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My conversation with Dario Cecchini, in the room above his butcher's shop in the village of Panzano, is interrupted by the arrival of a courier.
"I have to see him," says Cecchini. "He's collecting some meat for Sting."
Panzano is a village with a population of 3,000, on the old road between Florence and Siena.
"You mean Sting the, er ..."
"Yes. I went to a party at his villa a couple of days ago. The guy who introduced us said, 'This is Dario Cecchini. He's fairly well known around here.' And Sting said: 'Is he? Me too.'"
It's almost 20 years since I first met the man who in recent years has been described, in Le Figaro and The New York Times, as "the world's most famous butcher". Back in 1991, his reputation for excellence didn't extend that far beyond Chianti, let alone Italy. Even in those days, though, walking into his shop was an unforgettable experience.
The first thing you noticed was the music: at that time he had a CD machine which might be playing Verdi, Puccini or Jimi Hendrix. Then there was the wine – a flask of fairly bracing local red, a glass of which he would press into your hand whatever the time of day. And the conversation: Dario, who used to have more time to sit and chat on the shop's sofa, was endlessly articulate on the subject of history, music and literature and – then as now – would occasionally break off, without warning, to recite Dante at some length.
In between times, working at his own speed, he sold meat. Three-inch-thick cuts of ' bistecca alla fiorentina – the T-bone steak now banned in the EU – thick, home-made garlic sausages, hanging from the wall next to strings of dried chillies, and generous slices of his finocchiona, salami flavoured with fennel seeds: all lovingly laid out like the works of art they are. The only smell came from the mixtures of aromatic fresh herbs he prepares for seasoning.
These were scenes for which my childhood butcher – Bert Sibbert of Burnage, Manchester (famous only for once employing a local teenager called Noel Gallagher) – had done nothing to prepare me.
Dario, who speaks very little English, went to the same schools as my wife, who is from Panzano, and whose family still live in the village. I'm trying to remember, I tell the butcher, when I noticed the first sign of his impending global reputation – which would see him catering for people such as Elton John and Prince Charles, and become the most important figure in Heat, the bestselling 2006 book by Bill Buford, in which the American journalist describes his "adventures as a kitchen slave".
"I want you to go and see Dario the butcher in Panzano," Jamie Oliver had urged his readers in Jamie's Italy, published a year earlier. "Shake his hand. Tell him you're a friend of mine."
"I think the first unusual thing I remember," I tell Cecchini, "is a hand-written fax taped to your wall, from Jack Nicholson."
The butcher laughs.
"When that arrived," he says, "I thought it was a joke."
It wasn't.
he career of Dario Cecchini, who is 55, is a heartening affirmation of the theory that, even in the age of globalisation, if you do something brilliantly, and with passion, people will eventually notice – wherever you are. He has never sought to expand his empire beyond Panzano, but four years ago opened his first restaurant in the village. There are three now, and they're always packed. Each of them is, by the daunting standards of Euroland, affordable. His most expensive, Solociccia ("Only Meat") offers a six-course fixed menu, with coffee, bread, wine and "Military liqueurs" included, for €30. The cheapest, McDario's, serves his own 250g "burgers". Lovingly crafted from the finest natural ingredients, they have no bun and are covered instead in a delicate, barely perceptible dusting of breadcrumbs. Usually ordered rare or medium-rare, they are served with roast potatoes and three home-made sauces.
"I got the idea when I was walking with Kim." (His wife, who is from California, married him "in a field, surrounded by goats", two weeks ago.) "We were walking in San Francisco. I'd been invited to a very famous restaurant –organic, sustainable and all that stuff. But to eat there you had to have $70. The same way that, in London, to go to Jamie Oliver's, or the River Café, you need a lot of money. Kim and I were in the most deprived area of San Francisco. I noticed how the poor congregated around fast-food outlets, for the very simple reason that they could afford them. Then I started to ask myself, could we make really good food at a low price?"
"Bearing in mind the litigious history of McDonald's," I ask him, "haven't you been worried that they might..."
"Their letter," he replies, "arrived last week."
The butcher laughs, as well he might. A court action by the American giant which drew international attention to the contrast between their own product and Cecchini's typically impeccable "burgers" might not be the most sensible suit they ever launched.
A few hundred yards down the road from Cecchini's shop is Panzano's lumberyard, where the owner, who had both arms blown off in an explosion as he was trying to extinguish the burning tyre of an HGV, somehow manages to cut and load your winter firewood with prosthetic forearms carved from oak. Dario, too, with his florid complexion and muscular build, seems physically to blend into his wares. He could, you might think, only ever have been a butcher. Yet, although his father's family has been in the business here since 1750, this was not his intended career.
"When I was young, I had to work here in my spare time, because my family had the butcher's shop. But I had always dreamed of being a vet; of just helping animals. I was especially interested in looking after animals that belonged to contadini (land workers). I never aimed to get rich by cosseting ladies' lapdogs."
He was studying veterinary science at the University of Pisa when his father, Tullio, died in 1976. Dario had lost his mother three years earlier.
"I had a younger sister and a grandmother to take care of. Somebody had to take over the shop. So I left my course in Pisa on the Monday and started in the shop on Wednesday. I'd learnt some things helping my father but, looking back, I had very little idea of how to go about it. I was taught by my father's friend, Orlando, my maestro. He's an excellent teacher."
"A knowledge of anatomy must have helped?"
"Yes. The thing is that, with the odd exception, like fishing, being a butcher is one of the few jobs that requires you to kill. I've tried to focus on respect for the animal. The crucial thing for me is that the animal should have as good a life – and death – as possible."
"How do you feel about vegetarians?"
"I have nothing but respect for vegetarians until they start telling people how to live their lives. There's an old tradition – maybe the oldest – in the countryside here, which says a contadino has to leave the land in a better condition than it was when he inherited it. I believe that is our duty. I love animals. I eat them. There can be no greater expression of love. Like Christ, offering bread and wine: 'Eat. Eat of my body.'"
Everything about Cecchini is extreme: his energy, his generosity, his enthusiasms; even his passion for literature. Moderation is a concept he has never quite got the hang of. He's a tactile man, sometimes alarmingly so, and his handshake has always been of the kind that threatens to crush your fingers like Chipsticks. And Dario seems almost to have grown, physically, with his international fame. The first major piece about him in English, by Mark Lucas, appeared in The Independent 10 years ago. "I have to be careful not to get too big-headed," the butcher, who has a certain sense of irony, told Lucas. "I woke up this morning and I thought that I could fly."
Over the years, his style as a vendor has become grandiose to the point of theatricality. The platform behind his meat counter is elevated like a stage, from which, if the mood takes him, he declaims poetry, or sings. Outside his shop is a life-size model of a cow in psychedelic colours. The front of the store is painted so that it resembles what some might mistake as a grandiose tribute to Doncaster Rovers. The horizontal red-and-white stripes, Dario says, were once a familiar sight in Chianti.
"You're flamboyant at work, to the point that people have written about you almost like a caricature." (When bistecca alla fiorentina was prohibited in 2001, Cecchini, whose speciality it had been, staged a mock funeral outside his shop, complete with hearse, a coffin containing a metre-long spine of beef, a sobbing widow and a framed photograph of the deceased. Afterwards, he publicly auctioned his last steaks for charity. Elton John bought one for £2,500.)
"Have you always been so extroverted?"
"I've always been very shy."
"I never really noticed that side of you."
"Very shy. Especially with girls. I was very sensitive about my father dying. I think it's because..." He pauses. "I didn't want people saying, 'Oh, that poor kid, his dad's died, you know.' So I decided to put on a smile and leave my troubles at home. I didn't want people to pity me."
