Brent T. White as Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. His appointment begins January 4, 2022
Employee Privacy Rights While Working from Home
Full text linkOver the past few decades and especially under the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a merger of office and home life. More and more employees are working from home. By bringing work home, employees may be unknowingly bringing a diminished expectation of privacy inside their home as well
Book Review: Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Ruha Benjamin, Cambridge: Polity; 2019 (available in Hardcover, Paperback, and eBook): 286 pages (Kindle edition); $16.00, ISBN: 978-1-509-52643-7.
This book will appeal to readers who are skeptical of the touted benefits of technology – technosceptics, if you will – as well as readers who love all things tech. This is a must-read for both groups, as well as all those who wish to be informed of the newest applications that go well beyond robots and self-driving cars. This book is a great lens with which to ‘see’ how the newest language of innovation may be blinding us to deeper and hidden ills. Like the promise of rum, slaves, and sugar, this new trade in technology is not a panacea for societal problems that may need slow fixes. As Dr. Benjamin articulates all too well, national governments must not abdicate their responsibility for addressing the challenges wrought by new tech. Accountability and transparency are the only way forward
Second Panel: Ending Exotic Animal Ownership
No full textPanelists: Chris Green & Daniel Waltz
Chris Green is the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Program. He previously was the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Animal Legal Defense Fund and is the former Chair of the American Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee. Green’s own scholarship has focused on the societal and legal value of companion animals and has been published in the Animal Law Review. Chris still regularly testifies at legislative hearings on animal protection matters and recently served on a National Academies of Sciences committee assessing the Dept. of Veterans Affairs’ use of dogs in biomedical research.
As staff attorney for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, Daniel Waltz develops creative legal strategies to advocate for improved welfare and increased protections for animals. Daniel first worked with the Animal Legal Defense Fund as a litigation fellow from 2012 to 2014 when he participated in Kuehl v. Sellner, which eventually set a legal precedent to protect endangered animals in captivity
Addressing Physician Burnout and Moral Injury to Improve Physician Retention in the United States: Perceptions of Physicians
Full text linkThere has been an alarming increase in the levels of moral injury and burn out among physicians. This, compounded with a significant estimated shortage of physicians within the next decade, is now a public health crisis. A recent study conducted by Medscape of over 12,000 physicians reviewed the different etiologies to burnout and access to treatment, but it was limited in exploring the effectiveness of the treatments available. Other studies have suggested a possible correlation with burnout and physician retention, but many of the studies only inquired about thoughts of leaving practice, instead of assessing the physicians that have actually left. This study was designed to assess the current availability and effectiveness of burnout treatments and to investigate a possible correlation of moral injury and burnout on physician retention. Over 500 physicians were surveyed, and quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. The results highlight the importance of offering more screening and effective treatment modalities to physicians to reduce the frequency of burnout and moral injury. If our country is going to retain its physician work force to take care of its citizens, addressing physician burnout and moral injury is essential
Active-Duty Military and Non-Military (Civilians) Perceptions On Transgender People Serving in the U.S. Military
Full text linkTransgender people are constantly fighting for their rights, to be seen for who they are, and to be respected. When don’t ask, don’t tell was repealed on September 20, 2011, so many gays, lesbians, and bisexuals in the military celebrated their freedom to serve openly in the U.S. Armed Forces. In the years to come, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter stated June 2016, “We can’t allow barriers unrelated to a person’s qualifications to prevent us from recruiting and retaining those who can best accomplish the mission” (Gritz, 2019). Unfortunately, the ending of DADT did not include transgender soldier. If it had, would transgender people have been protected to serve openly? I will explore the many myths in why transgender people can’t serve in the military, but the focus will always be active-duty military and non-military perception on transgender people serving in the military. As I break down barriers for transgenders people to service openly in the military, I can expect an inclusive policy for transgender people.
Keywords: inclusive policy, transgender, selection and recruit, diversity, discrimination, social construction, transphobia, gender dysphoria, gender identit
Comments Re: BAAQMD Permitting Rules
Full text linkComments regarding the Bay Area Air Quality Management District permitting rules. The comments are submitted by the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law on behalf of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and Communities for a Better Environment
TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT IN NAFTA’S REPLACEMENT: AN OLD GAS GUZZLER GETS A PAINT JOB
Full text linkThe North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)2 is now history, and, depending on where you are, as of July 1, 2020, the Canada- United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in Canada, the United- States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) in the United States, or the Tratado entre M´exico, Estados Unidos y Canad´a (T-MEC) is in force. The renegotiation of NAFTA fulfilled candidate Donald Trump’s promise to scrap or renegotiate NAFTA in order to protect and restore United States jobs and industrial capacity and increase economic growth, themes that consistently helped define his trade agenda politically as President. But what about the environment? When NAFTA was finalized early in the Clinton Administration in 1993, North American environmental groups insisted that the agreement address their concerns that liberalized trade and investment would lead to environmental dumping, environmental backsliding, weak environmental enforcement and scale effects (i.e., more trade equals more environmental impact). The environmental provisions of NAFTA and its environmental side agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), responded to many of those concerns, at least on paper, and set the broad contours of United States trade and environment policy ever since.
In this article, I will first review, analyze and critique the key changes that NAFTA’s replacement made to the environmental provisions of NAFTA and the NAAEC. I will then explain why the environmental provisions of CUSMA-USMCA and its ancillary Environmental Cooperation Agreement (ECA), like the environmental policy approach typical of post-NAFTA trade and investment agreements, are woefully inadequate for helping to solve urgent challenges, like climate change and loss of biodiversity, that the human enterprise faces in these ecologically dire times