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Essays on Regulation of Media, Entertainment, and Telecommunications.
(2009)
The three essays in this dissertation study either how telecommunications regulation shapes the way media industries are organized or how copyright law constrains the creative works that the entertainment industry ...
The Effect of Organizational Form on Firm Performance.
(2009)
While much empirical literature studies agency conflict and firm performance within the corporate form of legal organization, this dissertation studies agency conflict and firm performance across two organizational forms, ...
Creon's Secretaries: Theories of Bureaucracy and Social Order in 18th and Early 19th Century Prussia.
(2009)
This dissertation argues for conceptualizations of bureaucracies not merely as tools of policy implementation but also as a locus of state legitimacy creation. In arguing this point, this dissertation does three things: ...
Perspectives on Law and Legal Institutions as Complex Adaptive Systems.
(2011)
This dissertation employs various theoretical and methodological perspectives to consider the “evolution” of the law and “law as a complex adaptive system.” Chapter 2 addresses the strategic institutional conditions that ...
The Rise and Fall of Wealth Taxation: An Inquiry into the Fiscal History of the American States.
(2010)
This dissertation examines the history of fiscal politics and policy in the American states. It provides a narrative synthesis from the antebellum period through the 1930s, during which state governments created a fiscal ...
Chicago's First Urban Indians - the Potawatomi.
(2011)
For the last several decades, scholars have been intrigued with the ways that some American Indians resisted assimilation into the mainstream of the dominant culture of the United States. “Chicago’s First Urban Indians – ...
Exploring Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance.
(2010)
Why, despite all of the inspiring rhetoric in support of human rights, do flagrant violations endure? Enforcement, treaty ratification, geopolitics, and economic concerns are all very important pieces of this puzzle that ...
Acoustic Gunshot Detection Systems: Community & Policy Considerations
(2022-06)
Acoustic gun detection systems (AGDS) are a law enforcement technology designed to detect gunshot sounds and notify
police of the event and location in close to real time. ShotSpotter is the most well-known AGDS in the ...
Automated License Plate Readers: Legal and Policy Evaluation
(2023-01)
Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are a surveillance technology that can alert law enforcement about vehicle
locations in real time or provide information on past movements. In recent years, growing numbers of public ...
LLM Implications- one-pager
(2022-04)
LLMs have tremendous potential to empower communities
and democratize knowledge. But given the concentrated
development landscape and the datasets on which they are
based, LLMs are unlikely to achieve these goals.