To suggest that Cecchini is interested in upholding Tuscan culinary tradition is a bit like saying that Captain Ahab was a fundamentally well-balanced mariner who had a mild preoccupation with one particular cetacean. Even so, driven by concerns of feed quality and animal welfare, he now buys much of his beef from a small organic farm in Catalunya. His main point of reference is a 19th-century Florentine book, Artusi's L'Arte di mangiar bene (The Art of Eating Well). Though he's been flown over to cook at places such as the Four Seasons in New York, and appeared regularly on television both in the UK and in the US, such experience seems only to intensify his attachment to his village.
"Leave Panzano?" he says. "Never." '
I'm not sure Dario Cecchini could exist in Britain. Years before Jamie Oliver was publicising his philanthropic ventures, or Dario had any money, he was accommodating, in his house, several members of the community who were, by all conventional standards, dysfunctional. Nobody in Panzano would deny that the place has more than its fair share of what would, in a less enlightened age, have been described as village idiots. One middle-aged resident has wandered around the main square for several years under the impression that he is the 9.15 bus to Florence. Three years ago there was an unfortunate incident when the driver of a large articulated lorry got his vehicle stuck in the tight, cobbled street that leads up to the church. When people asked him why he'd gone up the narrow road, which has a low arch, he told them: "I asked this guy down in the square if it was OK. He said: 'Sure, I drive my bus up there every day.'"
There's a proud tradition here of looking after people who are alcoholic, mentally confused, or otherwise impaired. But even in Panzano, Cecchini stands out for his benevolence and I've always felt that, on this level, he has an almost saint-like quality.
" I remember meeting these people, years ago, at your house. Some of them were really quite alarming. Why were they there?"
"They had nowhere else to go. Some had been on heroin. I met most of them through the local priest, who was a very charismatic man."
He mentions the name of an alcoholic Vietnam veteran, now dead, who was here in the early 1990s.
"You remember him? Mamma mia. I'd come in and find him unconscious on the floor. I used to have to put him to bed."
It's a tradition he has never abandoned. ("Everybody here," one of his waiters told me once, "has had problems of one kind or another.")
A member of his current staff "lives in an institution. He's been through all kinds of misfortune and now he lives in a madhouse. He kept coming in to the shop. Then he asked for work. How can you say, 'Go away?' So now he has a standard contract, and he does his job like everyone else. The others know that he isn't perfect, but he gets the same salary."
Although Cecchini's meat has become too expensive for most locals to buy on an everyday basis – on Sunday, market day, his shop is so crammed that German, Dutch and American tourists spill into the road – a sense of duty to the community remains at the heart of everything he does.
It is true that, over the years, he has been no slouch at self-promotion, and once proclaimed: "I, Dario Cecchini, am thy butcher and thou shalt have no other butcher than me." Recently, though, he seems to have lost a little of his zeal for publicity. He seems especially to have wearied of journalists. He locked one foreign reporter in his fridge.
"People like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver," he says – "are essentially a brand. When Jamie, who I know, and like, wrote his book on Italy, he talked about how everyone comes here, to the shop, and I offer all of them something to eat and drink, for nothing. He said he couldn't understand how I could do that and still turn a profit. But I'm genuinely not thinking about making money when I offer a stranger a glass of wine, or food (usually Tuscan bread spread with seasoned lard). Being a good host is one of my greatest pleasures in life. I love to see people enjoying the moment. So they have a glass of wine, listen to the music, eat a small crostino – and relax."
"Of course, with all that free wine they might get so utterly relaxed that they end up buying more."
"They might. In some cases. But if they don't buy anything, it doesn't matter."
"You seem to be doing OK for money."
"Money comes in and I spend it. But I spend it on things I like; on sculpture and paintings. [Half of his shop has now become an art gallery.] Or on another work project. I'm always happy when I'm in the shop, even if I work 15 hours a day. I've been working for 35 years, trying to achieve that feeling of... well, you know those people who meditate to the point that they levitate? When I have my knife in my hand, the feeling is almost like playing music. It really is. But it took years to get to that point. I've got 14 stitches here, 14 stitches there, from when I was learning."
"Some people who are driven as intensely as you are tend to be subject to depression."
"I've had periods in my life where I have suffered a great deal.
"From what?"
"From love. From loneliness. From lack of money. In the 1990s I wasn't that easy to live with. You saw me – I was far more tense and wound up than I am now. When you have a lot of energy, as I do, it can be difficult to keep things under control. I think that's why I am so drawn to Dante. Dante, for me, became a spiritual discipline. His writing works like a drug, it really does. And things are much better now. You have to learn to know your limits."
Has he read Bill Buford's thoughts on the time he spent here? "I haven't read his book. I know he wrote things that were... well, I can't really be sure what he wrote, so to talk about it would be gossip."
"You know," I tell him, "I've been a pretty loyal customer over the years."
"The thing is that... all that stuff I bought – it wasn't, strictly speaking, for me. What I mean is..."
It's a moment I've been thinking about with unease for some time.
"I don't eat meat."
Cecchini roars with laughter, and shakes my hand.
"Congratulations," he says. "Once I went to this huge industrial slaughterhouse. The smell of blood was everywhere. All I could think of was Mozart's Requiem, the "Dies Irae". For weeks afterwards, I wasn't sure if I wanted to go on in this business."
"But I think I should try out your restaurant. The all-meat one."
"O thou that comest to the abode of pain," he says, quoting from "Canto V" of Dante's Inferno, "look how thou enterest and in whom thou trustest."
A couple of days later, we join a slightly apprehensive group of tourists waiting on the steps of Solociccia for the earlier of the two nightly sessions, from seven till nine. You sit at a long wooden table with around a dozen other guests, as at a family dinner. The German merchant bankers who form the most voluble branch of our family this evening, one in a shirt embroidered with a two-headed eagle, are just beyond conversational range, at the far end. I have to admit that the crostini and Dario's legendary roast ciccia (the word that gives his restaurant its name is actually a colloquial, childlike term for meat) is extraordinary even if, after 20 years of lentils and tofu, attempting this last dish feels a bit like eating stockbroker.
One course, tenerumi in insalata, is made, as Cecchini explains, with "meat from the knee, which is a cut that nobody uses. It's very important to me to use all of the animal, out of respect for its life. Meat from the knee is almost always thrown away. When I explain – especially to Americans, who are the world champions at throwing things away – that they've eaten knee, and liked it, they can never quite believe it."
Clearing out the first set of guests in time for the 9pm session is a problem Dario has solved, in a stroke of genius, by offering diners glasses of his explosive grappa outside, on the steps of his shop.
He'll be up at dawn, he says, the following morning.
"What," I ask him, "do you see yourself doing in 15 years' time?"
"I'll be here. Here in Panzano. I've been thinking about making bread; that was the business that my mother's family was involved in, for generations. I want to carry on learning about food. That's the most important thing for me. I don't need a villa and I don't want a Rolls-Royce. Being successful at your chosen trade – that's the main thing in life. "For me," Dario explains, and it's a phrase I can't recollect hearing him use before, "that is more than enough."
Dario's shop, Antica Macelleria Cecchini, is in Panzano in Chianti, Italy, tel: (+39) 55 852 020, dariocecchini.com
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accidentally used topping compound instead of all purposed to tape and finish drywall, how much of an issue is this?
Only time will tell---you're finished?
I say prime and paint and deal with any problems when they arise.
Topping, lightweight, and easysand don't have the stickiness that all purpose does. You can have tape failure where it separates from the joint. Like oh'Mike said, not much you can do about it now. Fix any issues if and when they occur.
pretty much finished, thanks, I will cross my fingers.
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Recommend Me A Headset - Sub $40 Bucks
Hey guys, just like the title says im here for your opinion. Im interested in a mono Bluetooth headset for gaming,skyping and internet debauchery for under 40 to 50 bucks. I have found this NoiseHush N700m for under 40 bucks with a coupon code, but i feel like their are better options that i have over looked...any words of wisdom?
Ermmmm!! Sorry mate, I got nothin'! :( :D
Good headsets like these seem to be super-hard to come by without opening the wallet wide. I know that the headsets used in call centers and the like can sometimes range in the hundreds of dollars, but they are meant to last for as long as possible.
