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Most academic libraries are seeking to provide electronic access to the very dynamic and changing field of technology related material. Safari Tech Books Online and Books24x7 are the major e-book collections in this area. We compared the Safari Tech Books Online and Books24x7 e-book packages as to...

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Science and engineering libraries have an important role to play in preserving the intellectual content in research areas of the departments they serve. This study employs bibliographic data from the Web of Science database to examine how much research material is required to cover 90% of faculty c...

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In the current moment in the legal struggle for racial equality in the United States, the nation seems at risk of repeating its history. The Roberts Court has failed to fulfill its charge under the Reconstruction amendments to vigorously promote and enforce civil rights protections, and the other b...

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This Note analyzes the funding priorities of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and how the law’s egregious funding of prosecutors, enforcement agencies, officers, and courts directly impacts Black female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Although VAWA was passed in 1994 to se...

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They don’t want to realize that there is not one step, morally or actually, between Birmingham and Los Angeles. - James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro (2017) This article explores the jurisprudential underpinnings of the so-called “diversity rationale” that until recently had been considered a pow...

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This article reconsiders the life and record of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Frankfurter was smart, hardworking, and talented, serving as a great activist lawyer and important law professor in his early career. When nominated to the court, there were high hopes he would follow Holmes and...

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Amid growing political polarization, human trafficking remains one of the few social causes that retains universal bipartisan support. Nowhere was this clearer than Florida in the spring of 2023, when Governor Ron DeSantis passed widely popular human trafficking reforms. Despite a legislative sessi...

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Child welfare agencies are tasked with protecting children, and in so doing, with investigating allegations of abuse and neglect. If done properly, such investigations can promote child safety. But the data suggests that New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (“ACS”) subjects far mo...

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Amid growing political polarization, human trafficking remains one of the few social causes that retains universal bipartisan support. Nowhere was this clearer than Florida in the spring of 2023, when Governor Ron DeSantis passed widely popular human trafficking reforms. Despite a legislative sessi...

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Amid growing political polarization, human trafficking remains one of the few social causes that retains universal bipartisan support. Nowhere was this clearer than Florida in the spring of 2023, when Governor Ron DeSantis passed widely popular human trafficking reforms. Despite a legislative sessi...

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With billions of dollars pledged and trillions of dollars demanded to redress slavery and Jim Crow (“Black Reparations”) the question of how best to use these funds has moved into the forefront of the ongoing campaign for racial justice in our post-civil rights society.  Reparatory strategies typic...

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The critique of the non-profit industrial complex has spread from movement groups and movement-aligned scholars in fields like race, gender, and ethnic studies to influence scholars in other fields, including legal scholars. Despite this growing influence, studies of the non-profit industrial compl...

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During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump claimed that the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza would not have occurred had he been reelected in 2020. However, during his first presidency, President Trump faced another significant adversary—the COVID-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Re...

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The United States cash bail system unconstitutionally hinders protest rights enshrined in the First Amendment. Protesting on controversial issues, while protected activity, often risks arrests and other interactions with police. Unfortunately, studies show that protesters of color are arrested at h...

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During his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump claimed that the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza would not have occurred had he been reelected in 2020. However, during his first presidency, President Trump faced another significant adversary—the COVID-19 pandemic caused by Severe Acute Re...

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On April 18th, 2025, the Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL (SALT) journal interviewed Dr. Okim Kang, an invited speaker for the 2025 APPLE Lecture Series hosted by the Applied Linguistics and TESOL program at Teachers College, Columbia University.  Dr. Kang is a Professor of Applied Linguis...

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