The Unfolding Tendency in the Federal Relationship to Private Accreditation in Higher Education

The government has come to rely on private organizations for accreditation in higher education. It created the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 Act, which provided for state postsecondary review entities to contract with the Department of Education

On The Meaning of ε̉φήμερος

published or submitted for publicatio

Youth in the Child Welfare System: Goals, Recent Reforms, and Barriers to Further Improvements

Provides background on the child welfare system, including recent changes affecting youth. Discusses federal programs specifically for youth, and barriers to reform. Looks at the different types of services available to youth in out-of-home care

Applying Copyright Abandonment in the Digital Age

Copyright law protects orphan and parented works equally--but it shouldn\u27t. Consequently, current law unnecessarily restrains public access to works that authors have not exercised dominion over for decades. This problem has come to the fore in the Google Books settlement, which critics argue will give Google a de facto monopoly over orphan works. But this criticism implicates an obvious question: Why are orphan works protected by copyright law in the first place? If orphan works were in the public domain, then no one would worry about Google\u27s supposed monopoly because Google\u27s competitors would be free to copy the works without facing class action lawsuits. To address these concerns, I propose a new equitable defense to copyright infringement: the orphan theory of abandonment