Category: Law

  • Title: Exploring Factors Influencing Attitudes towards Legalization of Prostitution: A Literature Review and Hypothesis Testing “Exploring Attitudes Towards Gender Roles: A Univariate and Bivariate Analysis” “Exploring the Relationship between Alcohol Abuse and Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study and Future Implications”

    I. Introduction Describe why the topic of your choice is a worthy studied social issue (which will essentially be your dependent variable). Write a brief introduction that introduces your topic and describes why it is of general interest or importance by relating the topic to any theoretical, social or practical significance. One page or so should be enough for this session. II. Literature Review Literature Review past studies examining the topic and find out what variables have been studied that are related to the dependent variable(s). For example, alcohol abuse has been found to be related unstable family relationship, depression, failed school experiences, etc. You should summarize how you have learned from the literature you reviewed and what variables you are trying to study and analyze in your research. Especially, if you have some unique variables to be examined in your research but have not been studied in the past studies, you need provide reasons why this new variable needs to be examined. Hypotheses 1. Select at least THREE factors (which will be your independent variables) that you believe will influence your dependent variable. Write a mini theoretical statement (check your theory book for reference) that can be just a couple of sentences explaining HOW and WHY each independent variable will affect your dependent variable. For example, it’s not enough to say men will support legalization of prostitution more than women. You must also explain WHY. 2. Following your mini theory, prepare a hypothesis that is simply a one-sentence statement of the relationship you expect to find between each independent variable and the dependent variable. Here is an example of hypothesis, “Hypothesis #1: Men are more likely to support legalization of prostitution than women.” You should have at least three hypotheses. III. Method. Write two paragraphs describing: (1) Data: where and when you conducted the interview, and how you selected your sample. (2) Measurement: how you measured each concept (describe the questionnaire items). (3) Analysis: how you conduct your statistical analysis (descriptive data: frequency/percentage of study variables; explanatory analysis: correlation between independent variables and dependent variables). Data Collection (procedures for questionnaire construction and data collection 1. Operationalization: Explain how you WORD your questions for independent and dependent variables (other than demographic variables), and explain how your questions are able to measure the concepts of those variables. o List and describe all independent variables, briefly describe how they were measured. o Many of your variables were operationalized into multiple different questions. Describe what those scale means (higher the number, the higher agreement the subjects responded to the question statements (from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree in a scale) 2. Sample: Describe how you sampled your subjects. You may have to justify why the sampling methods (or classes being chosen) was chosen. Make sure you report the details of each step. Also, you should state how the class project is cooperated with everyone’s effort to collect the data and how many cases were collected. Analysis Write two paragraphs describing: (1) Descriptive data analysis procedure. (2) Explanatory data analysis procedure. IV. Expected Results: Write your expected result section to describe if your research hypotheses will be supported. This is for you to review if your hypotheses are strong enough according to your applied theories and past similar findings in this regard. However, if what you hypothesized is to challenge what have been found in the literature, you may want to be open-minded of you’re your results (support or deny your hypotheses) may be. In that case, you may discuss what conditions can possibly to affect your results of being supporting or denying your hypotheses. If you are to write a complete paper, then the following sessions should be included in your complete paper. 1. Univariate analysis: i) Report the characteristics of your sample by describing the percentage distribution from the frequency table for each of your nominal and ordinal variables including the recoded independent variable. You simply need to report the percentages (based on the percent column) in each attribute of a variable. For example, “43% of our samples were males and 57% were females.” Make comment about the extent of the representativeness of your sample. ii) Provide a complete interpretation of the frequency table about your ratio independent variable. Choose any row except the first row and show that you can interpret each column in the frequency table (frequency, percent, valid percent and cumulative percent columns). Report the following univariate statistics from the output: mean, median, mode, range, variance, and standard deviation. Calculate the confidence interval for the 95% confidence level based on the mean and the standard deviation. iii) Report the percentage distribution (based on the percent column) from the frequency tables for the two dependent variables. Describe the general pattern of people’s attitude about this issue, i.e. whether most people were on the supporting side or the opposing side. 2. Bivariate analysis: You need to use the information and statistics in the printout to test EACH of your hypotheses. i) Report whether the results are consistent with the directions of your predictions/hypotheses. For each of the CROSSTAB tables, choose one row, either “agree” or “disagree”, to report the percentages from each category of the independent variable. For example, “47% of the men compared 52% of the women agreed with the statement that both husband and wife should contribute to household income.” Are the patterns of your results for the two dependent variables consistent with each of your predictions/hypotheses? For each hypothesis, if there are inconsistencies for one or both dependent variables, provide some explanations, comments or discussions. ii) Report and interpret the significance level for chi-square. The interpretation of the significance levels should address the issue of how likely the relationship is due to sampling error and whether it is statistically significant at the .05 level. Can the results reject the null hypothesis or not? Is your hypothesis supported or not using the .05 significance level as your criterion? Don’t forget that all of this must be done thoroughly for each hypothesis. For example, “the significance level for the gender effect on this statement was greater than .05. Therefore the null hypothesis that says there is no gender effect on people’s attitude on this issue cannot be rejected and our hypothesis about the gender effect is not supported.” Remember that you cannot “PROVE” anything. Your results only support or fail to support your theory. If a hypothesis is supported by using one dependent variable but not the other, you should provide some explanations, comments or discussions. V. Expected Challenges and Their Solutions You should describe what kinds of difficulties you might encounter in the whole research process. The more your can foresee those possible obstacles, the more likely you can prevent them or prepare some solutions when they occurs. This session can show the research evaluators how thoughtful you are while designing your research. V. Conclusion This section may begin with a brief summary, reviewing the highlights of your major findings regarding your hypotheses, both in terms of being consistent with the directions of your hypothesis and providing support for your hypothesis based on the statistical significance. For each hypothesis, if there are inconsistencies for the two dependent variables, reiterate your explanations, comments or discussions. Discuss the shortcomings of the research, point out inconsistencies, account for anomalies, and suggest improvements in the research design. Finally, you may place the whole project into a broader perspective, mention the theoretical and practical implications of the study, and discuss possible future work. Be sure to include a list of your instrument (questions) used in your study. All students should submit a data analysis OUTPUT file to blackboard to show the instructor what data analyses you have done for the research. Additional Notes for Results (Statistical Analysis results from SPSS) 1. Frequencies i) Generate frequency tables of those study variables (you may have with either a bar chart based on percentages or a pie chart for each of your nominal or ordinal variables, depending on your needs to emphasize your findings to the readers). ii) Some frequency tables may be suitable for your ratio independent variable with a histogram and the following statistics: Mean, Median and Mode under the Central Tendency column. Select Std. Deviation, Variance, Range, Minimum, and Maximum. 2. Cross-tabulation results You will report those significant correlations found in your research. For example, whether alcohol abuse is related depression? Whether males are more likely to use alcohol? Or if males are more likely to use alcohol heavily than females, etc. You should describe those findings and make sure the relationship between independent variables and dependent variable(s) are all reported. Direction of how to do Cross-tabulation in SPSS program. In the Crosstabs procedure, move your dependent variables to the Row box and move the three nominal and ordinal measures of your independent variables and your recoded independent variable to the Column box. Make sure to select Column percentage in the Cells window and select Chis-quare in Statistics window.

