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Oral history interview with Kenneth S. Greenberg (SOH-049)
Get PDFKenneth Greenberg, distinguished professor of history and former dean of Suffolk University’s College of Arts & Sciences, discusses his life from childhood in the 1950s to college and graduate work in the 1960s and 1970s. He describes his first teaching opportunity at the Harriett Beecher-Stowe Middle School in New York City and how it influenced his teaching style. Greenberg also goes into detail about his scholarship, service, and leadership activities within New York, Wisconsin, and Boston. He explains the background and motivations behind his books, essays, and documentary film surrounding the stories of Nat Turner. Related to Suffolk University, he reflects on the school’s history, his tenure as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and as chair of the history department. The interview ends with brief a discussion of his recent return to the faculty and his ongoing scholarly research and writing.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1044/thumbnail.jp
Halting, Intuition, Heuristics, and Action: Alan Turing and the Theoretical Constraints on AI-Lawyering
Get PDFThis is a reflection on the relationship of lawyering and artificial intelligence. Its goal is a better understanding of the theoretical constraints of the latter. The first part is an assessment of one particular and crucially important aspect in the theory of machine thinking – determining if the program being run will reach a conclusion. This is known as the “Halting Problem.” One question at the far reaches of AI capability is whether any physical machine presently conceivable could always, on its own, for every possible program, determine whether the program will ultimately generate an answer. The essence of the Halting Problem is that the answer to that specific question is “no.” Hence, unless a human programs the machine to decide it short of a final answer being generated, the machine won’t itself be able to decide whether it had thought enough and it was time to fish or cut bait. The second part is a philosophical reflection on what it means to decide something as opposed merely to think about it. Humans don’t have a Halting Problem. Even if they think as logically and formally as a machine, they also act. The thesis is that humans seem always in the case of every problem to be able to stop thinking and start doing, even if they don’t know whether the thinking is or will ever be complete. The third part is an assessment of what a law school of the future ought to look like, given this moderate view of the interaction between thinking machines and deciding humans
2018 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/1196/thumbnail.jp
Suffolk University Graduate Academic Catalog, College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School, 2018-2019
Get PDFThis catalog contains information for the graduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Sawyer Business School. The catalog is a PDF version of the Suffolk website, so many pages have repeated information and links in the document will not work.
The catalog is keyword searchable by clicking ctrl+f. A-Z course descriptions are also included here as separate PDF files with lists of CAS and SBS courses. Please contact the Archives if you need assistance navigating this catalog or finding information on degree requirements or course descriptions.https://dc.suffolk.edu/cassbs-catalogs/1179/thumbnail.jp
Rewired Infrastructure Post-Paris
Get PDFThe Trump Administration announced in 2017 that it is withdrawing the U.S. from the international Paris Agreement regarding climate change which went into full effect in 2016. More than half the states sued the EPA when it promulgated the Clean Power Plan (CPP) to reduce power sector carbon emissions by 32 percent by 2030; thereafter, the Supreme Court stayed enforcement of the regulation, pending eventual review on the merits. The Trump Administration began efforts to repeal the Obama Administration CPP which was designed to satisfy the U.S. Paris Agreement commitments to curb CO2 emissions from burning coal to generate electric power.
The CPP remains in protracted limbo, although even before, in 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy forecast that even the CCP was not demanding enough for the U.S. to achieve its Paris Agreement commitment to reduce CO2 emissions twenty-six to twenty-eight percent by 2025. This article examines recent data which suggests that the U.S. currently is on track under business-as-usual to reduce CO2 emissions twenty-seven to thirty-five percent below baseline 2005 levels by 2030, even reaching the 2032 CPP-required levels of CO2 reduction a full decade in advance, without assistance of the CPP now enjoined by the courts.
This article examines how this is possible under economic forces, what is happening to coal, the traditional work-horse of the electric power sector, and the ascendance of renewable energy alternatives. This article then pivots to look at the new dimension of land-use requirements to produce and transmit wind power from where it is most available to population centers.
We showcase several instances where single state opposition to siting new power lines, exercising state police power, frustrates the development and deployment of additional renewable energy sought to be transmitted through the state.
The exclusively state and local control over transmission and distribution power line siting varies in each state. This article peels the legal onion to distinguish whether this critical authority is controlled in each of the 50 states either by local land-use laws or is preempted by state law. There is no federal authority over transmission facility siting, despite the increasingly interstate nature of power transmission. The article concludes by analyzing the degree to which renewable energy can maintain reliability in the power grid
Unforced Errors, Legal Fulcrum & International Climate
Get PDFThis article examines from a scientific perspective the key overlooked chemical that is accelerating, to an unprecedented extent, international climate change, and which has been improperly and inaccurately evaluated by all of the international agencies involved with climate law. The article then examines legal mechanisms to correct the errors made by the international agencies, and recommends how to switch legal/regulatory course to achieve effective rapid applications in international developed and developing countries
Oral History Interview with James Nelson (SOH-047)
Get PDFJames “Jim” Nelson, the former Athletic Director at Suffolk University, discusses his forty-seven years at the university. Coach Nelson describes his early life, including his time attending, and playing, basketball at Boston College with basketball legend Bob Cousy. He discusses the growth of Suffolk University, the evolution of the athletics department, the various roles he played on campus, and notable sports highlights such as Suffolk’s participation in the NCAA championship tournaments. The interview concludes with Nelson’s account of the touching story of a Suffolk hockey player, John Gilpatrick, who was paralyzed during a game and miraculously regained his ability walk years later.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1035/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Nancy Stoll (SOH-044)
Get PDFNancy Stoll, dean of students emerita at Suffolk University from 1987 to 2016, discusses her early career, coming to Suffolk, and the evolution of the university’s student affairs division over 29 years. She describes key developments related to student life such as the creation of residence halls, the diversification of the student body, the growth of student support programs. Stoll also discusses the leadership changes that occurred at Suffolk from 2010-2018. The interview concludes with a discussion of her post-retirement work to establish a retiree association for the university.https://dc.suffolk.edu/soh/1032/thumbnail.jp
