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All the President\u27s Election Lawsuits
No full textRebecca Green, professor of law at William & Mary and co-director of its Election Law Program, gives an update on the president\u27s attempts to overturn the results of the election by filing (what most legal experts say are baseless) lawsuits
Center for Legal Aid and Regional Development in Pristina, Kosovo
No full textThis summer, Jake will be working with the Center for Legal Aid and Regional Development (CLARD), located in Kosovo. CLARD is an NGO that serves vulnerable individuals and marginalized segments of Kosovo’s population by providing fair access to justice. He will specifically be creating a manual on access to criminal justice in Kosovo that CLARD will distribute throughout the country, as well as help with their continued work establishing the rule of law in Kosovo
Winrock Countering Trafficking of Persons in Bangladesh
No full textThis summer, I will be working for Winrock International in their Bangladesh Counter Trafficking in Persons (BCTIP)/Cambodia Trafficking in Persons (CTIP) programs. Through this internship, I will be working to reduce the prevalence of human trafficking and child marriage in Bangladesh and Cambodia by partnering with community leaders to improve victims’ access to assistance and to increase the local government’s ability to prosecute offenders
Building Virtual Rapport: Real Relationships for Effective Online Learning
No full textEven in traditional in-person classes, building a relationship with students that encourages the free flow of ideas and motivates them to communicate with peers and teachers is challenging. Add technology and physical distance to this equation, and it can seem insurmountable. But it does not have to be. In this session, I will provide practical tips and information on how you can build rapport with your students in a virtual setting. According to Moore\u27s theory of transactional distance, effective online learning is predicated upon narrowing the transactional distance between students and instructors, students and other students, and students and the materials. This session focuses on one side of this triangle: establishing rapport between students and instructors. Establishing this kind of rapport requires more than just timely feedback and informative lectures; it requires professors to humanize themselves and their courses. Every professor will have a different path to building rapport with their students, and it is important that they plan ahead of time to build an authentic approach to establishing rapport
Steps Toward Abolishing Capital Punishment: Incrementalism in the American Death Penalty
Get PDFWhile scholars seem united on the sentiment that abolition is the ultimate resting place for capital sentencing in the United States, their arguments vary as to how the system will reach that point. For example, Carol and Jordan Steiker argue that the systemic disarray of capital sentencing in the United States is a result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s attempt to constitutionalize capital sentencing. This Article contends that the U.S. Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence that has developed since 1972, when the Court reset capital sentencing in Furman v. Georgia, has aided the Court in gradually narrowing capital punishment, as a result of the controlling “evolving standards of decency” standard. Specifically, the Court has narrowed capital punishment with respect to who may be sentenced to death, how sentences of death are imposed, and how defendants are executed. As a result, this Article contends that the “evolving standards of decency” standard paves the path toward abolition.
First, this Article shows that incrementalism has led to the current landscape of capital punishment in the United States. Then, the Article contends that an incremental approach to reaching abolition is inherent in the governing “evolving standards of decency” standard and the most effective and realistic way of achieving abolition. Finally, the Article proposes the next steps in this approach to eliminating the death penalty in America
Promoting Student Engagement In - and Out - of the Online Classroom
Get PDFTrue online learning is much more than the emergency remote teaching that we all undertook this past spring. One of the biggest challenges in successful online learning is building and maintaining student engagement with the professor, with the materials, and with the other students in the class. This presentation will briefly discuss best practices for engaging students online. We will then demonstrate multiple techniques for creating student buy-in even before the initial class meeting, then building upon that buy-in using features (on Zoom and beyond) like polling/quizzing, breakout rooms, and discussion forums in active and innovative ways