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Blockchain Networks As Knowledge Commons, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Martin B. H. Weiss, Michael J. Madison Jan 2022

Blockchain Networks As Knowledge Commons, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Martin B. H. Weiss, Michael J. Madison

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Researchers interested in blockchains are increasingly attuned to questions of governance, including how blockchains relate to government, the ways blockchains are governed, and ways blockchains can improve prospects for successful self-governance. Our paper joins this research by exploring the implications of the Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) framework to analyze governance of blockchains. Our novel contributions are making the case that blockchain networks represent knowledge commons governance, in the sense that they rely on collectively-managed technologies to pool and manage distributed information, illustrating the usefulness and novelty of the GCK methodology with an empirical case study of the evolution of Bitcoin, …

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Muslims In Prison: Advancing The Rule Of Law Through Litigation Praxis, Spearit Jan 2022

Muslims In Prison: Advancing The Rule Of Law Through Litigation Praxis, Spearit

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Islamic ideas about justice and equality directly informed the development of prison law jurisprudence in the United States. Since the early 1960s, when federal courts began to hear claims by state prisoner-petitioners, Muslims began to look to courts to establish Islam in prison and inaugurated an ongoing campaign for civil rights. The trend is significant when considering Muslims represent a relatively small percentage of the American population. Decades of persistent litigation by Muslims in courts have been integral to developing the prisoners’ rights movement in America. The Muslim impact on prison law and culture is an underappreciated phenomenon that involves …

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Re-Thinking Strategy After Roe, David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, Rachel Rebouché Jan 2022

Re-Thinking Strategy After Roe, David S. Cohen, Greer Donley, Rachel Rebouché

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturns nearly fifty years of precedent and radically changes abortion law, throwing both sides of the debate into uncharted territory. This essay, published in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs, offers some initial thoughts about what the changed legal landscape means for abortion rights legal advocacy. Our focus in recent writings has been to identify concrete measures federal and state actors can take to secure abortion access after Dobbs. Here, we investigate a more overarching concern: what fundamental values and strategies should govern the abortion rights movement going …

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Nazi Stolen Art: Uses And Misuses Of The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2022

Nazi Stolen Art: Uses And Misuses Of The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Vivian Grosswald Curran

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U.S. courts in Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”) cases must interpret a comprehensive statute which has been said to stand or fall on its terms. At the same time, in Nazi-looted art cases, they do not ignore entirely the backdrop of the U.S.’ adoption of international principles and declarations promising to ensure the return of such art. To some extent, such an undertaking has been incorporated into a statutory amendment of the FSIA. The years 2021 and 2022 have seen major developments in the FSIA both at the U.S. Supreme Court and in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in …

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White Vigilantism And The Racism Of Race-Neutrality, Christian Sundquist Jan 2022

White Vigilantism And The Racism Of Race-Neutrality, Christian Sundquist

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Race-neutrality has long been touted in American law as central to promoting racial equality while guarding against race-based discrimination. And yet the legal doctrine of race-neutrality has perversely operated to shield claims of racial discrimination from judicial review while protecting discriminators from liability and punishment. This Article critiques the doctrine of race-neutrality by examining the law’s response to white vigilantism in the much-publicized criminal trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and that of Ahmaud Arbery’s assailants.

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Changing Every Wrong Door Into The Right One: Reforming Legal Services Intake To Empower Clients, Jabeen Adawi Jan 2022

Changing Every Wrong Door Into The Right One: Reforming Legal Services Intake To Empower Clients, Jabeen Adawi

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It’s recognized that people affected by poverty often have numerous overlapping legal needs and despite the proliferation of legal services, they are unable to receive full assistance. When a person is faced with a legal emergency, rarely is there an equivalent to a hospital’s emergency room wherein they receive an immediate diagnosis for their needs and subsequent assistance. In this paper, I focus on the process a person goes through to find assistance and argue that it is a burdensome, and demoralizing task of navigating varying protocols, procedures, and individuals. While these systems are well intentioned from the lawyer’s perspective, …

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Judicial Review Of Directors' Duty Of Care: A Comparison Between U.S. & China, Zhaoyi Li Jan 2022

Judicial Review Of Directors' Duty Of Care: A Comparison Between U.S. & China, Zhaoyi Li

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Articles 147 and 148 of the Company Law of the People’s Republic of China (“Chinese Company Law”) establish that directors owe a duty of care to their companies. However, both of these provisions fail to explain the role of judicial review in enforcing directors’ duty of care. The duty of care is a well-trodden territory in the United States, where directors’ liability is predicated on specific standards. The current American standard, adopted by many states, requires directors to “discharge their duties with the care that a person in a like position would reasonably believe appropriate under similar circumstances.” However, both …

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Reframing Hate, Lu-In Wang Jan 2022