This is an area I am very unfamiliar with also, so I'd recommend hitting up Newegg and look at all of the models there, and read the user reviews. Those can help a LOT.
Odd that they don't allow you to choose whether it's stereo or mono.
That's just three from the link you provided. There are at least a dozen more stereo bluetooth headsets on the first page alone.
I dont know if you could get a good one for gaming chatting etc on that price but maybe browse from Apple earphones then or skull candy.. or else pricey but good high-end sound will be sennheiser, Hi-fi Biostar headphones..etc..
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Postcards from the Edge: Foster Care and Health Issues
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"I don't miss my family. I miss the family I never had." That's the text of a postcard written by a former foster child—one of hundreds of postcards that are a project of the Foster Care Alumni of America to help create a better understanding about life in foster care. May is National Foster Care Month—an annual effort to raise attention about the 400,000 children in foster care.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), most of those 400,000 children will be reunited with their families or find a permanent home with relatives, guardianship, or adoption. But each year 24,000 youth "age out" of foster care without a permanent legal family and many of them have shared their lives in a postcard.
New initiatives on foster care announced by the HHS Children's Bureau in 2014 include:
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) defines children in foster care as children with special health care needs because of the very high prevalence of physical, mental, developmental, educational, dental and family relationship problems. Children in foster care have many of the same health problems as other children—they just seem to have more of them more often, according to the AAP.
Among the reasons why medical conditions are so prevalent in foster children:
- Health conditions might be the direct result of trauma or medical neglect.
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- Emotional stressors may precipitate flares in underlying conditions, such as asthma.
According to the AAP, treating and improving these conditions also improves the chances for reunification with parents or adoption, and is therefore a priority for foster children.
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|Michael Moreland teaches and writes in the areas of torts, bioethics, and law and religion. He joined the Villanova faculty in 2006 and served as Vice Dean from 2012 to 2015. At Villanova, he has taught Torts, Evidence, Bioethics and the Law, Advanced Torts, Constitutional Law II (First Amendment and Equal Protection), Justice and Rights (1L elective), and seminars in law and religion. During academic year 2015-16, Moreland will be a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He was the Forbes Visiting Fellow at Princeton University in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions during academic year 2010-11. Professor Moreland served as the project leader for The Libertas Project, a program from 2013 to 2015 at Villanova sponsored by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation exploring religious and economic freedom in the context of law and religion in American public life. Moreland received his BA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, his MA and PhD in theological ethics from Boston College, and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School. Following law school, Professor Moreland clerked for the Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and was an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, DC, where he represented clients in First Amendment, professional liability, and products liability matters. Before coming to Villanova, he served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy at the White House under President George W. Bush, where he worked on a range of legal policy issues, including criminal justice, immigration, civil rights, and liability reform. Practice Experience • Judicial Clerk to Hon. Paul J. Kelly, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit • Williams & Connolly LLP (Washington, D.C.) • The White House • Joined the faculty in 2006
|Concurrent Professor
|1100 Eck Hall of Law
|Mike Nader concentrates his practice in all facets of employee benefits. In addition to the traditional aspects, he works closely with employers to develop strategies to eliminate or minimize risk when denying or reducing benefits or responding to government inquiries. Mike spent several years as the Manager of Compensation and Benefits for a large corporation, which provided him with a greater understanding of the day-to-day issues (both internal and external) facing employers and service providers. Nader also provides counsel to selling shareholders, employers, trustees, third-party administrators and fiduciary ESOP committees regarding the structure, installation, drafting and administration of ESOPs, as well as counsel on matters related to the governance, sale or acquisition of ESOP-owned companies. He is a member of The ESOP Association. Nader is a member of Faegre Baker Daniels' management board.
|Adjunct Professor
|130 Malloy Hall
|Jordan Kapson Chair in Jewish Studies, Assistant Professor Assistant Professor, Theology
|Concurrent Assistant Professor, Law
|1100 Eck Hall of Law
|LAW75710, Intensive Trial Advocacy
|Adjunct Faculty
|Rebecca Ward
|450 Decio Hall
|Concurrent Professor, Law Professor, Fellow, The Nancy Reeves Dreux Chair in Political Science Fellow, Nanovic Inst for European Studies
|Concurrent Professor of Law
|1100 Grace Hall
|Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law
|2100 Eck Hall of Law
|Nell Jessup Newton became Notre Dame Law School's 10th dean in July 2009. She has been a leader in legal education for seventeen years, having served on a number of committees examining legal education issues for the American Bar Association, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Law School Admission Council. Presently, she is the chair of the NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education. She is a prominent scholar of Indian Law and the editor in chief of Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law, the only treatise on the subject. Under her direction, Notre Dame increased the size of the Law School faculty through lateral and entry-level hires and built curricular strengths in business and international law as well as intellectual property. The Law School also launched a Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic, an Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic that has been certified by the U.S.P.T.O. for patent and trademark cases, and seven new programs of study that allow students to develop an expertise in special areas of law and policy. Dean Newton oversaw the development of a three-year JD/MBA dual degree and four new interdisciplinary programs that enrich the study of law by incorporating insights from other disciplines. During her tenure the Law School also expanded its LLM program to include foreign lawyers who wish to study in South Bend as well as in London. Internationally, Dean Newton worked with the Law School's London Law Centre to open the school's London program to students interested in spending a single semester in the UK as well as to those who are able to participate in full-year and summer programs. As part of an expansion of the international curriculum that includes a program of study in global law, the law school has also entered into student exchange programs in partnership with the Peking and Tsinghua University law schools in China, the Pontifical University of Chile, Bocconi University in Italy, Trinity School of Law in Dublin, and the University of Lucerne School of Law in Switzerland. During her tenure, the Law School doubled externship offerings and developed externship programs based in the Law School's facilities in Chicago and Washington, D.C. The programs enable Notre Dame students to live, work, and study in either Chicago or the nation's capital. On the administrative side, Dean Newton has worked to expand the Career Development Office to help students better plan and achieve their career goals, and worked with the school's Law Advisory Council to increase the school's Loan Repayment Assistance Program by more than 500 percent while also increasing student fellowship awards. An experienced professor of law, Dean Newton continues to teach first-year contracts whenever her schedule allows.
