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Address at the Lincoln Charter of the Forest Conference, Bishop Grosseteste University: The Charter of the Forest: Evolving Human Rights in Nature
Get PDFThis conference is a singular event, long over due. It has been 258 years since William Blackstone celebrated “these two sacred charters,”1 Carta de Foresta and Magna Carta, with his celebrated publication of their authentic texts. In 2015, the Great Charter of Liberties enjoyed scholarly, political and popular focus. The companion Forest Charter was and is too much neglected.2 I salute the American Bar Association, and Dan Magraw, for the ABA’s educational focus of the Forest Charter, as well as Magna Carta. Today we restore some balance with this conference’s searching and insightful examination of the Forest Charter’s significance
The Relationship between Social Media, Self-Objectification and Self-Esteem in Young Adult Women
No full textThe relationship that a young woman has with her body can have immeasurable effects throughout her life. How a woman views and feels about her body is often affected by self-objectification and body image evaluation, which, the media promotes by way of social comparison. The current research sought to determine if social media has a similar effect on self-objectification and state self-esteem as has been seen in proven with traditional media. Results from the current study indicate that exposure to an objectified and culturally deemed idealized woman via social media did not elicit a statistically significant difference in reported levels of self-objectification and state self-esteem as exposure to the same woman placed in a traditional media condition. However, the results did support other research findings showing that reported level of depression is significantly related to feelings of self-esteem and objectified body consciousness. These findings will be discussed in the context of the relationship between social media technologies and female body image during the critical age of young adulthood. Keywords: Body image, social media, self-objectification, and self-esteem
A Gendered Approach to Security and Violence in Refugee Camps
Get PDFThe purpose of this research is to explore the connection between the lack of security and increase of gender based violence in refugee camps. There are several factors that contribute to insecurity in refugee camps including but not limited to overcrowding, inadequate supplies of food and fuel sources, inadequate, ineffective, and under staffing and the physical layouts of camps. Many of these factors are the causes of the others and vice versa as well as have other consequences for refugees. All of these factors contribute to violence against refugees directly and indirectly. Furthermore, my research will illustrate how these factors also impede other refugee rights and exacerbate the challenges refugees face daily. Current international policies and law often conflict with national policies and law that are put in place to protect refugees. Both are cited to ensure refugee rights and protection but often do the opposite and instead protect the interests of the state. Attempts to create solutions to many of the issues in refugee camps or address the impacts of them have been made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the international community, and NGOs, however they have been widely ineffective or not considered all aspects of the problem
The Life and Legacy of Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cooke: Truly an Exemplary Life. A Life Well Lived
Get PDFIt is an appropriate tribute to the late Chief Judge of New York, Lawrence H. Cooke, that this article be devoted to a man who many leaders of the bench, bar, and academia consider to be the greatest jurist to ever serve on New York State\u27s highest court. Chief Judge Cooke, better known as Larry, served with honor and distinction as an associate judge of the Court of Appeals, and later as Chief Judge
A Behavioral Biometrics User Authentication Study Using Motion Data from Android Smartphones
No full textThis is a study of the behavioral biometric of smartphone motion to determine the potential accuracy of authenticating users on smartphone devices. The study used the application Sensor Kinetics Pro and the Weka machine-learning library to analyze accelerometer and gyroscope data. The study conducted three experiments for the research. They were conducted in spring 2015, fall 2015, and spring 2016. The final experiment in spring 2016 used six Android-based smartphones to capture data from 60 participants and each participant performed 20 trials of two motions: bringing the phone up to eye level for review, and then bringing the phone to the ear, resulting in 1200 runs. The resulting sensor datasets were used for machine learning training and testing. The study used filtering data to remove noise, and then aggregated the data and used them as inputs to the Weka Machine Learning tool. The study used several machine classification algorithms: the Multilayer Perception (MLP), k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN), Naïve Bayes (N-B), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) machine learning classification algorithms. The study reached authentication accuracies of up to 93% thus supporting the use of behavioral motion biometrics for user authentication. Preliminary studies with smaller numbers of participants in spring 2015 and in fall 2015 also produced 90%+ authentication accuracy
Value Hypocrisy and Policy Sincerity: A Food Law Case Study
Get PDFt is tempting to say that in 2017 there is a unique problem of hypocrisy in politics, where words and behaviors are so often in opposition. In fact, hypocrisy is nothing new. A robust legal and psychological literature on the importance of procedural justice demonstrates a longstanding concern with developing more just governing processes. One of the important features of this scholarship is that it does not focus only on the consequences of policymaking, in which behaviors, but not words, are relevant. Instead, it respects the intrinsic importance of fair process, lending credence not only to votes but also to rhetoric. This scholarship, in other words, makes room for considerations of hypocrisy in policymaking.