Reframing Hate, Lu-In Wang

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The concept and naming of “hate crime,” and the adoption of special laws to address it, provoked controversy and raised fundamental questions when they were introduced in the 1980s. In the decades since, neither hate crime itself nor those hotly debated questions have abated. To the contrary, hate crime has increased in recent years—although the prominent target groups have shifted over time—and the debate over hate crime laws has reignited as well. The still-open questions range from the philosophical to the doctrinal to the pragmatic: What justifies the enhanced punishment that hate crime laws impose based on the perpetrator’s motivation? …

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Calls For Change: Seeing Cancel Culture From A Multi-Level Perspective, Tomar Pierson-Brown Jan 2022

Calls For Change: Seeing Cancel Culture From A Multi-Level Perspective, Tomar Pierson-Brown

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Transition Design offers a framework and employs an array of tools to engage with complexity. “Cancel culture” is a complex phenomenon that presents an opportunity for administrators in higher education to draw from the Transition Design approach in framing and responding to this trend. Faculty accused of or caught using racist, sexist, or homophobic speech are increasingly met with calls to lose their positions, titles, or other professional opportunities. Such calls for cancellation arise from discreet social networks organized around an identified lack of accountability for social transgressions carried out in the professional school environment. Much of the existing discourse …

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Growing Veterans, Quinlan Christian Jan 2022

Growing Veterans, Quinlan Christian

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Growing Veterans was founded in 2012 by Chris Brown, a United States Marine Corps Vet. He was trying to find a way to bring veterans out of isolation and into the community to help end suicide. Bringing people onto the farm he used ‘dirt therapy’ as a way to work through mental health challenges, and as a way to be social in a natural way. GV is not just for veterans, but encourages the larger community to be a part of the whole process at the farm. “Only through the mutual engagement and support between veterans AND civilians, will we …

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Seattle City Light Fire Planning And Safety Internship, Mclain Jokinen Jan 2022

Seattle City Light Fire Planning And Safety Internship, Mclain Jokinen

College of the Environment Internship Reports

No abstract provided.

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Dnr Wildland Firefighter, David Van Tulder Jan 2022

Dnr Wildland Firefighter, David Van Tulder

College of the Environment Internship Reports

From June 16th to September 20th, I worked as a Firefighter Type 2 and Firefighter type 1 trainee on E-1101, see image 1, for the Olympic Region of Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR). I began this internship as a first step into the complex organization that is the DNR to better understand how it interacts with local social and environmental systems. As part of the DNR I have hoped to learn their inner machinations, think big picture about socio-environmental-economic system in fire, and to gain concrete experience and skills for future work.

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Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (Nsea) Flow, Megan Fritz Jan 2022

Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (Nsea) Flow, Megan Fritz

College of the Environment Internship Reports

The Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA) is a non-profit organization that aims to educate, inspire and engage the community to take action to keep wild salmon here in Whatcom County for future generations. NSEA sees salmon as a vital part of the local culture, economy, and environment, and therefore is working to engage the community to preserve, protect, and care for the wellbeing and stability of salmon runs. The work of the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association focuses on restoring riparian zones, local education of all ages, and community engagement and outreach. NSEA sees engaging in this work as a means …

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Biodesign Studio Youth Engagement Internship, Carson Cortez Jan 2022

Biodesign Studio Youth Engagement Internship, Carson Cortez

College of the Environment Internship Reports

I completed my internship with Kristi Park with BioDesign Studio. My internship started out as being about doing community engagement work for the Millworks Affordable Housing project that will be one of the first major steps in developing the Bellingham Waterfront into the spectacle of Bellingham that the district is meant to become. I would be working with community members to understand and report their vision of what Bellingham and a new Affordable Housing development on the waterfront would mean to them and how they think it should be improved. We would hold community meetings and do workshops and charrettes …

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Kulshan Carbon Trust Internship, Cristal Borrelli Jan 2022

Kulshan Carbon Trust Internship, Cristal Borrelli

College of the Environment Internship Reports

KCT is a nonprofit organization that is based in Bellingham, WA and was officially founded in April of 2021. Their mission is to implement natural climate solutions through landholder engagement, market incentives and workforce training (KCT, 2021). This internship has allowed me to utilize my three years of environmental education, in a professional setting. On top of implementing my previous knowledge, I obtained more valuable information, experiences and skills that I will carry with me into my future career.

