Tribute to Judge Duffy | Clerk Recollections, Stories, and Vignettes

In his forty-four years on the bench, Judge Duffy had sixty-five law clerks, each with their own stories about his inimitable courtroom presence, keen intellect, tremendous heart, and unique sense of humor. In addition to the longer tributes, we wanted to include at least a small sampling of the rich variety of heartfelt remembrances of Kevin Thomas Duffy (“KTD”) that have been shared among his scores of clerks since the Judge’s passing. We also asked our clerk community for the five words that come to mind when they think of the Judge. We have included a Word Cloud that displays the results of that input and helps to capture some of our reflections on the beautiful life of our beloved KTD. All of us will be forever grateful for having been included in his chambers family

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A Future Legal Coordinated Cadastre for Sweden?

This paper initially presents an introduction to the Swedish land administration system, particularly focusing on the parts of the Real Property Register that compose the cadastre. Here, a brief retrospect of the long tradition of land related registration follows by an account of the current components, functions and parties concerned. The second part of the paper then discusses a vision, expressed by the National Land Survey of Sweden, of implementing a legal coordinated cadastre. In short, that would mean making the boundary point coordinates, mirrored in the digital cadastral map, conclusive evidence of the location of boundaries. The aim of such a cadastre is to make possible more efficient and secure handlings with land within cadastral work, physical planning, infrastructure projects etc. Due to the present hierarchy of evidence, the “monuments before measurements” principle stated in the Land Code, a future reform of that kind would give rise to great challenges in respect of technical, economical and legal aspects. Some of these issues have become subject of a doctoral study at Lund University, Sweden. The aim of the study is to identify and analyse probable consequences of an implementation of a Swedish legal coordinated cadastre. The question of legislation and legal security, both in regard to the public sector and private interests, will be especially emphasised. The last part of this paper breifly presents this ongoing doctoral study

On the nature of estuarine circulation : part I (chapters 3 and 4)

The reader will quickly see that the subject matter of Chapter 3 is confined to the hydraulics of sharply stratified media, whereas real estuaries are always more or less diffusely stratified. What is more, no discussion is made of the order of magnitude of the friction terms. In ordinary single layer flow (such as in rivers) engineers already have crude approximations of the friction terms (Chezy and Manning formulas), but we do not have even these approximations for two layer flow. For this reason the differential equations of gradually varied flow of two layers are for the most part left unintegrated and all that is demonstrated is the qualitative aspects of the flow. In the case of entrainment of water from one layer into another we can only perform integrations of the equations when the amount of entrainment is known, whereas in real estuaries we do not have a priori knowledge of this amount. The reader will see, therefore, that the subject matter of Chapter 3 is really very incomplete, leaving undetermined all the constants which depend upon turbulent mixing, upon the frictional stresses on the bottom, and the free surface and the walls, and upon the amount of entrainment. The contents of Chapter 4 are somewhat different. First of all, they contain summaries of several of these papers have proceeded on the basis of hypotheses already published papers on the mixing in estuaries. Most about the nature of the mixing process. The applicability of these hypotheses appears to be restricted to only certain estuaries, and it must be admitted that more work has been done that involves guessing what the mixing processes in an estuary might be, than has been done in trying to find out what the mixing processes in an estuary actually are. As incomplete as the subject matter of Chapter 4 is, it is hoped that it will suggest which of the possible mixing processes in estuaries may be important in any particular one which is the subject of study, and that it will also suggest the type of observations which will be most desirable in studying a particular estuary. For example: in an unstratified estuary it seems that a more or less uniform spacing of stations up and down the estuary is desirable; but in an estuary which appears to be subject to the constraint of overmixing (Section 4.51) the location of stations should be largely confined to control sections.Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N6onr-27701 (NR-083-004)

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report was grounded on on-site visits of leading Portuguese Universities, Polytechnics and Business Schools as well as on written statements of the institutions visited. Additional material has been provided by the Ministry of Education. The article tries to give an appraisal of the actual state of the art of university level distance education in Portugal covering issues such as spread of distance learning so far, attitudes towards distance learning, pedagogical models, access, funding and quality issues. On the basis of this analysis some policy recommendations are formulated by the authors

Examining social norms among other motives for sustainable food choice : The promise of descriptive norms

This study examines the relative importance of social norms among other motives in driving sustainable food choice. It distinguishes between injunctive and descriptive social norms, as well as between reported actual choice and intended future choice. The study uses binary logistic regression models and survey data (N =348) from five workplace restaurants in Helsinki, Finland where a novel, local and environmentally friendly dish, roach fish patties, was being launched. Workplace restaurants account for a significant share of food con-sumption in Finland and are a relevant context for investigating the impact of social norms as the food choice is highly observable. The study reveals that perceived descriptive norms are significantly associated with both actual and intended food choice while perceived injunctive social norms are not related to either. It also finds that in the case of actual choice, the impact of perceived descriptive norms is weaker compared to that of other motives, such as habit, visual appeal, value for money, and ability to satiate hunger. In the case of intended choice, only taste has a stronger impact than the descriptive norm. Further, the analysis situates the motives for food choice in the larger theoretical discussion of System 1 and 2 decision processes and of the impact of visceral factors on food choice, and finds that visceral-factor-related motives have a stronger impact on actual choice than on intended choice. The study shows how the role of social norms in sustainable food choice is more nuanced than presented in previous literature. It concludes that there can be scope for steering food choice towards greater sustainability through a skilled mobilization of descriptive norms.Peer reviewe