Meet the New Boss : The New Judicial Center

A document entitled ‘Guidelines on Constitutional Litigation’ published in 1988 by the Reagan era Department of Justice is the springboard for Professor Tushnet\u27s discussion of the Supreme Court\u27s new center. The Guidelines urged Department of Justice litigators to foster a nearly exclusive reliance on original understanding in constitutional interpretation and to resort to legislative history only as a last resort. The Guidelines also advised Department of Justice litigators to seek substantive legal changes including more restrictive standing requirements, an end to the creation of unenumerated individual rights, greater constitutional protection of property rights, and greater limits on congressional power. The discussion begins by viewing the Guidelines\u27 characterization of Supreme Court jurisprudence as an indication of the Court\u27s old center. The discussion then examines the Court\u27s subsequent development to reach an understanding of the Court\u27s new center. Professor Tushnet finds that although the Court at times seemed to entertain some views espoused by the Guidelines, the present Court\u27s center is remarkably like the Court\u27s center in 1988. Original understanding remains only one method of constitutional interpretation -not even the most important one - and legislative history continues to play a role in statutory interpretation. Furthermore, changes in Court\u27s jurisprudence involving standing, unenumerated rights, and congressional power remain limited (though there appear to be greater constitutional protections of property rights). The only notable difference is that the present Court has developed doctrines that could swing constitutional interpretation toward the approach taken by the Guidelines should newly appointed Justices want to endorse that approach. But for now the current Court is much the same as before

Meet the New Boss: An Honors Faculty Member Weathers Administrative Change

The author reflects on the role of honors faculty in effectively responding to short- and long-term administrative change, discussing the value of resistance to deleterious administrative decisions and offering advice for successfully navigating cyclical administrative shifts in honors

JNCHC: Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council; Forum Essays on Regime Change in Honors, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2023: Complete Issue

Contents Call for Papers v Editorial Policy, Deadlines, and Submission Guidelines vii Dedication to James Joseph Buss ix Editor’s Introduction, Ada Long xi Forum Essays on “Regime Change in Honors” A Defiant Honors Response to Regime Change. John Zubizarreta 3 Meet the New Boss: An Honors Faculty Member Weathers Administrative Change, Annmarie Guzy 13 Leveraging Regime Change as an Opportunity to Reimagine, Reset, and Demonstrate Results in Honors, Irina V. Ellison 19 Regime Change as Opportunity: A Case for a Radically Inclusive Response, Massimo Rondolino 25 Honors Flourishing in the Midst of Change, Hao Hong, Robert Glover, Mimi Killinger, and Jordan LaBouff 33 Research Essays Resisting Disciplinarity: Curriculum Mapping and Transdisciplinarity, Megan Snider Bailey 41 Diversity in Honors: Understanding Systemic Biases through Student Narrative, Aman Singla, Minerva Melendrez, Mable T. Thai, Sukhdev S. Mann, Denise Zhong, Kim T. Hoang, Isabella H. Lee, and Andrea V. Aponte 57 Ready for Business: Developing an Online Business Honors Course for Quality, Engagement, and Inclusivity, Kayla N. Sapkota 81 About the Authors 92 NCHC Publication Descriptions and Order Forms 9

‘Meet the new boss … same as the old boss?’:technology, toil and tension in the agrofuel frontier

Agrofuels are increasingly sourced and sold as a socially and environmentally beneficial solution to oil dependence. The promotion of sugar-derived ethanol as a substitute for petroleum has thus been key to state development and international trade policies by Brazil and the European Union, respectively, and subsequent investment by leading energy and food transnational corporations has transformed socio-spatial relations in the new sites of production. Brazilian rural worker testimonies, however, point to large-scale labour exclusion rather than reform and a deepening, rather than disruption, of historic power inequalities in the sector. Labour contestation challenges a converging institutional discourse of responsible technological innovation and social upgrading associated with emerging commodity chains and the ‘green’ economy. Although corporate and statutory response has been market-orientated certification and ‘more technology’ the idea of the ‘techno-institutional fix’ provides a power relation-attentive analysis that invites the further exploration of socially committed alternatives to food and energy production

Beijing Replaces Washington’s Dominant Position in Latin America: Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss?

Ceteris paribus, 2015 onward should be the years of China’s consolidation of its presence in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly in the commodity-exporting MERCOSUR countries. The South American integration process became obsolete and irrelevant. China has gained dominant position in all Southern Cone economies. Domestic policy mistakes will strain China-Latin American relations over time. Latin nationalism and populism politics will resurface. This time against China. The reality is that, in this new century, China is not the problem but rather the only solution for Latin America

Meet the New Boss: Stilicho, the rise of the magister utriusque militiae and the path to irrelevancy of the position of Western Emperor

Certain figures in history undertake actions that reverberate down through time; their successes and failure continue to have consequences centuries after they have died. One such man was Flavius Stilicho, magister utriusque militiae of the Western Roman Empire, guardian of the child Emperor Honorius, senior military commander of all Roman forces in the west and de facto ruler of the Western Empire from the death of Theodosius I in January 395 until his execution on August 23rd, 408. Thirteen years is barely a blink in time, but during his short reign Stilicho's establishment of an entirely new position amongst the western Roman military hierarchy, magister utriusque militiae or master of both services, led to the dawn of the pre-eminence of the senior military figure in the west; pre-eminent indeed over even the Emperor himself. Stilicho's aim had been to aggrandize the military power unto himself and then to use that military power to influence and control the civil and administrative power of the west. He did so out of necessity as the Emperor Honorius, his nephew and guardian, was a mere nine years old at the time of his succession. Stilicho succeeded in making the position he held powerful enough to successfully oppose the enemies of the Empire for over a decade despite having a child Emperor on the throne. The long-term consequences of his actions on the Empire were less than beneficial, however, as this shift in power to the titular head of the Western Empire's military led to the eventual demise of the position of the Emperor in the west, as that role had become so entirely irrelevant that it was simply abolished by one of Stilicho's magister militum successors in 476 AD. Stilicho had a larger aim, however, than being de facto leader of the Western Empire. He wanted to become not just the senior military commander of the Western Empire and guardian of the Western Emperor Honorius, but to extend his control over all military forces in the Empire and to become guardian of the Eastern Emperor as well, Arcadius, the older brother of Honorius. His obsession with fulfilling this desire greatly influenced his actions and his failure to achieve this end had disastrous consequences for himself and for the Western Empire he ruled. This paper will examine the reign of Stilicho from three perspectives: his military campaigns, especially those against his nemesis Alaric, his adversarial relationship with the eastern court at Constantinople and his internal political agenda through which he arguably managed to accrue more power to a non-Emperor than any other individual before him. These perspectives on Stilicho's career will be analyzed and a new picture of Stilicho, a figure much maligned as at least incompetent and labeled by some as a traitor, will emerge. He was a man who did not possess the necessary resources in money or manpower to defend the Empire and although a talented administrator and a skilled politician, he did not have a the paramount skill set needed, especially in the military arena, to overcome this shortfall in resources and in the end the issues confronting him overwhelmed and destroyed him