The Triumph of the Southern Man: Dowell, Shelby County, and the Jurisprudence of Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

The year 2018 has witnessed widespread celebrations of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated fifty years ago in Memphis, Tennessee. Yet if Dr. King were alive today, he would no doubt be dismayed by the path taken by the Supreme Court’s treatment of race-related issues in recent years. Not only has the Court abandoned the quest for school desegregation, but the 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder substantially reduced the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was the most important legislative monument to Dr. King’s efforts. By contrast, these developments would no doubt have pleased Lewis F. Powell, Jr., a harsh critic of Dr. King who joined the Supreme Court less than four years after King’s death. Prior to taking his seat on the Court, Powell had been openly critical of the decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and in his capacity as chair of the school board of Richmond, Virginia, had worked ceaselessly to limit the pace and scope of the desegregation of the Richmond schools. Moreover, even before joining the Court, he had actively sought to limit the impact of the Voting Rights Act on the decision-making authority of state and local governments in the South. Similarly, in the cases that came before him after coming to the Court, Powell consistently voted to limit the scope of remedial orders in desegregation cases and argued that the Constitution imposed important limits on the scope of congressional authority to deal with the issues that the Voting Rights Act was designed to address. Powell had only limited success in persuading a majority of his colleagues to support him on these issues. However, the reasoning of the Court’s decisions in the years after Powell left the Court in 1987 has often embraced the arguments made by Powell during his tenure as a justice. This article not only explores Powell’s background and jurisprudence, but also provides the first scholarly discussion of the relationship between his views and the positions currently taken by the Court

Effective String Theory Simplified

In this set of notes we simplify the formulation of the Poincare'-invariant effective string theory in D dimensions by adding an intrinsic metric and embedding its dynamics into the Polyakov formalism. We use this formalism to construct operators order by order in the inverse physical length of the string, in a fully gauge-invariant framework. We use this construction to discuss universality and nonuniversality of observables up to and including next-to-next-to-leading order in the long string expansion.Comment: v. 3, minor change

El policial en los policiales. Retóricas de ficción en un noticiero de casos criminales ('Cámara del crimen')

Proponemos analizar las estrategias narrativas empleadas para contar casos criminales en el programa Cámara del crimen, conducido por Ricardo Canaletti en la señal televisiva TN (Todo Noticias), durante las emisiones de 2014. Sostenemos la tesis de que para contar casos reales hay una necesaria apoyatura en discursos ficcionales (fílmicos y literarios), especialmente del género policial. Nos servimos de elementos teóricos de la semiótica, fundamentalmente en lo que respecta a una teoría de los géneros que contemple los aspectos enunciativos, temáticos y retóricos de todo discurso. También apelamos a motivos, recursos y estilos específicos del cine y la literatura policiales, fuentes indispensables para pensar la transposición selectiva de ciertas retóricas empleadas en Cámara del crimen. Para el análisis distinguimos cinco instancias en las que identificamos estas retóricas: la presentación del programa; el modo de presentarse del conductor y del co-conductor; la ambientación espacial del propio programa; el modo de presentar y representar los casos referidos; y los usos de la escenificación en la narración de las historias

The Development Background and Analysis of the Termination of Fellowship with the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod by the Wisconsin Synod

Lutheranism is no exception to the historical account of the Christian Church. Since the Lutheran Church is part of the Church Militant here on earth, it, too, has experienced the way of toil and tribulation in fellowship mergers, splits and divisions. The topic of this particular thesis relates to a cherished part of our Lutheran heritage involving both the Wisconsin and Missouri Synods as they comprised the major part of the Synodical Conference. This segment of confessional Lutheranism provides an excellent source of historical truth and application