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Cuba\u27s Energy Future: Options Based on Renewables and Non-Carbon-Based Sources
Get PDFMy intention is to research and write on article on Cuba\u27s energy future. Specifically, I plan to consider the options for a sustainable energy future using renewable energy sources and not carbon-dependent sources. This analysis will require both an examination of the island\u27s historical energy challenges as well as consideration of the options for developing a sustainable energy infrastructure with international governmental (e.g. UN, World Bank etc.) and regional governmental (e.g. EU) support- an analysis that will also require consideration of the island nation\u27s socialist political system and its willingness to engage internationally. The topic is one, clearly, with implications for climate change and environmental protection, as well as one that raises questions of environmental justice (since energy availability has not, even since the Revolution, been equally enjoyed by all.
Shattering Stereotypes
Get PDFAmidst the paradoxical landscape of gender progress and regression, this article explores the intricate intersection of recent legal developments and persistent gender disparities. As the U.S. Supreme Court attains near gender parity, paradoxically, its Dobbs opinion overturns Roe v. Wade, spotlighting the precarious state of reproductive autonomy. Professor Kerri Stone\u27s seminal work, Panes of the Glass Ceiling, illuminates pervasive gender stereotypes shaping workplace dynamics. Beyond examining stereotyping\u27s legal implications, Stone reveals the unspoken beliefs manifesting as distinct panes of the glass ceiling. This analysis delves into each pane, underscoring the evolving challenges facing women in contemporary workplaces and offering a nuanced legal framework to navigate and dismantle entrenched gender biases
Understanding Civil Rights Litigation, Third Edition
No full textThe third edition: Covers all aspects of civil rights and constitutional litigation, including the history of civil rights legislation in the United States; the substantive elements of Section 1983 and Bivens causes of action; individual immunity defenses; governmental liability and immunity; procedural and jurisdictional hurdles; abstention; and remedies. Explores the doctrinal areas that have undergone substantial changes or challenges since the prior edition, including the retraction of Bivens; the extension, criticism, and cross-ideological calls for reform of qualified immunity; the narrowing of abstention; debates over the scope of injunctive relief; and the Supreme Court\u27s increasing engagement earlier in constitutional cases. Explores new applications of long-standing doctrines, including controversies over when social-media companies and public officials act under color of state law in controlling who has access to sites and pages. Adds new and expanded Puzzles for most topics within the book. These short problems, drawn from news stories, lawsuits, and lower-court decisions, challenge students to work through and apply the doctrine. The book can serve as a primary source for a problem-centered civil rights courses. Includes appendices containing the United States Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, and selected substantive, jurisdictional, and procedural federal statutes and rules that govern in civil rights and constitutional litigation.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1309/thumbnail.jp
Expansion of the Police Role in Responding to Mental Health Crises Over the Past Fifty Years: Driving Factors, Race Inequities and the Need to Rebalance Roles
No full textDesmond Meade: Civil Rights Restored
No full textThis exhibition shows how the opportunity to earn a law degree from FIU, shaped the journey of Desmond Meade JD ’14, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, as a returning citizen and in the fight to restore the right to vote for 1.4 million Floridians
Institutional Credit Markets Structure, Funding, and Regulation
No full textInstitutional Credit Markets provides a framework for understanding the institutional funding markets that undergird the U.S. credit system. It traces the evolution of the depository bank model, its non-bank competitors, and the financial conglomerates that span credit and capital markets.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1306/thumbnail.jp
The Unfulfilled Promise of Environmental Constitutionalism
No full textThe political push for the adoption of state-level “green amendments” in the United States has gained significant traction in just the last couple of years. Green amendments add an environmental right to a state’s constitution. Five such amendments were made in the 1970s in Pennsylvania, Montana, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Illinois. This Article looks in depth at the case law that has developed the contours of these constitutional environmental rights in the wake of the political revival of environmental constitutionalism in the United States. I distill two lessons from this jurisprudence. First, constitutional environmental rights are interpreted by the courts as procedural rights, not substantive rights. Second, in interpreting constitutional environmental rights, courts look to other legal doctrines to define the content and scope of the constitutional environmental right, generally on the basis of the constitutional language. I argue that because these rights are interpreted as procedural rights, they fail to effectuate the paradigm shift that we should expect from a rights-based environmentalism, and so the promise of environmental constitutionalism remains unfulfilled
