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You Have the Right to Remain Private: Safeguarding Biometric Identifiers in Civil and Criminal Contexts
Full text linkNon-Fusulinid Foraminifera of the Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale, Including the Description of an Enigmatic Taxon
Full text linkThe Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation, Cisco Group (Virgilian Series) can be characterized by its foraminiferal assemblage. Although the chronostratigraphic position of the Finis Shale has been disputed for most of this century, the occurrence of Virgilian age foraminifera supports recent research placing the Finis at the base of the Cisco Group. The mid-unit shales of the Finis contain the highest generic diversity of foraminifera, and also contain an enigmatic taxon, Finisia martini, described herein
Politicized Motherhood: Sarah Palin’s Caged Grizzly Bear
Full text linkIn 2008, Senator John McCain elevated Sarah Palin’s status as a politician to the national level when he named her as his vice-presidential nominee for the Republican Party. Sarah Palin built her campaign on the foundation of her role as a mother. She drew attention to the numerous responsibilities mothers face as family caretakers and called on her fellow mothers to join her in the fight to build a safer America for their children. Palin made strides as the first GOP woman nominated for the vice-presidential role, but her own party was unconducive to women occupying leadership positions. Even so, she remained a loyal advocate of her party’s ideologyand messaging. Palin’s subscription to her party’s agenda, coupled with her propagation of conservative feminism which called on women to preserve traditional gender roles, set a narrow definition for what a high-level woman politician could look like. Palin curbed the potential gains her nomination in a male-dominated field could have made for American women because her own rhetoric prevented women politicians and constituents from gaining political autonomy outside of the constraints of the role of motherhood
Gene Patents: Incentive or Impediment for Pharmaceutical Innovation?
Full text linkThis research explores biopharmaceutical companies’ behavior of obtaining patentprotection under the tightened patentability standard for biotechnology innovation. To explore theimportance of innovations, we collected time-series data from twenty firms over two decades andexamined the role of biotechnology on a firm’s operating performance and profit via an empiricalregression model. The results suggest that greater R&D investment brings firms higher revenue andprofit, but a more influential patent does not seem to reward all companies. The possession ofbiotechnology can help companies increase revenue. For large-scale R&D firms, marketinginvolvement is particularly important to boost revenue, but low-scale R&D firms should avoidhaving a high ratio of biotechnology in their patent portfolio strategy
The Blue Nile and its Watercourse Through Ethiopia into Sudan and Egypt: A Paradigmatic Shift in Water Rights, An Analytical Overview
Full text linkThe February 2020 round of Washington-brokered talks among Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, on filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) failed to reach an agreement after Ethiopia walked away from the talks. The objective of this research is to examine critically the paradigmatic interfaces between the three water rights regimes of Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt. The research question is: what are the legal consequences of these two legal paradigm transitions for Ethiopia’s building the GERD? Argument seeks to sustain the proposition that the lowland riparian states of Sudan and Egypt have developed their water rights legal regimes, and in the case of Egypt, a multi-thousand year prestigious state apparatus, while Ethiopia’s course of development had truncated its inherent right to enjoy its own natural Nile watercourse resources. Since the research examines critically some of the civil law issues of water rights, some constitutional issues, some issues of international law, and some policy issues, the research paradigm must be in the nature of meta-law. Thus, the research methodology is to be library research, constructing a meta-legal critical narrative analysis. Ethiopia has carefully constructed a considerable state domain system, generated by a public trust over its river resources, with its people as priority beneficiaries. Egypt has maintained its ancient prescriptive claim of res communis over Nile waters, based on its ancient, subsisting, and considerable prestige. Whether this dispute remains intractable, or not, likely depends on mediating the reach in the various jurisdictions of the rights prescribed in international law, and already deployed by Ethiopia as the bases for their new public state domain
Residents of Gordon Plaza, Inc. v. Cantrell: Broad Interpretation of “Removal” Leaves Community with No Remedy
Full text linkCross Refined Coal, LLC, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Enabling Congressional Intent in the Energy Transition?
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