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Graduate Research Through the Rebirth of Social Work Education in Ethiopia: Trends, Geographic Distribution, and Thematic Areas
Get PDFThe research activities of graduate students of social work at Addis Ababa University (AAU) have not been documented and analyzed in a way that it could be published. This article explores and examines social work graduate research from 2006 to 2019. Data and our unit of analysis included 580 theses and dissertations listed in graduation books and another 280 electronically stored master’s theses and dissertations from the AAU Institutional Repository. The total graduates in the program (2006-2019) were 752, of which 65% (484) were males. Further analysis was made based on review of 280 sample master’s theses and doctoral dissertations. The study site for 73% of these theses and dissertations was in Addis Ababa. The rural-urban comparative analysis indicates that 84% of research projects were carried out in urban areas. In terms of the methodological orientations, 81% employed qualitative methods. From the fifteen thematic categories identified in our study, the five most researched thematic areas which covered 67% of all master’s thesis and PhD research projects include issues of children; women and gender; health and healthcare services; community and community development, and family, marriage, and divorce. This article concludes that the rebirth of social work education at AAU in 2004 paved the way for the expansion of graduate social work research. The urban bias of the research demonstrates a limitation of social work graduate research
Developments in Indiana Appellate Procedure: Rule Amendments, Remarkable Case Law, and Court Guidance for Appellate Practitioners
No full textReimagining Substantive Due Process Liberty Interests as Privileges or Immunities of Citizenship
No full textThis article engages with Justice Thomas’s proposal to reimagine select modern substantive due process (SDP) liberty interests as privileges or immunities of citizenship. It is well known that the branch of SDP theory that allows a court to declare uncodified, unenumerated fundamental rights within the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause has been controversial. The conservative bench’s stripping of federally-protected abortion choice in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization marked the first pruning of a recognized SDP liberty interest since the liberal bench overturned Lochner v. New York in 1937. It also called into question whether this iteration of the U.S. Supreme Court will continue to honor other established SDP rights. Although Justice Thomas’s Dobbs concurrence declared that he would support overturning the Griswold-line of SDP privacy cases, he also offered a possible alternative future wherein some of those liberty interests might be reimagined as privileges or immunities of citizenship. This proposal merits discussion in at least two respects: first, to advance the basic understanding of the Privileges and/or Immunities Clauses themselves; and second, for the opportunity to establish a firmer foundation for certain unenumerated rights. This article thus engages with previous scholarship and jurisprudence surrounding these three clauses while adding a new analysis: namely, an initial thought experiment addressing the specific issue of whether it is plausible to reimagine any SDP liberty interests as privileges or immunities of citizenship and, if so, which rights would be encompassed
Eliding Consent in the Case of Pandemic Countermeasures Authorized Only for Emergency Use
No full textFour months after the first vaccines against Covid-19 became available to the public, and just as some universities announced plans to require inoculations, the Boston Globe quoted me as (alone) suggesting that mandates would conflict with federal law. When Congress created a special mechanism for the emergency use of still investigational products, it directed providers to reveal, among other things, that individuals remained free to decline such an intervention; only after full FDA approval of a medical countermeasure would this disclosure obligation become inapplicable. I have watched with dismay over the last three years as nearly everyone—including Executive branch officials, federal and state judges, and various academic commentators— cavalierly dismissed an entirely valid statutory objection. This Article probes what accounts for the universal rejection of an argument that, on further reflection, continues to strike me as far from frivolous
Codified Disparity: The Medicaid IMD Exclusion, Mental Health Parity, and Congressional Intent
No full textCis, Trans and Lesbian Women in Situations of Violence and Access to Justice in Northwest Argentina: From Diagnosis to Action
No full textIs Justice Possible in Russian Courts? A Case Study of Housing Disputes
No full textHow do Russian judges go about achieving justice? This question is explored through a case study of disputes initiated by vulnerable (often elderly) actors who seek to invalidate contracts for the sale of their residences on the grounds that they were tricked or duped. The analysis is grounded in a set of ninety recent judicial opinions from courts across Russia. It reveals that, despite a longstanding distaste for witnesses, judges are open to hearing testimony in these cases. But they rarely rely on such evidence in making their decisions, preferring instead to prioritize documentary evidence. Doing so revealed that Russian judges’ understanding of justice is primarily procedural. Their preference for documentary evidence allowed them to meet the quick turnaround times mandated by the procedural codes. This, in turn, served judges’ career interests by allowing them to compile a track record that makes them strong candidates for promotion