|Law 60105 - Contracts
|Books COHEN'S HANDBOOK OF FEDERAL INDIAN LAW (Nell Jessup Newton, editor-in-chief) (2005, 2012 eds. & Supp. 2015) R. CLINTON, N. NEWTON, & M. PRICE, AMERICAN INDIAN LAW (3d ed. the Michie Company 1991 & Supp. 1994, 1996) Selected Articles & Book Chapters "Indian Claims for Reparations, Compensation, & Restitution in the United States Legal System," in WHEN SORRY ISN'T ENOUGH (Roy Brooks ed., 1999) Tribal Court Praxis: One Year in the Life of Twenty Tribal Courts, 22 AM. IND. L. REV. 285 (1998) Memory & Misrepresentation: Representing Crazy Horse in Tribal Court, 27 CONN. L. REV. 1003 (1995) Compensation, Reparations & Restitution: Indian Property Claims in the United States, 28 GA. L. REV. 453 (1994) Let a Thousand Policy-Flowers Bloom, 46 ARK. L. REV. 25 (1993) Indian Claims in the Courts of the Conqueror, 41 AM. U. L. REV. 753 (1992) Status of Native American Tribal Indians Under United States Law, 1 YEARBOOK ON LAW & ANTHROPOLOGY 40 (Vienna 1986) Federal Power over Indians: Its Sources, Scope, and Limitations, 132 U. PA. L. REV. 195 (1984) Enforcing the Federal-Indian Trust Relationship After Mitchell, 31 CATH. U.L. REV. 635 (1982) The Judicial Role in Fifth Amendment Takings of Indian Lands: An Analysis of the Sioux Nation Rule, 61 ORE. L. REV. 245 (1982) At the Whim of the Sovereign: Aboriginal Title Reconsidered, 31 HASTINGS L.J. 1215 (1980) Indian Tribal Trust Funds, 27 HASTINGS L.J. 519 (1975)
|Dean's Desk: Surveys give insight on graduates' careers The Indiana Lawyer, October 7, 2015 The Dean's Fall 2015 Welcome Letter to Students (August 24, 2015) Dean's Desk: Preparing for a more specialized profession The Indiana Lawyer, April 8, 2015 In Memoriam: Charles E. Rice (February 26, 2015) The Dean's 2014 Year-End Letter to Alumni (December 8, 2014) In Memoriam: Schierl/Ft. Howard Professor Emeritus Robert E. Rodes Jr. (November 26, 2014) Dean's Desk: Distance learning comes of age at NDLS The Indiana Lawyer, September 10, 2014 The Dean's Fall 2014 Welcome Letter to Students (August 25, 2014) Dean Nell Jessup Newton's Address to the Department of Classics and Program of Arabic Language and Culture on the occasion of the Senior Recognition Ceremony, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (May 16, 2014) The Dean's 2013 Year-End Letter to Alumni (December 13, 2013) The Dean's Fall 2013 Welcome Letter to Students (Aug 28, 2013) Dean's Desk: Dean Excited to Teach, Interact More with Students this Semester. The Indiana Lawyer, July 31, 2013. Dean's Desk: Notre Dame Law in Chicago Shows Promise. The Indiana Lawyer, March 13, 2013. Dean Newton Speaks at BYU Law School's Bruce C. Hafen Annual Distinguished Lecture Series on The Indian Trust: The Theory that Led to a $3.4 Billion Settlement Dean's Desk: Law Students Benefit from Alumni's Professional Experience. The Indiana Lawyer, September 12, 2012. Dean's Desk: Notre Dame Expands Course, Clinical Offerings. The Indiana Lawyer, March 14, 2012.
|Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law
|Julie Shook
|3119 Eck Hall of Law
|Nicole Stelle Garnett's teaching and research focus on property, land use, urban development, local government law, and education policy. She is the author of numerous of articles on these subjects and of Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009). Her most recent book, Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America (University of Chicago Press, 2014) represents the culmination of a major empirical research project with Professor Peg Brinig examining the effects of Catholic school closures on urban neighborhoods. At Notre Dame, Professor Garnett also is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Senior Policy Advisor for the Alliance for Catholic Education, a program engaged in a wide array of efforts to strengthen and sustain K-!2 Catholic schools. From 2008-2010, she served as Provost Fellow at Notre Dame, and, during the Spring 2007 semester, as a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Garnett received her B.A. from Stanford and her J.D. from Yale Law School. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Morris S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Before joining the law school in 1999, she worked for two years as a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice, a non-profit public-interest law firm in Washington, D.C.
|LAW60906, Property LAW70313, Law of Education LAW70317, Local Government LAW70345, Land Use Planning LAW70525, Urban Property Law LAW73313, Higher Education Law
|Books Lost Classrooms, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America (with Margaret Brinig) (University of Chicago Press, 2014) Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009) Selected Publications Disparate Impact, Public-School Closures and Parental Choice, 2014 Chicago Legal Forum 289 (2014) A Room of One's Own? Accessory-Dwelling-Unit Reforms and Local Parochialism (with Margaret Brinig), 45 Urban Lawyer 519 (2013) Managing the Urban Commons, 160 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1995 (2012) Are Charters Enough Choice? School Choice and the Future of Catholic Schools, 87 Notre Dame Law Review 1892 (2012) Catholic Schools and Broken Windows with Margaret Brinig, 9 Journal of Empirical Legal 347 Studies (2012) Catholic Schools, Charter Schools, and Crime, with Margaret Brinig, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 31 (2012) The People Paradox, 2012 University of Illinois Law Review 43 A Winn for Educational Pluralism, 121 Yale L.J. Online 31 (2011), Affordable Private Education and the Middle Class City, 77 University of Chicago Law Review 205 (2010) Catholic Schools, Urban Neighborhoods, and Education Reform (with Margaret Brinig), 85 Notre Dame Law Review 887 (2010) "But for the Grace of God, There Go I": Justice Thomas and the Little Guy, 4 NYU Journal of Law & Liberty 626 (2010) Private Norms and Public Spaces, 18 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 183 (2009) Property In-Laws, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 279 (2007), Suburbs as Exit, Suburbs as Entrance, 106 Michigan Law Review 277-304 (2007). Planning as Public Use, 34 Ecology Law Quarterly 443 (2007). Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs? (book review), 116 Yale Law Journal 598-630 (2006). (reviewing Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History (Univ. of Chicago Press 2005) and Joel Kotkin, The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles 2005)) The Neglected Political Economy of Eminent Domain, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 101 (2006) Unsubsidizing Suburbia, 90 Minnesota L. Rev. 459 (2005). Relocating Disorder, Virginia Law Review 1075 (2005). Ordering (And Order In) The City, 57 Stanford Law Review 1 (2004). The Public Use Question as a Takings Problem, 71 George Washington Law Review 934 (2003). Trouble Preserving Paradise, 87 Cornell Law Review 158 (2001).
|Yale Univ. Press Publishes Book by Prof. N. Garnett – November 3, 2009
|John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law
|Sharon Loftus
|O. Carter
|2141 Eck Hall of Law
|Professor Carter Snead is internationally recognized as a leading expert in public bioethics – the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods. His research explores issues relating to neuroethics, enhancement, stem cell research, abortion, and end-of-life decision-making. He has authored more than 40 journal articles, book chapters, and essays. His scholarly works appear in such publications as the New York University Law Review, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, Constitutional Commentary, Quaderni Costituzionali (Italy's premier journal of constitutional law), the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and Political Science Quarterly. He is also the editor of two book series for the University of Notre Dame Press – "Catholic Ideas for a Secular World," and "Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics." Snead teaches Law & Bioethics, Health Law, Torts, and Constitutional Criminal Procedure. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, Snead has provided advice on the legal and public policy dimensions of bioethical questions to officials in all three branches of the U.S. government, and in several intergovernmental fora. Prior to joining the law faculty at Notre Dame, Snead served as General Counsel to The President's Council on Bioethics (Chaired by Dr. Leon R. Kass), where he was the primary drafter of the 2004 report, "Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies." He has testified in the U.S. House of Representatives on regulatory questions concerning RU-486 (the abortion pill). In 2013, he testified in the Texas state legislature on the constitutionality of a proposed fetal pain bill. Snead led the U.S. government delegation to UNESCO and served as its chief negotiator for the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, adopted in October 2005. He served (with President's Council on Bioethics Chairman, Dr. Edmund Pellegrino) as the U.S. government's Permanent Observer to the Council of Europe's Steering Committee on Bioethics, where he assisted in its efforts to elaborate international instruments and standards for the ethical governance of science and medicine. In conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he regularly lectures to state and federal judges on the uses of neuroimaging in the courtroom. In 2008, he was appointed by the director-general of UNESCO to a four-year term on the International Bioethics Committee, a 36-member body of independent experts that advises member states on bioethics, law, and public policy. The IBC is the only bioethics commission in the world with a global mandate. In 2016, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life, the principal bioethics advisory body to Pope Francis. Snead received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, and his bachelor of arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. He clerked for Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
