9 Temmuz 2012 Pazartesi

"Pragmatism Refreshed" ends: so does Lane Pryce

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Final entry for this blog. From this day forward, I'll be blogging at Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed, and the URL will be http://jamesian58.blogspot.com/ So for now, let's say something about Mad Men, which has also of late been about endings!


Episode 12 will be dominatedin the mind of most viewers by the death of a character who has been a mainstayof the show since the beginning of the third season, Lane Pryce, as played with uniform greatness, byJared Harris.


This death, a suicide, happens as most of the officecontinues to float on a sense of elation about landing a big automotiveaccount: Jaguar. The writers bring these twofacts: Lane’s despair and his co-workers’ elation, into several layers ofcollision. We see for example that the Jaguar of the time was mechanically arather shoddy piece of work, and this in fact dooms Lane’s first effort to killhimself, by asphyxiation. He can’t get the ignition to work when he needs itto!      


When Lane does manage to killhimself, it is with a noose, in his office, and after typing out what shouldhave been a suicide note but was in fact just a “boilerplate” letter ofresignation.


Why not pills, Lane? Thething about pills is: they leave some room for doubt. The coroner may call itan accidental overdose rather than a suicide, which may make a difference togrieving relations and their insurers.  Anoose, though, doesn’t leave any doubt. So does that mean that a real suicidenote would have been, in methodical Lane’s eyes, redundant? Also, the events leading upto the suicide are designed to leave Don feeling as guilty as possible. Dondemanded that resignation, after discovering Lane’s embezzlement. He thought that Lane would and couldrecover from this and make a new life for himself back in England. Indeed, hesaid as much. “I’d had to start over a couple of times in my life. This is theworst part,” he assured Lane.Well, no. Don is not Lane andneither of his start-overs seems analogous. Don learns how badly he hadmisjudged the matter with that chipper assurance only when he sees the body. Likewise episode 13, the season finale, will likely be dominated in many minds byone scene – that in which Don encounters Lane’s widow, Rebecca. Indeed, thetitle of this episode is “The Phantom,” indicting I think that the writersmeant for Lane to hang over the whole of it. Except of course there is another “phantom”involved. The titles always have multiple meanings. Don thinks he sees his deadbrother.   But let’s get back to Don andRebecca. He gives her a check meant in effect to buy out Lane’s share of thepartnership. She accepts it, but wants Don to know that however this mayalleviate his own sense of guilt, it does nothing to make matters squarebetween them. She blames the agency for giving her husband “ambition.” Sheappears to see him as always having been a frail reed, always best shieldedfrom ambition and other potentially sharp things.Also, it is in the course ofthis confrontation that Rebecca discloses she found the photo of a mysterywoman in Lane’s wallet.  The photo brings us back to the start of the season. I’ve wondered through thisseason why the writers would introduce that photo (and the trouble to whichLane went to keep it, and the single phone call he made to the woman itrepresents) without doing more with it than they have. I still wonder.  Will Rebecca start looking for her? Is thatone respect in which Lane’s phantom will continue to hover next season? Strong season over-all. The series' best since but not inclusive of its first.  

Focus on Statelessness

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As reported on Refworld's Statelessness feature page, Paraguay is the most recent accession to the 1961 Statelessness Convention.  This updated map of "States Parties to the Statelessness Conventions" (as of 25 June 2012) provides the most current status of signatories.

In addition, UNHCR has prepared two compilations, one for state pledges made at the Ministerial Meeting in December last year, and the other for the summary conclusions of UNHCR expert meetings (three of which focused on statelessness issues).

Additional items:

Guidelines to Protect Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention (Equal Rights Trust) [info]
- To be launched on 18 July 2012.

Important Judgment on Statelessness (ECHR Blog, June 2012) [text]
- Comment on Kuric v. Slovenia.

No Nationality, No Rights? Strategies and Tools for the Protection of Stateless Persons, Geneva, 4 July 2012 [text]
- Background paper for UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs.

"People Who Don't Exist," Le Monde Diplomatique (June 2012) [text]

Statelessness in 2012: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? (Statelessness Programme Blog, June 2012) [text]

Statelessness in the Tower of Babel: How Do You Say Stateless in your Language? (European Network on Statelessness Blog, June 2012) [text]

Victory for Slovenia's "Erased Citizens" at the European Court of Human Rights (European Network on Statelessness Blog, June 2012) [text]

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Focus on the Americas

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Challenges to Refugee Protection in Ecuador: Reflections from World Refugee Day (Georgetown Public Policy Review, June 2012) [text]


"Clinical Practice with Latin American Refugees, Construction of a Practice," Chapter in South, Dictatorship and After...:  Psychosocial and Clinical Elaborationof Collective Traumas (EATIP, 2012) [full-text]
- Pp. 77-84.

