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Law School Faculty 2012-2013
No full textBack Row, from left to right: Paul Marcus, Eric D. Chason, Lynda L. Butler, Lan Cao, James Dwyer, John Lee, Alan J. Meese, Jason Solomon, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Meredith B. Aden, Davison M. Douglas, Susan S. Grover, Nathan B. Oman, James S. Heller, Neal E. Devins, Michael Steven Green, Allison Orr Larsen, Jeffrey Bellin, Timothy Zick, Adam M. Gershowitz, Christopher L. Griffin, Jr., Laura A. Heymann
Front Row, from left to right: Vivian Hamilton, Eric A. Kades, Frederic I. Lederer, Jayne Barnard, Nancy Combs, Peter A. Alces, Patricia Roberts, Angela M. Banks
Not Pictured: Judge Judith Barzilay, Rebecca Green, Tara Leigh Grove, Linda A. Malone, Taylor Reveley, William M. Richardson, Stacey-Rae, Simcox, Sarah L. Stafford, Michael Ashley Stein, William W. Van Alstyne, Cynthia V. Ward, Christie S. Warrenhttps://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facultyphotos/1016/thumbnail.jp
Law School Faculty 2013-2014
No full textBack Row, from left to right: Timothy Zick, James Dwyer, Paul Marcus, Jennifer R. Franklin, Anna Perez Chason, Thomas J. McSweeney, Laura R. Killinger, Neal E. Devins, Allison Orr Larsen, Nathan B. Oman, Jayne Barnard, Davison M. Douglas, Lynda L. Butler, Alan J. Meese, Laura A. Heymann, Michael Steven Green, Peter A. Alces, Christopher L. Griffin, Jr., Nancy Combs, Stacy Elizabeth Kern-Scheerer, Robert E. Kaplan, Erin J. Hendrickson, Vivian Hamilton
Front Row, from left to right: Stacey-Rae Simcox, Frederic I. Lederer, Patricia Roberts, John Lee, Tara Leigh Grove, Eric A. Kades, James S. Heller, Rebecca Green, Angela M. Banks, Christie S. Warren
Not Pictured: Judge Judith Barzilay, Jeffrey Bellin, Eric D. Chason, Evan J. Criddle, Adam M. Gershowitz, Susan S. Grover, Shana C. Jones, Linda A. Malone, Taylor Reveley, William M. Richardson, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Jason Solomon, Sarah L. Stafford, Michael Ashley Stein, James Y. Stern, Cynthia V. Wardhttps://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facultyphotos/1017/thumbnail.jp
Review of Veterans Law Decisions of the Federal Circuit, 2021 Edition
Get PDFIn the past year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) continued to define boundaries for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (Veterans Court). These boundaries align more closely with congressional intent, especially with regard to the jurisdiction of the Veterans Court and the internal operations of the agency.
This Area Summary discusses eight major areas in which the Federal Circuit articulated important changes in veterans law. First, the Federal Circuit revisited the important and veteran-friendly “benefit of the doubt” rule in Lynch and modified it. In Lynch, the Court analyzed the term “approximate balance” and instructed VA to liberally consider evidence and apply the benefit of the doubt rule even where the evidence is not in exact equipoise. Second, the Federal Circuit limited the Veterans Court’s power to fact-find and narrowed its power to find prejudicial error in Tadlock. Third, in Anania, the Court strengthened the “mailbox” rule by finding that the claimant’s, or advocate’s, own affidavit sufficiently proved proper mailing. Fourth, the Court broadened the constructive possession rules relating to VA-contracted medical reports in Euzebio. Fifth, the Federal Circuit looked to principles of equity in Arellano and Taylor to determine whether tolling or estoppel may be invoked when the question relates to the effective date for the grant of VA benefits. Sixth, the Court clarified effective date rules in Kisor, George, Ortiz, and Buffington. Seventh, in MilitaryVeterans Advocacy, the Federal Circuit overturned three regulations promulgated under the new Appeals Modernization Act, each related to supplemental claims—a new avenue for veterans seeking to reopen earlier decisions. Finally, in Smith, the Court continued to weigh in on attorney’s fees, an important issue for veterans and their advocates
Review of Veterans Law Decisions of the Federal Circuit 2022-2023 Edition
Get PDFIn 2022 to 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) continued its conversation with the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (“Veterans Court”), Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”), and veterans to help sculpt the jurisprudence coming from the youngest of the federal courts, the Veterans Court. The Federal Circuit’s jurisprudence addressed ten main legal issues: class actions, petitions for writ of mandamus under the All Writs Act, defining standards of proof with the term “results from,” the benefit of the doubt doctrine post-Lynch, education benefits, less than honorable discharges, the rating schedule, implicit denials, equitable tolling and estoppel, and prejudicial error post-Tadlock
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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