The Supreme Courts: Did September 11th Accelerate Their Sanctioning the Constitutionality of Criminalizing Suspicion?

“This article evaluates whether the nation‘s highest appellate courts have, on balance, been more willing to acquiesce to criminalization based on suspicion since the attacks on the World Trade Center seven years ago. The article seeks to accomplish this evaluation by comparing decisions of the United States and state supreme courts in the six years prior to September 2001 with decisions in the six years following the terrorist attack— have the courts with the greatest authority to sanction the criminalization of suspicion been more willing to do just that? Such a post-September 11th trend would be significant because, despite the attacks, neither the national nor state governments have abolished or amended pertinent federal and state constitutional protections of individual rights. This article first defines criminalization, suspicion, and reasonable suspicion, based on policy and precedents from these supreme courts. This article next combines these definitions to define what it means to “criminalize suspicion.” The second section of the article begins with a comparative analysis of the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Hiibel with the most pertinent of the Court‘s prior precedents. The section continues with surveys of reactions to Hiibel by the U.S. Supreme Court, commentators, and the states‘ legislatures and supreme courts. The third section of the article is its core: a comparative examination of the decisions of the states’ supreme courts in the six-year periods before and after September 11, 2001. This principal section of the article examines decisions of the state supreme courts that can be fairly characterized as implicating the constitutionality of criminalizing suspicion.

Harnessing the cognitive surplus of the nation: new opportunities for libraries in a time of change. The 2012 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship Essay.

This essay is the winner of the 2012 Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship. The essay draws on Rose Holley's experience of managing innovative library services that engage crowds such as The Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program and Trove, and her ongoing research into library, archive and museum crowdsourcing projects. This experience and knowledge has been put into the context of Jean Arnot’s values and visions for Australian libraries. Jean Arnot, the distinguished Australian librarian, described her vision for an innovative library service over sixty years ago. Rose suggests how some of her goals are now being achieved through use of the internet and digital technologies, and how we can build on these to ensure that libraries remain valued and relevant by harnessing the cognitive surplus of the nation they serve, and by crowdsourcing

The E-Reserve Project at the University of Auckland 2003-2005

The University of Auckland Library had been keen to make course material readings (also known as desk copy/short loan journal articles and book chapters) available electronically for some time, but it was not until the copyright licensing agreement changed in 2003 that it was legally possible. As soon as this happened the University Library applied for a grant from the Vice Chancellor’s Development Fund to carry out a pilot project. The project would assess best methods, practices, standards and workflows, and also investigate sustainability, maintenance and management of a permanent Electronic Course Material Collection. This paper describes the pilot project, its issues and resolutions, results and future implications

On the p-parts of Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series

We study the structure of $p$-parts of Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series. In particular, we extend results of Chinta, Friedberg, and Gunnells and show, in the stable case, that the $p$-parts of Chinta and Gunnells agree with those constructed using the crystal graph technique of Brubaker, Bump, and Friedberg. In this vein, we give an explicit recurrence relation on the coefficients of the $p$-parts, which allows us to describe the support of the $p$-parts and address the extent to which they are uniquely determined.Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures; typos corrected, extended results in section

Further Punishing the Wrongfully Accused: Manuel v. City of Joliet, the Fourth Amendment, and Malicious Prosecution

Manuel v. City of Joliet is before the Supreme Court to determine whether detention before trial without probable cause is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, or whether it is merely a violation of the Due Process Clause. Every circuit except the Seventh Circuit treats this type of detention as being a violation of the Fourth Amendment; only the Seventh Circuit considers this question under the Due Process Clause. This commentary argues that the Supreme Court should look to its precedent, which clearly treats pretrial detention without probable cause as being a Fourth Amendment issue, and reverse the Seventh Circuit. To hold otherwise would deprive the wrongfully accused of a potential federal remedy, and reduce them to seeking a remedy in potentially biased state courts

Monitor for checking electric-field meters

Portable monitor can be used to check electric-field meters on location. Faulty communication line or faulty unit can be determined on the spot

Pedagogy and new power relationships

Changes in the context of Higher Education have led to lecturers being disenfranchised. Both the introduction of new managerialism and developments in pedagogy have contributed to this process. On the one hand, performance management and the introduction of teaching and learning strategies have put issues of pedagogy and curriculum development into the realms of strategic management. On the other, student-centred learning has usurped teacher-centred models of education. In this paper, reviews of both of these trends are presented. Based on these, a benchmarking tool has been developed which enables the identification and monitoring of the way that the locus of control for various teaching-related activities has changed. This tool is then applied to the case of an MBA course that was transformed from a traditional to a distance format. The issues that arise from this case are discussed, and conclusions are drawn about the potential implications of “creeping managerialism ” in the context of Higher Education

Pedagogic issues in designing a module to include online assessment : a case study

This case study concerns 'Travel and Society', an advanced level module offered to students taking the Travel Management pathway at London Metropolitan University’s North Campus. It has been designed to introduce travel management students to the broad context of personal mobility. This module is unique, as for the first time it offers undergraduate students taking this pathway the opportunity to utilise Web-based assessment. At an employer's forum, the concept was praised by the employers present as a suitable and innovative way of assessing learning within the context of developing the student for the workplace