|LAW60901, Torts LAW70359, Constitutional Criminal Procedure LAW70914, Health Law LAW73828, Bioethics and the Law Seminar
|Books and Book Chapters: Public Bioethics and The Problem of Persons (manuscript-in-progress) Classics of Catholic Culture: An Edited Anthology with Commentaries (edited with Alasdair MacIntyre)(in progress) Technology and the American Constitution in Eloise Scotford, Karen Yeung, and Roger Brownsword, eds., The Oxford University Press Handbook on The Law and Regulation of Technology (with Stephanie Maloney) (Oxford University Press) (in press). The Problem of Conscience in Spirituality and Religion within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice (with Michael Moreland) (Oxford University Press) (in press). The Complexity of Catholicism: Politics and Public Bioethics, in Jason T. Eberl, et al., eds., Catholic Perspectives on Bioethics (with Michael Fragoso) (Springer) (in press). Catholicism and Abortion, in Alireza Bagheri, ed., Religious and Nonreligious Perspectives on Abortion (with Laura Wolk)(University of Notre Dame Press)(in press). Autonomy and Individual Responsibility, in Henk ten Have & Berd Gordijn, eds., Compendium of Global Bioethics (with Kelli Mulder-Westrate) (Springer 2014). Human Dignity in U.S. Law, in The Cambridge University Press Handbook on Human Dignity (Roger Brownsword, ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2014) (peer reviewed). Human Dignity in American Public Bioethics in Human Dignity in Bioethics: From Worldviews to the Public Square (Stephen C. Dilley & Nathan J. Palpant, eds.) (Routledge 2013) (invited contribution) (peer reviewed). Cognitive Neuroscience and the Future of Punishment, in Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change, pp. 130-155 (Jeffrey Rosen & Benjamin Wittes, eds.) (Brookings Press 2011) (invited contribution) (peer reviewed). Articles and Essays: Memory and Punishment, 64 Vanderbilt Law Review 1195-1264 (2011). Science, Public Bioethics, and the Problem of Integration, 43 University of California, Davis Law Review 1529-1604 (2010),cited in Sherley v. Sebelius, 644 F.3d 388 (D.C. Cir. 2011). Response to Nicholas Boyle's "God, Sex, and America: The Decline of the Common Morality," 3 Journal of Law, Philosophy, and Culture 273-276 (2009) (peer reviewed symposium issue). Public Bioethics and the Bush Presidency, 32 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 867-913 (2009). Unenumerated Rights and the Limits of Analogy: A Critique of the Right to Medical Self-Defense, 121 Harvard Law Review Forum 1-12 (2007) (invited response to Eugene Volokh, Medical Self-Defense, Prohibited Experimental Therapies, and Payment for Organs, 120 Harvard Law Review 813 (2007)). Neuroimaging and the "Complexity" of Capital Punishment, 82 New York University Law Review 1265-1339 (2007). The (Surprising) Truth about Schiavo: A Defeat for the Cause of Autonomy, 22 Constitutional Commentary 383-404 (2005) (peer reviewed). The Patentability of Human Embryos in the U.S. and E.U.: A Comparative Perspective __ Quaderni Costituzionali __ (with Professor Lorenza Violini, University of Milan) (in progress) The Law and Policy of Embryo Research in America, Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics (Equinox 2011)(peer reviewed UK journal). The Limits of Federal Funding for Embryo Research in America: A Recent Conflict, __ Quaderni Costituzionali __ (in draft) Persone incapaci e decisioni di fine vita (con uno sguardo oltreoceano)(Incapacitated Persons and End of Life Decisionmaking (with an Across-the-Ocean View)), 1 Quaderni Costituzionali 7-34 (2010) (with Andrea Simoncini) (peer reviewed). Il finanziamento delle ricerche sulle cellule staminali in Europa e negli USA (A Comparative Analysis of E.U. and U.S. Funding Policies for Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Details, Aims, and Effects), 4 Quaderni Costituzionali 834-838 (2006) (translated from English to Italian by Prof. Stefania Ninatti) (invited submission) (peer reviewed). The Pedagogical Significance of the Bush Stem Cell Policy: A Window into the Nature of Bioethical Regulation in the U.S., 5Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 491-504 (2005) (peer reviewed) (invited submission) (reprinted in Judith F. Daar, Reproductive Technologies and the Law (Lexis 2012)). Dynamic Complementarity: Terri's Law and Separation of Powers Principles in the End-of-Life Context, 57 Florida Law Review 53-89 (2005). Preparing the Groundwork for a Responsible Debate on Stem Cell Research and Cloning, 39 New England Law Review 479-488 (2005) (keynote address for symposium). Federal Criminal Conspiracy, 35 American Criminal Law Review 739 (1998) (co-author). Bioetica Pubblica e Incommensurabilita, Atlantide, Anno VIII, Numero 26, 2/2012 (peer reviewed). Bioethics and Self-Governance: The Lessons of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 34: 204-222 (2009) (invited contribution to symposium issue) (peer reviewed). A Review of Helena Silverstein's How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors (NYU Press 2007), 123 Political Science Quarterly 343-345 (Summer 2008) (invited book review) (peer reviewed). Neuroimaging and Capital Punishment, 19 The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society 35 (2008) Neuroimaging, Entrapment, and the Predisposition to Crime, 7 American Journal of Bioethics 60-61 (2007) (invited Peer Commentary) (peer reviewed). Assessing UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, 7 National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 53-71 (Spring 2007) (invited essay) (peer reviewed). Technology and the Constitution, 5 The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society 61-69 (Spring 2004) (invited essay). On the Patentability of Genetic Resources (white paper prepared at the request of the Diplomatic Corps of the Holy See) (with Joseph Ganahl) (July 2013). U.S. Foreign Aid and Bioethics, Federalist Society New Federal Initiatives Project, April 23, 2009 (invited white paper) Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Federalist Society New Federal Initiatives Project, May 19, 2010 (invited white paper) Selected Commentary: The Legacy of a Pro-Life Giant, Columbia Magazine, January 1, 2017. Tim Kaine Chose Power Over Ethics, CNN Opinion, July 28, 2016. For SCOTUS, a New Era of Judicial Interference (Commentary on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt), CNN Opinion, June 28, 2016. Planned Parenthood Will Forego Payment for Fetal Tissue: So Now It's Ok Because It's Free?, Fox News Opinion, October 13, 2015. It's Time to Defund Planned Parenthood, Fox News Opinion, July 21, 2015. Here Come the Irish: Notre Dame Marches for Life, Public Discourse, January 26, 2015 (invited essay) RFRA Post-Hobby Lobby: What Now?, SCOTUSblog, (Supreme Court of the United States Blog), July 3, 2014 (invited essay in online academic symposium). Cline vs. Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice: Once More unto the Breach, SCOTUSblog (Supreme Court of the United States Blog), September 16, 2013 (invited essay in online academic symposium). The Constitutionality of the Texas Fetal Pain Bill (SB1), Public Discourse, July 9, 2013 (invited essay). Una Costituzione Bioetica?, IL SOLE 24 ORE, January 13, 2013. Religious Liberty and the Obama Administration, First Things, March 2012 (invited essay). Op-Ed, Planned Parenthood's Hostages, Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2012 (with Robert P. George). Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare, Public Discourse, September 26, 2011 (with Helen Alvare and Gerard V. Bradley) (invited essay). Protect the Weak and Vulnerable: The Primacy of the Life Issue, Public Discourse, August 22, 2011 (invited essay). Op-Ed, Respect for Ethics Enabled Stem Cell Coup, Chicago Tribune, Monday, December 3, 2007, 22 (on new technique for derivation of non-embryonic pluripotent cells). Op-Ed, Bush Sticks to Principles, Limits Government's Role, Indianapolis Star, July 24, 2006 (on the veto of a bill seeking to modify the federal funding policy for embryonic stem cell research).
