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Safe Social Spaces, Ari Ezra Waldman Jan 2019

Safe Social Spaces, Ari Ezra Waldman

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Technologies that mediate social interaction can put our privacy and our safety at risk. Harassment, intimate partner violence and surveillance, data insecurity, and revenge porn are just a few of harms that bedevil technosocial spaces and their users, particularly users from marginalized communities. This Article seeks to identify the building blocks of safe social spaces, or environments in which individuals can be free of privacy and safety dangers. Relying on analogies to offline social spaces—Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, teams of coworkers, and attorney-client relationships—this Article argues that if a social space is defined as an environment characterized by disclosure, then a …


South Africa’S Historic Silicosis Class Action: Why The Settlement Matters, Penelope Andrews May 2018

South Africa’S Historic Silicosis Class Action: Why The Settlement Matters, Penelope Andrews

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Federal Legislative Attacks On Class Actions, Joanne Doroshow Jan 2018

Federal Legislative Attacks On Class Actions, Joanne Doroshow

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'Your Old Road Is/Rapidly Agin': International Human Rights Standards And Their Impact On Forensic Psychologists, The Practice Of Forensic Psychology, And The Conditions Of Institutionalization Of Persons With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2018

'Your Old Road Is/Rapidly Agin': International Human Rights Standards And Their Impact On Forensic Psychologists, The Practice Of Forensic Psychology, And The Conditions Of Institutionalization Of Persons With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin

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An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Lynn Stuart Weiss lecture at the American Psychological Association yearly conference, sponsored by the American Psychology-Law Society and the American Psychology Foundation, August 2016, Denver, Colorado.

For years, considerations of the relationship between international human rights standards and the work of forensic psychologists have focused on the role of organized psychology in prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghirab. That issue has been widely discussed and debated, and these discussions show no sign of abating. But there has been virtually no attention given to another issue of international human …


Despite Trump, Federal ‘Tort Reform’ Makes A Hasty Retreat, Joanne Doroshow Jan 2017

Despite Trump, Federal ‘Tort Reform’ Makes A Hasty Retreat, Joanne Doroshow

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Briefing Book: Tort Litigation By The Numbers. Center For Justice And Democracy, Joanne Doroshow, Emily Gottlieb Jan 2016

Briefing Book: Tort Litigation By The Numbers. Center For Justice And Democracy, Joanne Doroshow, Emily Gottlieb

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The Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School released its new briefing book, TORT LITIGATION: BY THE NUMBERS. The book highlights the latest information and statistics on tort (personal injury) suits across the country, based largely on recent statistics from the National Center for State Courts (NCSC),[1] the U.S. Department of Justice and other research institutions. Principal authors of the briefing book are Emily Gottlieb, CJ&D’s Deputy Director for Law and Policy, and Joanne Doroshow, CJ&D Executive Director. Said Doroshow, “This briefing book shows that injured Americans hardly ever sue wrongdoers for their injuries, and when they …


Tort Reform: Blocking The Courthouse Door And Denying Access To Justice, Joanne Doroshow Jan 2016

Tort Reform: Blocking The Courthouse Door And Denying Access To Justice, Joanne Doroshow

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Tort Litigation And Social Change: Accidents And Trial Court Litigation In West Virginia, 1870-1940, Frank W. Munger Jan 1988

Tort Litigation And Social Change: Accidents And Trial Court Litigation In West Virginia, 1870-1940, Frank W. Munger

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The German And British Roots Of American Workers' Compensation Systems: When Is An Intentional Act Intentional, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1985

The German And British Roots Of American Workers' Compensation Systems: When Is An Intentional Act Intentional, Michael L. Perlin

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