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Constitutional Law - Don\u27t Shoot the Messenger: The First Circuit Upholds Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban - Worman v. Healey, 922 F.3d 26 (1st Cir. 2019)
Get PDFMental Health In Massachusetts Prisons
Get PDFIn November of last year, former Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division released the findings of an investigation of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections (MDOC). They found several violations of prisoner’ constitutionals rights for mental health cases under the Eighth Amendment. The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments for criminal defendants. The findings reveal a lack of structured mental health care for MDOC prisoners, untrained employees, and unnecessary abuse of restrictive housing for prisoners designated under a mental health watch program
Oral History Interview with Betsy McDowell (SOH-064 video recording and transcript)
Get PDFIn this interview, Betsy McDowell, former associate director of Suffolk University’s Career Development Center, begins by reflecting upon her educational background and early career. She describes her career at Suffolk, including her specific roles, the development of the department, her work creating programs for students, meaningful collaborations with campus colleagues, and her approach to mentoring students. She concludes with career advice for students and alumni post-graduation, as well as talking about her life post-retirement.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1059/thumbnail.jp
CAS Honors Symposium Program, Fall 2022
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Assessing the Prospects for Fair Housing
Get PDFThis is a review of Furthering Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in America’s Neighborhoods, a 2021 collection of essays edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale and Maia S. Woluchem. Furthering Fair Housing provides a detailed account of the long history leading to the 2015 affirmatively further fair housing rule, an evaluation of the short-lived rule’s effects and potential flaws, and a robust set of insights and recommendations for both federal officials revising the rule and local officials tasked with implementing it going forward. This review summarizes the volume’s individual chapters before discussing a few themes that run across the volume. These include, among others, the question of whether to prioritize planning or legal enforcement in crafting the rule, the tensions between mobility strategies and place-based investment, and the proper scope of local control and flexibility in developing strategies to further fair housing
Reconfiguring social relations through time in a financialised economy and a rise of nationalism
Get PDFA decade after the 2008-9 global financial crisis, the world witnessed two grave dangers: one is the COVID pandemic; the other is the rise of nationalism in a number of countries. The global financial crisis had revealed how connected the global economy is and how it had disproportionately affected the underclass. The pandemic has once again illustrated both phenomena. To react against globalized forces, some embrace a nationalist ideology that harbours xenophobia and racism. (Most notably are anti-Asian sentiments in white-dominated nations and East Asian countries\u27 stringent border control during the pandemic.) How can feminist political economists understand these multiple forces that debilitate the autonomy of those who are the most affected by a global economy, a pandemic, and nationalism?
In this paper, I argue that feminist political economists (FPE) need to address these issues from the vantage point of time because meaningful social relations can only be created and sustained through reproductive labour. When the financial market disciplines time and when nationalism manipulates it, local-based human relations are made irrelevant to the market and rendered insignificant by state ideology.
The case study in this paper focuses on the turbulent years 2019-2020 in Hong Kong where the yearlong mass protests were subdued by the rise of COVID infections and the passing of the National Security Law. The backdrop of these years was high-profile IPOs of China-based corporations (such as Alibaba) in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. A FPE critique of time will add to current studies that argue Hong Kong mass protests are results of political and economic discontents. Politically, Hong Kong citizens were disappointed that not only did the Chinese Communist Party break the promise of granting a high degree of autonomy to the Hong Kong people, but it has also quickened the pace to integrate the former British colony into One China. Economically, protestors grieved against the widened income gap and soaring housing prices that stagnate economic mobility and endanger human sustenance.
Both types of discontents need to be understood from the time perspective. Informationalised finance and finacialised economy annihilate time and social relations. Digital information transmitted through private cables is said to provide real-time financial information for AI to make human-error-free decisions. On the other hand, the One China nationalist ideology uses a longue durée meta narrative to justify the speedy integration of lost territories to redeem national dignity and achieve Chinese domination. In this ideology, there is no social relation, only Chinese subject to the nation. Both market and state ideologies subject Hong Kong people to a “running out of time” mentality, making some chose radical strategies during protests or emigrating elsewhere for a start over.
To counter this temporality, FPE recognises reproductive labour that relies on analogue technology. These activities show that social relations are shaped by tedious life-sustaining activities. Some renewed interests are volunteers sewing masks in workshops and protestors creating installation arts for resistance. These activities reveal the necessary time for labour to reproduce and the drudge nature of this type of labour