Salazar v. Buono: Sacred Symbolism and the Secular State

This Colloquy piece comments on some doctrinal and theoretical implications of the Supreme Court\u27s recent decision in Salazar v. Buono

Originalist Ideology and the Rule of Law

This essay contends that one of the basic tenets of the New Originalism -- the so-called contribution thesis -- compromises our underlying commitment to the rule of law. By locating some binding substantive content of constitutional language in a historical record beyond the text itself, originalism undermines the fundamental concepts of formal legality and public accessibility. With these issues in mind, the essay concludes that originalism is not a philosophical account of how the Constitution has meaning in our legal system, but is instead a judicial ideology intended to promote the constitutional policy judgments of an earlier generation

Assessment of the water quality of ten Waikato lakes based on zooplankton community composition. CBER Contract Report No. 60

Zooplankton communities were documented from ten Waikato lakes from net haul samples collected in late 2006 and from species hatched from diapausing eggs in sediments collected in early 2007. Lake trophic state was inferred based on the rotifer assemblages observed, and these inferred values were compared with predetermined water quality gradients assessed based on a limited dataset by Environment Waikato