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A Compass For Success: A New Direction for Academic Support Programs

Introduction. I. ASP Development And Evaluation. A. ASP Development. B. ASP Evaluation II. Compass Program. A. Background B. Compass Participants. A. Method of Evaluation. 1. Study Design 2. Data Collection. B. Demographics of the Dataset. 1. Total Sample 2. Class Entering in 1999. 3. Class Entering in 2000. 4. Class Entering in 2001. 5. Class Entering in 2002. C. Empirical Results. 1. Control Groups. 2. Within-Group Analysis: Association Between PFYA and FYA. 3. Effect of Compass Participati...

Bad Faith: Race, Religion and the Reformation of Welfare Law

I. Beyond Relief: Robert Bellah, George Gilder, and the Racialization of Welfare Since the 1980s II. Topsy-Turvy World: Antebellum Contexts for Contemporary Welfare Rhetoric. III. The Gift of Life, the Life of Gifts: Welfare Reforms, Reproductive Rights, and Race.

Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators: The Search for a Limiting Principle

Introduction. I. Civil Commitment and the Abstract Notion of "Mental Illness" II. Kansas v. Hendricks: Lack of an Effective Limiting Principle. III. Kansas v. Crane: The 'Lack of Control' Standard. IV. Sex Offender Recidivism as a Potential Police Power Justification?. Conclusion.

Media Influence And The Modern American Democracy: Why the First Amendment Compels Regulation of Media Ownership

Introduction. I. The Rise and Fall of Media. A. The Marketplace of Ideas. B. The Tragedy of the Commons. C. The Scarcity Rationale. D. The Public Interest. E. Deregulation. II. The Impact of Media Deregulation. A. Consolidation. B. The Emerging Post-Consolidation Marketplace. 1. Homogeneity. 2. Quality. 3. The Media-Political Complex. i. What You Don't Know . . . ii. Market Price for Market Influence III. Towards a New Media Paradigm. A. Myopia and Hyperopia. B. A Media Model for the New Mil...

Reconciling The Booker Conflict: A Substantive Sixth Amendment in a Real Offense Sentencing System

Introduction I. United States v. Booker. II. Sources of the Booker Conflict. A. Sentencing in the Early Republic. B. The Rehabilitation Era. 1. Williams v. New York and Real Offense Sentencing during the Rehabilitation Era. 2. Separation of Functions Understanding of the Role of the Judge and Jury. 3. Duncan v. Louisiana: A Substantive Sixth Amendment Right to Trial by Jury. 4. The Decline of Rehabilitation. C. The Guidelines Era. 1. The Guidelines and the Maintenance of a Real Offense Senten...

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Carbon Dioxide and the Clean Air Act

Introduction. A. Context of the Issue. B. Global Warming. C. A Brief History of the CAA. D. Whether to Regulate Greenhouse Gases?. E. The Question. I. Analysis. A. Standard of Review. B. Intent under Brown & Williamson. C. EPA's Jurisdiction to Regulate CO2. 1. The Plain Meaning of "Air Pollutant". 2. Research versus Regulation. 3. The Sole Source of Regulation. 4. A Dynamic Approach. D. EPA's Discretion to Regulate CO2. Conclusion.