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Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Foundations, Expansion, and Assessment
Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Foundations, Expansion, and Assessment Founded in 1987 by law professors David Wexler and the late Bruce Winick, therapeutic jurisprudence (“TJ”) is a multidisciplinary school of legal theory and practice that examines the therapeutic and anti-therapeutic properties of law, policy, and legal institutions. In legal events and transactions, TJ inherently favors outcomes that advance human dignity and psychological well-being. Starting with original groundings in mental health and mental disability law, criminal law, and problem-solving courts, and with a geographic focus on the United States, TJ now embraces many aspects of law and policy and presents a strong international orientation. This Article provides a meta-level examination of the field, including its origins, core doctrinal and theoretical foundations, critical reviews, expansion into many areas of law, procedure, and legal institutions, and connections with other modalities of legal theory and practice. Furthermore, it assesses TJ’s standing and considers opportunities and challenges for the field’s expansion and growth. The intended purpose of this Article is two-fold: first, to spur discussions within the TJ community about the past, present, and future of the field and, second, to provide a substantive, yet accessible introduction to TJ for those who wish to learn more about it
“Mass Exploitation Hidden in Plain Sight”: Unpaid Internships and the Culture of Uncompensated Work
Beyond Economic Realities : The Case for Amending Federal Employment Discrimination Laws to Include Independent Contractors
Holes in the valence band of superconducting boron-doped diamond film studied by soft X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy
Carbon- and boron-2 states of superconducting and non-superconducting
boron-doped diamond samples are measured using soft X-ray emission and
absorption spectroscopy. For the superconducting sample, a large density of
hole states is observed in the valence band in addition to the states in the
impurity band. The hole states in the valence band is located at about 1.3 eV
below the valence band maximum regardless of the doping level, which cannot be
interpreted within a simple rigid band model. Present experimental results,
combined with the first principles calculations, suggest that superconductivity
is to be attributed to the holes in the valence band.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Finite temperature dynamics of the Anderson model
The recently introduced local moment approach (LMA) is extended to encompass
single-particle dynamics and transport properties of the Anderson impurity
model at finite-temperature, T. While applicable to arbitrary interaction
strengths, primary emphasis is given to the strongly correlated Kondo regime
(characterized by the T=0 Kondo scale ). In particular the
resultant universal scaling behaviour of the single-particle spectrum
D(\omega; T) \equiv F(\frac{\w}{\omega_{\rm K}}; \frac{T}{\omega_{\rm K}})
within the LMA is obtained in closed form; leading to an analytical description
of the thermal destruction of the Kondo resonance on all energy scales.
Transport properties follow directly from a knowledge of . The -dependence of the resulting resistivity , which is
found to agree rather well with numerical renormalization group calculations,
is shown to be asymptotically exact at high temperatures; to concur well with
the Hamann approximation for the s-d model down to ,
and to cross over smoothly to the Fermi liquid form in the low-temperature limit. The underlying
approach, while naturally approximate, is moreover applicable to a broad range
of quantum impurity and related models
Motional diminishing of optical activity: a novel method for studying molecular dynamics in liquids and plastic crystals
Molecular dynamics calculations and optical spectroscopy measurements of
weakly active infrared modes are reported. The results are qualitatively
understood in terms of the "motional diminishing" of IR lines, a process
analogous to the motional narrowing of a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
signal. In molecular solids or liquids where the appropriate intramolecular
resonances are observable, motional diminishing can be used to study the
fluctuations of the intermolecular interactions having time scales of 1psec to
100psec.Comment: RevTeX in LaTeX file, 12 preprint pages, 4 ps figures included. Also
available from http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~mmartin/pubs.html Accepted
for publication in Chem. Phys. Let
Soft x-ray spectroscopy experiments on the near K-edge of B in MB2 (M=Mg, Al, Ta, and Nb)
Soft X-ray absorption and emission measurements are performed for the K- edge
of B in MB (M=Mg, Al, Ta and Nb). Unique feature of MgB with a high
density of B 2-state below and above the Fermi edge, which
extends to 1 eV above the edge, is confirmed. In contrast, the B 2 density
of states in AlB and TaB, both of occupied and unoccupied states,
decreased linearly towards the Fermi energy and showed a dip at the Fermi
energy. Furthermore, there is a broadening of the peaks with
-character in XES and XAS of AlB, which is due to the increase of
three dimensionality in the -band in AlB. The DOS of NbB has a
dip just below the Fermi energy. The present results indicate that the large
DOS of B-2 states near the Fermi energy are crucial for the
superconductivity of MgB.Comment: 3 pages text and 4 pages figures. accepted for publication to Phys.
Rev.
Magnetic Coherence as a Universal Feature of Cuprate Superconductors
Recent inelastic neutron scattering (INS) experiments on
LaSrCuO have established the existence of a {\it magnetic
coherence effect}, i.e., strong frequency and momentum dependent changes of the
spin susceptibility, , in the superconducting phase. We show, using the
spin-fermion model for incommensurate antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, that
the magnetic coherence effect establishes the ability of INS experiments to
probe the electronic spectrum of the cuprates, in that the effect arises from
the interplay of an incommensurate magnetic response, the form of the
underlying Fermi surface, and the opening of the d-wave gap in the fermionic
spectrum. In particular, we find that the magnetic coherence effect observed in
INS experiments on LaSrCuO requires that the Fermi surface be
closed around up to optimal doping. We present several predictions
for the form of the magnetic coherence effect in YBaCuO in
which an incommensurate magnetic response has been observed in the
superconducting state.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures; extended version of Phys. Rev B, R6483 (2000
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