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Selected Works

2006

Law and Society

Articles 31 - 34 of 34

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No Direction Home: Will The Law Keep Pace With Human Tracking Technology To Protect Individual Privacy And Stop Geoslavery, William A. Herbert Dec 2005

No Direction Home: Will The Law Keep Pace With Human Tracking Technology To Protect Individual Privacy And Stop Geoslavery, William A. Herbert

William A. Herbert

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Creative Commons And The New Intermediaries, Michael W. Carroll Dec 2005

Creative Commons And The New Intermediaries, Michael W. Carroll

Michael W. Carroll

This symposium contribution examines the disintermediating and reintermediating roles played by Creative Commons licenses on the Internet. Creative Commons licenses act as a disintermediating force because they enable end-to-end transactions in copyrighted works. The licenses have reintermediating force by enabling new services and new online communities to form around content licensed under a Creative Commons license. Intermediaries focused on the copyright dimension have begun to appear online as search engines, archives, libraries, publishers, community organizers, and educators. Moreover, the growth of machine-readable copyright licenses and the new intermediaries that they enable is part of a larger movement toward a Semantic …

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Gloria’S Story And Guatemala’S Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, And Religion, M. C. Mirow Dec 2005

Gloria’S Story And Guatemala’S Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, And Religion, M. C. Mirow

M. C. Mirow

John Wertheimer, the author of “Gloria’s Story,” has produced a complex and absorbing text that skillfully guides the reader through the microhistory of Gloria’s concubinage to an enhanced appreciation of the greater legal, social, and institutional forces at play in mid-twentieth century Guatemala. Using Gloria’s story to shift into more general observations about law and society in Guatemala, Wertheimer states that laws can “affect behavior by establishing incentives and disincentives for different types of action and by reinforcing or undermining different values.”1 Wertheimer reads the legal records involving Gloria and her family to write her story from the dominant critical …

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The Uses Of History In The Supreme Court's Takings Clause Jurisprudence, Jonathan R. Lahn Dec 2005

The Uses Of History In The Supreme Court's Takings Clause Jurisprudence, Jonathan R. Lahn

Jonathan R Lahn

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