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Justice Harry Blackmun and the Phenomenon of Judicial Preference Change

We are fond of putting our judges into neat adjectival boxes, particularly when they sit on the Supreme Court. These typologies often reflect perceived attitudinal or ideological preferences; some Justices are called “liberal” or “conservative” or “moderate,” or occasionally some hyphenated combination thereof. Or the labels might seek to capture variations in jurisprudential philosophy or meth...

La Evaluación de Competencias en los Trabajos Fin de Estudios

En este artículo proponemos un procedimiento objetivo para la evaluación, basada en competencias, de los trabajos fin de grado (TFG) y de máster (TFM) en el contexto de las ingenierías. Dicho procedimiento se ha dividido en seis etapas: (1) definición de las competencias asociadas al TFG o al TFM y de indicadores objetivos; (2) definición de los momentos (hitos) de evaluación, las acciones conc...

A tribute to Justice Harry A. Blackmun.

Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N.

We study topological defects arising in the Grand Unification Model SU(6)L ⊗SU(6)c⊗SU(6)R ×Z3. In particular we show the existence of massive magnetic monopoles, cosmic strings and global textures in a particular symmetry breaking chain. We comment on the possible relation to astrophysical problems, in particular to the explanation of the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays reported recent...

Book Review Harry A. Blackmun: the Outsider Justice

Justice Blackmun wrote down everything. From his personal diary, which he kept daily for nearly two decades from the age of eleven; to his frequent letters to family, friends, and associates; to his trademark lists and case memoranda, Blackmun, who died in 2004 at the age of ninety, appears to have left no thought untranscribed. But Blackmun’s immodesty in his relationship with pen and paper be...