"Expanding Asylum Law’s Pattern-or-Practice-of-Persecution Framework to Better Protect LGBT Refugees," Journal of Law and Social Change (Forthcoming) [text via SSRN]
- Uses Jamaica as a case study.

Human Trafficking in Mexico and Neighbouring Countries: A Review of Protection Approaches, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 229 (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

Methodologies for Tracking Refugees Longitudinally (Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, June 2012) [text]

Refugees and Asylees: 2011, Annual Flow Report (Homeland Security, May 2012) [text]
- "[P]rovides information on the number of persons admitted to the United States as refugees or granted asylum in the United States in 2011."

Stopping Irreparable Harm: Acting on Colombia’s Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Communities Protection Crisis (NOREF, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]


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Focus on Europe

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Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of LGBTI People in Europe 2011 (ILGA Europe, May 2012) [text]

Contested Policies of Exclusion: Resistance and Protest against Asylum Policy in the Netherlands (ACCEPT Pluralism, 2012) [text]

The Dynamic Relationship between Asylum Applications and Recognition Rates in Europe (1987-2010) (Leiden University, May 2012) [text] [appendix]

Fundamental Rights: Challenges and Achievements in 2011 (European Agency for Fundamental Rights, June 2012) [access]
- See esp. Chapter 1, which addresses "asylum, immigration and integration."

"The Legality of Intercepting Boat People under Search and Rescue and Border Control Operations with Reference to Recent Italian Interventions in the Mediterranean Sea and the Ecthr Decision in the Hirsi Case," Journal of International Maritime Law, vol. 18, no. 1 (2012) [abstract via SSRN]

"Refugee and Migrant Protection at Sea: Lessons from the Mediterranean," Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter, no. 28 (July 2012) [full-text]

Refugees in Greece Smuggled into Europe (EU Observer, June 2012) [text]


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UNHCR/NGO Annual Consultations

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UNHCR's Annual Consultations with NGOs opened today and will continue through 5 July 2012.  Here is the agenda.  Access to background papers for thematic and regional sessions and side events are available here.

A wide range of issues will be discussed including resettlement, climate change, information management, legal aid, statelessness, among others.

Reports from past consultations are accessible on this UNHCR page.



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8 Temmuz 2012 Pazar

Focus on Humanitarian Assistance

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The first State of the Humanitarian System report was launched yesterday.  Here is part of the blurb:
This report presents a system-level mapping and analysis of the performance of international humanitarian assistance. The pilot report on the State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) was published in 2010 and focused on the years 2007 and 2008. This report includes descriptive statistics from the following two years, 2009 and 2010, and reviews performance assessments from 2009 to the end of 2011, comparing findings from the two periods. The ‘international humanitarian system’ is defined here as the network of national and international provider agencies, donors and host-government authorities that are functionally connected to each other in the humanitarian endeavour and that share common overarching goals, norms and principles. The system also includes actors that do not have humanitarian assistance as their central mission but play important humanitarian roles, such as military and private-sector entities.


Other items relating to humanitarian assistance include: 

Annual Report 2011 (ICRC, June 2012) [access]

Are They Listening? Aid and Humanitarian Accountability (IRIN, July 2012) [access]
- New In-Depth report on aid policy.

The SG’s Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict: A Humanitarian Perspective (International Peace Institute, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

Talking to the Other Side: Humanitarian Engagement with Armed Non-state Actors, HPG Policy Briefs, no. 47 (ODI, June 2012) [text]

Request for input:

Wide stakeholder survey on the value of the Humanitarian Response Index (DARA) [access]
- "...[W]e are launching a wide stakeholder consultation with key partners to rethink the best way to improve the effectiveness and impact of humanitarian action. We would accordingly welcome your views on the value and utility of the HRI to date and how it can become a more effective tool for a systemic improvement."



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Focus on Children, esp. Age Assessments

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Publications:

Age Assessment (Scottish Refugee Council, June 2012) [access]
- Practice Guidance and an Information Guide are available.

Arrested Development: Colombian Youth in Panama (Women's Refugee Commission, June 2012) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Child Acute Malnutrition and Mortality in Populations Affected by Displacement in the Horn of Africa, 1997–2009," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 9:3 (March 2012) [open access]

A Framework for the Protection of Children (UNHCR, June 2012) [text]

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, vol. 2012, no. 136 (Summer 2012) [contents] [Google preview]
- Special issue on “Independent Child Migration—Insights into Agency, Vulnerability, and Structure.” 

