Book Reviews

READINGS IN AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY Compiled and edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949. Pp. 529.$7.50 reviewer: STANLEY D. ROSE ======================= THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN LAW: THE LAW MAKERS By James Willard Hurst Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1950. Pp. xiii, 502.$5.50 reviewer: STANLEY D. ROSE ============================= REASON AND LAW By Morris R. Cohen Illinois: The Free Press, 1950. Pp.211. $3.50 reviewer: STANLEY D. ROSE ================================ AN INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL REASONING By Edward H. Levi Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1949. Pp. 74.$2.00 reviewer: STANLEY D. ROSE ==================================== LIVING LAW OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY By Jerome Hall Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1949. Pp. 146. $2.50 reviewer: STANLEY D. ROSE ===================================== LAW AND TACTICS IN JURY TRIALS By Francis X. Busch Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1949. Pp. xxvii, 1147.$17.50 reviewer: CHARLES C. TRABUE, JR. =========================== SUCCESSFUL TRIAL TACTICS By A. S. Cutler New York: Prentice-Hall,Inc., 1949. Pp. ix, 319. $5.35 reviewer: CHARLES C. TRABUE, JR

Cutler, Kay oral history interview

Catherine (Epstein) “Kay” Cutler was born September 19, 1913 in Bangor, Maine. Her father was an immigrant, who came to this country from Eastern Europe at age thirteen. She grew up on Grove Street in Bangor, which was part of the Jewish community. She lived her whole life in Bangor, except during her college years at Wellesley, where she majored in economics. She married Dr. Lawrence Cutler, who was a doctor and member of the Board of Trustees at the University of Maine (Orono), and for whom the Cutler Health Center at the University of Maine, Orono is named. She was actively involved with social service and mental health issues in Maine. She was awarded the University of Maine’s Hartman Award in 1986, along with May Sarton and Berenice Abbott. She passed away on February 5, 2003. Her son, Eliot Cutler (MOH 337, 355 and 401), was interviewed three times for this project

Bangor Hydro Electric News: September 1939: Volume 9, No.9 -- Cutler, Maine Issue

This issue covers in depth the undertaking of bringing electricity of the town of Cutler, Maine. The history of Cutler and profiiles about residents of the town at the time are also detailed.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/bangorhydro_news/1012/thumbnail.jp

Tribute to John Pickering

John was a close friend and a professional colleague of mine for more than fifty years, and he was admired by and very close to a number of members of our firm. Everyone knows his substantial contributions as a lawyer. I will just mention a couple

Impact of controlled neonicotinoid exposure on bumblebees in a realistic field setting

1. Pesticide exposure has been implicated as a contributor to insect pollinator declines. In social bees, which are crucial pollination service providers, the effect of low-level chronic exposure is typically non-lethal leading researchers to consider whether exposure induces sub-lethal effects on behaviour and whether such impairment can affect colony development. 2. Studies under laboratory conditions can control levels of pesticide exposure and elucidate causative effects, but are often criticised for being unrealistic. In contrast, field studies can monitor bee responses under a more realistic pesticide exposure landscape; yet typically such findings are limited to correlative results, and can lack true controls or sufficient replication. We attempt to bridge this gap by exposing bumblebees to known amounts of pesticides when colonies are placed in the field. 3. Using 20 bumblebee colonies, we assess the consequences of exposure to the neonicotinoid clothianidin, provided in sucrose at a concentration of five parts per billion, over five weeks. We monitored foraging patterns and pollen collecting performance from 3282 bouts using either a non-invasive photographic assessment, or by extracting the pollen from returning foragers. We also conducted a full colony census at the beginning and end of the experiment. 4. In contrast to studies on other neonicotinoids, showing clear impairment to foraging behaviours, we detected only subtle changes to patterns of foraging activity and pollen foraging during the course of the experiment. However, our colony census measures showed a more pronounced effect of exposure, with fewer adult workers and sexuals in treated colonies after five weeks. 5. Synthesis and applications. Pesticide induced impairments on colony development and foraging could impact on the pollination service that bees provide. Therefore our findings, that bees show subtle changes in foraging behaviour and reductions in colony size after exposure to a common pesticide, has important implications and helps to inform the debate over whether the benefits of systemic pesticide application to flowering crops outweigh the costs. We propose that our methodology is an important advance to previous semi-field methods and should be considered when considering improvements to current ecotoxicological guidelines for pesticide risk assessment

Hamilton vs. Jefferson in Supreme Court Direct Tax Jurisprudence

Increasingly frequent calls for a wealth tax in some form highlight the importance of understanding whether such a tax would be considered an unconstitutional “direct tax” if not apportioned according to population. The definition of direct tax was left deliberately vague at the Constitutional Convention, and consequently its meaning has been shaped through battles between the opposing political philosophies represented by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Hamilton and his allies prioritized an energetic national government with taxing powers adequate to support its functions and unite the states; had great respect for tradition, precedent, and practical experience; and preferred a broad mode of constitutional interpretation that showed strong deference to Congress. Jefferson and his allies prized individual liberty above all and viewed the national government as the chief threat to liberty. Accordingly, Jeffersonians wanted strict limits on the national government’s taxing powers; supported the rights and powers of state governments as a buffer between individuals and the national government; and wanted the Supreme Court to act as a bulwark for individual rights by strictly interpreting the Constitution and exercising judicial supremacy over Congress. I trace the key Supreme Court cases interpreting the Direct Tax clause and show that these Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian beliefs consistently appeared in and shaped the Court’s opinions. The Hamiltonian vs. Jeffersonian contest is far from settled and will surely play a role in deciding the fate of any future wealth tax

Broom v. Morgan Stanley DW, Inc.

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Inflation and the poor

Using polling data for 31,869 households in 38 countries, and allowing for country effects, the authors show that the poor are more likely than the rich to mention inflation as a top national concern. This result survives several robustness checks. Also, direct measures of improvements in well-being for the poor - the change in their share of national income, the percentage decline in poverty, and the percentage change in the real minimum wage - are negatively correlated with inflation in pooled cross-country samples. High inflation tends to lower the share of the bottom quintile and the real minimum wage - and tends to increase poverty.Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Health Indicators,Inflation,,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Conditions and Volatility

216 Jewish Hospital of St. Louis

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