|Planned Parenthood will forgo payment for fetal tissue: So now it's OK because it's free? (Opinion: O. Carter Snead) - Fox News, Oct 13, 2015 Planned Parenthood to Forgo Payment in Fetal Tissue Programs (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - ABC News, Oct 13, 2015 Life in the Balance: Physician Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying - The Sheen Center - Sept. 28, 2015 It's time to defund Planned Parenthood - Fox News Opinion (By: O.Carter Snead), July 21, 2015 WSBT Fact Finder: Indiana's feticide law (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - WSBT, July 16, 2013 The Constitutionality of Protecting Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks - Real Clear Politics (By: O.Carter Snead), July 10, 2013 The Constitutionality of Protecting Unborn Babies at 20 Weeks Testimony delivered on July 8th before the Texas State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services. Texas Senators Reopen Debate on Abortion Regulations (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - The Texas Tribune, July 8, 2013 UK takes step toward 'three-parent babies' (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - CNN, June 28, 2013 Supreme Court rejects ban on funding Planned Parenthood (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2013 ND Expert: Creation, destruction of cloned human embryos an "injustice" - May 16, 2013 ND Expert: Justice served in life sentence for Gosnell - May 15, 2013 Abortion doctor convicted of murder waives appeal, avoids death sentence (Quotes: O. Carter Snead) - CNN, May 15, 2013 Why Did Notre Dame End Donations to the Fund to Protect Human Life? - Life News (Opinion by O. Carter Snead), March 11, 2013 Panelist on session entitled, "Can Politics be Hospitable to Life?", part of the 2013 National Review Institute the "Future of Conservatism" summit. Video (40 minutes) - C-Span - January 25, 2013 Una Costituzione bioetica? Il Sole 24 Ore (By: O.Carter Snead) - January 13, 2013 Conference explores virtue of justice in Catholic moral tradition Today's Catholic News - November 27, 2012 Catholic institutions sue government, CNN with Soledad O'Brien, May 22, 2012 The abortion issue comes back to life – The Globe and Mail (Canada), March 26, 2010 (Quotes: O. Carter Snead, Associate Professor of Law) Prof. Snead on BBC addressing politics of abortion – January 29, 2010 NDExpert: Law school's Snead says embryonic decision abandons moral neutrality – March 9, 2009 NDExpert: Law School Professor Snead dismayed by President Obama's abortion funding decision – January 26, 2009 NDExpert: ND Law School professor Snead praises Vatican bioethics document as "eminently reasonable" – December 16, 2008 Law professor Snead to speak at neurotics meeting – October 27, 2008
|William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Center for Ethics and CultureProfessor of LawConcurrent Professor of Political Science
|Debbie Sumption
|2153 Eck Hall of Law
|Paolo Carozza joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1996. His expertise is in the areas of comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law. He is the Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, an interdisciplinary, university-wide institute focusing primarily on the themes of democracy and human development. In the Law School, he was the Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights from 2011 through 2013 and directed its J.S.D. program in international human rights law from 2006-2016. At Notre Dame, he is also a fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and the Institute for Educational Initiatives. From 2006 to 2010 Carozza was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the principal international body responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Wedstern Hemisphere), and served as its President in 2008-09. In 2009 he received the Order of Merit of Bernardo O'Higgins, the Republic of Chile's highest state honor awarded to foreign citizens, in recognition of his service to the Inter-American human rights system. Carozza has served the Holy See in various capacities and was appointed by Pope Francis in 2016 to be a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at various universities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including as the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization at Harvard Law School. Carozza holds an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School, and was a postgraduate Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk for the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia and worked as an associate at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Arnold & Porter. Watch the Notre Dame Fighting for Human Rights video featuring Carozza.
|LAW70401, International Law LAW70405, Comparative Legal Traditions LAW70417, Foundations of International Human Rights Law LAW70816, Jurisprudence LAW 73421, Regional Human Rights Protection LAW83429, Legal Scholarship Seminar LAW88703, JSD Dissertation
|Professor Carozza's research and writing, covers areas in human rights, comparative constitutional law, European and Latin American legal systems, and public international law, and it has focused in particular on foundational principles of human rights, such has human dignity, democracy, solidarity, and subsidiarity. His work has been published in four languages in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His current research revolves around the relationships between law, human rights, education, and integral human development. The following are selected recent or representative works. A complete bibliography is available on Professor Carozza's CV. Books Italian Constitutional Justice In Global Context (Oxford University Press, 2016) (with Vittoria Barsotti, Marta Cartabia, and Andrea Simoncini) Comparative Legal Traditions: Text, Materials And Cases On Western Law (West Academic Publishing, 4th ed., 2014) (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker) Regional Protection of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2013) (with Dinah Shelton) Esperienza Elementare e Diritto (Guerini e Associati, 2011) (with Marta Cartabia, Andrea Simoncini, and Lorenza Violini) Articles and Book Chapters "The Problematic Applicability of Subsidiarity to International Law," 61 American Journal of Jurisprudence 51 (2016) "The Anglo-Latin Divide and the Future of the Inter-American System of Human Rights," Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 5:1, Article 6 (2015), available at: "http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjicl/vol5/iss1/6" "On Solidarity in International Law," a study commissioned by the Caritas in Veritate Foundation, available at "http://www.fciv.org/downloads/Carozza%20Crema.pdf"(2014) (with Luigi Crema) "The Right and the Good, and the Place of Freedom of Religion in Human Rights," 40 Communio International Catholic Review, 456 (Summer-Fall 2013) "Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Human Experience," in Understanding Human Dignity 615 (Christopher McCrudden ed., Proceedings of the British Academy, 2013) "Human Dignity," in Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law 345 (Dinah Shelton ed., Oxford University Press, 2013) "The Catholic Church, Human Rights and Democracy: Convergence and Conflict With the Modern State," 15 Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 4:3 (2012) (with Daniel Philpott) "Esboços históricos de uma tradição latino-americana da ideia de direitos humanos," in A Realização e a Proteção Internacional dos Direitos Humanos Fundamentais—Desafios do Século XXI (Narciso Leandro Xavier Baez and Douglass Cassel eds., Editora Unoesc, 2011) "Human Dignity in Constitutional Adjudication," in Research Handbook in Comparative Law (Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon eds., Edward Elgar, 2011) "I diritti umani, l'«arte» della democrazia e il «gusto per la libertà locale»," in La Sostenibilità Della Democrazia Nel XXI Secolo (Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini eds., Il Mulino, 2009) "Il traffico dei diritti umani nell'età postmoderna," in Il Traffico Dei Diritti Insaziabili (Luca Antonini ed., Rubbettino Editore, 2007) "La perspectiva histórica del aporte latinoamericano al concepto de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales," in Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales en America Latina: Del Inventivo a la Herramienta (Alicia Ely Yamin ed., Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, 2006) "The Universal Common Good and the Authority of International Law," 9 Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1:28 (2006) "From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights," 25 Human Rights Quarterly 281 (2003) ""My Friend is a Stranger": The Death Penalty and the Global Ius Commune of Human Rights," 81 Texas Law Review 1031 (2003) "Subsidiarity as a Structural Principle of International Human Rights Law," 97 American Journal of International Law 38 (2003)
|Professor of Law Concurrent Professor of Political Science Director, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
|Leslie Berg


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The U.S. Forest Service is requesting community input on the proposed sale of a Dillon work compound to improve work facilities located there.
The White River National Forest is proposing to sell the approximately 11 acres of land that it owns in Summit County near U.S. Highway 6.
The Dillon work compound, located along County Road 51, is home to warehouse and storage buildings, as well as a few residences for long-term and seasonal staff and volunteers.
This action is being proposed as part of a forestwide effort to improve administrative facilities and decrease deferred maintenance costs.
Under authority given by Congress, the proceeds from this proposed sale will stay with the Forest Service and be invested into administrative facility redevelopment projects across the forest, including the Dillon Ranger District, said Bill Knight, the spokesman for the White River National Forest.
As part of the sale process, the ranger district is seeking input from the public regarding the environmental effects that may result from conveyance of these parcels out of federal ownership.
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Married men are the members of the club. Most of them are middle aged with multiple children.
