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BRUCE K. MILLER (1945–2024): A TRIBUTE
No full textA Tribute to Bruce K. Miller, who served on the Western New England University Law School faculty from 1980 until his retirement in 2020. Throughout his tenure Bruce fully committed himself to advancing the Law School’s pedagogy, scholarship and social justice mission
CONTRACT RIGHTS AFTER LOCHNER: THE CLAUSE THAT TIME FORGOT
No full textThe Contract Clause occupies a unique position in our constitutional jurisprudence. Its language sweeps broadly and the Marshall Court wielded it like a bludgeon, curtailing the power of overzealous state governments. But this sweeping power was curbed as the end of the Lochner era rendered the Contract Clause all but a dead letter.
Rendered inert for years by atextual interpretations, the rise of textualism and “history and tradition” offers new hope to impaired contractors. Building on this momentum, this Article conducts the first, complete fifty-state survey of state court constitutions and proposes that the Marshall Court’s original understanding of the Contract Clause was correct.
Rather than endorse a climatic repudiation of nearly 100 years of jurisprudence in one swoop, this Article seeks an incrementalist approach to bring the Contract Clause in line with its history and tradition: it offers the tiers of scrutiny as a transitory mechanism to harmonize jurisprudence that has otherwise been left by the wayside.
This Article contends that by endorsing a transitory approach to nonoriginalist Contract Clause precedent, the Supreme Court can ensure a more durable mechanism for effectuating results consonant with history and tradition. In doing so, the Court can preserve its legitimacy while upholding the constitutional principles it values
Establishing Discriminative Control In Multioperant Settings
No full textThe development of functional communication is an important goal for individuals diagnosed with autism. It is common to begin with dense schedules of reinforcement when establishing mands, however schedule thinning is important for meaningful treatment outcomes. Although multiple schedules can be used to bring behavior under discriminative control and avoid high rates of manding when a reinforcer is unavailable, it is important to extend research to multioperant environments in which several reinforcers may be available simultaneously or at different times. We evaluated a method for establishing discriminative control over multiple distinct mands. Our findings demonstrated discriminative control over several mand topographies and the establishment of SΔ control such that multiple mand topographies were discriminated in the absence of extended exposure to extinction
Generalization Outcomes Given Multiple Exemplars or Mediating Response Strategies
Full text linkThis study examined the recombinative generalization (RG) outcomes in three variations of matrix training conditions: overlapping of training components (MET), non-overlapping of training components (Control), and non-overlapping of training components with a mediating response (MeR). Participants were first taught to translate three different sets of Malay words into English on a computer; each training set was associated with a training condition. Following training, participants completed RG probes with written or multiple-choice paper assessments. In Experiment 1, a multielement design with all conditions was implemented with four participants. In Experiment 2, a reversal and alternating-treatments design was implemented with six other participants to evaluate the RG outcomes of each condition when trained in isolation. When the mediating response was available, all ten participants demonstrated either partial or complete generalization during RG probes. Although findings from Experiment 1 suggested that training with non-overlapping matrices (Control and MeR) was the most effective and efficient, findings from Experiment 2 demonstrated that training with overlapping matrix (MET) was most effective in producing positive RG outcomes, and carryover effects from MET in Experiment 1 may have led to the positive generalization outcomes attributed to the other conditions. The limitations of each training condition were assessed with a generalization error analysis, offering important insights for educators and practitioners to identify the most suitable training strategies that optimize generalization outcomes. We suggest areas for future research, including the evaluation of an alternative overlapping matrix planner (MET)
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