Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Humboldtian Science, Creole Meteorology, and the Discovery of Human-Caused Climate Change in Northern South America
(University of Chicago Press, 2011)The belief that human land use is capable of causing large-scale climatic change lies at the root of modern conservation thought and policy. The origins and popularization of this belief were deeply politicized. Alexander ... -
Enclave Vision: Foreign Networks in Peru and the Internationalization of El Niño Research during the 1920s
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The Cloze Procedure and Intersentential Comprehension in College-Level German
(Walter de Gruyter, 1988)The intersentential sensitivity of the mechanical deletion cloze procedure was examined in this investigation. A total of 124 college-level students of German participated in the study. One group of subjects completed a ... -
From Kitchen to Classroom: Reflections of a Language Broker
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Haitian-English Dictionary
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Paleoecological and taphonomic implications of insect-damaged Pleistocene vertebrate remains from Rancho La Brea, southern California
(PLoS ONE Biology, 2013-07-03)The La Brea Tar Pits, the world’s richest and most important Late Pleistocene fossil locality, offers unsurpassed insights into southern California’s past environments. Recent studies at Rancho La Brea document that insects ... -
Responding to 9/11: Lurching Toward a Rule of Scofflaw
(The University of Kansas School of Law, 2005)Despite the lip service that the Bush-Cheney administration has paid to the notion of a rule of law - claiming, for example, that countries around the world should embrace and respect the rule of law in their internal ... -
The Legacy of Wolfish and Chapman: Some Thoughts About 'Big Prison Case' Litigation in the 1980s
(Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1999)In the past fifteen years, the conditions of American prisons have moved from the grist of movies to the attention of the courts. Judges throughout the nation have been asked to adjudicate the legality of issues as diverse ... -
Federal Parole and Sentencing: A Report on the Present and Some Thoughts for the Future
(Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1982)In the past fifteen years an almost unanimous consensus has developed over the need for sentencing reform. Critics have maintained that the unregulated discretion currently granted judges fosters extensive and unwarranted ... -
Law Free Zones: A Panel Discussion
(The University of Kansas School of Law, 2005)Professor Gottlieb prepared this essay for a panel discussion held at the University of Kansas School of Law on September 9, 2005. -
Katrina Consequences: What Has the Government Learned?
(Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2006)Eleven months ago, the nation witnessed Hurricane Katrina, perhaps the worst "natural" disaster to have occurred on American soil. The failures at all levels of government to cope, in a minimally competent way, with the ... -
Wilson v. Seiter: Less than Meets the Eye
(Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1999)In 1991 the United States Supreme Court revisited the question of the general standards that are required in eighth amendment conditions-of-confinement litigation. In Wilson v. Seiter, the Court declared that, in an eighth ... -
Chapter 10: The Constitutionality of the Sentencing Guidelines
(Aspen Publishers, 2010)A survey of case law and decisions related to then-recent implementation of the Sentencing Guidelines to criminal cases in Federal Court. -
An Analysis of Recent Changes in Kansas Drunk Driving Laws
(1986)For the past several years the problem of drunk driving has become of increasingly intense public concern. In response to this concern, the Kansas Legislature has passed major amendments to the drunk driving laws. The most ... -
Voice-Onset-Time in the Perception of Foreign Accent by Native Listeners of Spanish
(Walter de Gruyter, 1997)Determines the extent to which the variation of temporal characteristics of stops in a particular Spanish utterance spoken by an English speaker had a noticeable effect on the perception of foreignness of speech. Range in ... -
Virtues, the Chinese Yuan, and the American Trade Empire
(University of Hong Kong, 2008)The relative foreign exchange valuation of the yuan, or renminbi, against the dollar is one of the longest-running and highest profile battles between the United States and China. What does the dispute, and America’s ... -
Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice
(National Law University, Jodhpur (India), 2009)Book review, Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2009). -
Description of the female of Rhadinopsylla media Smit (Siphonaptera: Hystrichopsyllidae)
(Journal of Medical Entomology, 1977-01-31)Rhadinsopsylla media Smit, 1957, previously was known from only 7 specimens, all males. Eighteen additional specimens of this species, including 12 females, were examined from northern Minnesota and Isle Royale, Michigan. ... -
Equilibrium Theory, the FICAS Model, and International Banking Law
(Harvard Law School, 1997)[...] Conventional wisdom finds that international banking law is an applied field. In contrast to a traditional field like constitutional law, in which well-developed bodies of literature exist that draw upon feminist ... -
Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Three of a Trilogy – Trade Remedies and Facilitation
(University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2012-04-02)This article is the third and final part of a trilogy, the argument of which is that the Doha Round is a failed instrument of counterterrorism. The Round, launched in November, 2001, was supposed to make the world safe for ...