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Formation of Black Holes in Topologically Massive Gravity
We present an exact solution in 3-dimensional topologically massive gravity
with negative cosmological constant which dynamically interpolates between a
past horizon and a chiral AdS pp-wave. Similarly, upon time reversal, one
obtains an AdS pp-wave with a future event horizonComment: Improved presentation. Extended discussion of linear stability and
regularity of the metric. Added reference
Electric Black Holes in Type 0 String Theory
We discuss AdS_{2+1} (BTZ) black holes arising in type 0 string theory
corresponding to D1-D5 and F1-NS5 bound states. In particular we describe a new
family of non-dilatonic solutions with only Dp_{+}, that is ``electric''
branes. These solutions are distinguished by the absence of fermions in the
world volume theory which is an interacting CFT. They can not be obtained as a
projection of a type II BPS-configuration. As for previous type 0 backgrounds
linear stability is guaranteed only if the curvature is of the order of the
string scale where alpha' corrections cannot be excluded. Some problems
concerning the counting of states are discussed.Comment: some clarifications in section
Who done it, actually? Dissociative identity disorder for the criminologist
Through the analysis of clinical examples, the paper explores how decisions are made by a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), the notions of choice and âcompetent reasoningâ, and the practical and ethical ways for interviewing a person with DID.
Abstract
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is examined in this paper from the perspective of its relevance to the criminologist. As this psychiatric condition is linked to severe and prolonged childhood abuse, accounts of DID patients inevitably involve reports of serious crimes, in which the person was the victim, perpetrator or witness. These reports can thus contain crucial information for criminal investigations by the police or for court proceedings. However, due to the personâs dissociation, such reports are often very confusing, hard to follow, hard to believe and difficult to obtain. They also frequently state that the person had âno choiceâ, a thorny notion for the criminologist (as well as for the clinician). Through the analysis of clinical examples, the paper explores how decisions are made by a person with DID, the notions of choice and âcompetent reasoningâ, and the practical and ethical ways for interviewing a person with DID
Why coercion is wrong when itâs wrong
It is usually thought that wrongful acts of threat-involving coercion are wrong because they involve a violation of the freedom or autonomy of the targets of those acts. I argue here that this cannot possibly be right, and that in fact the wrongness of wrongful coercion has nothing at all to do with the effect such actions have on their targets. This negative thesis is supported by pointing out that what we say about the ethics of threatening (and thus the ethics of coercion) constrains what we can say about the ethics of warning and offering. Importantly, our favoured explanation of the wrongness of certain kinds of threatening should not commit us to condemning as wrong parallel cases of warning and offering. My positive project is to show how this can be done. I defend the claim that wrongful coercion is nothing more than the issuing of a conditional threat to do wrong, and that an agent's issuing of a conditional threat to do wrong is wrong because it constitutes motivation for that agent to adopt the announced intention to do wrong. The idea of explaining the wrongness of wrongful coercion in this way has gone unnoticed because we have thus far been mistaken about what a threat is. In this essay I present my moral analysis of coercion only after presenting a careful descriptive analysis of threats. On my view, it is essential to a threat that the announced intention is one that the agent does not possess before announcing it. This analysis makes it possible to elucidate the descriptive differences between threats, warnings and offers, which sets up the later project of elucidating the moral differences between them.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Pennoyer Was Right
Pennoyer v. Neff has a bad rap. As an original matter, Pennoyer is legally correct. Compared to current doctrine, it offers a more coherent and attractive way to think about personal jurisdiction and interstate relations generally.
To wit: The Constitution imposes no direct limits on personal jurisdiction. Jurisdiction isn\u27t a matter of federal law, but of general law -- that unwritten law, including much of the English common law and the customary law of nations, that formed the basis of the American legal system. Founding-era states were free to override that law and to exercise more expansive jurisdiction. But if they did, their judgments wouldn\u27t be recognized elsewhere, in other states or in federal courts -- any more than if they\u27d tried to redraw their borders.
As Pennoyer saw, the Fourteenth Amendment changed things by enabling direct federal review of state judgments, rather than making parties wait to challenge them at the recognition stage. It created a federal question of what had been a general one: whether a judgment was issued with jurisdiction, full stop, such that the deprivation of property or liberty it ordered would be done with due process of law.
Reviving Pennoyerwould make modern doctrine make more sense. As general-law principles, not constitutional decrees, jurisdictional doctrines could be adjusted by international treatyâor overridden through Congressâs enumerated powers. The Due Process Clause gives these rules teeth without determining their content, leaving space for federal rules to govern our federal system.
In the meantime, courts facing jurisdictional questions should avoid pitched battles between âsovereigntyâ and âliberty,â looking instead to current
conventions of general and international law. Pennoyerâs reasoning can be right without International Shoeâs outcome being wrong; international law and American practice might just be different now than they were in 1878 or 1945.
But if not, at least weâll be looking in the right place. General law may not be much, but itâs something: the conventional settlement of the problems of political authority at the root of any theory of personal jurisdiction. Recovering those conventions is not only useful for its own sake, but a step toward appreciating our deep dependence on shared traditions of general law
The Law and Morals of Interpretation
This report is a hermeneutic analytical study of a practical pedagogical situation. For three occasions I observed my own practice as a dance teacher and how a moment, choreographic approach in the governing documents for upper secondary school GY11 was executed in a group of dance students. The part is formulated in the course objectives for the courses on the arts program under the topic Dansgestaltning with focus on choreographic approach. The study is based on a socio-cultural thinking but also takes into account the prevailing gender theories and focuses on how the process of formulation level, through the transformation level is portrayed in the realization level of the dance regarding choreographic approach. The study illustrates educational research from both a dance perspective and a school development perspective. The intention of this study was to raise the awareness of how a pedagogical situation was designed and what is realized in the dance studio. Some pedagogical models are described as useful in raising awareness of the process and the realization of the aspect of moment in a dance studio. The methodology used for the study was participant observation and focus conversations. The results are reported in a discussion on a larger awareness of my own practice, and the benefits it can bring to learning, dancing and school development
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