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Will an Institutional Repository Hurt My SSRN Ranking?: Calming the Faculty Fear (with Carol A. Watson), AALL Spectrum (2012)

Librarians have every reason to support the creation of an institutional digital repository (IR). An...

 

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Tenure and the Law Library Director (with Kevin B. Shelton), Journal of Legal Education (2012)

This essay offers a response to the current discussion concerning the possible rescission of ABA...

 

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A Library is Not the Books: An Ethical Obstacle to the Digital Library, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society (2012)

Casual and thoughtful speakers alike frequently use “library” as though it were the collective noun...

 

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Open Access: Good for Readers, Authors, and Journals (with Carol A. Watson), Bloomberg Law Reports: Student Edition (2011)

Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests...

 

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Citation Advantage of Open Access Legal Scholarship (with Carol A. Watson), Law Library Journal (2011)

In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors...

 

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Why Law?, UK Law Notes (2011)

Fairness, then, not order, is the special domain of law. The accompaniments of law we...

 

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Institutional Repositories: A Plethora of Possibilities (with Carol A. Watson), Trends in Law Library Management and Technology (2011)

The law library can be a major contributing partner to the success of its law...

 

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Back Away from the Survey Monkey!, AALL Spectrum (2009)

In an environment of too many—and too many ill-designed—surveys, our twin aims should be to...

 

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Libraries as Doppelgängers: A Meditation on Collection Development, Southeastern Law Librarian (2009)

Debates about the balance between electronic and paper resouces typically employ points on economics or...

 

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Skating on Thin Intermediation: Can Libraries Survive?, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2008)

Predictions about the end of libraries point to a real crisis, but assign the wrong...

 

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A Library Romantic’s Reply to Richard Danner, Legal Reference Services Quarterly (2008)

In this brief response to Richard A. Danner’s “Skating with Donovan: Thoughts on Librarianship as...

 

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Delimiting the Culture Defense (with John Stuart Garth), Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)

This essay builds upon the arguments of Alison Dundes Renteln in her influential book, THE...

 

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"Anticipatory Self-Defense" and Other Stories (with Jeanne M. Woods), Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (2005)

We argue that the specious justification for the invasion of Iraq -- a war based...

 

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Civilian Immunity and the Rebuttable Presumption of Innocence, Journal of Law in Society (2004)

"Terrorist" is a word that at once vilifies and justifies, serving the same function in...

 

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Same-Sex Union Announcements: Precis on a Not so Picayune Matter, Loyola Law Review (2003)

Although some newspapers have voluntarily begun to publish same-sex union announcements, others will continue in...

 

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Same-Sex Union Announcements: Whether Newspapers Must Publish Them, and Why We Should Care, Brooklyn Law Review (2003)

The recent decision by the New York Times to publish same-sex union announcements brought to...

 

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Rock-Salting the Slippery Slope: Why Same-Sex Marriage is Not a Commitment to Polygamous Marriage, Northern Kentucky Law Review (2002)

E.J. Graff has documented how any change in the marriage rules inevitably leads to predications...

 

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Implicit Religion and the Curvilinear Relationship between Religion and Death Anxiety, Implicit Religion (2002)

Debate over the relationship of religion to death anxiety has included the opposing views of...

 

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Burdine v. Johnson -- To Sleep, Perchance to Get a New Trial: Presumed Prejudice Arising from Sleeping Counsel, Loyola Law Review (2001)

Few images slice as deeply into our self-image as a fair society than that of...

 

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Baby Steps or One Fell Swoop?: The Incremental Extension of Rights is Not a Defensible Strategy, California Western Law Review (2001)

The problem of incrementalism emerges from the common practice of limiting certain rights only to...

 

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A Brazilian Challenge to Lewis's Explanation of Cult Mediumship, Journal of Contemporary Religion (2000)

Recruitment into peripheral possession trance cults has been explained as attempts to compensate for socio-economic...