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Eco Alternatives - Local Business Development Lead, Jessica Dietzman Jan 2022

Eco Alternatives - Local Business Development Lead, Jessica Dietzman

College of the Environment Internship Reports

E-CO Alternatives is the one stop shop for sustainable shopping. With a global directory and a local passport (discounts to 26 locations) all with amazing discount codes, they make shopping easy and affordable. We do the vetting and research so other consumers don’t have to! We work with all types of companies and are constantly growing. Our mission is to EDUCATE consumers on sustainable consumption, CONNECT consumers to sustainable alternatives and SUPPORT sustainable businesses with their local to global mindset. We believe being educated consumers is important. That is why we provide consumers information on various certifications or “green stamps” …

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Factory Farming Awareness Coalition Intern, Caroline Burns Jan 2022

Factory Farming Awareness Coalition Intern, Caroline Burns

College of the Environment Internship Reports

The Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to working toward a just food system. They do so by providing educational opportunities to the public, as well as offering their internship programs each academic term and throughout the summer to high-school and undergraduate students. Additionally, they partner with multiple other non-profit organizations in their pursuit of a just food system, creating a strong sense of community within the activist space.

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Wwu Environmental Education Teaching Assistant, Adelle Tower Jan 2022

Wwu Environmental Education Teaching Assistant, Adelle Tower

College of the Environment Internship Reports

My duties as a teaching assistant for this program were to facilitate student learning, to create prep work for instructions, give feedback to students, assist with administrative work, and the be available to help with any other needs. My learning objectives for being a teaching assistant were to learn how educational collaborations come to be from behind the scenes, how to facilitate reciprocal ways of learning within these collaborations, and how to provide culturally safe spaces. My last learning objective was to have a greater understanding of my leadership style.

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Bellingham Fire Dept Office Of Emergency Management Intern, Maggie Huber Jan 2022

Bellingham Fire Dept Office Of Emergency Management Intern, Maggie Huber

College of the Environment Internship Reports

I interned with the Bellingham Fire Department Office of Emergency Management (OEM), supervised by Greg Hope, the Education and Outreach Coordinator. I worked on developing the Trusted Partner Network (TPN) for the city of Bellingham. The goal of the TPN is to develop a network of bilingual community members who can receive emergency alerts and relay them to communities with limited English proficiency (LEP) in a method that is culturally and linguistically appropriate. My personal responsibilities during this project were to research the use of the TPN in other Washington State counties, develop materials for outreach and orientation, and begin …

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Essays In Immigration Economics, Igor Mocko Jan 2022

Essays In Immigration Economics, Igor Mocko

Wayne State University Dissertations

This dissertation examines the two policies involving undocumented immigrants – granting them driver’s permits, and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival legalization. The introductory chapter surveys the history of the U.S. immigration system and reviews several approaches of identifying the undocumented population in data. Chapter 2 focuses on the Michigan driver’s license ban enacted in 2008 that restricted driving permits only to citizens and legally present foreigners. Using several time specifications and estimation methods, the data show that the ban did not increase traffic safety. Instead, the number of accidents after the ban increased by about 5%. This is consistent …

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Backdoor To Essentialism? Genetic Ancestry Testing And The Social Deconstruction Of Whiteness, Whitney Hunt Jan 2022

Backdoor To Essentialism? Genetic Ancestry Testing And The Social Deconstruction Of Whiteness, Whitney Hunt

Wayne State University Dissertations

Towards the turn of the 21st century, spawned in part by the Human Genome Project, ideas about race and ethnicity shifted away from the essentialist belief that humans can be grouped into discrete, biologically relevant racial groups. More recently however, genetic ancestry testing (GAT) has exploded in popularity, as individuals seek to identify their ancestry and/or health profiles through genetic testing. Genetic testing commercials implicitly promote the essentialist belief that racial and ethnic identities are embedded in genes by portraying images of people altering travel plans, checking a different racial category on a survey, or trading in bagpipes for lederhosen, …

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Childhood Adversity And Alexithymia: Implications For Health Status In An Urban Police Sample, Christopher P. Urbanik Jan 2022

Childhood Adversity And Alexithymia: Implications For Health Status In An Urban Police Sample, Christopher P. Urbanik

Wayne State University Dissertations

American law enforcement is regarded as one of the most stressful occupations in the United States, involving repeated exposure to threatening or challenging encounters and the risk of severe injury and death. A voluminous literature has documented various psychophysiological implications of police stress, including morbidity and premature mortality. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic stressors during one’s formative years, such as abuse, neglect, and household violence and dysfunction. ACEs have been linked to increased mental and physical health risks, yet ACEs have not been studied in police officers. Given the increase in the level of stress experienced by today’s …

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Sustainable Connections And The Whatcom Housing Alliance Green Building And Smart Growth Program, Aysha Nygren Jan 2022

Sustainable Connections And The Whatcom Housing Alliance Green Building And Smart Growth Program, Aysha Nygren

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Sustainable Connections is an organization which partners with local businesses and other organizations to promote and act upon creative solutions for creating healthy communities. They focus on areas of innovation such as food systems, renewable energy, the built environment, and more (Sustainable Connections, 2022a). The Whatcom Housing Alliance, a partner organization to Sustainable connections, is an alliance of organizations committed to creating equitable, affordable, and healthy communities with a greater variety of housing options (Whatcom Housing Alliance, 2020). The Green Building and Smart Growth Program is a collaboration involving both organizations, and others, which seeks to promote some of the …

