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Underwater: The Need for Massachusetts to Become Climate Ready
Get PDFMassachusetts\u27 longstanding vulnerability to flooding is on the verge of worsening due to expected impacts of climate change over the next several years. Although legislation has prompted the state to convene a multi-agency conversation on climate change adaptation, the work has yet to result in specific planning that will prime the state for reducing damage caused by flooding and other climate impacts. With renewed leadership, the state should prioritize flood risk in the policy agenda, launch a public awareness campaign, plan for infrastructure and state property investments, and facilitate municipal action. Since the issue cannot be adequately addressed by state government alone, making Massachusetts more resilient to flooding will require action by multiple levels of government and a number of private actors
2013 Hooding Ceremony Program
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Black Women\u27s Post-Slavery Silence Syndrome: A Twenty-First Century Remnant of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Systemic Racism--Who Will Tell Her Stories?
Get PDFOne hot summer\u27s day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister\u27s children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after putting all of the children in their beds, the children\u27s father, her brother-in-law, knocked on the door. The young woman assumed that he had come over to see his children and to bring them news of their mother and newest sibling. Instead, he pulled out a gun, threatened to kill her and all the children, even his own, and proceeded to forcibly rape the young woman. The distraught young woman did not know where to turn for help. She could not tell her estranged husband, so she instead went to her mother. Her mother told her that if she made a big fuss about the rape, she would destroy her sister\u27s marriage, and further, if her brother-in-law landed in jail, her sister would be left to support five children by herself and her husband might be unduly harmed. The young woman was urged to just forget what happened and go on with her life. She did just that, until she decided to break her silence thirty years later by telling me this story. That young woman was my mother. This Article is dedicated to my mother and all of the other Black women who had to be silent and just forget what had happened
Perspectives: From the Chair of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, January/February 2013
Get PDFIn this era of the new normal, lawyers and law firms are seeking ways to create efficiencies and realize new capabilities
Shelby v. Holder: Brief of Professor Patricia A. Broussard and FAMU College of Law Students as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents
Get PDFShelby County, Alabama v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., In the Supreme Court of the United States, Brief of Professor Patricia A. Broussard, Sabrina Collins, Stacy Hane, Akunna Olumba and Named Students and Organizations of Florida A & M University College of Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
The Double-Edged Sword of Prison Video Visitation: Claiming to Keep Families Together While Furthering the Aims of the Prison Industrial Complex
Get PDFEach year, the United States ( U.S. ) spends billions to house the country\u27s massive prison population. The need to board over 2.3 million incarcerated human beings has U.S. correctional departments looking for ways to increase revenues and offset costs. According to these correctional agencies, one major expense is prison visitation. In order to reduce spending and alleviate safety concerns, U.S. federal, state, and private correctional facilities have turned to video visitation as an alternative to in-person visits. The use of prison video visitation systems started in 1995. Since then, many private telecommunications companies have professed to have the solution to correctional visitation problems. These companies promote video visitation as a cheap, safe, and easy alternative to in person visits, as well as a profitable means of generating revenues. Government and private correctional institutions, buying into these endorsements, have reduced or completely eliminated face-to-face visits and installed video visitation systems within their walls. Under this structure, inmates use video stations in their cellblock to visit family and friends at corresponding video kiosks within the institution; or inmates visit loved-ones who are at home or elsewhere outside prison walls via computer Internet video visitation. In order to sell this method of visitation to the public, U.S. correctional agencies contend that video visitation helps to keep families together by allowing inmates greater contact opportunities with loved ones. In some regards, it may be argued that video visitation does assist in the preservation of family units. Inmates are often forced to serve time in prisons miles away from their homes, so outside visits are far and few between. Yet, through the use of in-home video visitation configurations, inmates are able to connect with relatives who reside hours away. At first glance, this visitation scheme may seem beneficial, but this Article argues that prison video visitation is a double edge sword. First, prison video visitation may help preserve family units while people are incarcerated, but the elimination of face-to-face visits robs inmates of much needed human contact with their children, spouses, and other family members. Second, almost all in-home prison video visitation systems exploit the relatives and friends of inmates because they charge excessive fees to visit. Third, the economic success of prison video visitation systems is contingent on the number of incarcerated humans. So, like other profiteering schemes of the Prison Industrial Complex ( PIC ), prison video visitation incentivizes incarceration: A decrease in the prison population has a corollary effect on million dollar revenues and corporate profits, hence compelling the need to detain more U.S. inhabitants. Consequently, this Article argues that face-to-face visitation should be the primary means of contact for families that visit at prison facilities. In order to accomplish this goal, inmates must be assigned to correctional facilities close to their homes if space is available and there is no proven risk to security. Additionally, if prison video visitation is utilized, any fees associated with its use must be regulated to insure that the financial expense is not exorbitant
Red River Shoot-out: Can Texas Divert Its Compact Authorized Share of a River from an Oklahoma Location in Violation of an Oklahoma Statute?
Get PDFTexas has rights to Red River water pursuant to the Red River Compact, approved by all basin states and Congress. Texas wants to divert a portion of its allocation in Oklahoma, which has passed a statute banning the export of water. This case will decide (1) whether Texas’s compact rights include the right to divert water in Oklahoma, and (2) whether Oklahoma’s effort to prohibit that diversion violates the Dormant Commerce Clause
Pornography and the Connection to Commerical Sexual Exploitation
Get PDFHuman Trafficking is a violation against humanity and a contradiction to the notion that all people are born free and have rights that are equal. 1 This global crime is a part of practically every country in the world. No nation is immune from its reaches. Every year thousands of women, men and children fall prey to human commercial exploitation and are trapped in a criminal enterprise that profits in the billions. Human trafficking is defined as, “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
