Coming of Age with TRIPS: A Comment on J.H. Reichman, the TRIPS Agreement Comes of Age: Conflict or Cooperation with the Developing Countries

comment on the Reichman articl

Review of \u3ci\u3eLiving Landscapes of Kansas\u3c/i\u3e Text by O.J. Reichman

Co-authors O.J. Reichman (text) and Steve Mulligan (photography) have produced a book illustrating the natural beauty of Kansas. This prairie state known to many through its rich history of outlaws and cattle towns has an equally rich but sometimes overlooked natural landscape. To the casual observer the landscape may appear relatively flat and uniform, but Reichman has an appreciation for this midrange scale, more accessible perhaps than the monumentality of mountains or coasts. Reichman and Mulligan have surveyed the state selecting natural sights formed through a combination of earth, fire, wind, and water. Through Reichman\u27s visual perception and impressive linguistic style, he presents a diverse view of the Kansas landscape. His keen sense of observation is evident in descriptions of natural features and how they were formed, for the relatively placid geologic history of Kansas has created a marvelous stratigraphic history. Color, texture, and structure are recorded using value systems far more complex than simple shades of black and gray. Mulligan adds substance to the text with superb natural photographs of spaces and places that evoke images of nature at its fullest. A major portion of the book is concerned with a description of the vegetation of the prairies, forests, woodlands, and wetlands. Kansas is made up of three distinct groups of prairie grasses: tallgrass, mixed-grass, and short grass. For the casual observer, recognition of these three primary prairie types will suffice. As might be expected from the author of Kanza Prairie, the description of the tallgrass prairie and Flint Hills is excellent. Reichman\u27s prose is evocative (the magnificent Ogallala aquifer seeps water as though it were wounded ), and he quietly builds a solid case for the importance of this region. If any place in Kansas can be said to have global significance, it is Cheyenne Bottoms, one of the last wetlands in North America providing food for six hundred thousand migrating birds, one of the most spectacular events in the natural world. The chapter Processes discusses the effects that natural elements, notably weather, have had in the shaping of the current landscape. Kansas, at the crossroads of the continent, is touched by virtually every weather pattern in North America, and its landscapes are all the more interesting for it. Reichman and Mulligan have provided written and visual proof that the natural beauty of Kansas is more complicated and impressive than fields of sunflowers and waving wheat

A Conversation with Professor Dov Greenbaum (Reichman University)

Join us for a conversation with Prof. Dov Greenbaum of the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. Professor Dov Greenbaum directs Reichman University’s Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies and is an adjunct professor at Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Dr. Greenbaum holds degrees and postdocs from Yeshiva University, Yale, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, and ETH Zurich. His doctoral research focused on informatics and big data. Before academia, he practiced law in Silicon Valley and in Israel.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/flyers-2023-2024/1000/thumbnail.jp

Balancing Justice and the Planet: Navigating the Path to Sustainable Law Practice

Professor Dov Greenbaum of Reichman University will be giving a lecture on how a law practice can be climate friendly or not.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/flyers-2023-2024/1001/thumbnail.jp

A Fully Self-Consistent Treatment of Collective Fluctuations in Quantum Liquids

The problem of calculating collective density fluctuations in quantum liquids is revisited. A fully quantum mechanical self-consistent treatment based on a quantum mode-coupling theory [E. Rabani and D.R. Reichman, J. Chem. Phys.116, 6271 (2002)] is presented. The theory is compared with the maximum entropy analytic continuation approach and with available experimental results. The quantum mode-coupling theory provides semi-quantitative results for both short and long time dynamics. The proper description of long time phenomena is important in future study of problems related to the physics of glassy quantum systems, and to the study of collective fluctuations in Bose fluids.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure

The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras

[Excerpt] This book describes how people cope with rapid social change. It tells the story of the small town of La Quebrada, Honduras, which, over a five-year period from 2001-2006, transformed from a relatively isolated community of small-scale coffee farmers into a hotbed of migration from Honduras to the United States and back.1 During this time, the everyday lives of people in La Quebrada became connected to the global economy in a manner that was far different, and far more intimate, than anything they had experienced in the past. Townspeople did not generally view this transformation as a positive step toward progress or development. They saw migration as a temporary response to economic crisis, even as it became an ever more inescapable part of their livelihood. The chapters that follow trace the effects of migration across various domains of local life — including politics, religion, and family dynamics — describing how individuals in one community adapt to economic change. This is not a story about an egalitarian little Eden being corrupted by the forces of capitalist modernization. La Quebrada\u27s residents have lived with social inequality, violence, political conflict, and economic instability for generations. As coffee farmers, their fortunes have long been tied to the vicissitudes of global markets. However, the social changes wrought by migration presented qualitatively new challenges, as a functioning local economy became dependent on migrants working in distant places such as Long Island and South Dakota who lived in ways that most people in La Quebrada struggled to comprehend or explain. The new reality of migration created a sense of confusion that was especially strong in the early stages of La Quebrada\u27s migration boom, when communication between villagers and migrants was rare. The decline of coffee markets and the rise of the migration economy happened so quickly and chaotically that people struggled to understand, evaluate, and give meaning to the changes they wereexperiencing. Therefore, migration was experienced as sociocultural disintegration in 2003-2005, when the bulk of the research for this study was conducted