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Lead Program Peer Advisor, Samantha Goetze Jan 2022

Lead Program Peer Advisor, Samantha Goetze

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Learning Environment Action Discovery (LEAD) is an environmental restoration and protection organization at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. LEAD aims to build ecosystems that are healthy, stable, diverse, and abundant through community collaboration in the form of restoration work parties. In these work parties, student volunteers work together to remove invasive and non-native species so that ecosystems can thrive. The core focus of their invasive species removal is Himalayan Blackberry, English Ivy, English Holly, Canada Thistle, and other groundcover plants such as Buttercup and Lesser Celandine. These species outcompete native plants and harm natives by increasing disease, blocking sunlight, …

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City Of Bellingham Parks And Recreation Environmental Restoration Intern, Zach Griffin Jan 2022

City Of Bellingham Parks And Recreation Environmental Restoration Intern, Zach Griffin

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Getting the opportunity to be the Environmental Restoration intern with the City of Bellingham Parks Volunteer Program was an enriching invaluable experience for me, both personally and professionally. Despite having to unfortunately leave the program sooner than I anticipated, due to issues with financial aid dispersal and their inequitable credit requirements, I still walked away with a plethora of achievements. And although this internship doesn’t have any direct connections to the urban planning profession, there are still multiple takeaways from this position that I strongly believe are transferable skills to any future planner. I was able to positively interact with …

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Swinomish Climate Change Education And Community Resiliency, Vivien Coop Jan 2022

Swinomish Climate Change Education And Community Resiliency, Vivien Coop

College of the Environment Internship Reports

Over the course of Fall Quarter in 2021 and Winter Quarter in 2022, I worked as a Climate Change Research Intern for the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). I worked as a hired intern for the DEP on climate change related projects ranging from drafting a BIA Agricultural Management Plan, developing a five-workshop Community Climate Change Education Workshop Series, Lushootseed language integration projects, digital graphics and art, and a Swinomish Ethnobotany Book. As an intern, I utilized my passion in community planning and disaster risk reduction to serve a community that is both on the frontlines …

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Sustainable Connections Internship, Megan Richardson Jan 2022

Sustainable Connections Internship, Megan Richardson

College of the Environment Internship Reports

A big portion of my job was collecting leftover food from different businesses and delivering it to people in need. This part of the job was not only rewarding but it was also a great learning experience coordinating with different people within the community and making sure nothing went to waste. I grew close with many of the people I interacted with and could see myself continuing to grow these relationships that would only enforce these good habits. This sort of business perspective of donating excess food that otherwise would have gone to waste is not only a blessing to …

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Whatcom County Council Climate Change And Hazard Mitigation Planning Internship, Shannon Bacon Jan 2022

Whatcom County Council Climate Change And Hazard Mitigation Planning Internship, Shannon Bacon

College of the Environment Internship Reports

This report is intended to act as a checkpoint for Whatcom County’s progress in climate resilience and hazard mitigation planning. Inspired by work in Rebekah Paci-Green’s Disaster Risk Reduction courses, I aim to speak to the value of climate resilience as a lens for hazard mitigation in Whatcom County specifically. I will identify Whatcom County’s goals concerning climate, climate change, and natural hazard mitigation, then highlight the County’s progress in these fields. Natural hazard planning is complex and highly important for protecting Whatcom County’s population and environment, and I hope this report may shed light on areas where we may …

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Ne Aquarium Conservation Learning Internship, Riley Hammack Jan 2022

Ne Aquarium Conservation Learning Internship, Riley Hammack

College of the Environment Internship Reports

During my time at The New England Aquarium, I worked as a Conservation Learning Intern. My responsibilities included interpreting events in the aquarium, educating visitors on conservation efforts, ensuring the safety of guests and animals in our collection, and providing specific information on the aquarium and its contents. In addition, when not working in public areas, I completed projects and presentations assigned by my advisor, Katie O’Brien. These projects and responsibilities, further explained in this research paper, correlate to my learning objectives and illustrate the knowledge I gained during my internship.

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Shafer Historical Museum Educator Intern, Caroline Fillman Jan 2022

Shafer Historical Museum Educator Intern, Caroline Fillman

College of the Environment Internship Reports

hosting visitors, accessioning objects, creating educator activities, and drafting up a history and sustainability webpage for them to possibly use in the future. Of my three days a week working at the museum, half of my time was spent hosting visitors. I would open and close the museum and answer any questions people might have about the museum. This might include showing them around the exhibits, telling them some more indepth information about the Methow Valley, or even telling them more about what I was doing there, and what kind of work I was doing. I was able to learn …

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