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Crashing Into The Unknown: An Examination Of Crash Optimization Algorithms Through The Two Lanes Of Ethics And Law, Jeffrey K. Gurney Jan 2016

Crashing Into The Unknown: An Examination Of Crash Optimization Algorithms Through The Two Lanes Of Ethics And Law, Jeffrey K. Gurney

Jeffrey K Gurney

Autonomous vehicles will encounter situations where an accident is truly unavoidable, requiring the vehicle to decide whom or what to hit. In such situations, the vehicle will make difficult ethical decisions based upon its programming — more specifically, how its crash-optimization algorithm is programmed.This Article examines crash-optimization algorithms from an ethical and legal standpoint through the lenses of six moral dilemmas. Ethically, the Article focuses specifically on utilitarian and Kantian ethics. Legally, the Article considers the tort and criminal law implications of crash-optimization algorithms.In addition, the Article discusses whether autonomous vehicles should even make ethical decisions. Concluding that they should …


Law: A Strategic Tool For Social Engineering, Oluwaseun Ojo Aug 2015

Law: A Strategic Tool For Social Engineering, Oluwaseun Ojo

Oluwaseun Viyon Ojo

The crux of this paper is to examine and accentuate on the fact that the law is a strategic and procedural tool for the engineering and orchestration of the society to meet its various ends.


Freedom, Legality, And The Rule Of Law, John A. Bruegger Aug 2015

Freedom, Legality, And The Rule Of Law, John A. Bruegger

John A Bruegger

There are numerous interactions between the rule of law and the concept of freedom, looking at Fuller’s eight principles of legality, the positive and negative theories of liberty, coercive and empowering laws, and the formal and substantive rules of law. Adherence to the rules of formal legality promote freedom by creating stability and predictability in the law, on which the people can then rely to plan their behaviors around the law – this is freedom under the law. Coercive laws can actually promote negative liberty up to pulling people out of a Hobbesian state of nature, and then thereafter can …


Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of United States Election Laws, Charles E. A. Lincoln Iv Aug 2015

Hegelian Dialectical Analysis Of United States Election Laws, Charles E. A. Lincoln Iv

Charles E. A. Lincoln IV

This Article uses the dialectical ideas of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1833) in application to the progression of United States voting laws since the founding. This analysis can be used to interpret past progression of voting rights in the US as well as a provoking way to predict the future trends in US voting rights. First, Hegel’s dialectical method is established as a major premise. Second, the general accepted history of United States voting laws from the 1770s to the current day is laid out as a minor premise. Third, the major premise of Hegel’s dialectical method weaves …


Parole And Probation Officers' Perceptions Of Management Effectiveness In Baltimore County, Maryland, Valencia Tamir Johnson Dr. Aug 2015

Parole And Probation Officers' Perceptions Of Management Effectiveness In Baltimore County, Maryland, Valencia Tamir Johnson Dr.

Valencia T Johnson

Management practices in the rehabilitation and criminal justice system are primarily concerned with how employees sense, collect, organize, and process information regarding the criminal offender. The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure parole and probation officers' perceptions regarding management support and effectiveness in the workplace, with particular emphasis on communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution. Herzberg's 2-factor theory of motivation served as the theoretical framework for the study, supporting the concept of participatory management as a central factor in job satisfaction. A researcher-designed, Likert-type questionnaire was administered to a randomly selected sample of 31 parole and probation officers in …


Conditions In U.S. Treaty Practice: New Data And Insights Into A Growing Phenomenon, Cindy G. Buys Jul 2015

Conditions In U.S. Treaty Practice: New Data And Insights Into A Growing Phenomenon, Cindy G. Buys

Cindy G. Buys

The U.S. Senate often adds various types of conditions, also known as reservations, understandings, and declarations, to its advice and consent to multilateral treaties. The ability to add conditions to a treaty likely increases the number of States willing to join a treaty because it allows States to modify their treaty obligations to address domestic concerns. However, the use of conditions also has the potential to undermine the integrity of the treaty by allowing States to opt out of important legal obligations and to create legal uncertainty regarding treaty obligations and relationships. This article examines U.S. treaty practice with respect …


Children Of Internet Era: A Critical Analysis Of Vulnerability Of Children In The Darker Sides Of Social Media And Whatsapp, Debarati Halder Dr. Mar 2015

Children Of Internet Era: A Critical Analysis Of Vulnerability Of Children In The Darker Sides Of Social Media And Whatsapp, Debarati Halder Dr.

