Wealth, families and death: socio-legal perspectives on wills and inheritance: introduction

Inheritance as both a concept and a practice is of deep significance within all societies and jurisdictions. Located at the intersection between economics, family relations and the end of life, it offers a unique perspective on a variety of contemporary socio-legal debates. Yet the socio-legal phenomenon of inheritance has attracted relatively little scholastic attention. This special issue, which brings together eight papers coming from six different countries (and eight different jurisdictions): Belgium, England and Wales, Israel, Spain (Catalonia and the Basque Country), Switzerland and the USA, demonstrates the breadth of inheritance as a field of study in a number of ways and at the same time opens up important new lines of enquiry. This international breadth serves to foreground the significance of both national and regional political culture on inheritance law. Most significant in this respect is the fact that the authors are evenly split between those commentating on civil legal systems and those on common-law systems; for traditionally the two systems have adopted highly distinct responses to the principles of testamentary freedom and forced heirship. All the articles in this collection provide insight into this fundamental distinction but at the same time demonstrate its limits in practice

Caging Mechanism for a drag-free satellite position sensor

A disturbance compensation system for satellites based on the drag-free concept was mechanized and flown, using a spherical proof mass and a cam-guided caging mechanism. The caging mechanism controls the location of the proof mass for testing and constrains it during launch. Design requirements, design details, and hardware are described

Elastic suspension of a wind tunnel test section

Experimental verification of the theory describing arbitrary motions of an airfoil is reported. The experimental apparatus is described. A mechanism was designed to provide two separate degrees of freedom without friction or backlash to mask the small but important aerodynamic effects of interest

Are Trojan Horse Union Organizers Employees ?: A New Look at Deference to the NLRB\u27s Iterpretation of NLRA Section 2(3)

This Note takes a different approach to interpreting section 2(3). Although this Note agrees that section 2(3) neither clearly includes nor clearly excludes trojan horse organizers, it also argues that the definition of employee under section 2(3) must be determined by looking to common law principles of agency. In other words, the question whether courts should defer to the Board\u27s interpretation of section 2(3) does not turn on statutory ambiguity. Rather, courts have a continuing duty to ensure that the Board interprets employee consistently with common law agency principles. Nevertheless, the correct interpretation of employee under agency principles ultimately turns on an empirical judgment about whether trojan horse organizers generally work as hard as other employees. This judgment is uniquely suited to the NLRB, whose experience and expertise with the complexities of industrial relations the Court has consistently recognized. This Note therefore concludes that courts should defer to Board orders protecting trojan horse organizers, not on the basis of statutory ambiguity, but because the Board is best equipped to make the judgments necessary to reach the proper legal conclusion under the principles of agency

Alien Registration- Hacker, Glenna D. (Washburn, Aroostook County)

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A Response to Professor Rubenfeld

Professor Jed Rubenfeld has offered in these pages an ingenious explanation for why the Supreme Court was right to strike down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in City of Boerne v. Flores. Rubenfeld finds in the First Amendment\u27s Establishment Clause a historical and inherent principle he calls antidisestablishmentarianism : a prohibition on acts of Congress that disestablish religion in the several states. Rubenfeld reads the Establishment Clause as proscribing not only congressional acts that establish religion but also all congressional acts that dictate a position on religion for states, including laws designed to ensure that states abide by the requirements of the Free Exercise Clause. RFRA was unconstitutional, Rubenfeld argues, because it transgressed this principle. As the title of his Article suggests, Rubenfeld\u27s explanation is so ingenious, in fact, that it did not even occur to the Justices who signed the Boerne majority opinion

Bargaining with the State

A Review of Bargaining with the State by Richard A. Epstei

Improving Asthma Management Behaviors in School Nurses through Facilitator Training and Supported Implementation

Uncontrolled asthma in middle school age children and adolescents results in increased morbidity and often impairs a student’s ability to participate in school activities. School absenteeism is an unintended consequence which in turn can impact academic success. School nurses can improve student asthma outcomes through effective asthma management behaviors (AMB’s). The purpose of this multi-phase quality improvement DNP project was to improve both knowledge and confidence, and thereby improve AMB’s in Kentucky school nurses. A convenience sample of twelve nurses participated in the project. The American Lung Association’s (ALA) Kickin’ Asthma training was extended to all Kentucky school nurses who utilized the Kentucky school nurse Listserv. A paired t-test was used to calculate pre-post intervention scores. Post-intervention scores for both knowledge and confidence were significantly improved. The mean for pre-knowledge is 22.58, and the mean for post-knowledge was 27.75, with n = 12. The mean for pre-confidence was 21.70 and the mean for post-confidence was 28.10 with n = 10. The p values were significant, knowledge (p \u3c .001), and confidence (p \u3c .001). Findings suggest that increased asthma education for Kentucky school nurses can improve asthma outcomes

Site Factors Affecting Growth of Slash Pine in the Texas Post Oak Belt

A study was conducted in the Post Oak Belt of East Texas to determine which site factors affected height growth of slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.). Height-age pairs were developed from stem analysis data. Nonlinear regression was implemented to develop a generalized height-age model. After curves were developed, stepwise regression was used to determine impacts of environmental variables on height growth. Environmental factors correlated with height growth included A horizon depth and those related to moisture relations including seasonal precipitation, average daily temperature, and texture of the A horizon. South. J. . Appl. For. 21(2):71-74