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Mr. S. Lipietz Et Al. V. The Prefect Of The Haute-Garonne Department And The Sncf (Advisory Opinion), Jean-Christophe Truilhé Jan 2010

Mr. S. Lipietz Et Al. V. The Prefect Of The Haute-Garonne Department And The Sncf (Advisory Opinion), Jean-Christophe Truilhé

Maryland Journal of International Law

Advisory Opinion by Jean-Christophe Truilhé, Government Commissioner. Translated by Juliana Galan and Alisha L. Jacobsen, as revised by Vivian Grosswald Curran. All footnotes not designated as "Translator's note" were supplied by Vivian Grosswald Curran.


Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle Keats Citron Jan 2010

Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle Keats Citron

Faculty Scholarship

The public can now “friend” the White House and scores of agencies on social networks, virtual worlds, and video-sharing sites. The Obama Administration sees this trend as crucial to enhancing governmental transparency, public participation, and collaboration. As the President has underscored, government needs to tap into the public’s expertise because it doesn’t have all of the answers. To be sure, Government 2.0 might improve civic engagement. But it also might produce privacy vulnerabilities because agencies often gain access to individuals’ social network profiles, photographs, videos, and contact lists when interacting with individuals online. Little would prevent agencies from using and …


Beyond Innovation And Competition: The Need For Qualified Transparency In Internet Intermediaries, Frank Pasquale Jan 2010

Beyond Innovation And Competition: The Need For Qualified Transparency In Internet Intermediaries, Frank Pasquale

Faculty Scholarship

Internet service providers and search engines have mapped the web, accelerated e-commerce, and empowered new communities. They also pose new challenges for law. Individuals are rapidly losing the ability to affect their own image on the web - or even to know what data are presented about them. When web users attempt to find information or entertainment, they have little assurance that a carrier or search engine is not biasing the presentation of results in accordance with its own commercial interests.

Technology’s impact on privacy and democratic culture needs to be at the center of internet policy-making. Yet before they …


Fcc V. Fox Television Stations, Inc.: Dirty Words And Messy Logic - The Supreme Court's Failure To Fix Broadcast Media Regulation, Edward J. Reilly Jan 2010

Fcc V. Fox Television Stations, Inc.: Dirty Words And Messy Logic - The Supreme Court's Failure To Fix Broadcast Media Regulation, Edward J. Reilly

Maryland Law Review Online

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Recent French Legal Developments Concerning A War-Time Arrest And Imprisonment Case, Vivian Grosswald Curran Jan 2010

Recent French Legal Developments Concerning A War-Time Arrest And Imprisonment Case, Vivian Grosswald Curran

Maryland Journal of International Law

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The French Administrative Court's Rulings On Compensation Claims Brought By Jewish Survivors Of World War Ii, Rémi Rouquette Jan 2010

The French Administrative Court's Rulings On Compensation Claims Brought By Jewish Survivors Of World War Ii, Rémi Rouquette

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Constitutional Limitations On Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations And Governmental Exactions (2010 Ed.), Garrett Power Jan 2010

Constitutional Limitations On Land Use Controls, Environmental Regulations And Governmental Exactions (2010 Ed.), Garrett Power

Faculty Scholarship

This electronic book is published in a searchable PDF format as a part of the E-scholarship Repository of the University of Maryland School of Law. It is an “open content” casebook intended for classroom use in courses in Land Use Control, Environmental Law and Constitutional Law. It consists of cases carefully selected from the two hundred years of American constitutional history which address the clash between public sovereignty and private property. It considers both the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property. The text consists of non-copyrighted material and readers are free to use it or re-mix …