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Regulating Care Robots, Valarie K. Blake
Regulating Care Robots, Valarie K. Blake
Law Faculty Scholarship
Care robots already assist the elderly in some nursing homes around the globe and could be in widespread use in hospitals and private homes sooner than we think. These robots promise great hope for patients: robots can provide increased independence, assistance with daily living, comfort and distraction during procedures, education, and companionship during vulnerable and lonely times in patients' lives. Despite these promising features, there are a number of concerns; care robots, designed with the aim of winning patient trust and affection, have unprecedented access to personal lives as well as recording and sensory capabilities beyond any human. They pose …
Does The Adea's Federal-Sector Provision Require A Plaintiff To Prove That Age Was A But-For Cause Of The Challenged Personnel Action?, Anne M. Lofaso
Does The Adea's Federal-Sector Provision Require A Plaintiff To Prove That Age Was A But-For Cause Of The Challenged Personnel Action?, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
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Brexit, The Misrepresentation Of Democracy, And The Rock Of Gibraltar, James J. Friedberg
Brexit, The Misrepresentation Of Democracy, And The Rock Of Gibraltar, James J. Friedberg
Law Faculty Scholarship
This short essay makes three points regarding Brexit that have not been widely considered in public or academic debate. First, Brexit advocates (Leavers) successfully misrepresented the referendum of June 2016 as a definitive expression of democratic will. (“The people have spoken.”) The slim majority result was less than such an expression, particularly because it ignored intercommunal and intergenerational democratic values—most profoundly, overriding clear majorities in Scotland and Northern Ireland which had voted to remain in the EU. Second, even though within a year of that referendum, a majority of Britons (Remainers) had come to oppose Brexit, political leadership among the …
Climate Change Disobedience, Charles R. Disalvo
Climate Change Disobedience, Charles R. Disalvo
Law Faculty Scholarship
Among those who recognize climate change as an existential threat, some are willing to take dramatic action against it by committing civil disobedience. Activists, such as those taking part in the Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom, are willing to exchange their liberty for some putative good. There is no discussion in the disobedience literature of the discrete purposes of climate disobedience or the principles by which climate activists ought to be guided in seeking to fulfill those purposes. This Article takes on that task. After offering an overview of the purposes of civil disobedience, this Article isolates those purposes …
The United Postal Service—The One Word That Makes All The Difference, Jena Martin, Matthew Titolo
The United Postal Service—The One Word That Makes All The Difference, Jena Martin, Matthew Titolo
Law Faculty Scholarship
In recent months, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken center stage on a number of intersecting issues in our society: the pandemic; the upcoming election (through mail-in voting) and the controversy surrounding the appointment of Louis DeJoy to the position of Postmaster General. President Donald Trump has frequently made derogatory remarks regarding the Postal Service, calling it a “joke,” and has made repeated statements encouraging its privatization. However, President Trump’s rhetoric (as well as the rhetoric of others before him) obfuscates the critical mission of the USPS – to provide service to every American in the country; not …
Patenting Fast And Slow: Examiner And Applicant Use Of Prior Art, Shine Tu
Patenting Fast And Slow: Examiner And Applicant Use Of Prior Art, Shine Tu
Law Faculty Scholarship
Previous studies have shown that an applicant's ability to obtain a patent is inexorably linked to the random assignment of a patent examiner. However, not all patent examiners are created equal. Some patent examiners allow patent applications quickly within just one or two Office Actions, resulting in only a few months of substantive patent prosecution. In contrast, other patent examiners constantly reject patents applications, which can result in unnecessarily delaying prosecution and years of substantive patent prosecution. This study focuses on how different examiners use prior art rejections to prolong or compact prosecution. Prior art rejections are one of the …