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M. Carr Ferguson - Clip 1
No full textFrom the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer is Peter W. Martin; the videographer, Jae-Hyon Ahn. This video covers Carr Ferguson\u27s experiences as a law student, how he became a tax litigator in the Justice Department, and his career as a law teacher at Iowa and NYU.
M. Carr Ferguson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1931. He earned both a B.A. and an LL.B. from Cornell University in 1952 and then 1954. He began his career as a member of the original class of thirty lawyers of the Attorney General\u27s Honor Graduate Recruitment Program, serving as trial attorney and special assistant to the attorney general for five years.
In 1960 he obtained an LL.M. from New York University and began a teaching career , first as Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law from 1960-62; then as Associate Professor and Denison Professor of Law at New York University from 1962-77. He is visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University, adjunct Professor of Law at New York University, and visiting Professor of Law at the University of San Diego.
President Jimmy Carter nominated Carr Ferguson to be Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Tax Division in the United States Department of Justice where he served from 1977-81.
Carr Ferguson is partner at Davis Polk & Wardell. He was with Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz from 1969-77. He has served on the comissioner\u27s advisory board to the IRS, has counseled the Tax Division and assisted in tax reform both within the U.S. and abroad, and has served on advisory groups to the Tax Court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.The American Bar Association Section of Taxation presented him with the 2008 Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service to the legal profession, the tax system, and tax education.
Carr Ferguson has taught, consulted, lectured, and written on international and domestic tax law. He is an expert on corporate reorganization. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and emeritus member of the Cornell Law School Advisory Council. In 2000 he established with his wife the M. Carr and Marian Ferguson Law Scholarship for second year law students for excellence in the classroom and beyond
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Complete Bibliography for David M. Carr, Holy Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins, Yale University Press, 2014
No full textThis is a (virtually) complete bibliography for the book Holy Resilience: The Bible's Traumatic Origins by David M. Carr, published by Yale University Press in Fall 2014
David M. Carr, International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament. Genesis 1-11
Full text linkDavid M. Carr, International Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament. Genesis 1-11, Stuttgart: Kolhammer, 2021, 358 pp. ISBN: 978-3-17-020623-6  
Ferguson, M. Carr - Clip 01
No full textFrom the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer is Peter W. Martin; the videographer, Jae-Hyon Ahn. This video covers Carr Ferguson's experiences as a law student, how he became a tax litigator in the Justice Department, and his career as a law teacher at Iowa and NYU. (Duration 54:26) The initial phase of this project was sponsored by a generous grant from the law firm of Sutherland Asbill and Brennan LLP.1_5h69p5z
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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