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Closing Remarks
No full textClosing remarks by Jake R. Shatzer, Editor in Chief of the Georgia Law Review
Before and After Terrorism: Economic and Political Development in the Basque Country
Get PDFThe Basque Country, a region along the Spanish-Franco border, has a long history of independence and autonomy. In the modern era, from 1959 until 2011, the domestic terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) waged a campaign of political violence primarily concentrated in the Basque Autonomous Community in pursuit of the region���s independence from Spain. The group was ultimately unsuccessful and declared a permanent ceasefire in 2011. I analyze the important political and economic factors that contributed to ETA���s prolonged existence. In the economy, high youth unemployment in the 1980s and 1990s created a large pool of recruits that helped sustain ETA���s campaign. At the same time, ETA���s activities reinforced negative economic performance by damaging the region���s economy. Basque nationalist political parties also pushed for independence from Spain but sought to do so through established political processes. Despite being officially distinct entities, the ���nationalist left��� tacitly accepted ETA���s violence for many years and viewed the group as the military wing of the nationalist movement. This support eroded over time as ETA hampered nationalist parties��� ability to further their goals and the electorate���s opposition to the group grew. Ultimately, a loss of support among nationalist left parties led to ETA���s demise and declaration of a ceasefire. Since the ceasefire in 2011, there has been increased support for the nationalist left and improvements in the region���s economy
The Eleventh Circuit Twists Georgia Law to Turn Probationers into Deportable Aggravated Felons
Get PDFIn 2001, Alfredo Talamantes-Enriquez was convicted in two cases of simple battery under Georgia Law. He was sentenced to twelve months of probation for each conviction. Over fifteen years later, the U.S. government sought to deport Mr. Talamantes, arguing that his Georgia convictions made him an “aggravated felon” for immigration purposes. The aggravated felon statute provides that a non-citizen who commits a crime of violence and is sentenced to imprisonment of at least one year is deportable.
It seems obvious that someone in Talamantes’s position would not be an aggravated felon. Talamantes did not spend a day in jail but rather was only sentenced to probation. The government won in immigration court, however, arguing that his sentence was actually a term of imprisonment that “was allowed to be served” entirely on probation.
Talamantes appealed this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. While pending appeal, the Georgia trial court issued orders clarifying that he was only sentenced to probation. The Eleventh Circuit rejected these orders, however, and upheld the reasoning of the immigration court. This decision marks a significant injustice to non-citizens in the U.S. who are convicted of crimes. The Eleventh Circuit ignored the plain meaning of the aggravated felon statute, its own precedent, and respect for state courts’ interpretations of state law.
This Note dissects the grave legal and logical errors in the Eleventh Circuit’s decision. It then makes recommendations for all the actors who affect immigration proceedings—federal courts, state courts, Congress, and the Attorney General—in order to prevent the unjust application of the Eleventh Circuit’s decision in the future
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
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