  • “Exploring Effective Discussion Techniques in Online Learning Environments”

    please read the attached instructions
    this discussion has two parts.
    first initial post is 400 words and need 4 intext citations. Due June 27th
    second intial post: reply to 2 people with 250 words a piece and 1 intext citations. Due June 30

  • Title: Understanding California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) of 1975

    Use  California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA) of 1975 to answer the following questions 
    in a 10-15min powerpoint
    1. . What state was the law enacted in? 
    ● Provide a citation to the law.
    2.What is the stated purpose of the law?
    3. What does the state’s agriculture industry look like, 
    4. does the identified law directly relate the state’s agricultural industry or have any direct exceptions
    5. Was there any litigation related to the law either before or after it was enacted?
    6. On what grounds was the law litigated, and by whom? 
    7. What was the outcome of any litigation? 
    For example, was it citizens concerned about a lack of regulation, or industry alleging a negative
    impact?
    8.Does the state law have a parallel in any federal policy or statute
    9. If so, what policy or statute? 
    10. What are the exceptions for agriculture in that policy or statute?
    RUBRIC
    The assignment must be free of spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors
    ● Proper citation is included. for each answers. BLUEBOOK CITATION
    Prepare a 10-15 minute PowerPoint presentation covering this information and any other relevant
    facts.
    Includes
    Information on state of enactment.
    ●  Law purpose.
    ●  Description of exceptions for
    agriculture in law.
    ●  Synopsis of any
    relevant litigation.
    ●  Summary of any
    equivalent federal law or policy.

  • Title: Analyzing the Risks of Federalism for American Democracy

    Why federalism has become risky for American democracy


    Read and analyze the article listed above. If the link is broken or unavailable, you can google the article’s title written by Darrell M. West. 
    -Once you are done reading the article, you must answer the nine questions posted below
    1) State as accurately as possible the author’s purpose for presenting this information. Explain your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    2) What is the article attempting to convey and from what perspective is it presenting the information? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    3) What key question can you develop from the content presented in the article? Provide your question and then your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    4) What are the most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the article’s line of reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    5) What is the article failing to address (what might be questioned)? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    6) What consequences are likely to follow if people take the article’s line of reasoning seriously? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    7) What consequences are likely to follow if people ignore the article’s reasoning? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    8) Identify the key conclusions the article comes to and presents. Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences. 
    9) What facts, experiences, or data is the author/article using to support its conclusions? Provide your analysis/answer in four (4) or more sentences.

