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2025 Suffolk University commencement program, College of Arts & Sciences and Sawyer Business School
Full text linkSuffolk University commencement programs detail the location, date, order of exercises, academic honors, speakers, administration, graduates, and other related information.https://dc.suffolk.edu/comm/1222/thumbnail.jp
Thomas F. Lambert, Jr. Papers (MS106), 1935-2000: A Finding Aid
Full text linkThe papers of Thomas F. Lambert Jr., torts scholar and Suffolk University Law Professor, are a compilation of materials that document different aspects of Lambert’s life and career. The first set of materials highlight his studies at Oxford in the 1930s, including diaries and photographs of his life in England and travels around Europe. While traveling in Germany, he was witness to parades and public events held by the Nazi Party, including the visit of Italian leader Benito Mussolini. From Lambert’s time as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, there are a few photographs and documents from the 1946 trial of German Nazi Party official Martin Bormann. The collection includes copies of Lambert’s publications related to torts and other aspects of the law, law school notebooks, articles about Lambert’s life and career, plus a collection of small dairies filled with his favorite quotes and sayings. Another segment of the materials is a series of interviews of Lambert conducted by his friend Angela (Bonin) Gelber in 1994. The interviews focus on different aspects of his life including Lambert\u27s early life in college, his experience at the Nuremberg Trials, as well as his later life and relationship with his wife Elizabeth
Educational Biophilic Design
No full textPopularized by E.O Wilson in 1984, biophilic design looks to bridge the connection between the built environment and the natural world. This connection is more than adding decorative greenery to a space. Biophilic design looks at the human experience, emotions, and environment to curate an interior fit to enhance the occupant’s well-being
Lotus Journey
No full textThe thesis investigates the relationship between wellness, mental health, and biophilia, emphasising the ways in which a close relationship with nature may improve psychological well-being. The study looks at how biophilic design features, such as organic materials, natural light, and vegetation, might boost mental health outcomes including mood, stress levels, and cognitive function. In addition, the study discusses obstacles to nature access and proposes incorporating biophilic concepts into social planning and mental health procedures. As a critical element of psychological durability and a transformational approach to mental health and wellness, the thesis emphasises the importance of our relationship with nature
Gather Home: A Minority Centered Third Place
No full textThird Places, a term coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, refers to places where one can go to form new connections and stimulate the mind where they are not required to assume a role. In first places, such as the home, there is an associated purpose in being there (ie. rest and recharging) and there is little interaction with new experiences. In second places such as work or school, there is a general requirement to perform to meet a deadline or benchmark. Third places remain as a free, uninhibited space and act as a vessel that nourish the human need for uninhibited connection in situations where a power dynamic is not present.
For queer people of color, physical third places are an irreplaceable solution to dwindling community and widespread loneliness.
In this study, third places act as the container that facilitates the maintenance and development of human connection and physical wellbeing in a technologically-reliant society
Silver Tsunami or Silver Rush? Extracting Value from Elders
Full text linkI examine how the United States finances elder care, arguing that the legal processes structuring elder care tend to widen economic inequality and divide the interests of lower-income people against each other along generational, gendered, and racialized lines. I begin with two case narratives drawn from my practice experience as a poverty lawyer for older adults. One narrative involves an elder homeowner, while the other involves an elder renter. Both face crises of unmet care needs, the threat of homelessness, and ultimately the outcome that many older people dread most: institutionalization in a nursing home. I use these narratives as a jumping off point to explain how lower-income elders become, effectively, commodities for health care and housing entities to extract profit from.
I argue these stories are not exceptional, but typical, because they play out the logic of legal processes governing elder care. I examine the increasing privatization of Medicare, especially focusing on how Medicare Advantage plans convert age-related subsidies into profit, at an unjustifiable cost to elders, their caregivers, and taxpayers. Regarding elder homeowners in particular, I show how Medicaid law sets up a race between for-profit actors in the long-term care industry, on the one hand, and elders’ potential heirs, on the other, to see who can seize elders’ home equity before the other does. And regarding elder renters, I examine how even older people without assets present valuable age-related revenue streams for the housing and long-term care industries to extract.
Lastly, I consider proposed legal reforms and find none of them satisfying, arguing the crisis of elder care in our increasingly unequal society requires transformation of underlying social conditions, rather than superficial reforms. However, using the framework of “non-reformist reforms,” I ultimately argue for a strategy of struggling for incremental reforms to help build solidarity and power among oppressed classes and point the way toward an end goal of decommodified housing and health care
A Clearer Road to Ethical Criminal Discovery Procedures
No full textRecent amendments to Rule 14 of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal Procedure (MRCP), effective March 1, 2025, clarify “the prosecutor\u27s absolute duty to disclose exculpatory evidence in a timely manner.” Committee for Public Counsel Services [(CPCS)] v. Attorney General, 480 Mass. 700, 705 (2018). The title of Rule 14 has been changed from “Pretrial Discovery” to “Pretrial Discovery from the Prosecution,” and the rule now focuses exclusively on delineating the material subject to mandatory disclosure under the Rule’s automatic discovery provisions and Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). All other components of the former Rule 14 have been reorganized into new rules Rule 14.1 (Reciprocal Discovery from the Defense), Rule 14.2 (Discovery Procedures), Rule 14.3 (Discovery of Affirmative Defenses; Self Defense and First Aggressor) and Rule 14.4 (Discovery of Mental Health Issues). A few substantive changes were made to those provisions, including to the obligations of defense counsel.
The revisions to Rule 14 will ensure consistency and clarity by codifying the existing common law and emphasizing the prosecution’s expansive disclosure obligations. Additionally, they encourage judicial oversight by providing judges with the power to “inquire of the prosecutor what actions were taken to achieve compliance with this rule.” See MRCP 14(a)(2)(E) (2025 ed.). This article summarizes the most significant alterations and offers guidance about what is expected of the parties. Also provided is a detailed checklist of these expectations
The Village Square
No full textUrban communities are becoming more socially and culturally diverse, consisting of individuals with different social and cultural orientations. The experiences, cultural exposure, and knowledge these individuals have gained over time have created unconscious biases that influence their judgment and interactions with others in the community. These unconscious biases, which are subconscious, can hinder social cohesion and enhance division and tension in these multicultural and diverse communities if they are not properly addressed. Social cohesion is important for the sustainability and progress of our urban communities. One way to foster and strengthen social cohesion is by creating common spaces that provide opportunities for people to connect, socialize, and create memories with others from different social and cultural backgrounds. These spaces, where intercultural and intersocial dialogues and engagements can happen, can positively influence individuals’ perceptions of other cultural and social groups
Spanish Heritage Speakers and Latinidad: How Spanish Fluency Influences Self-Perceived Latinidad Among Heritage Speakers
No full textAbstract of Research: This study examines 1) how heritage speakers\u27 self-perceived proficiency and fluency in Spanish influence their identity as Latinos, and 2) the generational similarities and differences in their lived experiences. Through surveys and interviews, the relationship between Spanish proficiency and fluency and perceived Latinidad among nine Spanish heritage speakers (with Latin American ancestry) has been assessed. The research suggests that no statistically significant relationship was found between language proficiency or fluency and perceived Latinismo. However, qualitative findings revealed that participants construct their Latino identity based on cultural values, lived experiences, and a sense of belonging rather than language ability alone. Additionally, generational differences emerged, particularly regarding assimilation experiences and language expectations within families. The findings provide a more equitable and inclusive conversation around sociocultural identity and language