Debarati Halder

Information communication technology has been made an essential part of school curriculums in India today. As per the guidelines of the, National Policy on Information and Communication technology (ICT) in school education, children must be taught the positive usage of the internet, the computer technology and digital communication technology. But internet is a double edged weapon: if it is used positively, it may yield positive results, if it is used negatively, it can create large scale devastation. It has been seen that children are often misusing the information communication technology. In the present age, children are growing up seeing their …


Building Prohibited Transaction Chinese Walls For Retirement Plan Investment Structures, David Randall Jenkins Jan 2015

Building Prohibited Transaction Chinese Walls For Retirement Plan Investment Structures, David Randall Jenkins

David Randall Jenkins

Knowing how to structure client career revising strategies by funding business ventures with extant retirement plan assets is an important transaction structuring tool for today’s professional. Enabling both account holder compensation and personal guaranties of enterprise debt appears to be a formidable undertaking in today’s decisional law climate. The key to empowering such client objectives lies in understanding how retirement plan management and investment risk diversification policy compliance, together with properly invoked plan asset rule exceptions, erect Prohibited Transaction Chinese Walls and enable (self-dealing activity: incidental benefit) transitions.


From Law In Blackletter To Blackletter Law, Kasia Solon Cristobal Jan 2015

From Law In Blackletter To Blackletter Law, Kasia Solon Cristobal

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

What is the etymology of the phrase blackletter law? Chasing down its origins uncovers not only a surprising turnabout from blackletter law’s original meaning, but also prompts examination of a previously overlooked subject, the history of the law’s changing appearance on the page. This history ultimately proves a cautionary tale of how appearances have hindered access to the law.


Flying The Flag, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld Jan 2015

Flying The Flag, Aaron S. Kirschenfeld

AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers

This paper analyzes the accuracy with which descriptions of subsequent negative treatment are applied by an online citator system that employs a hierarchical controlled vocabulary -- Shepard's Citations -- as opposed to one that does not -- KeyCite. After a contextual review of the citator's history, a framework for assessment is proposed and employed to test the hypothesis that a citator employing a hierarchical controlled vocabulary would produce more accurate descriptions. The study's results suggest that a system making use of a hierarchical controlled vocabulary does apply descriptions of subsequent negative treatment in a marginally more accurate way. A discussion …


Theory Of Transparency: The Right To Know, Amartya Shrivastava Mr. Jan 2015

Theory Of Transparency: The Right To Know, Amartya Shrivastava Mr.

Amartya Shrivastava

Any governments functioning and merit is determined by the extent of faith and trust imposed by the governed citizens. This can be achieved by having maximum transparency a\of government working and functions. This can be acquired using various tools one which is the information legislation passed in the various countries. These legislations are a cause of mutual development, as it enables and empowers people. The true essence of democracy lies in empowering people as it is people’s rule. Thus, if we to understand democracy, we need to understand the government. Transparency is a decisive factor when it comes to accountability …


Why Lawyers Fear Love: Mohandas Gandhi’S Significance To The Mindfulness In Law Movement, Nehal A. Patel Jan 2015

Why Lawyers Fear Love: Mohandas Gandhi’S Significance To The Mindfulness In Law Movement, Nehal A. Patel

Nehal A. Patel

Although mindfulness has gained the attention of the legal community, there are only a handful of scholarly law articles on mindfulness. The literature effectively documents the Mindfulness in Law movement, but there has been minimal effort to situate the movement into the broader history of non-Western ideas in the legal academy and profession. Similarly, there has been little recent scholarship offering a critique of the American legal system through the insights of mindfulness. In this Article, I attempt to fill these gaps by situating the Mindfulness in Law movement into the history of modern education’s western-dominated world-view. With this approach, …


Providing The Missing Link: Law After Latour’S Passage, Serge Gutwirth Jan 2015

Providing The Missing Link: Law After Latour’S Passage, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

There are two ways to speak of the law, which, both for jurists and laypersons, coexist like an optical illusion. Either you see the naked young woman, or you see Freud’s profile, and the passage from one view to the other is difficult to grasp or control. Similarly, law is evoked in two modes referring to two distinct significations. On the one hand law is referred to as an intertwined whole of statutes, rules and regulations, and thus, in one word, as norms (or “normativity”), while, on the other hand, it can as well be understood as decision-making or as …


La Rebeldía De J.Waldron: ¿Es Democrático El Control Judicial Constitucional?, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni Nov 2014

La Rebeldía De J.Waldron: ¿Es Democrático El Control Judicial Constitucional?, Joshimar De La Cruz Aroni

Joshimar De la cruz Aroni

Constitutional Law


Corporate Boardroom Diversity: Why Are We Still Talking About This?, Lawrence J. Trautman Jul 2014

Corporate Boardroom Diversity: Why Are We Still Talking About This?, Lawrence J. Trautman

Lawrence J. Trautman Sr.

