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Getting Engaged: Public Engagement Quiz for “Unity in Action” at SAAACAM
No full textI developed the Getting Engaged Capstone Project in partnership with the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) and their new Museum. The primary purpose of this project is to provide the “Unity in Action,” room, the first exhibit in the final hall of the SAAACAM Museum, with materials to support its cause. This project is dedicated to doing virtually what the “Unity in Action” room is trying to do in person – to send the audience out into the world with a tangible project they can participate in that will help create positive change in the community around them, this can take many forms, one of these forms is a quiz that is discussed here. This project has collected data on different activist groups including their history and the accomplishments they have had in San Antonio, throughout Texas and beyond. This project takes the collected data and imports it into a code program, allowing it to be formatted as a quiz to promote public engagement and general awareness. The quiz and code will be presented to SAAACAM at the end of this project.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/capstone/1019/thumbnail.jp
Beyond Compliance: Rethinking Ethical Accounting through AI and ESG
No full textWith the increasing adoption of these modern technologies in world markets while maintaining these ethical principles, there is an increasing need for alignment between technology development and ethical responsibility. For instance, in the world of accounting, there is an increasing demand to maintain alignment between technology development and ethics. It is for this reason that these researchers have chosen to explore the link between Artificial Intelligence, ESG, and financial reporting ethics.
The goal of this study is to look at new concerns and moral risks that appear when ESG expectations, AI systems, and accounting practices interact. Earlier research usually studies these topics separately, such as ESG for fraud detection or AI for improving report accuracy. This project looks at how they overlap, including issues such as algorithmic bias, weak ESG disclosures, and the risk of automated tools reducing the role of human judgment (Rana et al., 2022; Schweitzer, 2024).
This study adopts qualitative research methods, incorporating articles, industry reports, and guidelines on ethics in accounting, sustainability, and AI adoption (LexisNexis, 2023; Mishra et al., 2022; Refinitiv, n.d.). By critical analysis, it constructs concepts to create a model for ethical reporting in finance based on AI literacy, stakeholder discussions, and real-time ESG analysis (Sofianti, 2024; Adelakun et al., 2024).
The expected outcome is a conceptually grounded framework that improves prevailing ethics frameworks by integrating tech opportunities with professional ethics and societal values. It is thereby concluded that, in spite of its dependency on practice transformation by AI and ESG, it is in fact their convergence that is responsible for financial reporting integrity’s relationship with its associated trust in corporations (Chen, 2024; Sustainability & AI Taskforce, 2024)
Quien soy sin mi idioma nativo?: The Loss of the Spanish Language and its Effects on Identity
No full textSt. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2025 (December)
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2025 (December)
No full texthttps://commons.stmarytx.edu/grad2025dec/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Sovereign Acre
No full textWhat if the next constitutional crisis is not declared from a presidential podium but tyranny forged into a deed? Not a contested election. Not a rogue legislature. Not even a runaway court. This time, it is quieter—with a deed signed and title passed, a new sovereign is crowned in private ink. Across the country, billionaire land grabs are redrawing the map of municipal governance itself. As wealthy elites and corporate oligarchs carve out private enclaves—from the privatized contract city of Sandy Springs, Georgia, to the unsettling governance of The Woodlands, Texas—we bear witness to public sovereignty giving way to oligarchic rule. Slowly. Quietly. Deed by silent deed.
These private states are not simply gated communities policed by overzealous HOA boards. They are full-fledged jurisdictions ruled by those whose power derives not from public consent but from private wealth. Billionaires and corporate oligarchs impose their own rule of law—zoning, taxing, regulating, and even policing—without bearing the constitutional obligations and accountability that once constrained public power. Due process becomes optional, and equal protection descends to little more than a fluid formality. In these private states, ownership no longer secures liberty; it demands allegiance to oligarchic power. As billionaires and corporate elites advance their march against public governance, the judiciary and legislatures continue to turn a blind eye. The public function doctrine lies in tatters, and the nondelegation doctrine is but a whisper of days gone by. Courts and lawmakers, charmed by promises of “efficiency” and “innovation,” have willingly ceded traditional safeguards, allowing constitutional protections to decay under the weight of privatized rule. In the meantime, the American vision of common governance—once indivisible, public, and accountable—is being parceled out, one sovereign acre at a time.
The largest billionaire land grab since the Great Depression adds urgency to this conversation. The acquisition of entire towns and vast rural tracts by the likes of Elon Musk and Marc Cuban makes clear that private sovereignty is no longer a theoretical risk but a reality to be enjoyed by the highest bidder. Let us not be naïve—these projects are not mere anomalies of eccentric titans of industry; they are blueprints for a dystopian future where public governance retreats, constitutional obligations unravel, and democracy survives only beyond the gates of billionaire control.
This Article introduces the concept of deed-based sovereignty, defined here as privatized governance constructed not through elections or public charters, but through property law’s oldest devices—restrictive covenants, easements, and development agreements. Situating these micro-sovereignties within the longer arc of American land power—from feudal manors to company towns—this Article asks what happens when ownership, not citizenship, becomes the defining metric of lawful authority. It argues that legislatures and the judiciary must end the indulgence that wealthy elites and corporate oligarchs are merely private actors engaged in private conduct. Where private hands govern as the state, constitutional limits must follow. Reforging sovereignty in property law demands both a revival of the public function doctrine and a renewed commitment to enforcing nondelegation principles, actions that are necessary to prevent the covert transfer of public power beyond the reach of constitutional accountability. Only by restoring these safeguards can courts fulfill their duty to ensure the principles of public sovereignty—and the democratic principles anchored to it—are not surrendered to the silent ledgers of private deeds
Visible and invisible empires: the revival of the Ku Klux Klan 100 years ago
No full textHatred and violence breed division, and division breeds more hatred and more violence. In an America where our politics has become name-calling, finger-pointing, scapegoating, and whataboutisms, and violence, unfortunately, it is safe to say our nation has entered this self-perpetuating cycle. A place for malicious groups concerned with growth, power, and profit to capture the angry, the stressed, and the less informed in their webs of elaborate lies and misleading, misinterpreted numbers the way they have in decades past