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Perennial Beauty #17
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Perennial Beauty #11
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Realism and Jurisprudence: A Contemporary Assessment
Get PDFBook Review of Realistic Theory of Law, by Brian Z. Tamanaha, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017, p. 202, $34.99
Bringing Specificity to Child Custody Provisions in California
Get PDFThis Comment evaluates the empirical evidence from social science studies to demonstrate that there is currently a sturdy body of social science research to justify using tangible evidence to define terms in the California Family Code, the California Family Courts, and beyond. Because the standard for custody determinations in California is the “best interest of the child” per the state’s legislation, social science research provides a vehicle that can define the “best interest of the child standard.” This Comment argues that this can be done empirically by calculating the minimum amount of time a child—in the aggregate— needs with each parent during a two-week period in order to have an optimal opportunity for successful development. Including this calculation in either the statutes or as a judicial bright-line rule would offer a starting point to apply the best interest of the child standard as a matter of policy in all family court proceedings. This Comment prefers this approach for matters involving children over the current method of determining parenting plans on a case-by-case basis using evidentiary proceedings in contested litigation. Additionally, the empirically supported demarcation is a baseline of how much time children need with each parent to maximally benefit during their developmental years and this Comment argues that it should be instituted as a rebuttable presumption in any proceedings involving children. Moreover, the empirically supported demarcation would provide much-needed clarity to parents, attorneys, and judges from the present, disjointed approach that contains neither adequate legislative regulation nor judicial bright-line rules.
Part I identifies the issues that confuse parents, lawyers, and judges and examines how social science can provide clarity. A discussion of terminology follows. Part II discusses examples of how social science research findings have influenced both legislative and judicial processes as well as discusses limitations of social science methodologies and models. Part III explores the development of the best interest of the child standard, California’s implementation of it, and the shortcomings of the current usage. Finally, Part IV provides a detailed exposition of the germane social science research findings about children having maximum contact with both of their parents
The Right to Housing: Possessing Home in California
Get PDFIn an area where the median home costs 3,121, the highest earners were making eleven times more than the lowest.
Among those most affected by the rising rents are minority communities. A U.C. Berkeley and California Housing Partnership study found that Bay Area neighborhoods lost twenty-eight percent of minority low-income residents when the neighborhoods experienced a thirty percent rent increase. Further, African American families are seven times more likely to face homelessness than white families
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Sixth Annual Veterans Law Conference Moral and Ethical Leadership: Practicing leadership in today’s volatile global economic and political environment
Get PDFKeynote address:
Major General Matthew P. Beevers Deputy Adjutant General, California Army National Guard, State Military Department.
Panelists:
Major John-Paul Wheatcroft, JAG United States Marine Corps, Human Resource Advisor, Officer Selection Station Berkeley.
Dr. Mickey P. McGee, PhD, Associate Professor Golden Gate University, Ageno School of Business.
Laura Renner, Founder Freedom Makers
California Department of Public Health: Petition Request for action on Petition
Get PDFJuly 23, 2019 letter to Gonzalo Perez, Environmental Program Manager at the Radiological Health Branch of the CA Department of Public Health, asking for a response or action related to Greenaction’s petition to revoke Tetra Tech’s California Radiological Materials License
Abortion Laws in Nigeria: A Case for Reform
Get PDFThe available statistics indicate that over 1,000,000 abortions occur in Nigeria annually, representing about 33 abortions per 1,000 women of child bearing age. It has also been asserted that illegal abortion is responsible for about 11% of maternal death in Nigeria and 50% of such deaths involve adolescents and young women. Although, it may be difficult to confirm these reports and statistics by different researchers, mainly because of the absence of official figures owing to the clandestine nature of abortion in Nigeria, there is no doubt that abortions are generally procured by women for various reasons, namely: financial and emotional inability to care for a baby; fear of rejection by partners, parents, peer groups, religious and community leaders and society if the pregnancy is discovered; as means of birth control; physical and mental reasons; if they are too young or too sick to have a baby; desire to get rid of unwanted pregnancies arising from several reasons including rape or failure of contraception, etc. Unfortunately, the state of the law on abortion in Nigeria has failed to recognize these realities thereby unwittingly encouraging illegal abortions with the attendant consequences. This paper examines the state of the law on abortion in Nigeria in comparison with other jurisdictions with a view to demonstrating that the Nigerian law is archaic and in dire need of reform