What exactly is board diversity and why does it matter? How does diversity fit in an attempt to build the best board for any organization? What attributes and skills are required by law and what mix of experiences and talents provide the best corporate governance? Even though most companies say they are looking for diversity, why has there been such little progress? Are required director attributes, which are a must for all boards, consistent with future diversity gains and aligned with achieving high performance and optimal board composition? My goal is to provide answers to these questions, and to discuss …


Where There Is No Need To Screen Local Justice: Law And Film In Israel, Shulamit Almog Jan 2014

Where There Is No Need To Screen Local Justice: Law And Film In Israel, Shulamit Almog

Shulamit Almog

This chapter describes the minor representation of law in Israeli feature films and demonstrates it by pointing at various films that deal with issues that pertain directly to legal proceeding or legal matters,yet bear merely marginal reference to the legal domain,or avoid it altogether.


Dystopian Narratives And Legal Imagination, Shulamit Almog Jan 2014

Dystopian Narratives And Legal Imagination, Shulamit Almog

Shulamit Almog

This paper is based upon a complementing premise,maintaining that there is also a meaningful linkage between normative systems that are products of law and speculative delineations of dystopias. This linkage derives from the duality pertaining to the utopian/dystopian notion.


Constitutional Islamization And Human Rights: The Surprising Origin And Spread Of Islamic Supremacy In Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg Jan 2014

Constitutional Islamization And Human Rights: The Surprising Origin And Spread Of Islamic Supremacy In Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg

Tom Ginsburg

No abstract provided.


Legitimation, Mark C. Modak-Truran Jan 2014

Legitimation, Mark C. Modak-Truran

Mark C Modak-Truran

This article identifies three different conceptions of legitimation - pre-modern, modern, and post-secular - that compete both within and across national boundaries for the coveted prize of informing the social imaginary regarding how the government and the law should be legitimated in constitutional democracies. Pre-modern conceptions of legitimation consider governments and rulers legitimate if they are ordained by God or if the political system is ordered in accordance with the normative cosmic order. Contemporary proponents of the pre-modern conception range from those in the United States who maintain that the government has been legitimated by the “Judeo-Christian tradition” to those …


Case Note: In Re Estate Of Brown (Tenn. 2013), Lee T. Nutini Jun 2013

Case Note: In Re Estate Of Brown (Tenn. 2013), Lee T. Nutini

Lee T Nutini

A case note analyzing the current conflict in Tennessee precedent concerning contract-based will contests and their jurisdictional challenges. This article is now published in the Tennessee Law Review and is available on Westlaw or LexisNexis at 80 Tenn. L. Rev. 883.


“Ahead Of The Lawmen”: Law And Morality In Disney Animated Films 1960–1998, Nehal A. Patel Apr 2013

“Ahead Of The Lawmen”: Law And Morality In Disney Animated Films 1960–1998, Nehal A. Patel

Nehal A. Patel

This article examines the relationship between law and morality in a selection of animated Disney movies released between 1960 and 1998. The authors analyze all of the fully-animated, G-rated movies that grossed $100 million or more (adjusted for inflation) which shaped the childhood of lawyers practicing today. We find that the predominant representation of the relationship between law and morality is that they are at odds. Law most often is portrayed as having no relationship to morality or, even worse, as an obstacle to justice. These findings have implications for theories of law and morality, justice, and ethics. These findings …


Los Jueces Constitucionales, La Política Y La Deferencia Judicial, Rodrigo A. Poyanco Bugueño Apr 2013

Los Jueces Constitucionales, La Política Y La Deferencia Judicial, Rodrigo A. Poyanco Bugueño

Rodrigo A. Poyanco Bugueño

When the constitutional judge imposes a certain ideology trough their sentences, to the detriment of other doctrines that are legitimately beaten in the democratic game, not only ognores the essential differences between politics and law, but also damages the powers of Parliament and, ultimately, the political autonomy of the society. In response, the doctrine of judicial deference reminds us the limitations of constitutional doctrines as tools for resolving political problems given the importance of preserving that autonomy


South Dakota: Making Dollars And Sense Of Indian Child Removal, Rachael Whitaker Mar 2013

