Analysis on Globalization and the Impact of Its Outcomes on Social Sciences

Continuing the critique of Western social scientific thought set in motion in the 1960s, postmodern thinkers of this decade have promoted descriptions of the uniqueness and complexity of human life by focusing on identities and group affiliations (See Bolough and Mell, 2004; Mato, 2006; Seidman, 2010; Sztompka, 2009; Zavarzadeh and Morton, 2004). The critique of logical positivism in the social sciences, which sought general truths about the social world, ultimately resulted in a discourse that rejected, to use the language of postmodern thinkers, totalizing and essentializing master narratives of the dominant canon (Martinez, 2010). Keywords : globalization, social sciences, outcomes, impac

On Being Old Codgers: A Conversation about a Half Century in Legal Education

This conversation, conducted over three evenings, captures some of our thoughts about the last half century of legal education as both of us near retirement. We have edited the conversations so as to eliminate verbal stumbles and present our ideas more coherently, slightly reorganized a small part of the conversation, and added a few explanatory footnotes. However, we have attempted to keep the informal tone of our discussions

Beyond contested elections: the processes of bill creation and the fulfillment of democracy's promises

Long before 1996, earlier promises of 'development' had splintered into a million shards. Development -- defined as the use of state power to bring about social, political, and economic change in favor of the mass of the population almost everywhere had seemingly imploded. 5 Babies in the poorer countries could expect to live from ten to thirty years fewer than those born in industrialized countries. [TRUNCATED

Continental visions: Ann Seidman, Reginald H. Green and the economics of African unity in 1960s Ghana

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Why Zimbabwe needs a long term industrial strategy

This is a paper by Boston University professor Ann Seidma

The present state of legislative theory and a proposal for remedying its sad condition

Draft document from the Seidman's Legislative Theory course at Boston University about the current state of legislative theory and recommendations on how to improve this process

A proposal for funding a program for Training Southern African Legislative Drafters and Law-Makers in Drafting and Assessing Laws Designed to Institute Democratic Social Change

A proposal from Ann and Robert Seidman to Boston University requesting funding a program to train legislative drafters in southern African regions, strengthening their capacity to draft and assess legislation designed to facilitate democratic social, political, and economic change

On maximizing third world benefits from mineral resources

Draft copy of a paper presented at the International Symposium "Strategies for Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Developing Countries", organised by the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, from 6 to 8 November 1986 on the occasion of its Diamond Jubilee