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Boerkaverbod Verdient Grondig Debat, Cécile Mathieu, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth Sep 2010

Boerkaverbod Verdient Grondig Debat, Cécile Mathieu, Paul De Hert, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Bijna was België het eerste land ter wereld met een algemeen boerkaverbod. De evocatie van het wetsvoorstel door de Senaat en de val van de regering staken daar een stokje voor. Cécile Mathieu, Paul De Hert en Serge Gutwirth van de VUB hekelen het gebrek aan een grondig parlementair debat bij de totstandkoming van de wet, en sommen dan maar zelf een aantal knelpunten op.


Contre La Digitalisation De La Vie Même, Éloge De La Récalcitrance, Antoinette Rouvroy Sep 2010

Contre La Digitalisation De La Vie Même, Éloge De La Récalcitrance, Antoinette Rouvroy

Antoinette Rouvroy

No abstract provided.


Piratas Y Corsarios En La Era Digital, Mario Šilar, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez Sep 2010

Piratas Y Corsarios En La Era Digital, Mario Šilar, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez

Mario Šilar

http://www.unav.es/nuestrotiempo/es/temas/piratas-y-corsarios-en-la-era-digital


La Guerra Insurgente De Morelos Como Una "Guerra Santa", Jorge Adame Goddard Aug 2010

La Guerra Insurgente De Morelos Como Una "Guerra Santa", Jorge Adame Goddard

Jorge Adame Goddard

A partir del análisis de documentos escritos por Morelos, se propone que él concibe su guerra insurgente como una guerra santa, en defensa de la fe, la patria y el rey (aunque éste último será luego olvidado), más cercana a las guerras tradicionalistas que a las guerras liberales.


Decentralizing Culture: The Effect Of Digital Networks On Copyright And Music Distribution, Benjamin Gibert Aug 2010

Decentralizing Culture: The Effect Of Digital Networks On Copyright And Music Distribution, Benjamin Gibert

Benjamin Gibert

The advance of technology profoundly impacts how people interact with culture as the proliferation of digital networks transforms the effects of copyright in modern societies. This paper argues that the oligopolistic conditions of content markets and the legal discourse of intellectual property law have historically enabled copyright holders to promote a limited conception of art and obscure the complexities of copyright theory. While conceptual ambiguity is inevitable in the construction of aesthetic legal categories, current practices impose too many restrictions. The practical choices made concerning copyright in cyberspace will determine the evolution of culture in increasingly networked societies. The music …


Barricading The Digital Frontier: Copyright, Technology And The War On Music Piracy, Benjamin Gibert Aug 2010

Barricading The Digital Frontier: Copyright, Technology And The War On Music Piracy, Benjamin Gibert

Benjamin Gibert

The Internet is changing the way vast numbers of people experience culture today. Providing tools to interact with, manipulate and freely redistribute content, technology is dissolving conventional divisions between creators and consumers of cultural artefacts. As new technological and legislative mechanisms are deployed to stop digital piracy, there is a need to reflect on the meaning of copyright, piracy and culture in the context of digital technologies. This paper discusses the relationship between copyright and cultural participation. It refers to the music industry in order to depict the changing patterns of consumption behavior precipitated by the rise of digital networks …


Language And Culture In Intellectual Property Law: A Book Review (Reviewing Jessica Reymann's "The Rhetoric Of Intellectual Property: Copyright And The Regulation Of Digital Culture), Jessica M. Silbey Jun 2010

Language And Culture In Intellectual Property Law: A Book Review (Reviewing Jessica Reymann's "The Rhetoric Of Intellectual Property: Copyright And The Regulation Of Digital Culture), Jessica M. Silbey

