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Putting Exclusionary Zoning in Its Place: Affordable Housing and Geographical Scale
No full textarticle published in law journalThe term “exclusionary zoning” typically describes a particular phenomenon: suburban large-lot zoning that reduces the supply of developable land and drives up housing prices. But exclusionary zoning in its modern form also occurs both within the urban core and region-wide. Exclusionary zoning at the sub-local and regional scales results in property values that fully capitalize the benefits of living in higher-wage regions, and the value of local public goods (like high-quality schools). Lower-income households then cannot meaningfully access those advantages, even if every municipality accommodates its fair share of regional need. The long-standing focus of exclusionary zoning on the content of local ordinances, instead of on these broader exclusionary dynamics, has defined the problem of exclusionary zoning too narrowly. We remedy that deficiency in our contribution to the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s Fortieth Anniversary issue
Similarity between Parent’s and Children’s Coping with Childhood Cancer
No full textPsy 296b - Honors Seminar - Bruce Compas and Leslie KirbyThe current study will examine the degree of similarity in ways of coping in a sample of children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents. There is a relationship between mother’s coping and children’s coping, which suggests that there may be benefit in teaching parents coping strategies in interventions to improve children’s coping with cancer.Vanderbilt UniversityPsychological SciencesThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Honors Program in Psychological Sciences under the Direction of Prof. Bruce E. Compa
Bombing Sterling Hall: Protest, Rhetoric, and Violence in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2013. Awarded Honors.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
The Fury and the Mire: Readers, Reading, and Our Digital World
Get PDFEnglish Department Honors Thesis.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Binary Domination and Bondage: Blake's Representations of Race, Nationalism, and Gender
Get PDFEnglish Department Honors Thesis.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Simulation and optimization of pulsed Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer for clinical application at 3T
Get PDFChemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) is often overlooked as a method
for the investigation of metabolites in vivo due to the time required to
obtain a full spectrum. We investigated the feasibility and optimization of
a pulsed CEST technique that interleaves an echo planer imaging (EPI)
readout with saturation in order to reduce time. In addition, we
incorporated a multi-shot EPI sequence that reduces distortions. To achieve
this, computer simulations based on the Bloch equations were used to
optimize scan parameters while keeping scan time in the clinical timeframe.
To analyze the data, a number of Lorentizian fitting algorithms were
investigated to evaluate their ability to isolate CEST contrast. By using a
30 ms pulse at 2 μT, we were able to achieve CEST contrast on the order of
2% and could provide APT maps based on an adapted Lorentzian fitting method.
In the process of this fitting, it was also discovered that MTR contrast
could also be recovered from the CEST data, allowing for MT and CEST to be
acquired at the same time.Department of Physics and AstronomyCollege of Arts and Scienc
Toward an Approach to Identify Effective Practices for Faculty Teaching Community-Based Learning (CBL) Courses: A Study Project for Rhodes College and Members of the Teagle-funded Consortium
No full textLeadership Policy and Organizations Department Capstone ProjectDepartment of Leadership Policy and OrganizationsPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
William Franke on the Unsayable
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Professor William Franke about his book A Philosophy of the Unsayable
How Modern Choice of Law Helped to Kill the Private Attorney General
No full textarticle published in law reviewIt is a great honor to be asked to deliver the second Annual Brainerd Currie Lecture at Mercer University School of Law. Brainerd Currie was an immensely influential law professor who is recognized as the leading scholar of conflict of laws in the twentieth century. Mercer has the distinction of being both Currie's law school alma mater as well as
his first academic appointment, probably the two most significant intellectual influences on any scholar. More recently, Mercer has attracted other influential conflicts scholars and cheerleaders of the topic, including Dean Gary Simson, Larry Ribstein, Hal Lewis, and
Bruce Posnak, among others. Thus, Mercer is a most fitting host for such an occasion.
The lecture provides an occasion to celebrate the highly influential work of Brainerd Currie in the area of conflict of laws. Currie formulated an entirely new approach to choice of law that has revolutionized the way courts and scholars think about the problem. With fifty years of hindsight, however, it is possible to look back on the influence of Currie's
work with quite a bit more perspective than might have been possible earlier. With that perspective, I hope to argue that Currie's approach has had unintended and, for Currie, perverse consequences. Without thinking carefully about the long-term consequences of their choice-oflaw decisions or how the choice-of-law landscape would play a role in the
ever-increasing pressures presented by interstate and international trade, courts using modern approaches to choice of law have contributed to the demise of the private attorney general. In doing so, the choice-oflaw revolution, which Currie sparked in order to enable states to more effectively promote state policies, ultimately has produced the opposite result. This Essay will briefly explain Currie's approach to choice of law and
its significant influence for modern choice-of-law approaches. It will then explain how one of those approaches, the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws,3 both facilitated further state experimentation with choice-of-law policies and enabled private parties to gain some certainty regarding the governing law for contracts. This Essay will show how the choice-of-law clauses sanctioned in the Second Restatement work in tandem with other choice clauses to enable private parties to avoid undesired laws. Finally, this Essay will argue that the choice clauses have led to the demise of the private attorney general