New psychological research reinforces that people hate hypocrisy and suggests that the hatred is not because hypocrisy is ineffective, or because hypocrisy demonstrates any specific instrumental weakness. Hypocrisy is condemned and unsatisfying because it is an intentional disconnect between the values signaled in words and achieved in deeds. This recognition is equally important in policy analysis.
This Article argues, for the first time, that the concept of hypocrisy is a useful analytical tool in policymaking and policy advocacy. Using a new framework of “value hypocrisy”—in which the public values that motivate a specific policy goal are not embodied in the policy instrument—and “policy sincerity”—in which a policy instrument does actualize motivating values—this Article makes two points about the connection between policy instruments and their motivating values. First, and most importantly, analysis of policy instrument choice tends to focus on the ability of the instrument to achieve the policy goal, but the non-instrumental nature of the policy tool, its value sincerity, deserves increased attention. That is to say, an instrument that can achieve a stated goal may nevertheless be suboptimal if it does not fit with the values that motivate the policy goal in the first place.
Given the unique importance of food to both our bare survival and frivolous indulgences, this Article introduces hypocrisy as an analytical tool for instrument choice by using a food law and policy case study. This Article’s second point is that common law litigation deserves more consideration as a food law and policy instrument because, in addition to consequential benefits of the common law, the common law fits well with the values such as community empowerment, participatory decisionmaking, and progressive traditionalism, that motivate the food movement. The common law is individualistic and collective, public and private, just like eating
Quantifying the Contours of Power: Chief Justice Roberts & Justice Kennedy in Criminal Justice Cases
Get PDFThis Article seeks to contribute to the debate with an empirical analysis of voting behavior in criminal justice cases decided during the first ten Terms of the Roberts Court era. The following section presents the study’s case selection and introduces the types of measures used to illuminate influence on the High Court (Part II). Court- and individual-level tendencies (Part III) identify potential spheres of influence occupied by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy. These bases of judicial power are examined separately in Part IV (Chief Justice Roberts) and Part V (Justice Kennedy). Some possible implications of Justice Scalia’s death on these power bases are addressed in Part VI
Shooting Stars and Dancing Fish: A Walk to the World We Want
Get PDFFrom the foreword by Durwood Zaelke, President, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, Washington, DC.
“Since the beginning of time, human knowledge and culture have been passed down through stories. Short stories, songs, prayers, poems, even paintings can stick in your mind forever. These have always been the most powerful ways we learn and remember.
Tony is not only one of the world’s greatest lawyers, he is also one of the world’s greatest storytellers.
This book, in which he generously shares his experiences, his scars, and most importantly his humanity, is Tony’s gift to generations to come.
But he does not entrust us with his life stories for entertainment. These stories have a purpose.
As Tony reminds us all, the time for taking is over. And the time for talking is over. These stories are a call to action.
Through humor, beauty and sometimes fear, Tony brilliantly demonstrates how we can and we should ‘paint our future.’ He opens our minds to the possibilities for brighter surroundings.
Concepts like creative justice and the law of life, are simple yet brilliant examples of how we must learn to interact with the world around us.
This is not a textbook meant just for lawyers, policymakers or scientists. Rather it distills concepts like law, diplomacy and observation to show where we need to go and how we can get there.
Whether it be writing, singing or painting, Tony has always had a gift for storytelling. This is a storybook for the future, and we are lucky to have Tony showing all of us the way.
Labor Leading on Climate: A Policy Platform to Address Rising Inequality and Rising Sea Levels in New York State
Get PDFWith the renewed need for state action, this paper presents a case study of a labor-led initiative in New York State that seeks to address both economic inequality and the climate crisis. It discusses how organized labor, which has historically represented fossil fuel workers and has not been seen as a traditional climate ally, put forth a comprehensive climate jobs plan that could meaningfully reduce carbon emissions while also creating good, family-sustaining jobs to reduce income inequality. As the need for a broader coalition to advocate for sensible climate policy increases, this case study provides a road map for states across the country on how non-traditional allies can come together around a policy agenda that fights both inequality and climate change
The Passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968: Stories to Be Told
Get PDFThe enactment of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 ( FHA ) is a story filled with intrigue - coercion, duplicity, and back-room deals. In The Secret History of the Fair Housing Act, Professor Jonathan Zasloff provides a riveting account of the maneuvers by the various protagonists in that story. Review of Jonathan Zasloff’s The Secret History of the Fair Housing Act, 53 Hary. J. on Legis. 247 (2016), http://property.jotwell.com/the-passage-of-the-fair-housing-act-of-1968-stories-to-be-told/