Secure World Foundation (SWF) invites you to “Foundations of a National Space Strategy” – a special luncheon panel discussion to be held in Washington, D.C. on Monday, December 13, 2010.
The WikiLeaks controversy raises a number of important legal issues about national security and freedom of the press under U.S. law, says Neil Richards, JD, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Journalists and government officials have suggested that either WikiLeaks or The New York Times (NYT) might face legal liability for publishing the contents of diplomatic cables and other leaked documents.
This week, Professor Michael Scharf traveled 30 hours to Mombasa, Kenya to personally deliver his team’s legal research to the Chief Judge of the Kenya Piracy Court.
The Stony Brook University Police Department, under the leadership of Chief Robert Lenahan, recently received accreditation status from the New York State Law Enforcement Accreditation Council , announced University President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., MD.
The University of Maryland offers the archived stream of the December 6, 2010 Anwar Sadat Lecture for Peace featuring former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She talked about 'peace' being more than just a word or elusive goal in the Middle East. The speech is also available on C-Span's website.
A new survey of court cases against battered women living abroad shows that when the women left their abusive partners and returned with their children to the United States, half of the time, U.S. courts sent the children back, usually to their fathers. The survey, co-authored by a University of Washington researcher, also shows that almost a third of these estranged husbands filed criminal kidnapping charges against their wives.
Kenneth I. Shine, M.D., executive vice chancellor for health affairs for The University of Texas System, has appointed disability rights champion Lex Frieden to take on the challenge of enhancing the lives of the 2.8 million Texans with disabilities. Frieden’s one-year appointment as the Chancellor’s Health Fellow on Disability was effective Dec. 1.
The current WikiLeaks saga has many in diplomatic circles either red-faced with embarrassment or laughing up their sleeves at what the cables revealed. International relations expert Lisa Baglione, Ph.D., chair and professor of political science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, says that in the delicate dance between nuclear proliferation and containment, there is much more at risk than a loss of face.
Texas Tech University professor Robert Ricketts, Frank M. Burke Chair in Taxation in the Rawls College of Business, says that taxes do not discourage job creation or investment in the economy, and that tax cuts do not increase revenues.
Qingping Bu and Feifan Wu are in the midst of final exams after a semester of studying U.S. law at Case Western Reserve School of Law. The two young women, ages 20 and 21, are third-year undergraduates at the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai, China. After successfully competing with other highly qualified Fudan University students, they chose Case Western Reserve School of Law over law schools at Harvard University, Columbia University, Tulane University, and Washington University.
Craig Altier, associate professor of population medicine and diagnostic science at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, comments on U.S. Senate approval today of a long-stalled food safety bill that was partially inspired by last summer’s Salmonella contamination of eggs.
As Human Rights Day approaches (Friday, December 10), American University faculty experts are available to provide commentary the most pressing human rights issues of our time.
NIST and a coalition of federal, state and local agencies and other organizations have updated a standard and provided overall guidance and recommendations to help the nation's first responders and law enforcement agencies deal with collecting and managing samples of suspicious powders.
In run-up to Egyptian elections Nov. 28, opposition parties build larger presence online than that of Mubarak government.
American University's Mary Hansen helped pass a subsidy extension for adopted children that matches the level for foster children in Washington, D.C.
Americans passing through airport security lines this week will find themselves victims of overaggressive, theatrical safety precautions that waste resources and do almost nothing to protect travelers, a privacy expert says.
UAB psychologist Josh Klapow, Ph.D., believes new security measures at the nation’s airports are the straws that broke the travelers’ backs. UAB forensic scientist Jason Linville, Ph.D., says serious questions about the validity of the forensic data generated by full body scanners need to be answered.
Cornell University is sending three faculty presenters to the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. All three will be available throughout the Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 conference for interviews. Antonio Bento welcomes interviews in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Johannes Lehman welcomes interviews in English or German.
How far individuals or churches should push free exercise of religion -- especially when accommodating prisoners with unconventional beliefs and congregations whose ministries may not jibe with zoning restrictions -- is the topic of a new book by a Baylor University professor.
Technology transfer (T2) agreements within the U.S. armed services can have significant benefits in the civilian sector, especially for small, entrepreneurial start-up companies that often are the backbone for innovation and economic growth.
Secure World Foundation has released a fact-filled issue brief on the U.S. government’s Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program. Sharing information on the location of space objects and debris is a prime example of addressing collective problems in space through cooperative solutions.
Environmental Policy experts to evaluate smart growth, sustainability, climate change, greening of the government.
Job prospects are bleak for anyone with a criminal record in California, and the current economic downturn makes it even tougher. But a new report offers ways to reverse that trend with recommendations from employers, unions, police, government officials, and academics.
When it comes to controlling carbon emissions, a Case Western Reserve University political scientist challenges conventional views that countries are the only rule makers in international politics of climate change. Jessica Green from the College of Arts and Sciences reports that today’s gold standard for measuring the carbon footprint of firms and organizations was created by the collaborative efforts of NGOs and the private sector—not by countries forging the Kyoto Protocol.
Marketing researchers surveyed more than 500 smokers and found that highly graphic images of the negative consequences of smoking have the greatest impact on smokers’ intentions to quit.
