A Lawyer\u27s Lament: Law Schools and the Profession of Law

Back in the mid-eighties, I offered a first year, second semester un-elective called American Legal Theory and American Legal Education. It scrunched together two history courses I had taught irregularly before. I liked the way the two topics fit together and still do, but with so many recalcitrant law students enrolled in it, the course was an unmitigated disaster. As is always the case with such attempts at offering perspective, amidst the shambles I had acquired at least a few devoted students. At the end of the last class one of them came up to the front to ask a somewhat rhetorical question. He said, Do I read you correctly? You have been arguing that if we want to change legal education, we have to change the categories of legal thought? I nodded in agreement, to which he replied, You know that\u27s gonna be damn hard? I remember this comment not just because of the student\u27s insight but also because it pretty much marked the end to my active participation in attempts at significantly reforming the curriculum at the University at Buffalo Law School. An attempt to comprehensively reform the first-year curriculum had recently broken down when one crucial participant offered a my way or the highway alternative that none of us could understand. Such a result was a fitting tombstone to a career that had started back in 1967 when I was a third-year law student. Gerhard Casper, then new to the University of Chicago Law School faculty, gathered a group of my classmates together to discuss revision of that school\u27s curriculum. As a member of this group, I suggested that the first year be given over to tutorial work designed to bring all students up to master\u27s degree level of competence in a range of relevant social sciences. World Report rankings respect practitioners\u27 inputs as one criterion in the ranking process. But the reader should also consider me as one who is gravely concerned about legal education because I am gravely concerned about the practice-the profession-of law. And it is that concern that I wish to discuss with you. Let us all acknowledge at the outset that the practice of law is under stress from both internal and external sources. Candidly and sadly, a primary cause of the stress is the rise of greed and a corresponding focus on self esteem. Too often lawyers, and citizens at large, look at every situation as one in which there must be a winner and a loser. This win-lose mentality leads to a shocking decline in civic engagement. Therefore, one should readily acknowledge that a great deal of the problem of internal and external stresses in the practice of law rests on the bar and on its members. However, that determination is not the entire answer

Letter from S.S. Hyatt, Jacksonville, Fla., 1846-02-06

A descriptive letter dated February 6, 1846, from S. S. Hyatt to John ?, sent from Jacksonville, Florida. The correspondent provides details of social and leisure activities in Jacksonville and the surrounding region. He describes a river boat trip to a plantation a few miles up the river from Jacksonville, an invitation to dinner by the plantation owner, a sighting of a cotton gin, and his return trip by boat to Jacksonville. Social activities recounted include masquerade parties with costumed gentlemen going from house to house, accompanied by dancing and music. He also writes of attending a ball with about seventy other persons, and the company encompassing most of the beauties of Jacksonville. Box 1, Folder

Test program, helium II orbital resupply coupling

The full scope of this program was to have included development tests, design and production of custom test equipment and acceptance and qualification testing of prototype and protoflight coupling hardware. This program was performed by Ball Aerospace Systems Division, Boulder, Colorado until its premature termination in May 1991. Development tests were performed on cryogenic face seals and flow control devices at superfluid helium (He II) conditions. Special equipment was developed to allow quantified leak detection at large leak rates up to 8.4 x 10(exp -4) SCCS. Two major fixtures were developed and characterized: The Cryogenic Test Fixture (CTF) and the Thermal Mismatch Fixture (Glovebox). The CTF allows the coupling hardware to be filled with liquid nitrogen (LN2), liquid helium (LHe) or sub-cooled liquid helium when hardware flow control valves are either open or closed. Heat leak measurements, internal and external helium leakage measurements, cryogenic proof pressure tests and external load applications are performed in this fixture. Special reusable MLI closures were developed to provide repeatable installations in the CTF. The Thermal Mismatch Fixture allows all design configurations of coupling hardware to be engaged and disengaged while measuring applied forces and torques. Any two hardware components may be individually thermally preconditioned within the range of 117 deg K to 350 deg K prior to engage/disengage cycling. This verifies dimensional compatibility and operation when thermally mismatched. A clean, dry GN2 atmosphere is maintained in the fixture at all times. The first shipset of hardware was received, inspected and cycled at room temperature just prior to program termination