We need a logo that expresses the mission and purpose of the club. It should be simultaneously: masculine, professional, simple, elegant, sophisticated, and romantic. The logo should only have the words: "HERO Society." Be as creative and imaginative as you like. Of course, the logo needs to be in vector format. Elements that might (but not necessarily) be included are: image of tuxedo, bow tie, couple's silhouette, etc. Any image or text that appears to say, "This is a sophisticated, elegant, and elite club" would probably work. Black, and/or dark colors would assumedly work the best.


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BP Spill Triggers Gusher of Idiocy From Ed Schultz
Judging from his reaction to the BP oil spill, I wonder if liberal radio host and MSNBC bobblehead Ed Schultz is down a quart.
Schultz provided a stream of alarming commentary on his radio show last week about the Deepwater Horizon disaster, remarks that were unintentionally revealing of what passes for thought beneath.
Here's Schultz complaining about Democrats in Congress pushing to raise oil company liability for oil spill damages from $75 million to $10 billion (here for audio) --
SCHULTZ: Folks, it gives them a target. This $10 billion limit of liability, it just gives them a line in the budget that they've gotta meet. That's all it does. That means that when they decide to go do something, their risk factor is $10 billion if something goes wrong. That's the worst-case scenario if something happens. They'd be on the hook for cleanup and liability of $10 billion. OK, let's figure that into it. They just gave 'em a line item! The word should be limitless. We don't know what it's going to cost. You screw this thing up, it could end your company! And this idea that, well, you know, we have to have oil -- no, we don't! We choose to have oil. We used to go around on horse and buggy, you know? It would seem to me that we'd be doing less traveling now that we got all the little techy gadgets that we've got in our hands.
This from a man who splits his time between residences in New York City and Minnesota, radio studios at 30 Rock, Washingon and Fargo, owns a fishing lodge in Canada and flies his own plane. All of which creates a carbon footprint to make even Al Gore green with envy.
Why stop there, Ed -- how about unlimited liability in perpetuity? That'll show 'em!
More along same lines from Schultz the following day, on May 6 (audio here) --
SCHULTZ:What we're seeing here, folks, now is a battle on the horizon about drilling offshore. Now I made the comment last night on the tube that we've got to stop offshore drilling. What would that do? Well, we'd be short about 40 percent of the oil that we use. That's where we get about 30 to 40 percent of our oil used on a daily basis, the 20 million barrels a day that we consume, and if we stop offshore drilling, it will screw some things up, which is good in my opinion.
"Some things" including an American economy still hobbled by recession. Sharing Schultz's belief in banning offshore drilling along US coastlines are the leaders of China, North Korea, Iran and Venezuela. They send their regards, Ed, keep up the good work.
Among those opposed to raising the liability cap to $10 billion is Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., with Schultz saying this in response (audio here) --
SCHULTZ: Here's Mary Landrieu, cut eight, fellas, talking about what we gotta do in the oil industry. The senator from Louisiana --
LANDRIEU: You've got to put this accident in perspective. The last thing we need to do is shut this oil and gas industry down. We need to fix it, we need to hold BP and other oil companies accountable, we need to make sure the right regulations are in place, and continue to be the world leader in this technology as we move to alternative fuels.
SCHULTZ (initially echoing Landrieu): Continue to be the world leader in technology. This is private industry, senator! This isn't the United States government! Put what in perspective?! The worst disaster that we've ever had to deal with?
In other words, if der State isn't creating this technology, it doesn't exist, as every Berliner is dutifully aware. Seize her!
Later in the same show, Schultz's desire to end offshore drilling was so urgent he was incapable of accurately describing a California congressman's proposal to stop providing federal leases for future offshore drilling proposals (audio here) --
SCHULTZ: John Garamendi, former insurance commissioner and now congressman from California, with us here on the Ed Schultz show. John, great to have you back.
GARAMENDI: Always a pleasure to be with you, Ed.
SCHULTZ: You are set to introduce legislation later today that would permanently prohibit offshore drilling along the Pacific coast. God, God bless ya, huh?
GARAMENDI: Well, thank you, Ed. It's no new leases. There are existing wells operating off the coast. We can't shut those down but we can surely not do more and this would prevent any new leases off the West Coast, California, Oregon and Washington ...
Even after Garamendi corrected him, Schultz still couldn't get it right, distorting Garamendi's proposal a second time after the congressman spoke of Obama's doubts about expanded offshore drilling (audio here) --
GARAMENDI: Fortunately, and I must commend him for this, he did listen to those of us on the West Coast and he put in place a presidential moratorium. But we need to go further for the West Coast. We need to have a permanent ban on new leasing off the West Coast of the United States.
SCHULTZ: Congressman John Garamendi with us here on the Ed Schultz show, introducing legislation today that would permanently prohibit offshore drilling along the Pacific coast, Oregon and Washington. Now, and California, obviously.
Clearly not obvious to all.
Within minutes, Schultz distanced himself from his own lunacy (audio here) --
SCHULTZ: Now, are the Democrats willing to do something about it? See, I think that Mary Landrieu has lost so much credibility, the senator from Louisiana. Listen to her soundcut here, number eight here, fellas. This to me is absolute political doublespeak.
LANDRIEU: You've got to put this accident in perspective. The last thing we need to do is shut this oil and gas industry down.
SCHULTZ: Hold it right there, hold it right there, hold it right there! Those two sentences -- we have to put this in perspective, the last thing we have to do is shut this oil and gas industry down. Whose side is she on?! Put what in perspective? This is the most gut-wrenching thing nature's had to put up with. And now we're supposed to put that in perspective?! And we can't shut it down? Nobody's saying that the industry should be shut down!
Except you, Ed -- remember? Or is it a mere third of the industry you'd deign to close?
Capping the week came this gem on Friday (audio here) --
SCHULTZ: Where did the $10 billion come from? You got five states that are going to be affected by this potentially in the Gulf. What, does each state get $2 billion and they just throw it up on a wall and say, where it is? We're moving it from $75 million to $10 billion. And in the midst of all of this wrangling, we start asking some questions about, well, how'd you get to that number? Who gets the money and where is this coming from? Lo and behold it is. Now we've got House authors of the legislation, they have acknowledged that their $10 billion figure is somewhat arbitrary. Why is it arbitrary when we're dealing with Big Oil? Is that an arbitrary war funding number that we had when we sent to Afghanistan $33 billion, that just an arbitrary number? Look, this is your money, this is my money, this is our Treasury, this is our future. Where are the conservatives?
"This is your money, this is my money," Schultz says -- of funds that would be set aside by oil companies to cover damages after an oil spill. In other words, the money is private capital that belongs to oil companies, unless and until needed for a specific purpose. (And at risk of stating the obvious, this is already being done, to a cap of $75 million).
Notice how easily Schultz converts private capital to "your money" -- and "my money" at that. Of course, any suggestion that Schultz is espousing socialism would be met with the defensive denial characteristic of closet socialists.
I'm reminded of what Mao said about Nixon after they met in 1972, as described by Margaret MacMillan in her book "Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World" -- "He speaks forthrightly -- no beating around the bush, not like the leftists, who say one thing and mean another."


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Photographer's Note
Hello everybody
I captured this image at the end of June, 2012 when I started my journey from Kargil to Padam via Panikhar, Rangdum. After crossing the famous pass "Pensi La" (in Ladakh La means "Pass") I faced this famous glacier "Drang Drung".
Drang Drung is a mountain glacier situated near the Pensi La mountain pass at the Kargil - Zanaskar Road in Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir in India. The Drang-Drung Glacier is likely to be the largest glacier in Ladakh other than Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram Range with a maximum length of 23 kilometres.
I am really lucky to reach this place and got a stunning beautiful image.
best wishes to all
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rsabhijith (133) 2014-07-24 10:44
Hi Swapan,
This is an amazing display of nature's extremes. Excellent clarity and light. I'm wondering your position, to which this spectacular view fell.
Spyder (4) 2014-07-24 14:33
Hello Swapan
Beautiful photo and well executed.
