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Gifted Garrett interview, 13 January 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Gifted Garrett discusses his early life growing up in the Cleveland neighborhoods of Miles, Tremont, St. Clair-Superior, and Kinsman in the 1980s and 1990s. He describes how the Miles neighborhood has changed throughout the years. At the end of the interview, Garrett details his path to owning Kyrie’s Kafe, a restaurant located on Kinsman Road
Diplomatic Asylum
Full text linkDiplomatic asylum is not part of general international law, although it has purportedly acquired a regional legal dimension in Latin America. Yet, even that regional legal dimension is inchoate. After the 2024 Ecuador-Mexico diplomatic asylum crisis, the International Court of Justice now has an opportunity to decide the fate of diplomatic asylum in the light of general international law. However, the International Court of Justice, as a conservative institution that focuses upon positive international law, is not expected to make any innovations in respect of the current state of diplomatic asylum within general international law. In the near future, diplomatic asylum is to remain a matter for international politics, international comity and diplomacy
Courting Oblivion Part II: How to Revive American Reconstruction by Feigning Forgetfulness
Full text linkThis is the second part of the three-part Courting Oblivion series on the legal concept of oblivion, meaning legal forgetfulness, letting go of the past, or forgiveness usually to predicate a second chance, a restart, or even an era of reconstruction. This Article demonstrates how to apply the “right to move on” described in Part I to the law in the United States through acts of oblivion and amnesty. It describes the general uses of acts of oblivion and amnesty to the general framework of government in the United States, leading to the final discussion in Part III about the specifics of Chelsea Manning’s unjust trial and punishment as a meaningful premise upon which to base these reforms.
The Article opens with a gender-based concept of American popular sovereignty and power. This concept is used to frame the Article’s following discussion about presidential immunity—a topic that was recently sidelined in the judiciary by the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket.” The American concept of popular sovereignty is a valuable through-line from Lord Coke’s earlier description of treason in his Institutes to the counter-feudal definition of treason in the U.S. Constitution that remains the law today.
After distinguishing the United States as an anti-feudal government, the Article explains the practical origins and uses of acts of oblivion and amnesty in times of political upheaval and crisis when the Court fails in its duty to administer the law with prudence and moderation. It explains how the Supreme Court initially used its shadow docket to dangerously mandate that the matter of Trump’s feudal immunity be resolved by national politics. It furthermore explains the problematic conceptual underpinnings of Nixon v. Fitzgerald in feudalistic cost-benefit balancing tests that directly presaged the Supreme Court’s error in Trump v. United States.
The remainder of the Article explains how acts of oblivion and amnesty can reform sedition-like statutes to create meaningful legal distinctions between whistleblowers, irresponsible parties, and spies. It explains how Congress can simultaneously address and reform the shadow docket. And it explains how Congress can guide the Court to better adjudicate non-delegation doctrine cases especially now that the Supreme Court overruled Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises.
This Article concludes with an exploration of remembering and forgetting with special focus upon the revolutionary motions of thought discussed by Hannah Arendt with a tribute to the strategies of Diana Nyad
Assisted Outpatient Treatment: A State-by-State Comparative Review
Full text linkAssisted outpatient treatment, otherwise known as preventive outpatient commitment, is rapidly expanding across the United States, aiming to address mental health needs and reduce homelessness, hospital costs, and community violence. Since 2019, fifteen preventive outpatient commitment statutes have been passed or expanded. These statutes, which authorize courts to mandate community treatment for nondangerous individuals with mental illnesses, have evaded close scrutiny, rest on misconceptions, and raise significant constitutional concerns. An analysis of legislative debates, court opinions, and scholarship reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the prevalence of these laws, which contributes to their speedy passage. Additionally, no analysis exists of these statutes’ varying compositions. Consequently, commentators underestimate their potential scope and enforceability. Furthermore, a lack of clarity regarding the elements responsive to states’ parens patriae and police power interests hinders accurate legal and policy analyses.
This Article explicates current preventive outpatient commitment statutes to enhance understanding of states’ authority to compel community treatment. It seeks to dispel common misconceptions about these statutes, including their prevalence, minimal invasiveness, applicability to only those lacking insight into their condition, and unenforceability through courts’ contempt power. It also offers a detailed analysis of the aspects of these statutes most crucial to their justifiability, i.e., criteria related to dangerousness and treatment decision-making incapacity. Such examination is necessary to understand the evolving relationship between states and individuals with mental disorders, discern the goals of compelled treatment statutes, and assess their legality. It is also essential for evaluating the success of these statutes and determining when a state’s objectives have been fulfilled such that courts may not renew commitment orders.
This analysis aims to enrich future debates about the authority underpinning these statutes, their ideal composition, and their impact. It also lays the foundation for future projects to examine the constitutionality of these statutes, their efficacy, and their broader justifications
Ronnie Trey Williams interview, 11 April 2025
No full textIn this 2025 interview, Ronnie Trey Williams, the owner and founder of Hood Honey 216, discusses his early memories at his grandparents’ house in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in the 1990s and early 2000s. Primarily, he discusses spending time outside, his family’s neighbors, and positive memories relating to his family history. Additionally, he describes how he began keeping bees in the neighborhood, how he became involved in urban farming, and how Cleveland as a whole has changed over time
Applying Lean Six Sigma for Operational Excellence
No full textThis comprehensive textbook covers Lean Six Sigma methodology for achieving operational excellence across various industries. The book provides an in-depth exploration of Lean and Six Sigma principles, tools, and techniques, from foundational concepts to practical applications in manufacturing, healthcare, service industries, and government sectors. It offers a structured learning approach with clear objectives, detailed chapters, and practical insights into process improvement, waste reduction, and continuous organizational transformation.https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/msl_ae_ebooks/1035/thumbnail.jp
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting
No full textThe Friends of the Library Annual Meeting is open to all Friends members to discuss programming for the 2025/2026 semesters.
The agenda and meeting minutes for the June 10, 2025 meeting can be downloaded by clicking the blue download button on the top right side of this page
White Christian Nationalism & Antisemitism: A True Threat
Full text linkFor a short period following World War II, it seemed like the World is aspiring to become a better place. Article I of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflected that notion, announcing that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” That was the closest we, as a family of nations, ever came to fulfill the “dream of reason”—a state where we all work together, free from hate and prejudices, towards a common goal: A better world for ourselves and our posterity.
This is no longer the case. Dark clouds are hovering over American democracy. Dark forces are aiming to break the institutions and traditions we so carefully labored to establish. For the first time in our history, a President refused to concede his defeat in the general election, causing a (failed) insurrection and an attack on the Capitol.
It is in that light that we should examine the threat posed by White Christian Nationalism to the health and safety of American Jewry. We cannot allow images from another century, and another continent, to be repeated here. The legal system has provided us with several tools to prevent at least some of those dire consequences. We should use those tools wisely