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Pro Bono Week Oct 2025 Poster 01
No full textClose-up shot of the poster created for National Pro Bono Week in the law library October 2025.https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/pro-bono-week-2025-photos/1001/thumbnail.jp
Introduction – Emerging Pollutants in Water: Threats, Challenges, and Research Needs
Get PDFWater is indispensable for life, health, and environmental sustainability, as underscored by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Traditional water quality assessments have historically focused on pathogens, nutrients, and heavy metals. However, recent decades have witnessed growing concerns over Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs), a diverse class of pollutants with potential risks to human health and ecosystems. CECs encompass pharmaceuticals, personal care products, endocrine-disrupting compounds, and microplastics, entering water bodies via wastewater, industrial discharge, and agricultural runoff. Their persistence and adverse effects pose significant challenges to water treatment technologies. This manuscript explores the scientific understanding, environmental fate, and societal implications of emerging pollutants globally. It highlights gaps in regulatory frameworks, monitoring data scarcity, and the urgent need for innovative strategies to mitigate and manage impacts of emerging pollutants in water. Drawing from international collaborations and advancements in scientific research, technology and policy, it advocates for integrated approaches to monitor, assess, and manage emerging pollutants, ensuring sustainable water resource management and safeguarding human and environmental health in a changing world
April 2025 Poetry Month Display Photo 10
No full textPhoto of Reginald Dwayne Betts, His book of poetry Felon, an enlarged image of the book cover, and context card on display April 2025,https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/poetry-month-2025-photos/1013/thumbnail.jp
A Development-Informed Concept of Adolescent Mens Rea
No full textMens rea is central to criminal legal systems in the United States. The accused’s state of mind not only signals culpability but drives sentencing following conviction. For their part, degrees of mens rea are divided between the subjective and objective; subjective assigns culpability based on the actor’s actual state of mind, and objective assigns culpability based on a reasonable-person standard external to the actor. To establish these mental states, a factfinder may infer a state of mind from known facts. A gun tucked into a purse may signal pre-meditation or purposefulness when it is used to kill a victim; speeding could signal recklessness; failure to feed a child may signal neglect. This process of inference requires a factfinder to consider the evidence presented and to assign meaning to that evidence based on the factfinder’s own experiences and thought processes. Although there is always a risk that the factfinder may draw the wrong inference, this risk is exaggerated for accused adolescents, whose mental processes differ from those of adult factfinders.
Neuroscience reveals striking differences between adolescent and adult brains as well as significant differences in decision-making processes and perceptions of reality. Adolescents are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviour, less likely to understand long-term consequences, and more susceptible to peer pressure than their adult counterparts. This chapter identifies the significance of this neurological data to mens rea assessments of juveniles in the United States and urges a reconsideration of such assessments based not on a uniform adult standard but rather on one that accounts for adolescent brain development
Cooperating Over Shared Freshwater Resources Using International Law
No full textVolume 1 explores international law for shared freshwater resources — both surface and subsurface waters — from a multidisciplinary perspective. It explains the role of international water law (IWL) (and/or specific norms) within particular contexts/case studies and critically examines that role and its relative success (or failure) in achieving the intended objectives
A Historical Overview of the Evolution and Broadening of International Water Law
No full textThe development of international water law can be traced back to early civilizations that settled around the banks of rivers and lakes around the world. As they expanded their efforts to domesticate crops, build fluvial trade routes, and provide clean water to their populations, these communities developed complex rules for the navigation, allocation, and use of waters that cross political frontiers. This, in turn, sparked the development of what we now call international water law. Over time, as these fluvial civilizations grew and evolved, so did the law. It was adapted and modified in relation to changes in societal values, technological and political developments, and even environmental pressures. And in the past few hundred years, it was adapted to fit the new international legal order in which nation-states functioned as the main subjects of international law, and sovereignty became their mainstay.
This chapter provides a historical overview of the development and evolution of international water law. It briefly reviews the early navigation-focusing eras and then concentrates on the more modern permutations of the law and its emphasis on non-navigational uses, such as for irrigation, energy production, manufacturing, drinking water, and the environment. It also considers how the law has expanded and adapted in response to new priorities and discoveries, such as wetlands and unconventional freshwater sources, as well as how the regime interacts with other international legal regimes, including international environmental law, human rights, and the sustainable development goals
Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law
No full textThe Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law is quite simply the definitive reference work in the field. Bringing together over 350 authors from across the world, the Encyclopedia sheds light on the current global state of Intellectual Property Law, providing unique insights into the discipline and how it is affected by globalization and increased regional integration
April 2025 Poetry Month Display Photo 14
No full textPhoto of the book Redaction by Reginald D. Betts opened to an explanaition of the redaction project on display April 2025https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/poetry-month-2025-photos/1017/thumbnail.jp