What is sad here, is that this glacier was probably up to the grey wall, on the left, of the valley in the early 20th century, and I predict that there will be little of this glacier in 50 years.
I am envious that you have such scenery to behold, but I am immensely grateful to you for sharing these spectacular scenes with us on Trekearth.
Yours respectfully
PiotrF (24282) 2014-07-24 16:41
Hello Swapan,
Beautiful view of mountain scenery.
Excellent landscape, very effective composition. Pleasant scene.
Interesting notes.
For me superb.
jemaflor (104911) 2014-07-24 23:42
Hi S,
Great landscape well taken, impressive glacier, light is well captured, tfs.
fabbs99 (17179) 2014-07-24 23:48
Hello Swapan,
This is a great image of the glacier.The place is a tough terrain and not all people can go there.You have done a great job to capture this beautiful landscape.Thanks for sharing.
HimalAnda (10671) 2014-07-25 0:17
Hello Swapan,
This is a really nice picture, with a perfect sharpness and a very good composition.
SnapRJW (31629) 2014-07-26 2:45
Hello Swapan - As a lover of wild landscapes this has plenty of appeal for me. The glacier snakes through the valley and as you took the shot under good light the textural details are well realised.
Warm regards and thanks for sharing this lovely shot with us.
Hi Roy
a very good nature picture, thankfully well lit by the sun. We can see that the glacier is reciding due to the glabal warming I suppose with the black rocks on its sides, but still snaking in its valley at the foot of the snowy peaks.
What is the altitude of this scene?
have a lovely WE
annjackman (21903) 2014-07-28 23:00
Hello Swapan,
The view is incredible and you took a magnificent photo from a super viewpoint with the mountains and glacier on the diagonal. The clarity is first class.
Very well done indeed.
Kind Regards, Ann
adidas5nb (5743) 2014-07-29 6:44
wooow.. you are one lucky man!!!!
ikeharel (80932) 2014-07-29 7:36
Hello Swapan,
First, let me congratulate you upon joining TE.
Glaciers is one phenomenon we do not have in israel, and for me it's a stunning sight, and photography-wise most intriguing.
Fine clear picture, DOF and contrst applied superbly.
Best regards, keep posting and writing critiques.
petarl (1373) 2014-07-31 2:57
Wow, it's beautiful. Like heaven. Perfectly aligns with stories of beauty of Kashmir I listened from my Indian friends. Great angle and perspective which describes this natural treasure in a nice way. Regard, Petar.
cornejo (48276) 2014-08-06 9:55
Hi Swapan, great view of this super interesting glacier with stunning mountain backdrop, beautifully composed and captured by a great pov, pretty good in this picture. An interesting image of a lovely place with good sharpness, depth and quality. A very good job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good night and happy rest of the week.
Best wishes from southern Spain.
jhm (162845) 2014-08-17 2:18
Hello Roy,
What a beautiful area, with these mountains with snow tops.
Excellent panoramic view with the nice grey tones.
Perspective and depth make these picture wonderful.
Excellent composition, nice presentation.
Very well done, TFS.
Have a nice day,
Miguel82 (27752) 2014-08-18 19:52
Outside polar regions, it's indeed one of the biggest glacier of the world Swapan, high resolution, a virgen and sterile environment, impressive Zanskar, regards
Hello dear friend
I visited your gallery now and I chose this shot
with Drang Drung a mounatin glacier situated near
the Pensi excellent landscape with this path
like a snake on the mountains
as a charmer of wild landscapes
I finf this composition top interesting
have a n ice time
jmdias (70461) 2014-08-23 16:55
you did a nice image of this impressive glacier and the texture of these mountains. I liked the quality of this image.
pajaran (67796) 2014-08-27 10:43
Dobro vece.
Interesantan tekst o gleceru sa opisom, lep pogled i trenutak ...
Dobar trenutak snimka, kontrast i perspektiva, lepo pokazan glecer i planina sa snegom.
Dobar rad, lepo uhvacen trenutak sa belim oblacima.
Lepa priroda.
Prijatno vece i mirna noc, sve najbolje.
Good evening.
An interesting article on the glacier with a description, a nice view and a moment ...
Good time recording, contrast and perspective, well shown glacier and mountains with snow.
Good work, nice captured moment with white clouds.
Beautiful nature.
Good evening and peaceful night, all the best.
berek (50508) 2014-09-22 12:46
Dear Swapan
that's the power of nature. A great nature photography. blue sky, mountains and icy road soo beautiful. congratulations.
best wishes.
npecanhuk (79307) 2014-10-09 17:44
Hello Swapan!
Very beautiful natural spot1
Very attractive picture too!
Sharpness, exposure, colors, horizontal format, chosen pov and composition are all excellent!
TFS - congrats,
Silvio1953 (156365) 2014-11-11 6:06
Ciao Roy, fantastic mountain landscape with imponent glacier, superb sky, wonderful natural colors and splendid light, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
Photo Information
- Copyright: SWAPAN ROY (swapankumarroy) (3245)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2012-06-29
- Categories: Nature
- Exposure: f/11, 1/250 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2014-07-24 9:24
- To rsabhijith: Drang Drung Glacier - Ladakh (1)
by swapankumarroy, last updated 2014-07-24 10:54
- To HimalAnda: Drang Drung Glacier - Ladakh (1)
by swapankumarroy, last updated 2014-07-25 09:11
- To CLODO: Drang Drung Glacier - Ladakh (Jammu & Kashmir) (1)
by swapankumarroy, last updated 2014-07-26 11:18


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The Flock has just said goodbye to Ari, Max's half brother...the one who tried to kill them all in the past, but changed his ways and got killed. Now the Flock has to move on without him. They're all developing new, crazy powers on their own, all getting stronger and ready to take on the world. When Mrs. Martinez, Ella and Max's mom, recommends the Flock to a team headed toward Antarctica, the Flock are hoping to use their new skills to help save the world. But what is this new mission in this freezing cold place? Will they be safe like the scientists claim?
My thoughts -
Once again, these books are great. I loved the action and the connection between characters, as well as the outstanding scenery. But there are two things I didn't love...or even like.
1. The new bad guys.
2. The sudden, cheese-ball homage to global warming. BAM! Out of nowhere? Maybe if the series had led up to this, it would've made more sense.
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I'll start with the bad guys. Ok...what? Where did THAT come from? It was strange. And choppy. And just plain weird. I wanted to to snort in disbelief. Definitely cheesy...not the cheesy I love about the Flock, but "Are you freaking kidding me?!" cheesy.
However, despite the stupidity of James Patterson's newest destroy-the-world freaks, the good guys were great. Max continues to be amazing, along with the rest of the Flock. The crew of the ship was a great addition, especially Brigid. She caused tension between Max...and FANG!
Ok, so Fang grows up a little bit with each book. It's seriously super attractive. Like, him lacing up his manly snow boots while giving Max this business...or uncoiling rope to save someone's life. Or the way he works so well with Max. He's becoming a man and it's extremely appealing and worthy of the butterflies that float around inside of me whenever I read or hear his name.
Story notes -
Like I sad. Global warming. Outta nowhere. Like the bad guys or the weird random hurricane at the end. There wasn't enough intro to it, any of it. Maybe if the last book had somehow led up to it, I would have found it enjoyable. But as far as I know, this is a one-book thing. Which kind of irked me.
Besides that, I liked the story. The new setting of Antarctica, complete with blinding snow and penguins, was really fascinating and held my interest. It was a great way to add originality to the series. The fight scenes and rescue scenes were good, written well. And, my favorite, the romance. It's blossoming, another reason why I love Fang and how stinking manly he is.
Summing it up -
A cool ride. Like, if Disney gave the Matterhorn real snow and some penguins to waddling about, and maybe a few bird kids to fly around it, that's what it'd be like. Despite the random holes and sudden appearances in the story, I was highly entertained and am looking forward to book #5, Max.
Extremely clean, nothing for the parents.