Jessica Silbey

Jessica Reyman’s THE RHETORIC OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COPYRIGHT LAW AND THE REGULATION OF DIGITAL CULTURE is a book whose time has come. As a book about the rhetorical divide between the content industry and copyright activists, it analyzes the deep rifts between the language of incentives and exclusivity and the counterdiscourse of cooperation and the commons. And as a piece about the upheaval in the socio-legal landscape of intellectual property rights, it is in good company. There are multitudes of recent books and articles that seek a solution to the divide that animates disputes about owners and users (many of …


Reducing The Impact Of Ethnic Tensions On Economic Growth – Economic Or Political Institutions?, Atin Basu Choudhary, Jim Bang, Michael Reksulak May 2010

Reducing The Impact Of Ethnic Tensions On Economic Growth – Economic Or Political Institutions?, Atin Basu Choudhary, Jim Bang, Michael Reksulak

Atin Basu Choudhary

We use a standard growth regression model and show that ethnic tensions reduce per capita growth rates. We also find evidence that “good” economic and political institutions improve per capita growth rates. More importantly, good economic institutions mitigate the effect of ethnic tensions on per capita growth while good political institutions do not. Consequently, it is foremost capitalist freedom that promotes peace and development.


Reasoning From Literature, Jessica M. Silbey May 2010

Reasoning From Literature, Jessica M. Silbey

Jessica Silbey

The “literary turn” in legal studies manifests in many ways in our legal discipline and practice. Be it with the birth of the study of law and literature in the 1980s, the growing attention to narrative theory and storytelling in the law in the 1990s, or the “cultural turn” in legal studies in the 21st century (as some scholars have called the cultural analysis of law), reasoning from literature seems commonplace. And yet it is still marginalized in legal studies as interdisciplinary, not “really law,” and lacking the core persuasive power that legal argumentation and doctrinal analysis do. This Symposium …


Bescherming Van Intellectuele Rechten Mag Niet Ten Koste Van Privacy, Sari Depreeuw, Serge Gutwirth Apr 2010

Bescherming Van Intellectuele Rechten Mag Niet Ten Koste Van Privacy, Sari Depreeuw, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

De op til staande Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) staat op gespannen voet met de bescherming van de privacy. Is dit aanvaardbaar ?


Veiligheid Legitimeert Niet Alle Middelen, Serge Gutwirth, Katja De Vries, Ronny Saelens Mar 2010

Veiligheid Legitimeert Niet Alle Middelen, Serge Gutwirth, Katja De Vries, Ronny Saelens

Serge Gutwirth

Dat het Europees parlement de privacy van de burgers heeft beschermd bij het afwijzen van het Swift-akkoord tussen de VS en Europa, mag volgens Serge Gutwirth, Katja De Vries en Ronny Saelens van de VUB niet verdoezelen dat ook de Europese dataretentierichtlijn een sterke inbreuk betekent op de privacy. Waakzaamheid blijft dus geboden voor de Europese parlementsleden, ook voor de interne Europese initiatieven.


An Open Letter To The Citizens Of Northwest Louisiana, Frederick J. White Iii Jan 2010

An Open Letter To The Citizens Of Northwest Louisiana, Frederick J. White Iii

Frederick J White III

We, the undersigned physicians, want to publicly address our community regarding the health system debate in Congress. This is a historic time, and decisions made in these next days will impact you as citizens and as patients for generations. We recognize that the health system needs change. But the path that the Congress has taken is unwise and unnecessary. And although the American Medical Association has endorsed both the House and Senate bills, (1) we want to be clear—the AMA does not speak for us on these issues.


Manifest Greatness The Final Original Version By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero Jan 2010

Manifest Greatness The Final Original Version By Emmanuel Mario B Santos Aka Marc Guerrero, Emmanuel Mario B. Santos Aka Marc Guerrero

Emmanuel Mario B Santos aka Marc Guerrero

MANIFEST GREATNESS vf24jan2010 WE COME TOGETHER THERE OUGHT TO BE NO POOR WE TAKE CHARGE.


