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It All Started With Columbo: Teaching Law With Popular Culture, Christine Corcos
It All Started With Columbo: Teaching Law With Popular Culture, Christine Corcos
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The Law Of Advertising Outrage, Mark Bartholomew
The Law Of Advertising Outrage, Mark Bartholomew
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This article examines the stimulation of audience outrage, both as a marketing strategy and as a subject of legal regulation. A brief history of advertising in the United States reveals repeated yet relatively infrequent attempts to attract consumer attention through overt transgressions of social norms relating to sex, violence, race, and religion. Natural concerns over audience reaction limited use of this particular advertising tactic as businesses needed to be careful not to alienate prospective purchasers. But now companies can engage in “algorithmic outrage”—social media advertising meant to stimulate individual feelings of anger and upset—with less concern for a consumer backlash. …
Striking Gold - The Case Of The Shropshire Piano, Geoffrey Bennett
Striking Gold - The Case Of The Shropshire Piano, Geoffrey Bennett
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In the more than twenty years since the [Great Britain] Treasure Act 1996 entered into force, there have been many dramatic discoveries of treasure. The media frequently reports the results of remarkable finds, usually made by metal detectorists in infields and open spaces. A unique, not to say bizarre, example, however, is the discovery of a cache of gold coins found concealed in a piano in Shropshire in 2016. It makes the point that the old law of treasure trove still has a twilight existence in circumstances that are prone to recur.
The Vatican View On Sport At The Service Of Humanity, Ed Edmonds
The Vatican View On Sport At The Service Of Humanity, Ed Edmonds
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Participation in sport, particularly the opportunity for children to enjoy and learn through play, is a human right and strongly supported by the goals of Catholic social teaching and the efforts of the Olympic Movement and the United Nations. On October 5-6, 2016, the Vatican held the Sport at the Service of Humanity Conference, the first global conference on sport and faith, an initiative promoted by Pope Francis and supported by the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations. This essay focuses on the conference, its vision and goals, and a challenge to use sport to advance human development and …