 

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An Ethical Argument to Restrict Domestic Partnerships to Same-Sex Couples, Law & Sexuality (1998)

For purposes of this Essay, the preservation of marriage in its present superior status, albeit...

 

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Reinterpreting Telepathy as Unusual Experiences of Empathy and Charisma, Perceptual and Motor Skills (1998)

Telepathy is often dismissed because it is judged to be contrary to the accepted facts...

 

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DOMA: An Unconstitutional Establishment of Fundamentalist Christianity, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (1997)

This Article scrutinizes the constitutionality of the intent of the Defense of Marriage Act [DOMA]....

 

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Psychic Unity Constraints upon Successful Intercultural Communication (with Brian A. Rundle), Language & Communication (1997)

This article begins with the unchallenged assertion that intercultural communication episodes are necessarily imperfect. The...

 

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Toward a Model Relating Empathy, Charisma, and Telepathy, Journal of Scientific Exploration (1997)

Telepathy is often dismissed because it is judged to be so weird as to be...

 

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Restoring Free Exercise Protections by Limiting Them: Preventing a Repeat of Smith, Northern Illinois University Law Review (1996)

Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith effectively removed all protections traditionally...

 

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Do Librarians Deserve Tenure? Casting an Anthropological Eye upon Role Definition within the Law School, Law Library Journal (1996)

Anthropological analysis reveals a divide within the law school between the formal and informal status...

 

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God Is as God Does: Law, Anthropology, and the Definition of "Religion", Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal (1995)

This Article first discusses the judicial deliberations upon the definition of religion. That discussion adopts...

 

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Relating Psychological Measures to Anthropological Observations: Procrastination as a Field Proxy for Death Anxiety?, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality (1995)

Anthropologists frequently incorporate psychological concepts such as death anxiety into their sociocultural theorizing, but are...

 

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A Philosophical Ground for Gays' Rights: "We Must Learn What is True In Order to Do What Is Right", George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal (1993)

A major platform of gays' rights seems to be that gays are entitled to social...

 

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Validation of a Portuguese Form of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, Psychological Reports (1993)

To translate Templer's Death Anxiety Scale into the Brazilian Portuguese Escala de Ansiedade de Morte,...

 

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The Effects of Sex and Sexual Orientation on Attractiveness Judgments: An Evolutionary Interpretation (with William R. Jankowiak and Elizabeth M. Hill), Ethology and Sociobiology (1992)

If attractiveness judgments reflect biologically important reproductive criteria, men should base judgments of potential partners...

 

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Charisma, Empathy, and the Experience of Telepathy, Journal of Indian Psychology (1992)

A critique is offered of the preference of parapsychology for physical explanatory models for telepathy....

 

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Patron Expectations about Collocation: Measuring the Difference between the Psychologically Real and the Really Real, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly (1991)

Library patrons have innate expectations about how documents should be arranged. Useful classification schemes are...

 

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Blaming It on God: Considerations When Presented with Supernatural Explanatory Entities, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (1990)

If the presence of an anthropologist at a fieldsite indicates that there exist unknowns, then...

 

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Sociobiological and Psychosocial Models of Physical Attractiveness Phenomena: A Confrontation of Theories, Human Mosaic (1989)

A majority of cultural anthropologists underestimate the value of sociobiological theory for a better understanding...

 

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Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Truth-of-Consensus in Studies of Physical Attractiveness (with Elizabeth Hill and William R. Jankowiak), Journal of Sex Research (1989)

Truth-of-consensus methodology presently holds that sex differences in perceptions of physical attractiveness are negligible and...

 

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A Charisma Model of Telepathic Communication, Association for the Anthropological Study of Consciousness Newsletter (1988)

This paper opened by making some general criticisms of the state of parapsychological research: that...

 

Books

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Legal Anthropology: An Introduction (2008)

LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION offers an initial overview of the challenging debates surrounding the cross-cultural...

 

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Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography Selectively Annotating Legal Literature through 2005 (2006)

SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND THE LAW: A RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY is a project of the Standing Committee...