  • Guidelines for Adding Documents and Links for Case Assignments Guidelines for Adding Documents and Links for Case Assignments As a student, it is important to properly cite and reference all sources used in assignments. This includes adding relevant documents and links to support

    Adding document with guidelines (please complete all requirements), adding link to the case and the related documents to be used.
    Adding link here too (is also found under the guidelines document): https://www.consumerfinance.gov/enforcement/actions/hyundai-capital-america/

  • “Comparative Analysis of Professional Medical Insurance for Diagnostic Errors Related to Artificial Intelligence in Canada and Europe: A Critical Evaluation of Canadian Bill C-27 and the European Union AI Act”

    The research plan is attached, BUT PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING. 
    I must write a research paper on the following topic: A comparative study on the issues of professional medical insurance for diagnostic errors related to the use of artificial intelligence in Canada and Europe.
    The research question is: Should physicians’ professional insurance cover medical errors related to the use of AI systems in radiological imaging diagnosis? An analysis in light of Canadian and European AI legislation.
    I have attached a research plan to follow. 
    IMPORTANT: Please note the following: 
    1) It is madatory to use The Canadian Bill C-27 on AI and the European Union AI act. Here are the links: 
    -https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c27_1.html
    – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence
    2) It is very important to use the McGill juridical citation style (including footnotes). I have a guide for this if you need it, please let me know. 
    3) It is important that the project is not simply a dissertation. It must include opinions, reflexions and recommendations as per the plan’s instructions. 

  • Title: The Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Doctrine: Analyzing Perez v Sturgis Public Schools and the Debate over a Right to Appointed Counsel in Administrative Cases

    After describing (very generally) what an administrative agency is, explain the exhaustion of administrative remedies doctrine.  To develop this discussion, analyze the US Supreme Court case Perez v Sturgis Public Schools.  What is the legal dispute in this case?  How did the exhaustion doctrine figure in the Supreme Court’s holding?
    Finally: We do not have a constitutional right to appointed counsel for administrative agency decisions no matter how serious the benefits loss involved or the injuries concerned. The Supreme Court has held that the costs are not high enough to establish a right to counsel. What do you think?  What are the costs of not having a right to counsel in administrative cases?  What would be the costs of establishing a right to counsel in administrative cases?  What would make better legal policy–a right to appointed counsel in administrative cases or no right to appointed counsel?  Explain.

  • “Demand for Settlement: [Client Name] v. [Defendant Name]”

    Using your imagination and creativity, prepare the demand letter (settlement précis) for our client to the defendant following the directions attached below.  These instructions and a template to use for the letter are also found in D2L/Content/Demand Letters.  Rely on the documents found in the case file to assist you in drafting the demand letter.  I am attaching the instruction page, the fact patterns and other information to use and some examples of demand letters. MUST end with Sincerely!

  • Title: Analyzing Legal Issues in a National Security Event or Controversy: A Case Study of the Terrorism Act 2000 and 18 U.S. Code § 2331

    POLI 431
    Essay Assignment
    Assignment
    Select a domestic, foreign, or international national security event or controversy that has occurred after January 1, 2022.
    Write an essay analyzing the legal issues arising in the event or controversy you selected, using only the course readings, and/or sources created or cases decided, after January 1, 2022.
    Details
    Your paper should be a 5– 7 page (double spaced) standard essay in which you address the task above as efficiently as possible.   Be sure to articulate a clear thesis statement.  Follow this link for help writing an essay. You may use alternative organization formats (for example the legal brief format). 
    Use any standard citation method.  UMBC has a good website to help with citation.  (Also, this website has very good information on the citation formats). To cite cases you need only include the case name in italics, the year of the decision, and the court.
    Your essay must be entirely your own work. 
    The assignment must be or uploaded to Blackboard by 5:00 p.m. on June 22.  If you have problems doing so email your paper to the professor ()   Please use MS Word or other standard word processor.
    Rubric
    Your grade on this assignment will be based on the following criteria:
    Criteria
    Percentage
    Demonstrated knowledge of national security law.
    25%
    Demonstrated ability to apply the law to real world situations.
    Analysis of the legal issues arising in the national security event or controversy you selected that demonstrates an understanding of how the law applies to national security situations.
    This includes:
    Using readings, cases, statutes, treaties, etc. to apply rules of law to the selected event.
    An understanding of how the law of these cases relates to the selected event.
    The degree to which your argument is supported by the law.
    65%
    Grammar, spelling, organization and clarity.
    10%
    this is some sources:
    18 U.S. Code § 2331 – Definitions | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu)
    Terrorism Act 2000 (legislation.gov.uk)

  • Title: Legal Research and Analysis on the Issue of Police Use of Force I) Law Review Article: Title: “Police Use of Deadly Force: Legal and Ethical Implications” Author: Michael L. Birzer Publication: Journal of

    I) on Google Scholar. Find a relevant law review article dealing with your issue and summarize the
    key points of the article.
    2) On west Law: Find 2 cases that relate to your issue and summarize the cases.
    3) Key cite the cases in westlaw and found out if those cases are still good law. What color flag do
    they have, if any, and do those case holdings help or hurt your case? How?
    4) use a rolevan! secondary source on the internet, summarize and cite in using ALWD format in
    your assignment.