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Lynne Flocke and Roy Gutterman (Collaborative, Faculty)
Newhouse
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In July, 1906, the body of Grace Brown, a pregnant factory worker, was discovered floating in Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. The arrest, incarceration, trial and execution of Chester Gillette became a public spectacle that became one of the 20th century's earliest "trials of the century." Flocke and Gutterman will explore how the media covered the murder, arrest, pretrial issues and the trial itself. They will also determine what early issues of journalism and the law began to present themselves at this juncture.
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Newspapers and the Case that Will Never Die: An Analysis of the Press and Legal Issues Surrounding the Chester Gillette Murder Trial in 1906
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09/10/2009
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Heritage Alumni Lounge
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11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
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K. Matthew Dames (Individual, Graduate Student)
School of Information Studies
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In his upcoming dissertation study, K. Matthew Dames will argue that the entertainment industry lobbyists’ framing of “piracy” is inconsistent with the term’s original meaning. He intends to demonstrate that the result of this frame is that concerns over “piracy” serve as the questionable basis for passing laws and enacting policy that has led to an increase in restrictive and imbalanced copyright law, both within and outside the United States. The purpose of this paper, however, is more modest. Here, he presents an etymology of the term “piracy,” demonstrating that the historical and primary definitions of “piracy” have little to do with infringement or intellectual property. His research indicates the term “piracy” did not become widely accepted as a synonym for theft of creative works until the 19th century, when British authors and publishers began using the term widely to characterize American printers’ unauthorized reproduction and distribution of works from Dickens and Tennyson, among others.
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Framing "Piracy": Etymology, Lobbying & Policy
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Erik John Chaput (Individual, Graduate Student)
Maxwell, History
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Chaput will examine the debate over aid to non-public education in Rhode Island from 1945-1971. He will highlight the various constitutional discourses that were active in Rhode Island from World War II to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971). This project will illuminate an underexamined part of Rhode Island history while concurrently addressing recent historiographical trends relating to the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
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Protestants, Catholics and the Battle Over Books in Rhode Island: The Case of Bowerman v. O'Connor
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Rachel Ross (Individual, Graduate Student)
Newhouse/Maxwell, Documentary Film and History
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Ross will research and produce a video series of episodes that address United States policy toward genocide. The episode on the Armenian genocide will be the first in the series. For decades, resolutions have been proposed that would officially recognize the Armenian genocide. However, as recently as 2007, President Bush urged voting against this resolution. This episode will not only explore the history of this horrific time in Armenian history, but also the tremendous impact that perceived economic and global self-interest have on U.S. State Department policy. The episode on the Armenian genocide will be screened at the IJPM colloquium and will be followed with a discussion on Ross's project.
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Presentation:
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Who Said Never: A Century of Genocide -- Part I: The Armenian Genocide
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Richard Price (Individual, Graduate Student)
Maxwell, Political Science
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Price will examine the question of when and how often lawyers offer state constitutional arguments. While the federal retrenchment on constitutional rights suggests that lawyers should be more likely to offer state constitutional arguments to state courts, they are trained to think in only federal terms. Price will review cases to the New York Court of Appeals for evidence of state constitutional arguments.
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Judicial Federalism and Lawyers: A (preliminary) Study of Arguments Made to the New York Court of Appeals
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11/20/2008
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College of Law - Heritage Alumni Lounge
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11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
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Evan Criddle (Individual, Faculty)
College of Law
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Criddle will explore the idea of executive counter-majoritarianism in the context of the growth of the administrative state and the liberalization of executive lawmaking in U.S. administrative law. He will show that executive counter-majoritarianism takes a variety of forms and will assess the risks associated with this type of a presidential administration.
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Presentation:
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Deliberative Administration: Rethinking Popular Representation in Agency Rulemaking
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Matthew P. Guardino (Individual, Graduate Student)
Maxwell, Political Science
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Guardino will examine the role of mass media and elite political communications in manipulating citizen opinion on contemporary American public policy issues. He will integrate concepts from cognitive psychology and critical social theory in order to offer an empirical account of these processes in three key economic and social welfare policy cases: 1) The Reagan tax plan of 1981, 2) Welfare reform in 1996, and 3) The proposed Social Security reform of 2005.
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Presentation:
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Media Discourse, Public Policy and Democracy: A Preliminary Case Study of the Reagan Tax and Budget Plans of 1981
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Thomas M. Keck (Individual, Faculty)
Maxwell, Political Science
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Keck will assess the frequency with which press coverage of federal judicial decisions implies partisan motivations on the part of the judges. Focusing initially on federal judicial decisions involving abortion, gay rights, and affirmative action, he will examine a random sample of newspaper coverage, from both national and regional papers, during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eras.
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Presentation:
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Partisan Judging and the Press
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What's Happening at IJPM?
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IJPM Executive Director named to SU's first Judiciary Studies Professorship
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On October 30th, Professor Keith Bybee was recognized as the first Judiciary Studies Professor in the newly created Paul E. and The Hon. Joanne F. Alper ’72 Judiciary Studies Professorship at Syracuse University College of Law. The professorship was created through the leadership and financial commitment of Paul E. and the Hon. Joanne F. Alper and it will fund Bybee's scholarly work, research, and academic initiatives relating to judicial legitimacy, court independence and the intersections of law, politics, and the media. Judge Alper has been an active supporter and proponent of IJPM since it's inception.
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IJPM Co-Sponsors Law and Media Conference for federal judges with the Federal Judicial Center and SU College of Law
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September 24-25, IJPM, together with the Federal Judicial Center and SU College of Law, hosted a Law and Media seminar for more than forty federal judges from across the country. The judges heard from IJPM Director Keith Bybee who presented on public perceptions of judiciary. IJPM Associate Director Lisa Dolak discussed her case study on legal reporting, "Intellectual Property Law in the Media Mirror," and IJPM Senior Advisor Mark Obbie presented about the quality of legal journalism and how to improve it. The first day concluded with a conversation with the Honorable Jon Feldman, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York, and the Honorable Leonie Brinkema, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, about managing high profile trials. The second day of the conference, Professor Rakesh Anand discussed judicial ethics and maintaining faith in the rule of law and professors Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald discussed the Cold Case Justice Initiative as an example of collaborative relationship with the judiciary and the media.
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IJPM Executive Director and Associate Director Participate in ABA's Academic Reading Group to Review Sotomayor's Qualifications for Supreme Court Position
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Syracuse University College of Law provided one of the two academic reading groups that evaluated now Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's written work as part of the American Bar Association's evaluation of her qualifications for the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. IJPM Associate Director Lisa Dolak acted as chair of this group and IJPM Director Keith Bybee also served on this reading group. Sotomayor's qualifications were reviewed in the areas of integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament; the criteria on which the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary (SCFJ) rates all federal judicial nominees. This marks the second time the SCFJ has tapped the College of Law to support its evaluation of a Supreme Court nominee. The first time was in 2005 for Justice Samuel Alito.
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