Ethnic minority business: policy and practice review

Part of a series produced to support a ESRC/CRE/DTI/emda workshop on ethnic minority entrepreneurship. This paper identifies the key problems in addressing racism and ethnicity in extant cross-governmental policy and practice relating to entrepreneurship

Law School Update, Vol. I No. I

The Institutional Advancement Office of the Fordham Law School began to issue newsletters announcing the building campaign and its progress. The first of these newsletters provides the background of the original $5 million campaign announced by Dean McLaughlin at the 75th Anniversary Dinner.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/lc_140w62st/1048/thumbnail.jp

Law School Update, Vol. I No. I

The Institutional Advancement Office of the Fordham Law School began to issue newsletters announcing the building campaign and its progress. The first of these newsletters provides the background of the original $5 million campaign announced by Dean McLaughlin at the 75th Anniversary Dinner.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/lc_140w62st/1048/thumbnail.jp

Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics

I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent grounds, limits the class of issues and possible explanations for grammatical properties of specific linguistic expressions. I argue that this is not simply a consequence of a specific conception of grammar, conceived of as a system of principles and rules governing language, but has non-trivial empirical ramifications. Pronominal clitics are a good case study, since their grammatical properties bear on a wide range of facts falling under the purview of principles of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics

The self-organization of genomes

Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law. We find that longer genomes tend to be made of smaller chromosomes in organisms from three different kingdoms: fungi, plants, and animals. Our findings suggest that genomes self-organize under principles similar to those of human language.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

The emergence of the intergovernmental trust in international law

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the British Yearbook of International Law following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at the link below.Intergovernmental trust funds are vehicles set up mainly to advance developmental objectives. They are composed of capital contributed largely by states. The management of the capital and the objectives of the trust are assigned to a trustee, usually an international organization, such as the UN or the World Bank. The practice of the trusts surveyed in this article unequivocally suggests that the intention of the two principal parties to the trust relationship (i.e. donor and trustee) is to transfer ownership of the trust’s assets to the trustee. The latter’s responsibility is restricted to investing and distributing the trust’s assets to the identified beneficiaries. The understanding is that neither the donors nor the trustee is liable against third parties in respect of any unlawful act committed in connection to the donation or the disbursement of funds. The absolute character of this extra-contractual limitation is dismissed in this article, given that despite the charitable or benevolent nature of the trust’s aims, the disbursement of funds under certain circumstances may be injurious to the interests of states or the international community

An account of the making of the Human Rights Amendment Act 2001

In this paper I want to address the relationship between policy and law through a discussion of the 2001 Amendment to the New Zealand Human Rights Act 1993. Discussions of justice often focus on analysis of court decisions or legislation. Legal policy is not often analysed or the process by which legal policy is formed and incorporated into the law. This paper is an attempt to try and fill that gap through a description of the process to enact the 2001 Human Rights Amendment Act. The narrative is based on my experience so it is acknowledged at the outset that others involved in the process may hold different views

Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns

We show that the law of brevity, i.e. the tendency of words to shorten as their frequency increases, is also found in dolphin surface behavioral patterns. As far as we know, this is the first evidence of the law in another species, suggesting that coding efficiency is not unique to humans.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Is I-Voting I-Llegal?

The Voting Rights Act was passed to prevent racial discrimination in all voting booths. Does the existence of a racial digital divide make Internet elections for public office merely a computer geek\u27s pipe dream? Or can i-voting withstand scrutiny under the current state of the law? This i-Brief will consider the current state of the law, and whether disproportionate benefits will be enough to stop this extension of technology dead in its tracks