South Dakota: Making Dollars And Sense Of Indian Child Removal, Rachael Whitaker

Rachael Whitaker

South Dakota- Making Dollars and Sense of Indian Child Removal By: Rachael Whitaker In 2004, a South Dakota Governor’s Commission report adamantly denied claims that the state’s Department of Social Services (DSS) is “harvesting Indian children as a cash crop” and “runs nothing more than a state sponsored kidnapping program.” National Public Radio (NPR) broke a story in 2011, claiming South Dakota removed Indian children for profit. Since NPR’s report, the state has remained tight-lipped, advocates have threatened litigation, and Congress has asked for answers. South Dakota has a small population and economy, and it receives almost half of its …


Slump Sale Transactions - Taxation Issues In India, Mubashshir Sarshar Mar 2013

Slump Sale Transactions - Taxation Issues In India, Mubashshir Sarshar

Mubashshir Sarshar

No abstract provided.


Do Not Disturb: A Practical Guide For What Not To Do Around Cemeteries And Human Remains For The Louisiana Energy And Land Use Practitioner, Ryan M. Seidemann Jan 2013

Do Not Disturb: A Practical Guide For What Not To Do Around Cemeteries And Human Remains For The Louisiana Energy And Land Use Practitioner, Ryan M. Seidemann

Ryan M Seidemann

No abstract provided.


How Do We Deal With All The Bodies? A Review Of Recent Cemetery And Human Remains Legal Issues, Ryan M. Seidemann Jan 2013

How Do We Deal With All The Bodies? A Review Of Recent Cemetery And Human Remains Legal Issues, Ryan M. Seidemann

Ryan M Seidemann

No abstract provided.


Neoliberalism And The Law Reassessing Historical Materialist Analysis Of The Law For The 21st Century, Justin Schwartz Jan 2013

Neoliberalism And The Law Reassessing Historical Materialist Analysis Of The Law For The 21st Century, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Historical materialism has been called in question by the triumph of neoliberalism and the fall of Communism. I show, by consideration of two examples, the 2008 crisis and recent Supreme Court campaign spending First Amendment jurisprudence, that neoliberalism instead vindicates the explanatory power of (non-mechanical and non-deterministic) historical materialism in accounting for a wide range of recent legal developments in legislation, executive (in)action, and judicial decision-making.


Neoliberalism And The Law: How Historical Materialism Can Illuminate Recent Governmental And Judicial Decision Making, Justin Schwartz Jan 2013

Neoliberalism And The Law: How Historical Materialism Can Illuminate Recent Governmental And Judicial Decision Making, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Neoliberalism can be understood as the deregulation of the economy from political control by deliberate action or inaction of the state. As such it is both constituted by the law and deeply affects it. I show how the methods of historical materialism can illuminate this phenomenon in all three branches of the the U.S. government. Considering the example the global financial crisis of 2007-08 that began with the housing bubble developing from trade in unregulated and overvalued mortgage backed securities, I show how the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which established a firewall between commercial and investment banking, allowed this …


When A Robot Can Love - Blade Runner As A Cautionary Tale On Law And Technology, Shulamit Almog Jan 2013

When A Robot Can Love - Blade Runner As A Cautionary Tale On Law And Technology, Shulamit Almog

Shulamit Almog

This paper examines Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner as a cautionary tale relating to the role of law in technology augmented environment.Blade Runner presents a regime that uses law first in order to create beings withe superior abilities and pre-determined longevity, and then to define them as non-human or non-beings, devoid of legal personhood, and thus exploitable.


A Cidade E A Copa: Exceções Do Estado E Do Direito Em Favor Da Fifa, Rafael De Oliveira Alves Jan 2013

A Cidade E A Copa: Exceções Do Estado E Do Direito Em Favor Da Fifa, Rafael De Oliveira Alves

Rafael de Oliveira Alves

Resumo Este trabalho pretende apresentar elementos para análise da cidade contemporânea e suas transformações para receber um megaevento esportivo: a Copa do Mundo Fifa 2014. O texto apoia-se na sistematização proposta por Edward Soja (2008). Logo, [1] os processos de reestruturação pós-fordistas, [2] a segregação socioespacial e [3] os mecanismos de encarceramento são categorias importantes para compreender as transformações urbanísticas nas cidades que serão sede de jogos de futebol em 2014 no sentido da constituição de um Estado de exceção. Pretendemos identificar as mudanças do Estado e do Direito para atender os interesses da Fifa e do capital. Assim, elencaremos …