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Presidential Executive Action: Unilaterally Changing the World’s Critical Technology and Infrastructure
Get PDFCan the President, through executive action with no approval of Congress whatsoever, change the world? Declared President Obama: “If Congress won\u27t act soon to protect future generations, I will.” What is considered the second most important invention in history—electricity—has had its legal regulation and technological foundation fundamentally changed by unilateral executive action inthe past two years. As a result of this unilateral executive action, critical technology and modern society are changing fundamentally.This is not without legal challenge: Shortly after the Obama Administration announced its Clean Power Plan, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner announced that he and others would file a lawsuit against President Obama for unconstitutional use of Presidential directives. Litigation takes time; the court challenge progresses. Addressing both constitutional and administrative issues, this Article examines the core legal “flex” of executive power within the contours of U.S. constitutional governance.This Article examines pivotal executive actions taken through the “back door” with no legislative concurrence, and some legislative disapproval, to affect the supply of power in America and climate change. Unilateral executive action is changing fundamental technology for the second most important invention in history. Losing 20 percent of its market share in an administrative heartbeat, unilateral executive branch environmental regulation and interpretation is now constricting coal combustion from its historical position supplying more than half of all U.S. electric power less than five years ago, to a rapidly plunging minority share. This fundamentally alters the United States’ environment and climate. This Article explores the law and nuances enwrapping how the United States regulates the second most important invention in history, and how it changes the foundationof the American economy
Eminent Domain and Serrated Power
Get PDFThis article provides an examination of the legal issues affecting siting of new wind projects and the ability of states to use preemptive state powers to preempt local zoning and land-use issues to circumvent local opposition to wind power siting, with detailed case studies of law in different states
Treatment as an Individual and the Priority of Persons over Groups in Antidiscrimination Law
Get PDFThe Supreme Court has said that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination require that all persons be treated as individuals and that the laws operate primarily to protect “persons, not groups.” This article shows that the legal requirement of individual treatment has two distinct components: a rule invalidating inferences about persons based on their membership in protected groups and a rule prohibiting disparate treatment for the sake of group interests or intergroup equality. The first rule is rooted in moral principles of respect for individual autonomy. The second rule is a principle that gives lexical priority to individual rights over group welfare. Both are formal, anti-classification rules that abjure reliance on group concerns, and both are central to antidiscrimination law. Neither rule, however, mandates group-blindness or entails the categorical irrelevance of group classifications. Antidiscrimination law cannot be completely understood without reference to goals of substantive intergroup equality. The rules of individual treatment and the protection of “persons, not groups” represent formal constraints on the means by which substantive equality can be sought. They should not be mistaken as substitutes for it
Preserving the Integrity of the Arbitration Process: Requiring the Full and Fair Application of the Claim Preclusion Doctrine
Get PDFResolving Custodial in Custodial Interrogation Pertaining to Miranda Warnings: The Balance between Individual Rights and Police Effectiveness
Get PDFSuffolk University Undergraduate Academic Catalog, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016-2017
Get PDFThis catalog contains information for the undergraduate programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. 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 a separate PDF file listing all CAS course offerings. 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/1172/thumbnail.jp