Goals into Action: An Evaluation Report on the Third Bush Justice Conference

This evaluation reports on the Third Bush Justice Conference, held in Kenai, Alaska on November 8–12, 1976. Prior bush justice conferences were held at Alyeska (1970) and Minto (1974). The report outlines themes addressed in all the bush justice conferences, focuses on ways in which bush justice conferences can improve the administration of justice in rural Alaska, and recommends ways in which state justice agencies and Alaska Native representatives can work together proactively to respond to specific problems identified at conferences.Bush Justice Project, Alaska Federation of Native

Alaska Wealth Management and the Politics of Envy

This report explores issues in the management of public wealth in Alaska, particularly in relation to the oil industry and oil taxes, the public vs. private sectors, and lessons of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.Research Development CouncilI. The Midas Touch / II. Limitations on Income / III. Limiting Income: Other than Oil / IV. Controlling State Expenditure: Demands of the Private Sector / V. Privatization / VI. Limiting Public Sector Growth / VII. Privatizing the Public Sector / VIII. Required: A Long Term Vie

The Pre-Law Introductory Program: A Report

This report describes an intensive four-week Pre-Law School Introductory Program offered in August 1980 by the Justice Center at University of Alaska, Anchorage to potential law school candidates from Alaska, focusing on Alaska Natives and members of other ethnic minorities. Two possible directions for further development of this pre-law program are discussed.Purpose / Recruitment/Publicity / Program Description / Evaluation / Recommendations / Funding / APPENDICES / A. List of People, Organizations, and Corporations Contacted / B. Statistical Breakdown of 60 Candidate

Manual of Criminal Law and Procedure

Intended to aid to Alaska law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties in the field, this manual was designed to provide brief, quick access to major points of substantive and procedural criminal law. The manual contained discussion and procedural guidelines for investigatory stops, identification procedures including line-ups, arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, as well as discussion of justification for the use of nondeadly and deadly force whether by peace officers or civilians, culpability, entrapment, trial preparation, and media relations. The section on substantive criminal law deals with a selection of crimes most likely to be encountered by "street" officers as defined with the recently enacted Revised Alaska Criminal Code (effective January 1, 1980), desribing elements of each crime, investigative hints, and differences with previous provisions of the criminal code, where relevant.Alaska Department of Law Grant No. 78-A-014Introduction / Criminal Procedures / Substantive Criminal Law / Justification / Culpability / Entrapment / Trial Preparation / Media Relations / Appendice

The Future of the Village Corporation

There is an undercurrent of opinion in Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) administration that the village corporation structure established under the Act is an anachronism, unsuitable to the needs of modern corporate enterprise and accordingly Alaska Native purposes. This line of criticism suggests that the regional corporate structure, also established under the Settlement Act, is sufficient to the needs of the Alaska Native people. Organizational issues in the Settlement Act are both politically and emotionally sensitive. As a result, discussion of this point of view has been muted. It is nonetheless important. The purpose of this paper is to search out the purposes of village corporation existence as a foundation to change or for a better understanding of the roles that are played by them. The Act serves as a written constitution for the Alaska Native people. It must be interpreted broadly to accomplish these fundamental purposes of the people and not as an instrument of a particular economic theory – which is, at least in part, alien to its heritage.Introduction / Finding the Purposes of Village Corporations / Representation as a Purpose / Corporate Democracy as a Representative System / The Village Corporation as a Grass Roots System of Representation / Can a Village Corporation Be Dissolved? / Economic Merger Through Cooperative Agreements / The Trust Responsibilities of ANCSA Village Corporations / Distributions From Regional Corporations Under Section 7(j) As a Source of Perpetual Village Authority / The Administration of the Village Share in Alaska Native Fund Receipts as a Source of Perpetual Village Authority / Administration of the Village Share in 7(i) Distributions As ASource of Perpetial Village Authority and Inter-Village Conflict / Administration of the Village Share in "All Other" Regional Corporation as a Perpetual Obliqation of Village Corporate Existence / Organizational Purposes Arising from Historic Setting of the Settlement : The Pre-Settlement Evolution of Village and Regional Organization / Functional Differentiation Between Village and Regional Corporations / The Special Responsibility of the Village Corporation – A Historic Setting / The Village as the Trust Enforcer / The Responsibility of the Village to Plan, Budget and Audit; the Responsibility of the Regional Corporation to Help / Required Cooperative Agreements / The Duty to Exchange Information / Voluntary Cooperative Agreements / Village Purpose and Investment Policy / Cooperative Organization for Business / Cooperative Organization for Purposeful Activity / Cooperative Organization for Market Strength / The Selection of Partners / A Cooperative Exchange / Cooperative Policy Compacts / Conclusio

