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Jammin’ on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai
(Japanese Studies, 1999-05)Examines the community of expatriate Japanese musicians playing jazz in interwar Shanghai, and the symbolic meaning of Shanghai as a "frontier" where musicians could develop their chops. -
Jazz by the Sea: KRML and the Radio Presence of ‘America’s Classical Music’
(Jazz Perspectives, 2013)The last for-profit radio station with an all-jazz format was located not in a major city or center of jazz activity, but in Carmel, California. KRML-AM 1410 broadcasted jazz almost exclusively for three decades, before ... -
Judges as Framers of Plea Bargaining
(2015)The vast majority of federal criminal defendants resolve their cases by plea bargaining, with minimal judicial input or oversight. This presents significant issues concerning transparency, fairness, and effective sentencing. ... -
Judgments of Information Structure in L2 French: Nativelike Performance and the Critical Period Hypothesis
(Walter de Gruyter, 2010)Previous studies using judgments of morphosyntactic errors have shown mixed evidence for a critical period for L2 acquisition (e.g., Birdsong & Molis 2001, Johnson & Newport 1989). This study uses anomalies in the domain ... -
A juvenile subfossil crocodylian from Anjohibe Cave, Northwestern Madagascar
(PeerJ, 2016-09-15)Madagascar’s subfossil record preserves a diverse community of animals including elephant birds, pygmy hippopotamus, giant lemurs, turtles, crocodiles, bats, rodents, and carnivorans. These fossil accumulations give us a ... -
Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing
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La storia del gatto che era sia vivo che morto
(Guaraldi, 2009)Questa è la breve storia , forse un poco romanzata, del gatto che, se non forse il più citato, è di sicuro il più bistrattato della storia della fisica e della filosofia: il gatto di Schrödinger. -
Labor Migration and Risk Aversion in Less Developed Countries
(University of Chicago Press, 1986)In this paper we question the pioneering work of Todaro, which states that rural-to-urban labor migration in less developed countries (LDCs) is an individual response to a higher urban expected income. We demonstrate that ... -
The Land Use Jurisprudence of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Stevens: Two Views on Balancing Public and Private Interests in Property
(2010)This three-part article examines the separate and combined legacies of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice John Paul Stevens in the area of regulatory takings jurisprudence as applied to land use controls. Part ... -
The Land without the Canon Wars: Language, Literature, and New Freedoms in Myanmar
(PMLA (Journal), 2016-10)The 1980s saw the "canon wars" in US university English departments as some scholars challenged the dominance of traditional texts and recommended teaching more works by women and minorities. In Myanmar, changes to the ... -
Language modularity
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The Languages of Pyidawtha and the Burmese Approach to Naitonal Development
(IP Publishing Ltd, 2013)Burma’s first well known welfare plan was entitled Pyidawtha or Happy Land, and it was launched in 1952. In vernacular terms, the literal meaning of Pyidawtha is ‘Prosperous Royal Country’. The government’s attempt ... -
Leapfrogging the Constitution: The Rise of State Takings Legislation
(1997)This article will examine the recent and potentially significant trend in state takings legislation. Part I will describe the development and current state of Supreme Court takings law. Part II will then survey current ... -
Learning to read English
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Left Behind: The Dying Principle of Family Reunification Under Immigration Law
(2016)A key underpinning of modern U.S. immigration law is family reunification, but in practice it can privilege certain families and certain members within families. Drawing on legislative history, this Article examines the ... -
Legal Limits on Development Exactions: Responding to Nollan and Dolan
(1995)Over the last thirty years local governments have increasingly relied on development exactions as a funding source for land use development. Faced with shrinking budgets and the need to provide services attendant to growth, ... -
Legal Paternity (and Other Parenthood) After Lehr and Michael H.
(2012)Actual genetic ties do not always establish, or even help to establish, legal paternity of children born of consensual sex, that is, male parental rights and/or duties as of the time of birth. Paternity status, typically ... -
The Legal Profession’s Monopoly: Failing to Protect Consumers
(2014)This article explores the implication of the legal monopoly that occurs through the current attorney regulation system used in most states. Through the lens of consumer protection, the author discusses how the current ... -
The Legal Status of the Unborn After Webster
(1990)The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, as well as recent advances in our understanding of human reproduction, has prompted new dialogue on the legal status of the unborn and on ... -
The Legislative Veto in Illinois: Why JCAR Review of Agency Rulemaking is Unconstitutional
(2016)This Article argues that legislative vetoes of administrative agency rulemaking in Illinois are unlawful under the state’s constitution. It focuses on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (“JCAR”), a bipartisan ...
