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Information Technology And Non-Legal Sanctions In Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Information Technology And Non-Legal Sanctions In Financing Transactions, Ronald J. Mann
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Essay investigates the effect of advances in information technology on the private institutions that businesses use to resolve information asymmetries in financing transactions. The first part of the Essay discusses how information technology can permit direct verification of the information, obviating the problem entirely; the Essay discusses the example of the substitution of the debit card for the check, which provides an immediate payment that obviates the need for the merchant to consider whether payment will be forthcoming when the check is presented to the bank on which it is drawn.
The second part of the Essay discusses how …
Beyond The Blackboard: Regulating Distance Learning In Higher Education, Leslie T. Thornton
Beyond The Blackboard: Regulating Distance Learning In Higher Education, Leslie T. Thornton
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
It is not so surprising that traditional institutions of higher education have been relatively slower than businesses, for example, to embrace the potential of the new technologies, and have lost students to those institutions and businesses which have been more willing to change. But technology is playing an enormous role in the shape, size, and direction of education, and it's not waiting for the leaders of traditional institutions--or anyone else, for that matter--to join the club.
This Article examines the scope and impact of that role, specifically as it has developed through a new trend toward online "distance education" or …