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Throwing Tomato Soup at a Van Gogh: How Climate Activists Leveraged Legal Theory, Criminal Law, and Moral Outrage to Conduct a Radical Protest Campaign in the World's Most Famous Museums

Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository 1 Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Criminal Law Commons , Cultural Heritage Law 2 International Law Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons ... Economics and Political Science (LL.M. in Human Rights Law). t Able of c ontents 64 65 68 69 71 74 75 78 80 81 85 86 90 91 i . i ntrod Uction Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, an audacious climate

Gray Areas in Green Claims: Why Greenwashing Regulation Needs an Overhaul

. Candidate , May 2024 , Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law; B.S. , Political Science , Philosophy, 2019 , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To my family, friends, and my boyfriend ... political speech, which refers to constitutionally protected speech and generally cannot be regulated in most instances.74 Second, even if speech is commercial, assertions of fact are separate from assertions

Pest or Guest, Friend or Foe? Reframing the "Hard Look" Doctrine's Role in Environmental Pesticide Policy

the advent of a federal regulatory scheme.10 This legal watershed moment represented a compromise between opposing political forces — Republicans and conservative Democrats, and New Deal Democrats ... rule.119 This proposal came after public comment and hearings reflected changing political sentiments and backlash from the motor vehicle industry cited economic difficulties.120 Subsequently, the agency

Can We Really Be the Change We Wish to See? The Inherent Limitations of Citizen Suits in Remedying Environmental Injustice Under the Clean Air Act

issue, companies have historically taken advantage of communities with limited political power, leveraging their authority to secure necessary permits with lower transaction costs, thereby exerting ... case of the few permits it issues or indirectly through comments and political pressure for state-issued permits.180 The guidance provides a set of principles for regional air permitting staff to apply

Change We Can Believe In: The Seventh Circuit's Exposure of Inadequate Environmental Review in Protect Our Parks v. Buttigieg

Commons , Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law 3 Commons, State and Local Government Law Commons, Supreme Court of the United States Commons 4 Other Law Commons ... , Michelle, in Chicago and began his political career there. Id. (delving into Obama’s link to Chicago). Other competing areas included Hawaii, where President Obama was born, and New York City, where Obama

Topic-Aware Sentiment Analysis of News Articles

different domains: e.g., the word “force” is typically positive in the sports domain but negative in the political domain. Our experiments on the Kaggle dataset with sentiment-labeled Kazakhstani news ... ” could mean something positive in terms of athletic achievements, while in political news, the same word means something negative, referring to civil riots, war accidents [4, 6], and similar events

On the Fence About Immigration and Overpopulation: "Environmentalists

Employment Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law and Society Commons, Law Enforcement and ... , laws focused on conserving natural resources rather than encouraging general sustainable behavior. See id. (summarizing expansion of political understandings of environment). 57. Luther, supra note 55

The Politics of the Criminal Enforcement of the U.S. Clean Water Act, 1983-2021

two decades indicate financial underinvestment across political parties and primarily stagnating outcomes. I. INTRODUCTION Notable environmental disasters, such as the Santa Barbara Oil Spill and the ... Cuyahoga River Fire in 1969, prompted Congress to move forward with a variety of new laws to protect the environ* Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Service

Algorithm for Collecting and Sorting Data from Twitter through the Use of Dictionaries in Python

the political moment of the Mexican presidential elections in 2018. In this scenario, considering the information from the Tweets as corpus, these have been randomly downloaded from different users and ... developed a tool for the classification of natural language in the social network Twitter: The main purpose is to divide into two classes, the opinions that the users express about the political moment of the

What a Waste! An Evaluation of Federal and State Medical and Biohazard Waste Regulations During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Their Impact on Environmental Justice

Policy Commons, Human Rights Law Commons , Judges Commons, Jurisdiction Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Psychology Commons, Law and Race ... environmentally-just future.218 The United States’ leadership must also play a more active and diligent role in implementing guidance.219 Presidents, regardless of political affiliations, should commit to improving

Let's Talk Dirty: Revealing the United States Sanitation Crisis and Its Disproportionate Effect on Poor and Minority Communities

for a variety of reasons, including lack of funding or lack of political representation.62 When public centralized systems exist in an area, residents must use that system.63 If centralized systems do ... , supra note 12, at 25-26 (noting economic vulnerability and lack of political representation for minority communities). 131. See Davies, supra note 45 (interviewing Catherine Coleman Flowers advocating

