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Welcoming Remarks And Statement Of The Issues, Fred H. Cate
Welcoming Remarks And Statement Of The Issues, Fred H. Cate
Federal Communications Law Journal
The creation, manipulation, transmission, storage, and use of information constitute the United States' and the world's largest economic sector, affecting almost every aspect of business, education, government, and entertainment. The convener of From Conduit to Content: The Emergence of Information Policy and Law introduces The Annenberg Washington Program forum by noting the proliferation of information technologies and services, the diversity of industries and interests affected, and the number of government entities with jurisdiction, that contribute to both the complexity and the importance of information policy making.
From Conduit to Content: The Emergence of Information Policy and Law. The Annenberg Washington …
Border Crossings: Nafta, Regulatory Restructuring, And The Politics Of Place, Ruth Buchanan
Border Crossings: Nafta, Regulatory Restructuring, And The Politics Of Place, Ruth Buchanan
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Professor Buchanan begins her paper by questioning whether
recent economic and political shifts towards notions of
"globalization" (e.g., the NAFTA) have failed to consider the
politics or economics of change in particular places. Her prime
example of a "place" where integration is illogically forced against
a background of differentiation is the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Through the scope of a "regulatory complex" (a complex of legal,
institutional, regulatory, and social orderings), she departs from the
common view of the NAFTA as a productive tool of North American
integration, and instead views the NAFTA as exacerbating
"differences between localities, industries, and labor …