The Greatest Legal Movie Of All Time: Proclaiming The Real Winner, Grant H. Morris Jan 2010

The Greatest Legal Movie Of All Time: Proclaiming The Real Winner, Grant H. Morris

Grant H Morris

In August, 2008, the ABA Journal featured an article entitled: “The 25 Greatest Legal Movies.” A panel of experts, described in the article as “12 prominent lawyers who teach film or are connected to the business” selected “the best movies ever made about lawyers and the law.” This distinguished panel ranked its twenty-five top legal movies, choosing To Kill a Mockingbird as its number one legal movie. The panel also selected twenty-five films as “honorable mentions,” which were listed in alphabetical order. In my opinion, however, the real greatest legal movie of all time was not selected as the winner. …


Native America, United States Senate Bill S.578 And The United States Supreme Court, Dewi I. Ball Jan 2010

Native America, United States Senate Bill S.578 And The United States Supreme Court, Dewi I. Ball

Dewi Ioan Ball

In 2003, the United States Senate introduced bill S.578 and the House of Representatives introduced H.R. 2242, both of which were called the Tribal Government Amendments to the Homeland Security Act. In light of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the bills were designed to shore up the security of the United States, and specifically, allow greater authority and jurisdiction for Native American Nations to combat terrorism and the threat of terrorism on reservations. This article examines the impact of Section 13 of S.578, which was a re-affirmation of the principle of inherent tribal sovereignty and the congressional definition of …


United States Supreme Court Opinions And Their Negative Impact On The Everyday Lives Of Native Americans Tribes, Dewi I. Ball Jan 2010

United States Supreme Court Opinions And Their Negative Impact On The Everyday Lives Of Native Americans Tribes, Dewi I. Ball

Dewi Ioan Ball

This article examines the connection between U.S. Supreme Court decisions and their impact on the everyday lives in a small number of Native American reservations. Since 1959, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly eroding the Indian sovereignty doctrine and with this erosion has come an increasing number of cases decided against Indian interests. After the watershed cases of Atkinson Trading Co., v. Shirley and Nevada v. Hicks in 2001, the Indian Senate Committee conducted a hearing on the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court. With reliance on three key publications, this article addresses a gap in Federal Indian law …


La Protection Des Civils Dans Les Nouvelles Configurations Conflictuelles : Retour Au Droit Des Gens Ou Dépassement Du Droit International Humanitaire, Gregory Lewkowicz Jan 2010

La Protection Des Civils Dans Les Nouvelles Configurations Conflictuelles : Retour Au Droit Des Gens Ou Dépassement Du Droit International Humanitaire, Gregory Lewkowicz

Gregory Lewkowicz

In this paper, the development of alternative regulatory tools (codes of conduct, monitoring mechanisms, etc.) dealing with the protection of civilians during armed conflicts is scrutinized in the context of “new wars”. The paper analyses the connections between these alternative regulatory tools and classical international humanitarian law (IHL) instruments. The paper suggests that the profusion of alternative regulatory tools can help to disseminate classical IHL norms and to adapt them to contemporary warfare. The paper also envisages the possibility of a new “lex armorum” emerging from these new regulatory tools and challenging classical IHL.


Improving The Safety Of Central Nervous System Stimulants, Anne Kulli Jan 2010

Improving The Safety Of Central Nervous System Stimulants, Anne Kulli

Anne Kulli

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El Canon Neoconstitucional, Leonardo García Jaramillo, Miguel Carbonell S Jan 2010

El Canon Neoconstitucional, Leonardo García Jaramillo, Miguel Carbonell S

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.


Cómo Se Consiguen Las Buenas Calificaciones, Leonardo García Jaramillo Jan 2010

Cómo Se Consiguen Las Buenas Calificaciones, Leonardo García Jaramillo

Leonardo García Jaramillo

No abstract provided.


