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2002

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The Common Core Of European Private Law : Essays On The Project / Edited By M. Bussani And U. Mattei., Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani Dec 2001

The Common Core Of European Private Law : Essays On The Project / Edited By M. Bussani And U. Mattei., Ugo Mattei, Mauro Bussani

Ugo Mattei

European private law is in the making. Many scholarly and official projects tackle the many issues that unfold in the path of a more uniform European legal culture. None of such projects has been as thorough and patient in trying to develop a general knowledge on how things are in the early-21st century in the landscape of European private law as the "Common Core of European Private Law Project", launched in Trento, Italy in 1993 with the direct involvement of the Late Professor R.B. Schlesinger. Within the Common Core Project, over 200 professionals apply a painstaking comparative analysis of European …

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Privacy Law: Cases And Materials, Vincent Samar Dec 2001

Privacy Law: Cases And Materials, Vincent Samar

Vincent Samar

Privacy Law: Cases and Materials

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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma Dec 2001

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Jolina C. Cuaresma

Jolina C. Cuaresma

In the fall of 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act. Twenty years later, this statute still governs how financial institutions use consumer data. The statute represents the first (and only) federal law that gives consumers privacy protection over nonpublic personally identifiable information. This paper examines a number of GLBA provisions and demonstrates that consumers do not control the terms under which their financial information is used. While the GLBA was an important first step in obtaining some level of information privacy, this paper argues that Congress undoubtedly placed a …

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