Legislative Implementation for the Corrections Master Plan, State of Alaska

In 1978 and 1979 the State of Alaska committed itself to the development of the first master plan for corrections in the state's history. The Alaska Corrections Master Plan included some 576 pages of recommendations plus appendixes. Faced with the task of implementing this plan, the House Committee on Finance of the Alaska State Legislature requested the Justice Center to (1) extract those elements of the master plan which had legislative implications (see "The Alaska Corrections Master Plan: Legislative Implications" by Roger V. Endell, 1979); and (2) to commit to legislative language those proposals which embodied suggestions for legislative change. This report is the product of that second phase study, providing comments and action recommendations for each of eleven recommendations of the Alaska Corrections Master Plan.Committee on Finance, Alaska House of RepresentativesIntroduction and Summary / I. Master Plan (MP) Recommendation No. One [Division of Corrections asssumes responsibility for jail contracts now administered by Department of Public Safety] / II. MP Recommendation No. Two: [statewide correctional advisory board] / III & IV. MP Recommendation No. Three and Four [pretrial diversionary programs] / V. M.P Recommendation No. Five [recommendations for legislation] / VI. MP Recommendation No. Six. ["Chief of Programs" position for Division of Corrections] / VII. M.P Recommendation No. Seven [educational instruction within correctional institutions] / VIII. MP Recommendation No. Eight [establishment of prison industries] / IX. MP Recommendation No. Nine [alcoholism treatment centers and sleep-off centers] / X. MP Recommendation No. Ten [improved training] / XI. MP Recommendation No. Eleven [restructuring of parole board

Curriculum Relationships within the University of Alaska, Anchorage: A Report on the School of Justice

This report, commissioned by the Office of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, is a preliminary inquiry into the relationship that the curriculum of the School of Justice bears to the curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences and the other schools of UAA. In particular, the inquiry was initiated to identify "service course" needs of the College of Arts and Sciences and other Schools of the University, that might be met by the Justice faculty and the extent to which other units of the University meet the "service" needs of the School of Justice.Office of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Alaska, AnchorageImpact of Decentralization / Definition of Service Needs / Development of a Survey / Inter-Unit Relations / The Purposes of Education / Service Roles of the School of Justice / General Educations in Law / General Education at the University / Justice Service Relations with the School of Nursing / Justice Service Relations with the School of Engineering / Justice Service Relations to School of Education / Justice Service Relations to Business and Public Affairs / Justice Service Relations with College of Arts and Sciences / Conclusion / Notes / Appendix [Correspondence with Schools & Colleges

Report on the Clerkship Program

There is no law school in Alaska. In 1976, the Alaska legislature adopted Chapter 181, SLA 1976 which proyides that an eligible person who completes one year of law school and subsequently successfully pursues a three year course of law study in a clerkship program may be admitted to the practice of law upon taking and passing the bar examination administered by the Alaska Bar Association. The Act placed upon the Alaska Supreme Court the responsibility for administering the clerkship program and prescribing the course of law study. The Alaska Supreme Court contracted with the Criminal Justice Center to design a law clerkship program, including a system for registering law clerks and supervising attorneys, a basic curriculum, and other elements of the program. The report proposes guidelines for sound administration of an educational program conducted outside direct academic supervision, discusses budget issues, and proposes a new bill to amend the statute as first passed.Alaska Supreme CourtIntroduction / Student Perspective on Problems with the Program / Recommended Changes in the Law / Guidelines / Budget / Survey Results and Implications / Guidelines Relating to Law Clerks / Forms to Guidelines for Law Clerk Program / Proposed Bill: "For an Act entitled : An Act relating to legal education and providing for an effective date" / Existing Law: AS 08.08.205. Eligibility to take bar examination; AS 08.08.207. Law clerk

Photon creation in a spherical oscillating cavity

We study the photon creation inside a perfectly conducting, spherical oscillating cavity. The electromagnetic field inside the cavity is described by means of two scalar fields which satisfy Dirichlet and (generalized) Neumann boundary conditions. As a preliminary step, we analyze the dynamical Casimir effect for both scalar fields. We then consider the full electromagnetic case. The conservation of angular momentum of the electromagnetic field is also discussed, showing that photons inside the cavity are created in singlet states.Comment: 14 pages, no figure

Capillary-gravity waves: The effect of viscosity on the wave resistance

The effect of viscosity on the wave resistance experienced by a 2d perturbation moving at uniform velocity over the free surface of a fluid is investigated. The analysis is based on Rayleigh's linearized theory of capillary-gravity waves. It is shown in particular that the wave resistance remains bounded as the velocity of the perturbation approches the minimun phase speed, unlike what is predicted by the inviscid theory.Comment: Europhysics Letters, in pres