Position Paper on Age Assessment in the Context of Separated Children in Europe (Separated Children in Europe Programme, 2012) [text]

Unaccompanied Minors in the Greek-Turkish Borders: Evros Region, March 2011-March 2012 (Greek Council for Refugees, 2012) [text]

Upcoming events:

Separated Children and Young People in the Asylum System, London, 10 October 2012 [info]
- An "early bird" discount is available for people who register by 20 July 2012.

EASO will hold a series of expert meetings on unaccompanied minors and age assessment (for more information, see p. 1 of the EASO Newsletter):
- Expert Meeting on EASO training and the EAC Interviewing Children Module, Malta, 25 - 26 July; 
- Expert Meeting on Interviewing Children Procedures, Malta, 26 - 27 July; 
- Expert Meeting on the use of x-ray and other medical evidence, Brussels, 6-7 September; 
- Expert Meeting focusing on legal aspects, including the roles of the courts and judiciary as well as evidence assessment, Malta, 9 October; 
- Working Party to explore the impact and connection between age assessment and other asylum procedures, Malta, 10 October; 
- Expert meeting to consider the way forward and the possibilities for guidelines on unaccompanied minors and age assessment, Malta,13 November.

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Statelessness Maps

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These maps complement UNHCR's compilation of states pledges referenced in this earlier post, by providing a graphic summary of some of the statelessness pledges made at the Ministerial Meeting in December 2011:


  • State Parties to the Statelessness Conventions, as at 25 June 2012 [access]
  • States Party to the Statelessness Conventions and Pledges to Accede, as at 25 June 2012 [access]
  • States which have Pledged toUndertake Studies or Awareness Campaignsin Relation to Statelessness, as at 1 May 2012 [access]
  • States which Pledged toEstablish or to Take Steps toEstablish Statelessness Determination Procedures, as at 25th June 2012 [access]
  • States which Pledged to Undertake Law Reformor to Improve Access to Civil Registration or IdentificationDocumentation to Prevent and Reduce Statelessness, as at 25 June 2012 [access]

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ETDs in Anthropology, Criminology, Development Studies, Government, Health, Migr/Ref. Studies, Political Science, Social Work

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Asile et genre: analyse anthropologique des demandes d’asile pour les violences de genre au Canada (Université de Montréal, Avril 2011) [text]

Discourses on Home and Return in Sweden: Similarities and Differences in Discourses on Home and Return between Government Officials and Refugees from Afghanistan in Sweden (Lund University, [text]

Disabled Asylum Seekers, the Social Model of Disability and United Kingdom Government Policy and Legislation (Univ. of Leeds, 2011) [text]

Les effets de la violence organisée sur le processus d'intégration des réfugiés: le cas des Colombiens au Québec (Université de Montréal, Juin 2011) [text]

Examining the Psychosocial Context of Mental Health: Bhutanese Refugees and their Story of Resettlement (Duke University, May 2012) [text]
- Note: Embargoed until Nov. 2012.

Investing in Refugee Health: The Role of Caste Hierarchy on Mental Health among Bhutanese Refugees (Duke University, May 2012) [text]

Post-conflict Governance in Nahr El Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp: The State's Technologies of Control and Shifts in UNRWA Practices (American University in Cairo, May 2012) [info]
- Note: There is a one-year embargo on access to this text.

The Protection and Security of Vulnerable Populations in Complex Emergencies in the North Eastern Province of Kenya as a Case Study (University College Cork, Feb. 2012) [text]

Le retour des réfugiés et des personnes déplacées dans le cadre de la consolidation de la paix: les cas de la Croatie et de la Bosnie-Herzégovine (Université de Montréal, Aout 2011) [text]

Solidarity and Struggle: An Ethnography of the Associational Lives of African Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Glasgow (University of Glasgow, December 2011) [text]

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Events after the fact

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CARFMS12, Toronto, 16-18 May 2012 [access]
- See "Resources" and "Plenaries."

Crisis in the Horn of Africa and the Sahel: The Cost of Late Response to Early Warnings, Washington, DC, 22 May 2012 [access]

Displacement in the Western Balkans Calls for Regional Solutions, Vienna, 25 May 2012 [info]

How UNHCR Is Facing a World of New Protection Challenges, Washington, DC, 15 May 2012 [access] 

Informal Meeting of Experts on Refugee Claims relating to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Bled, Slovenia, 10 September 2011 [access]

Moving to Safety: Migration Consequences of Complex Crises, Geneva, 24-25 April 2012 [access]

States, Sovereignties and Refugees: A view from the margins?, Oxford, 6 June 2012 [access]

