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Can Google-Tv Help Liberate Cable-Tv?, Erik Ugland Sep 2010

Can Google-Tv Help Liberate Cable-Tv?, Erik Ugland

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.


The Reporter's Privilege Goes Incognito In Wisconsin, Erik Ugland May 2010

The Reporter's Privilege Goes Incognito In Wisconsin, Erik Ugland

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Protection Of Freedom Of Expression In The United States As It Affects Defamation Law, Oscar Gray Apr 2010

Constitutional Protection Of Freedom Of Expression In The United States As It Affects Defamation Law, Oscar Gray

Oscar S. Gray

No abstract provided.


'My Little Genius' And The Role Of The Fcc, Erik Ugland Mar 2010

'My Little Genius' And The Role Of The Fcc, Erik Ugland

Erik Ugland

No abstract provided.


Eruv And Establishment, Lorin Geitner Dec 2009

Eruv And Establishment, Lorin Geitner

Lorin C. Geitner

An examination of how the Orthodox Jewish practice known as an "eruv", based in Jewish religious law, can help illustrate the tension between the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.


Commentary On Predicting Crime, Tom Bell Dec 2009

Commentary On Predicting Crime, Tom Bell

Tom W. Bell

The market mechanisms proposed in Predicting Crime offer many virtues. The authors describe several of these—unbiased information collection; incentives that encourage disclosure; opinions weighted by conviction; information aggregation; instantaneous and continuous feedback—and convincingly argue that these structural features stand to help prediction markets outperform alternative institutions in forecasting the interplay of crime rates and crime polices. In that, Predicting Crime adopts an economic point of view and speaks in terms of practical experience. After all, similar structural features have already appeared in other successful prediction markets, such as those offering trading in claims about the weather, flu outbreaks, or box …