 

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Anthropology & Law (with H. Edwin Anderson) (2003)

This book defends the thesis that the two fields of law and anthropology co-exist in...

 

Contributions to Books

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Corporate Domestic Partner Benefits, Defending Same-Sex Marriage, Vol. 1: "Separate But Equal" No More (2007)

Despite the common use of the term domestic partner, it remains unclear what that term...

 

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Defining Religion, Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays (2003)

The charge of this essay was to review definitional trends of "religion." Four major types...

 

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Multiple Personality, Hypnosis, and Possession Trance, Yearbook of Cross-Cultural Medicine and Psychotherapy 1994/Jahrbuch fur Transkulturelle Medizin und Psychotherapie 1994 (1996)

Multiple personality disorder [MPD] and possession trance [PT] are examined from the perspectives of presenting...

 

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Homosexual, Gay, and Lesbian: Defining the Words and Sampling the Populations, Gay and Lesbian Studies (1992)

The lack of both specificity and consensus about definitions for homosexual, homosexuality, gay, and lesbian...

 

Book Reviews, Letters and Short Pieces

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Broun is Mere Opportunist, Athens Banner-Herald (2009)

Only Congressman Paul Broun could compress so many misleading statements and factual errors into such...

 

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Gay Marriage: The Issue, Flagpole (2009)

Comment in response to Bob Ostertag, "Why Gay Marriage Is the Wrong Issue," Flagpole, January...

 

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Current Awareness Alerts Make the Internet Revolve Around You, Georgia Law Advocate (2008)

Shares ways for busy lawyers to utilize tech-savvy methods to receive desired news and information.

 

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White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository (with Carol A. Watson), (2008)

An institutional repository [IR] is a means to collect the intellectual digital output of an...

 

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Quality Online Legal Researching -- On the Cheap!, Georgia Law Advocate (2006)

Summarizes issues to consider when exploring the internet for free but reliable legal resources, and...

 

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ACT UP/Anita Bryant/Drugs, Religion, and Law/Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund/Right to Reply and Right of the Press/Sincerity of Religious Belief, Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (2006)

Six entries in the Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties (Paul Finkelman, ed.).

 

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Comic Strips and Books, Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (2000)

Reviews the treatment and appearance of gay men in comic serials and books.

 

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Espying the Limits of Human Knowledge, Anthropology Newsletter (1997)

If historical gaps highlight the potholes within our disciplinary corpus, the four other limits --...

 

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On the Nature of Belief, American Anthropologist (1991)
 

Working Papers

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The Moral Significance of Social Roles (2008)

Outside of specialized contexts, moral philosophy lacks an appreciation of the ethical commitments embedded within...

 

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Rights as Fairness (2008)

Edmundson characterizes the historical emergence of the idea of human rights out of the conceptual...

 

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Human Nature Constraints upon the Realistic Utopianism of Rawls and Nussbaum (2007)

As Christopher Bobonich (1993, p. S92) reminds us, “The idea of basing an ethical theory...

 

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Prolegomenon to a Fairness-Centered Anthropology of Law (2007)

Legal anthropology, which began with Malinowski’s holistic reflections on law, has today drifted toward an...

 

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A Foundation for Transnational Obligations (2007)

Human rights have, over the last fifty years, risen to the forefront of foreign relations....

 

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The Possibility of Technical Definition in Later Wittgenstein (2006)

Wittgenstein’s philosophy remains influential. If its tenets impose constraints on either the possibility of scientific...

 

Dissertations and Theses

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Reconciling Arguments Regarding a Self-Preserving Soul with Evolutionary Theory (2000)

The present work seeks to identify which systems of philosophical metaphysics, if any, are compatible...

 

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Defining Religion: Death and Anxiety in an Afro-Brazilian Cult (1994)

This dissertation clarifies the anthropological concept of religion by crafting the most useful scientific definition....

 

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A Reading of the Gospel according to Luke as a Response to the Tragic Tradition (1981)

The author of Luke's Gospel rejected Jewish traditions and substituted in their place a dramatic...