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7 Temmuz 2012 Cumartesi

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Insider-trading probe wades into legal gray area
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Thomson Reuters adjusts to 'new normal'
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Law Office of Brodsky & Smith, LLC Announces Investigation of J.Crew Group, Inc.
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Mo. AG sues waste treatment facility for violations
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GM's Adam Opel Unit Applies to Change Its Legal Status to AG
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Oregon AG sues loan modification company
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(Legal Newsline) - Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced on Monday that he has filed a lawsuit against a loan modification company that allegedly ...
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EU Progress Report on how the European Company Statute works for business
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Minera IRL CFO Michell to retire, corporate finance VP to take over
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Officers of a prearranged funeral services company indicted
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Broadridge To Buy Mutual-Fund Services Company For $201M
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Bond company denies county's claim
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Solar technology company plans to bring 450 jobs to Austin
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5 Temmuz 2012 Perşembe

~ washington state appellate court decision on due diligence in locating heirs to an estate ~

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Not surprisingly, the Court of Appeals upheld the trial court ruling that due diligence must be conducted to locate beneficiaries. Court of Appeals Division I, State of Washington, Docket Number: 54647-3-I, Title of Case: In re the estate of: Martin Little, File Date: 06/06/2005.

We agree with the trial court. Allocating the burden of proof to the executor is more consistent with the executor's role as an 'officer of the court and a fiduciary for the heirs'. Hesthagen, 78 Wn.2d at 941. Because the executor has the fiduciary duty to identify and notify those who are statutorily entitled to receive notice, it logically follows that in the event of a later challenge based on lack of notice, the executor will have the burden of showing that he used reasonable diligence to discharge his duty. Otherwise, and especially where the executor of an estate has a beneficial interest in it, the sense of fiduciary duty might easily give way to a temptation to conduct a superficial search or none at all.11 We conclude that evidence showing how Vannoy could have located the nieces and nephews was not a prerequisite for reopening the estate for lack of notice to them. Vannoy, whose 'best presentation' below included no evidence that he was diligent, was correctly found to have breached his duty to identify and notify these heirs of Martin Little. As a consequence, the decisions made in the probate are void as to these heirs. The court did not err in ordering the reopening of the estate. Affirmed. Vannoy's request for attorney fees on appeal is denied.


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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission seeking an investigation into the web-based businesses that sell telephone toll records. There is no explicit policy or statute violated when parties sell or obtain telephone call logs without a subpoena. In fact, the U. S. Court Of Appeals, 6th Circuit ruled in favor of the defendants in a case in which an information broker (Action Research Group, Mike Lee), hired by a private investigator, impersonated a telephone company subscriber (Clemons) and obtained that subscriber's toll numbers via fax.[2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 23547,*;82 Fed. Appx. 436ROGER CLEMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RANDALL WALLER, A ACTION AUTOLINER d/b/a ACTION RESEARCH GROUP, KARL HALL, and MERIDIAN RESOURCES & INVESTIGATIONS, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-5342] Read at LexisOne (free registration required)

In one of many news stories, EPIC suggests that they have their eyes on attorneys who may be buying this information on the Internet, not just the brokers.

Hoofnagle said EPIC also plans to file complaints with state attorneys general, state regulators of private investigators and attorney bar association ethical committees, because it believes law firms are among the most frequent clients of the online investigation firms.
I've cautioned clients [Law Technology News, July 2005, Cut to the Chase: A primer for using public records databases] (free registration) about purchasing any data obtained by a click of the mouse, not just in order to avoid grey areas of the law, but because you'll waste money on information that is usually stale or inaccurate. And don't even think it meets any standard of due diligence.

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Just what is an employment background check anyway? Federal law circumscribes the extent and nature of background information that can be gathered on employees by outside companies. In The Truth Behind Standard Criminal Checks, the author offers a good, brief overview of the intersection of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) restrictions on developing criminal history, the limitations inherent in the data and data providers, with the necessity to pursue less conventional means, such as a review of Internet-derived information.

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The Taubman Center for Public Policy has just released its 2005 report on State and Federal E-Government, an analysis of 1,620 state and federal government sites. This annual study of the features, advances and limitations of the websites had some especially valuable conclusions related to the Federal courts and legal research.

One of the disturbing aspects of the study reports that federal government websites have a number of quality control issues, such as broken links, missing titles and missing keywords. If your legal research at the court sites fails you, this may be why.
Using the random sample of 5,000 pages from each federal agency, the jurisdiction with the largest number of missing titles was the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals 2,710), followed by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (2,023), 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,472), the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,418), and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,375).

The site with the largest number of missing keywords was the National Labor Relations Board (5,003), followed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (5,001), and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

The award for the largest number of missing descriptions goes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The site with the largest number of broken links: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (1,641).

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