Toward Relevance Term Logic

. (1983). An axiomatization of predicate functor logic. Notre Dame J. Formal Logic, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 233–241. [ Links ] 16. Losee, J. (2001). A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science ... logic. Notre Dame J. Formal Logic, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 701–707. [ Links ] 22. Priest, G. (2008). An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is. Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy. Cambridge

Simulation and Optimization of Hydraulics Applied in Oil Well Drilling

easy adaptation between program and user. The computer program integrates two hydraulic methodologies in a didactic way, but keeping in each of them its originality, development philosophy and in

Dicamba is Gone with the Wind: The Ninth Circuit Blows Life into FIFRA in National Family Farm Coalition v. United States Environmental Protection Agency

, raising fears of undue political influence.210 An Inspector General Report confirmed these fears, finding the 2018 nonconditional dicamba registration strayed from EPA protocols and was a result of ... political influence.211 Despite the subsequent nonconditional registration, the National Family Farm Coalition decision can still have a profound impact on future pesticide litigation.212 First, the Ninth

Wishing to be Part of that Court: How the Supreme Court's Decision in BP P.L.C. v. Mayor of Baltimore Lets Energy Companies Wander Free and Drown the Shore up Above

environmentalists’ growing activism in response to increasing litigation). 71. Id. (discussing rising litigation’s impact on climate change accountability). due in part to the issue’s highly political nature.72 The ... countered the majority’s opinion.193 WHAT WE WOULD PAY TO SPEND LESS DAYS WARM ON THE SAND: BP P.L.C.’S UNLIKELY BUDDING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT The Court’s decision on a simple civil procedure

Sentiment Analysis and Multiple Means Comparison for the 2020 United States Elections

presidential candidates. The study seeks to examine the trends from the emotions that users recharge on the candidates. In market researches on political preferences, Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques ... have offered attractive alternatives to respond to electoral problems where different AI efforts have been brought together. Recently, the processing of large amounts of data on political opinions within

Tunisian Dialect Sentiment Analysis: A Natural Language Processing-based Approach

reflect the impressions of the Tunisian public towards social, economical and political major events. These opinions have been tracked, analyzed and evaluated through sentiment analysis systems. In the ... was evaluated using three ML classifiers: NB, SVM, and KNN trained using RapidMiner. Two datasets were used; the first one contained 300 dialectal political reviews that harvested from Aljazeera website

Ring Temperatures, Political Questions, and Public Nuisances: The Second Circuit Weighs in on the Climate Change Debate in Connecticut v. American Electric Power Co.

. (321) 322 VILLANOVA ENVIRONMENTAL LAw JOURNAL [Vol. XXII: p. 321 emitters under the tort theory of public nuisance.4 Given the widely perceived lack of meaningful political action regarding global ... partisan debate surrounding the issue and the problem's truly global scope, it should come as no surprise that the political question doctrine has emerged as an obstacle for climate change litigants. 7 All

Fuzzy Flower Pollination Algorithm: Comparative Study of Type-1 and Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Logic System in Parameter Adaptation Optimization

computation to human mind . Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing , Vol. 217 , pp. 37 - 54 . 21 Black, M. ( 1937 ). Vagueness, an exercise in logical analysis . Philosophy of Science , Vol 4 , No. 4 , pp. 427 ... - 455 . 22 Russell, B. ( 1923 ). Vagueness. The Australian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy , Vol. 1 , No. 2 , pp. 84 - 92 . DOI: 10 .1080/ 00048402308540623. 23 Brock, J. ( 1979 ). Principle themes

It's a Revolution I Suppose: The Supreme Court's Radioactive Decision in Virginia Uranium Inc. v. Warren

. Meghan Keneally , Their Pay, Age, Political Leanings and More: 6 Supreme Court Questions Answered , ABC NEWS (Oct. 1 , 2018 , 4 :43 PM), https://abcnews.go .com/US/pay -age-political-leanings-supreme-court ... -questions-answered/ story?id=58204713 (explaining key questions about Supreme Court including political leanings). 158. See Va . Uranium, Inc., 139 S. Ct . at 1900- 09 ( interpreting preemption from