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In College Acceptance Season, FAFSA Delays Mean Families Can’t Make Decisions
No full textHigh school seniors face decisions that impact the next four years and beyond. FAFSA delays mean families do not have financial aid information to make college decisions
Contracting Out and Partnering with AI
No full textWhat’s a technical communicator to do in response to generative AI? We recommend a couple of directions
The Heroine Archetype
Get PDFTheorists and researchers have documented some of the characteristics of heroes which include humility, endurance, courage, vulnerability, perseverance, and the choice to solve societal problems with moral action. These characteristics help a hero complete a journey derived from Campbell’s The Hero with A Thousand Faces. The journey’s cycle begins with a normal state when a call to adventure moves a person to face tests, rely on helpers and transform the self to solve dilemmas. Identifying with a hero as an archetype can activate a psychodynamic and open awareness for insight and emotional strength. Usually, a hero is seen as non-gender specific even though essentially male, as in mankind. Establishing the heroine archetype’s characteristics may expand and give balance to the view of the hero-heroine. Feminist studies indicate that relational knowing could be a heroine’s unique characteristic. Sophia, a heroine archetype of wisdom, supports this characteristic with her quality of interconnection, and adds generativity to the mix. Current research on women’s empowerment affirms the heroine archetype’s strength through relational knowing. The heroine’s cycle of transformation may include navigating the tests of sexism at work and finding self- care amidst societal stereotypes of women as caretakers for others. The heroine archetype’s strengths can help both men and women in achieving balance and power in their lives
The Injunction Function: Is IP Law Promoting Markets for Innovators and Creators?
Get PDF32 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 4 (2024) The Federalist Society hosted this panel on November 11, 2023, as part of their 2023 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. This panel focuses on the role injunctions play in the facilitation or constraining commercialization of patent technologies and copyright, the current state of the law, and its meaning for next-generation innovations like creative uses of artificial intelligence
Protecting Minority Representation in an Era of Political Polarization and the Hollowing Out of Voting Rights Protections
Get PDFThe United States Supreme Court has hollowed out various voting rights protections, leaving all voters—minority and nonminority—less protected in a politically polarized America. Surprisingly, the Court has continued to protect representation for minority race voters who live in racially polarized areas. However, minority race voters risk losing that protection, typically provided through majority-minority districts authorized under the Voting Rights Act, if they build cross-racial coalitions with their neighbors. Under the Court’s interpretation of the VRA, cross-racial voting coalitions may be less protected than local majorities comprised of a single race of voters. The loss of such protection could leave their representation subject to the mercies of politically polarized national and state legislatures that may wish to, and may be allowed to, silence their voices and those of their cross-racial political allies. If America wishes to guarantee the voices of minority voters are heard when those voices are part of cross-racial coalitions, courts may need to revisit how minority political voices can be protected. For example, they may do so broadly by reconsidering the reach of the Fifteenth Amendment’s bar on race-based limitations on the right to vote or somewhat narrowly by rethinking the viability of voting structures—such as multimember districting—that were largely abandoned when used in the past to limit representation of minority voters but could be repurposed to help those voters have their voices heard today
Taxing the New With the Old: Capturing the Value of Data with the Corporate Income Tax in Virginia
Get PDFThe Commonwealth of Virginia markets itself as “The Largest Data Center Market in the World.” In 2019, the Northern Virginia market alone was the largest in the United States by inventory, with room to grow. In 2021, data centers in Northern Virginia required an estimated 1,686 megawatts of power; that number is expected to increase by 200 megawatts in the near future, reflecting data centers currently under development. For reference, in 2022, it was estimated that more than 100 homes could be powered by one megawatt of solar power in Virginia. Historically, data centers have been located in the Commonwealth due to “the fiber-optic network in Northern Virginia, proximity to Washington, D.C., relatively low-cost energy and a concerted early effort on the part of Loudoun County.” Today, these massive concrete and metal structures dot the landscape of Northern Virginia, can be found on the outskirts of Richmond, and are beginning to migrate to more remote parts of the state
Breaking Barriers: Examining the Impact of Special Education Services on Juvenile Justice Involvement
Get PDFThe following article is an exploration of the intersection between special education—namely, the long-repudiated practice of removing children with moderate disabilities from general education classrooms and placing them into “self-contained” classrooms away from their peers—and the involvement of those children in the criminal legal system. The article analyzes the parallels between the “othering” effect of segregating children with disabilities in schools, and the eventual segregation from their communities that they face in juvenile detention facilities. In a juvenile justice system where a disproportionate number of its children have been diagnosed with some form of intellectual or behavioral disability, this article implores the reader to ask whether the public education system is complicit in setting children with disabilities on a path to incarceration, and what changes in attitude and policy will be required to change this. Finally, this article provides a stark reminder of the fact that the problems which face children with disabilities are only compounded by issues of race and class, to which legal counsel and the public education system must not turn a blind eye