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Reparations for Slavery: A Productive Strategy?
Get PDFPublished as Chapter 1 in Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective, Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache & Caroline Elkins, eds.https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/book_sections/1455/thumbnail.jp
What Counts as Data?
Get PDFWe live in an age of information. But whether information counts as data depends on the questions we put to it. The same bit of information can constitute important data for some questions, but be irrelevant to others. And even when relevant, the same bit of data can speak to one aspect of our question while having little to say about another. Knowing what counts as data, and what it is data of, makes or breaks a data-driven approach. Yet that need for clarity sometimes gets ignored or assumed away. In this essay, I examine what counts as data in legal corpus linguistics, a method of interpretation that uses large datasets of actual language use to give empirical heft to claims about how “ordinary people” would use or understand legal terminology—claims that pervade legal interpretation. Unlike corpus linguistics in the field of linguistics, however, legal corpus linguistic analysis tends not to articulate or examine just what its datasets can reveal. Practitioners are thus liable to make large claims on the basis of materials that don’t support them—materials that provide information, but do not constitute data that answers the questions legal corpus linguistics poses. This essay undertakes a more careful parsing of what the corpora preferred by legal corpus linguistics can, and cannot, reveal. Although I conclude that legal corpus linguistics currently faces a mismatch between information and aspiration, I also suggest areas of legal work where it can be of real use
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian discusses her sculptural work “The Republic of Unknown Territory” and immigration
Get PDFEpisode 13 features Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, interdisciplinary artist and University at Buffalo Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Department of Art. Udondian discusses her new sculptural work The Republic of Unknown Territory on exhibit in the UB Arts Collaboratory. The work is focused on immigrants’ experiences in migrating and building society. Udondian art installation highlights the politics of the post-colonial global market in second-hand clothing. The gallery exhibit runs from February 27 to March 27, 2021, in The Space Between
