The business impact of the Brexit vote: a view from housing associations

Following the Brexit vote, housing associations are now faced with a number of uncertainties regarding funding, workforce supply, regulation and the very future of their business. Lucy Pedrick from the National Housing Federation outlines the four key themes organisations are currently considering

Smith: PERSONAL LIFE INSURANCE TRUSTS

A Review of PERSONAL LIFE INSURANCE TRUSTS. By Allan F. Smith

Letter from Jozetta Pedrick to B. R. Colson

Letter from Jozetta Pedrick to B. R. Colson. The two-page handwritten letter is dated 11 August 1913. There is a transcript of the correspondence in the item PDF

In Praise of Lehan K. Tunks

From so talented a collection of competitors, it was Lehan K. Tunks who was selected to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Volume 32 of the Illinois Law Review, now known as the Northwestern University Law Review. It is my considered judgment that Volume 32 of the N.U. Law Review, under his editorship, was probably the second best volume of that Review ever published. It was exceeded in quality only by its successor Volume 33 under editorship surely needing no explicit identification. I was, therefore, early on, a follower of Lehan K. Tunks. Thus, he became one of my heroes at an early and impressionable age. Still, looking back at Lee Tunks (as we knew him then, for who ever heard of the name Lehan?), his stature as a hero was authentic. He was tough-minded, keen of intellect, creative, resolute of purpose, a dynamo of energy, eloquent of expression, and he insisted on the very best from everyone, himself included

Textures of Transition: Understanding Memorial Spaces in Medellin, Colombia

The past decade has welcomed a surge in the creation of memory and human rights museums with existing scholarship linking concepts of transitional justice and the rush to memorialize. The role of symbolic reparation in transitional justice through memorials in Latin America, in particular, is increasingly prominent at both local and international scales, ranging from recommendations outlined by the Inter-American court system to the state-funded construction of memory sites in rural communities. Colombia, home to the longest ongoing civil conflict in the Americas and currently in transition towards peace, presents unique approaches to symbolic reparation. Apart from land restitution and financial support issued to victims, changes to the visual landscape warrant more investigation. The research behind this work surveys commemoration in Medellin, Colombia, considering who generates memorials, such as murals, sculptures, and museums, which address civil conflict. Presenting research on four sites of commemoration within and surrounding Medellin, Colombia, the poster highlights field notes and semi-structured interviews. The four sites include: the Museo Casa de la Memoria (Memory House Museum) of Medellin, the San Javier cemetery La America, the Salon de Nunca Mas (Hall of Never Again) of nearby rural Granada and the sculpture entitled “N.N.” in front of the Leon de Greiff Library-Park near downtown Medellin. Giving particular attention to spatial relationships through qualitative methods, the work draws primarily upon scholarship from museum studies and the geography of memory and memorialization. Placing the four sites in conversation allows not only for a comparison of degrees of community and institutionalization but also design aesthetics and the integration of the distinct painful histories behind the four sites before transforming into commemorative spaces

My Professor: A Tribute to Nathaniel L. Nathanson

Dedication to Professor Nathaniel L. Nathanson

Dignified Death and the Law of Torts

These remarks were delivered on March 30, 1990 as the Nathanial Nathanson Memorial Lecture for 1990 at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Pedrick discusses and explains his thesis that familiar principles of tort law can be enlisted to better assure that unwanted life support measures either will not be used, or will be withdrawn when that is the wish of the patient or the patient\u27s agent. He suggests that in nearly all states, health care givers are duty-bound under the common law of torts to follow instructions regarding use or nonuse of life support systems from a competent patient. He also analyzes the complex question of whether it makes a difference if the competent patient gives the direction, or if a surrogate decisionmaker gives the direction under a power of attorney or under a previously executed living will

Devotedly Yours: The Prison Letters of Captain Joseph Scrivner Ambrose IV, C.S.A.

Tales of war-valor, courage, intrigue, winners, losers, common men, outstanding officers. Such stories captivate, enthrall, and inspire each generation, though readers often feel distanced from the participants. The central figures of these tales are heroes, seemingly beyond the reach of ordinary men. Through a more intimate glimpse of one such figure, the affectionate letters of Joseph Scrivner Ambrose to his sister, written from prison during America\u27s Civil War, perhaps one can find more than a hero- one can find a man with whom one can identify, a man who exemplifies the truth of the old adage, Heroes are made, not born