Diversity in Emerging Markets: The Case of Latin American & The Caribbean

Latin America and the Caribbean encompasses over 40 countries in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Cultural influences in this region include Africa, the native groups, India, as well as the former colonizers from Europe - the British, Spanish, French, Dutch, and Portuguese, making it one of the most diverse markets in the world. Country populations within the region are also varied and range from as small as St. Kitts & Nevis with a population of only 52,175 to as large as Brazil with a population of 207,353,391, according to the CIA World Factbook (2017). Despite lower incomes, the sheer size of this region cannot be ignored by marketers, as it numbers over 630 million people, according to the World Bank’s 2016 numbers, with millennials alone representing approximately thirty percent (30%) of this group. It should also be noted that economic growth in the region is projected to increase by an average of 2.7 percent by 2020, a marked improvement over previous years (Haughton, 2018). Given their close proximity to North America, this region has represented low hanging fruit for multinational corporations. However, with the varying sizes and populations, Latin America and the Caribbean present certain unique challenges to international marketers when developing marketing strategies for the region. This panel will discuss some key considerations for targeting such a diverse region. Discussions will revolve around the marketing challenge associated with global expansion to this region and will highlight three areas most pertinent to marketers responsible for their organizations’ success in the region

MoO3 incorporation in magnesium aluminosilicate glasses

Molybdate has a very low solubility in silicate and borosilicate glass systems and its excess presence in nuclear waste glass can cause the formation of a readily soluble “yellow phase”. In this study, the incorporation of molybdenum oxide (MoO3) in a magnesium aluminosilicate glass system has been investigated. The prepared glasses show a higher than 90% molybdenum retention rate and up to 5.34 mol% (12.28 wt%) MoO3 can be incorporated into these glasses without causing visible phase separation. The incorporation of MoO3 increases glass density, decreases glass transition and crystallisation temperatures and intensifies Raman bands assigned to vibrations of MoO42− units. When excess molybdate is added liquid–liquid phase separation and crystallisation occurs. The separated phase is spherical, 200–400 nm in diameter and randomly dispersed. Based on powder X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy, the separated phase is identified as MgMoO4

Evaluation of positive G sub Z tolerance following simulated weightlessness (bedrest)

The magnitude of physiologic changes which are known to occur in human subjects exposed to varying levels of + G sub Z acceleration following bed rest simulation of weightlessness was studied. Bed rest effects were documented by fluid and electrolyte balance studies, maximal exercise capability, 70 deg passive tilt and lower body negative pressure tests and the ability to endure randomly prescribed acceleration profiles of +2G sub Z, +3G sub Z, and +4G sub Z. Six healthy male volunteers were studied during two weeks of bed rest after adequate control observations, followed by two weeks of recovery, followed by a second two-week period of bed rest at which time an Air Force cutaway anti-G suit was used to determine its effectiveness as a countermeasure for observed cardiovascular changes during acceleration. Results showed uniform and significant changes in all measured parameters as a consequence of bed rest including a reduced ability to tolerate +G sub Z acceleration. The use of anti-G suits significantly improved subject tolerance to all G exposures and returned measured parameters such as heart rate and blood pressure towards or to pre-bed-rest (control) values in four of the six cases

Flat Plate Solar Collector Materials (and Designs with an Economic Methodology for Optimizing Collector Design)

The desirability of specific materials and designs for conventional flat-plate solar collector components is considered. Then a methodology for choosing the most economic component is presented, consisting of a computer simulation and a rate-of-return analysis. The effect of rising conventional fuel costs is examined. Examples of using the methodology are given, based on Southern California climatic and user-demand conditions. Selective absorber-plate coatings and film inner glazing are shown to be economic, yielding a rate-of-return of 23 percent and 29 percent, respectively