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2015 Suffolk University commencement program, College of Arts & Sciences
Get PDFSuffolk University commencement programs detail the location, date, order of exercises, academic honors, speakers, administration, graduates, and other related information. Unless otherwise indicated, programs cover graduate and undergraduate ceremonies for all schoolshttps://dc.suffolk.edu/comm/1170/thumbnail.jp
DICTA, vol.16, no.1, 2015
Get PDFDICTA is the student newspaper of Suffolk University Law School. This collection represents a small selection of the paper\u27s full print run; paper copies of the full run of issues are available at the Moakley Archive.https://dc.suffolk.edu/dicta/1003/thumbnail.jp
Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University Annual Report for 2014-2015
Get PDFThese reports summarize the activities of the Rosenberg Institute during the academic year, including information related to public programming, visiting scholars, cooperation with the Asian Studies program at Suffolk College of Arts & Sciences, promotion of Suffolk\u27s Asia-related activities, community outreach, and funding. Most reports also contain photographs of scholars, staff, and events.https://dc.suffolk.edu/rireports/1004/thumbnail.jp
Ring-Fencing the Power Envelope of History\u27s Second Most Important Invention of All Time
No full textElectricity is the last regulated industry in the U.S., and there is radical change occurring in the regulatory paradigm. Electricity accounts for several hundred billion dollars in annual transactions which even exceed the total amount of corporate income taxes collected in the U.S. annually.
States are promoting more renewable energy in a different location on the customer side of the utility power meter. There is a new regulatory model to deliver this power. Proponents of this new emerging model of regulation assert that this will diversify democratic and distributed sources of power, accelerate a transition to more renewable resources, while positively changing the role of the utility. Critics counter that this will allow the more affluent customers to step away from shouldering a fair proportion of the social cost of providing the important invention at the core of the modern American economy. Legal change has consequences. This change legally ring-fences new policy incentives, winners and losers.
Long-established precedent require the allocation of costs and benefits of electricity service in a manner that is “fair and equitable,” “not unduly preferential,” “just and reasonable,” and “non-discriminatory” among consumers. This article examines these legal changes now occurring in the regulatory model, and the consequences for law and the social order. The article analyzes each of the three primary regulatory tools employed in the U.S. now to fundamentally change the dynamics of energy supply and use, and recent law suits which have called into question the constitutionality and legality of what is occurring
Busing and Beyond: Creating a Holistic Approach to Undergraduate Teaching and Learning with Archival Collections
Get PDFSuffolk University faculty, archivists, and librarians formed a collaborative team in 2015 to develop and disseminate open educational resources (OERS) based on the research collections held by Suffolk University. Archivists and librarians provided reference assistance, bibliographic instruction, research guides, technological support, and digitization services. The curricula were designed to develop students’ information literacy skills and allow them to take advantage of — and navigate the challenges of — a complex and sometimes overwhelming information landscape. In the next phase of the project, the team will develop and test additional OERs, evaluate the effects of student and faculty engagement with OERs, and create guidelines and recommendations for further OER use, expansion, and development at Suffolk and beyond.https://dc.suffolk.edu/archive-oer/1002/thumbnail.jp
State Refusal Triggers Constitutional Crisis: Past Is Prologue on Energy and Infrastructure
Get PDFThere is a new Constitutional “federalism” issue, pitting multiple states versus the federal government in a legal fight over control of competitive power supply as the U.S. moves to more renewable energy. In the new electric economy, while federal agencies mandate competition, several states have refused. FERC Order 1000 prohibits states\u27 favoring monopolies via state “Rights-of-First-Refusal” to insist that all power movement be given to incumbent monopolies rather than competitively allocated. This invokes both the Supremacy Clause under Article 8 of the Constitution, as well as the Article I Commerce Clause.
State sustainable energy policy has endured 10 recent significant legal challenges based on the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, and lost or settled 8 of these 10, and won none on the merits, with the other two dismissed on procedural grounds without reaching the merits of the claim or still pending. Separately, state sustainable energy policy recently has undergone 13 significant legal challenges pursuant to the dormant Commerce Clause of the Constitution, with states settling in favor of challengers or losing 9 or these 13 matters, and winning none on the merits of the claim with the remainder procedurally dismissed. The resolution of this battle will shape the future infrastructure of the country, as well as the emerging degree of competition in the energy economy