President Obama's fiscal commission, released proposals to reduce the growth of the national debt this week. Bradley Heim of Indiana University says the plan includes good ideas but may not be politically feasible.
When UB School of Social Work doctoral candidate Bincy Wilson tried to rescue teenage women from sexual slavery in India, she was the frequent target of threats made by the pimps whose livelihood relied on keeping the teens in sexual servitude.
As China’s economic ascendancy and military expansion has prompted fears of a more aggressive China, a timely new book recasts the prevailing understanding of East Asian relations, showing how a strong China has historically created stability in East Asia, not conflict.
Two Cornell law professors will talk on “Mired in Immigration Misery: Can the Brand New Congress Create Fair Law?” on Monday, Nov. 15, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at the National Press Club, 529 W. 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
The Fall 2010 issue of the quarterly print and online publication - Imaging Notes magazine -- reviews the satellite monitoring of vanishing glaciers to the accounting of forestry, hydropower and mining assets as steps to boost sustainable development here on Earth.
International decision-making will be required to coordinate a global response to deflect a hazardous asteroid from impacting the Earth. This issue and others were detailed during a three-day meeting of experts at the European Space Agency’s European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
Despite its divisiveness, health reform legislation did not play a major role in the midterm elections. “We are still a 50-50 country more or less on health reform,” says Timothy D. McBride, PhD, professor and associate dean for public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “About half the country really dislikes the reform law, and those voters were likely to vote Republican in this election. But in all likelihood they would have done so anyway. Similarly, the other half that still favor the legislation would likely have voted for the Democrats anyway.”
The continuing debate over same-sex marriage has put the issue of gender at the forefront of conversations about whom the law recognizes as a child’s parents. “The shift in family law’s treatment of gender has been transformative,” says Susan Appleton, JD, family law expert and the Lemma Barkeloo and Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis.
University at Buffalo political scientists James Campbell, PhD, Joshua Dyck, PhD and James Coleman Battista, PhD, will be available to the media on Wednesday, November 3 for post-election commentary and analysis.
Linda J. Barrington, managing director of the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University’s ILR School, comments on the economic reports released Monday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Former Gore chief of staff Charles W. Burson, JD, senior professor of practice at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, says that the midterm elections reflect a dramatic turn from the wave of aspiration that defined our politics in 2008 to the wave of grievance that defines these midterm elections. “The Tea Party movement is the embodiment of that phenomenon. In Missouri, this wave has put the seats of Democratic Congressmen Ike Skelton and Russ Carnahan at risk, but the same wave may have also put at risk the seat of Republican Representative Jo Ann Emerson.”
A Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in next week’s midterm elections may well give President Obama an opportunity to recast himself as a moderate statesman by the 2012 election, says Gettysburg College Political Science Professor Bruce Larson.
A survey of registered voters in Washington state shows incumbent Patty Murray four percentage points ahead of former state Sen. Dino Rossi in the race for U.S. Senate, down from 8 points two weeks ago.
Just in time for the World Series, a University of Arkansas law professor weighs in on a classic American debate: Should baseball get rid of the designated hitter rule?
A Northern Michigan University political science professor is available to share his expertise with the media for Michigan election coverage.
Wake Forest legal scholar examines 60 years of cemetery law and finds commercialization has replaced individual choice, family custom and religious belief in burial decisions.
John D. Graham, dean of the Indiana U. School of Public and Environmental Affairs and an expert on federal fuel policy, discusses proposed fuel efficiency standards for medium- to heavy-duty trucks and buses.
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Marion Crain, JD, the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law at Washington University In St. Louis, looks at the act’s history and says changes in the American workplace and other factors raise the question of how the NLRA will adapt in the future.
Two federal employees receive the 2010 Roger W. Jones Award for Executive Leadership for their strong commitment to training and educating managers and executives.
Secure World Foundation, along with its partners at Beihang University in Beijing and International Space University in Strasbourg, France, held the 2010 Beijing Space Debris Mitigation Workshop on October 18-19.
Secure World Foundation has opened a new office in Brussels, Belgium to help further the organization’s objectives in encouraging the sustainable uses of outer space.
U.S. car-safety policies for child passengers have become some of the weakest in the developed world, according to Martha Bidez, Ph.D., a professor of safety engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and advocate for improved U.S. child-protection standards. Bidez's comments follow the Oct. 18 announcement of a new, tougher consumer crash-testing program in South America during an international press conference in Uruguay.
A new book by a Northwestern University School of Law professor tells the stories of three dramatic fugitive slave trials of the 1850s. Each of the trials underscores the crucial role runaway slaves played in building the tensions that led to the Civil War, and the three trials together show how “civil disobedience” developed as a legal defense. “Fugitive Justice: Runaways, Rescuers and Slavery on Trial” (Harvard University Press, November 2010) also highlights the role of the lawyers who took on these cases and pioneered the idea of civil rights litigation.
Steps needed for securing a more sustainable environment in outer space were highlighted during a specially convened meeting of leading authorities that assessed transparency and confidence-building measures (TCBMs).
Cyber attacks of various sorts have been around for decades. University at Buffalo military ethicist Randall R. Dipert says we have good reason to worry, because cyber attacks are almost entirely unaddressed by traditional morality and laws of war.
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