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Channel Your Inner Kindergartner: Fostering a Culture Conducive to Creativity in Legal Practice
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic requires lawyers to address a myriad of unique problems—and highlights the need for lawyers to engage as creative problem solvers. Lawyers are faced with determining how best to deliver legal services while contending with travel restrictions, social distancing, stay-in-place measures, and business and court closures. Furthermore, questions arise as to how to tackle the access to justice gap in the midst of the largest global recession since the Great Depression./= / \u3e/= / \u3eAlthough lawyers need to work collaboratively to come up with creative solutions to these unprecedented problems, a challenge administered to groups of business students, lawyers, CEOs, engineers, and kindergartners revealed that lawyers do not work efficiently and effectively to creatively solve problems. In dozens of challenges, kindergartners outperformed all of the other groups. Instead of collaborating and focusing on completing the task, the lawyers were engaged in status management—trying to determine how they fit into the group and who was in charge. While not smarter than the lawyers, the kindergarteners solved the problem best because they were smarter in the way that they worked with each other./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe rigid hierarchy that tends to exist in the practice of law lends itself to increased status management. Moreover, the legal profession in the United States frequently discourages collaboration and suppresses creativity. To combat the barriers to collaboration and creativity in practice, lawyers need to “work together in a smarter way” to generate creative solutions to problems. They need to learn to behave like kindergartners./= / \u3e/= / \u3eThis article argues that in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unprecedented rate of change, and the growing access to justice gap, lawyers need to develop high performing groups where creativity and innovation flourish. To that end, the article introduces three skill sets of highly performing groups that lawyers can use to create a group that can perform far beyond the sum of the team members where they are working collaboratively to creatively solve problems
Interactions of Carbon Dioxide on Nickel Surface: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of Plasma- Catalysis
Get PDFThe adsorption probability and reaction behavior of CO2 on nickel catalyst surfaces are investigated employing reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the ReaxFF potential. Such catalyst is used in the dry reforming reaction where greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, react producing synthesis gas, a potential clean energy source. However, this reaction is strongly endothermic due to the reactants\u27 thermodynamic stability and requires a significant amount of energy. The selectivity and energy efficiency can be improved by combining a nonthermal plasma with a catalyst. Further insight into the underlying mechanisms of this process is needed to increase its applicability. Through reactive molecular dynamics simulations, it is possible to obtain a complete description of the reactions at the atomic scale. In this research, single impacts of carbon dioxide were performed on a clean Ni(111) surface and a Ni(111) surface partially covered with methyl groups at a temperature of 400 K. CO2 remained kinetically stable on both surfaces after impact
Housing Law—Not Over This Threshold: The Crisis of Continued Housing Discrimination Against Queer Americans—Smith v. Avanti, 249 F. Supp. 3d 1194 (D. Colo. 2017)
Get PDFConstitutional Law—Narrowly Reading Law Enforcement Activity Exception to Privacy Act in Favor of Privacy Rights—Garris v. FBI, 937 F.3d 1284 (9th Cir. 2019)
Get PDFTightening the Legal \u27Net\u27: The Constitution\u27s Supremacy Clause Straddle of the Power Divide
Get PDFThis article analyzes the Constitutional Supremacy Clause tension preempting state law that addresses climate change. The article confronts and dissects legal responses to this century’s meta issue -- the rapid warming of the Planet. Net metering laws, enacted in 80% of U.S. states, are the primary legal regulations to control climate warming. This article analyzes in detail three recent federal cases that activate a Supremacy Clause preemptive stand-off between federal and state law, and presents a detailed state-by-state analysis of which states’ laws are poised to be preempted (presented in comparative state tables, analytic footnoted text, and 9 figures/maps illustrating variations in these state laws and their potential preemption)./= / \u3e/= / \u3eIf state net metering laws regulated only routine technologies, this would become a footnote and not merit scholarship on the legal stage. However, the federal government separately, in July 2020, revised regulations substantially restricted four decades of federal regulatory incentives for small renewable energy projects under the statute that President Jimmy Carter characterized as the response to fight the “moral equivalent of war!” This article takes on a timely issue in detail that is not addressed by any other recent law review articles./= / \u3e/= / \u3eAt risk is whether U.S. law pushes world climate to the “tipping points . . . that will alter regional and global environmental balances . . . irreversible within the time span of our current civilization.” This article includes coverage of critical case law development through August 2020, as well as a dramatic new restrictive change in relevant federal regulations promulgated in July 2020. All 418 footnotes are inserted and complete (and already vetted by a member of our law review who is my research assistant). This article:/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• Examines and documents that 75% of the states with questionable legal practices a decade ago have changed their laws to avoid legal prohibitions, while others have not/= / \u3e/= / \u3e• dissects the overhanging Constitutional Supremacy Clause crisis surrounding the primary state laws supporting renewable energy to address climate change/= / \u3e/= / \u3eThe article parses the still-unresolved Constitutional legality of state laws in 80% of the states and their impact on the U.S. climate response. In its conclusion, this article provides a legal path for states to insulate their state laws from Constitutional challenge in order to address climate change
2021 Suffolk University commencement program, Law School
Get PDFSuffolk University commencement programs detail the location, date, order of exercises, academic honors, speakers, administration, graduates, and other related information.https://dc.suffolk.edu/comm/1200/thumbnail.jp
Suffolk University Law School Alumni Magazine, Winter 2021 issue
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Mapping and Comparing Political Ideologies, Masculinity Ideologies, and Shame Ideologies
Get PDFThis study explored the relationships among political ideologies, masculinity ideologies, and shame ideologies within three online communities. Three different ideological communities, all on Reddit (a discussion-based social news website), were chosen based on previous research suggesting they differ in terms of their conceptualizations of gender and support for or rejection of feminism: r/TheRedPill, r/MensRights, and r/MensLib. This study uses a framework for understanding Ideologies as Complex Adaptive Systems (ICAS) as articulated by Thagard (2017), which uses Cognitive and Affective Maps (CAMs) as its primary tool of analysis. Using the postings on the Reddit sites as our raw data, we created CAMs to assist in comparing the conceptual and affective qualities of each community. We conducted the study in three phases: in Phase One, we used Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) methods and correlational analyses to create a set of general ideological CAMs for each community. We also constructed a set of CAMs depicting whom each group views as ingroups and outgroups in their creation of social identities. In Phase Two, we created a set of CAMs for each community’s dominant conception of gender. In Phase Three, we constructed a set of CAMs depicting each community’s relationship with the ideas of shame and injustice. The discussion section is organized into five main chapters. The first chapter contains reflections on the process of using CAMs, the next chapter is on the study’s limitations and future directions, and the final three are on the study findings’ empirical, theoretical, and clinical implications. The empirical implications of the study contribute to the following areas of research: the role of shame in ideology, the political construction of victimhood, and Ambivalent Sexism. In the theoretical implications chapter, I discuss the study’s potential contributions to theory development in the CAMs methodology. The final chapter offers reflections on the study\u27s clinical implications, especially related to gender identity development, sexual violence, and the role of ideology in emotion regulation