Responsibility Of And Trust In Isps, Raphael Cohen-Almagor Jan 2010

Responsibility Of And Trust In Isps, Raphael Cohen-Almagor

raphael cohen-almagor

This discussion is about the neglected concepts of trust and social responsibility on the Internet. I will discuss and explain the concepts and their implications to people and society. I then address the issue of moral and social responsibilities of ISPs and web-hosting companies. I argue that ISPs and web-hosting companies should aspire to take responsibility for content and that they should respect and abide by their own terms of conduct.


Walking In Another’S Skin: Failure Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird, Katie Rose Guest Pryal Jan 2010

Walking In Another’S Skin: Failure Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird, Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Katie Rose Guest Pryal

Empathy — how it is discussed and deployed by both the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird and by the author, Lee — is a useful lens to view the depictions of racial injustice in the novel because empathy is the moral fulcrum on which the narrative turns. In this essay, I argue that To Kill a Mockingbird fails to aptly demonstrate the practice of cross-racial empathy. As a consequence, readers cannot empathize with the (largely silent) black characters of the novel. In order to examine the concept of empathy, I have developed a critical framework derived from rhetorician Kenneth …


From Objective Right To Subjective Rights: The Franciscans And The Interest And Will Conceptions Of Rights, Siegfried Van Duffel Jan 2010

From Objective Right To Subjective Rights: The Franciscans And The Interest And Will Conceptions Of Rights, Siegfried Van Duffel

Siegfried Van Duffel

What are subjective rights? And what makes Will and Interest conceptions of rights into conceptions of rights? I argue that they originate in two very different natural rights theories which are, however, grounded in the same philosophical anthropology.


Studying And Teaching "Law As Rhetoric": A Place To Stand, Linda L. Berger Jan 2010

Studying And Teaching "Law As Rhetoric": A Place To Stand, Linda L. Berger

Linda L. Berger

This article proposes that law students may find a better fit within the legal culture of argument if they are introduced to rhetorical alternatives to counter narrowly formalist and realist perspectives on how the law works and how judges decide cases. The article makes a two-part argument: first, introducing law students to rhetorical alternatives allows them to envision their role as lawyers as constructive, effective, and imaginative while grounded in law, language, and reason. Second, offering rhetorical alternatives allows law professors to enrich their own study and teaching and to develop a more nuanced understanding of the law school classroom …


Gay And Lesbian Elders: Estate Planning And End-Of-Life Decisionmaking, Nancy J. Knauer Jan 2010

Gay And Lesbian Elders: Estate Planning And End-Of-Life Decisionmaking, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

This Article addresses the three areas of core concern for gay and lesbian elders -- chosen family, financial insecurity, and anti-gay bias in the context of estate planning. The first section provides an overview of the current generation of gay and lesbian elders, including a summary of pre-Stonewall history and existing demographic information. The second section outlines the challenges associated with drafting an estate plan that favors chosen family over next of kin. The third section engages the topic of financial insecurity, discussing various benefits and government programs, such as social security and Medicaid planning. The fourth and final section …


El Futuro De La Economía Es "Austriaco", Mario Šilar Jan 2010

El Futuro De La Economía Es "Austriaco", Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.


Martin Rhonheimer: Cristianismo Y Laicidad, Mario Šilar Jan 2010

Martin Rhonheimer: Cristianismo Y Laicidad, Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.


Señal Que Ya Es Un Clásico: Su Actualidad. Road To Serfdom Amazon Nº1, 2010, Mario Šilar Jan 2010

Señal Que Ya Es Un Clásico: Su Actualidad. Road To Serfdom Amazon Nº1, 2010, Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.


Sobre Las Causas Morales De La Crisis Económico-Financiera, Mario Šilar Jan 2010

Sobre Las Causas Morales De La Crisis Económico-Financiera, Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.


Enriqueciendo Con Saber Económico La Vida Diaria. Entrevista A Peter J. Boettke, Mario Šilar Jan 2010

Enriqueciendo Con Saber Económico La Vida Diaria. Entrevista A Peter J. Boettke, Mario Šilar

Mario Šilar

No abstract provided.