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How Government Can Promote Automated Driving, Bryant Walker Smith

Faculty Publications

This Article presents steps that governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. After providing technical and legal context, it describes key administrative, legal, and community strategies to promote automated driving. It concludes by urging policymakers to facilitate automated driving in part by expecting more from today’s drivers and vehicles.

Averting Educational Crisis: Funding Cuts, Teacher Shortages, And The Dwindling Commitment To Public Education, Derek Black

Faculty Publications

Recent data shows that two-thirds of states are funding education at lower levels than in 2008. Some states are 20% or more below levels of just a few years earlier. The effect on schools has been devastating. States are only exacerbating the problem by reducing teachers’ rights and benefits. These attacks, combined with funding decreases, have scared many prospective teachers away from the profession. The net result is an extreme shortage of teachers nationwide. When the school year began in 2015, a large number of public schools opened without enough certified teachers to fill classrooms, relying instead on substitutes and …

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The Journal of Law and Education

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Gaps In The Armor: Predictors Of Civil Rights Complaints In Pennsylvania's Elementary & Secondary Schools George Jay Joseph Education Law Writing Award Winner, Stephen S. Worthington

The Journal of Law and Education

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Commentary: Primary And Secondary Education, Universities And Other Institutions Recent Cases And Commentary

The Journal of Law and Education

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The New Religious Freedom Restoration Act And Its Effects On Student-Athletes Chalk Talk

The Journal of Law and Education

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Colorado's Constitutional Controversy: An Analysis Of The Colorado Supreme Court's Ruling In Taxpayers For Public Education V. Douglas County School District Chalk Talks, Peter A. Lovett

The Journal of Law and Education

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The Trolley And The Pinto: Cost-Benefit Analysis In Automated Driving And Other Cyber-Physical Systems, Bryant Walker Smith

Faculty Publications

Automated driving has attracted substantial public and scholarly attention. This brief Article describes how that attention has brought new fame to a classic philosophical thought experiment (the “trolley problem”), critiques how this thought experiment has been applied in that context, proposes a more practical extension of that experiment based on risk rather than harm, notes that this extension may still involve programming value judgments, argues with reference to the Ford Pinto debacle that these judgments could inflame juries or the public at large, and emphasizes the need for appropriately focused public discussion of these issues. The Article may be especially …

Clean Electrification, Shelley Welton

Faculty Publications

To combat climate change, many leading states have adopted the aim of creating a “participatory” grid. In this new model, electricity is priced based on time of consumption and carbon content, and consumers are encouraged to adjust their behavior and adopt new technologies to maintain affordable electricity. Although a more participatory grid is an important component of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, it also raises a new problem of clean energy justice: utilities and consumer advocates claim that such policies unjustly benefit the rich at the expense of the poor, given the type of consumer best able to participate in the …

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South Carolina Law Review

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The Secrets Of Corporate Courtship And Marriage: Evaluating Common Interest Privilege When Companies Combine In Mergers, Jared S. Sunshine

South Carolina Law Review

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Autonomous Weapons And International Law, Christopher M. Ford

South Carolina Law Review

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Contract, Power, And The Value Of Donative Promises, Sabine Tsuruda

South Carolina Law Review

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Order Of The Coif Program, May 4, 2017, University Of South Carolina School Of Law Order Of The Coif

Order of the Coif Programs and Documents

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University Of South Carolina School Of Law Graduation Brunch Program, December 16, 2017, University Of South Carolina School Of Law

Commencement and Hooding Programs

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University Of South Carolina School Of Law Commencement Program, May 5, 2017, University Of South Carolina School Of Law

Commencement and Hooding Programs

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Traditional Problems: Gay Marriage And The Backlash Against Indian Sovereignty, Marcia A. Yablon-Zug

Faculty Publications

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Alienation And Reconciliation In Social-Ecological Systems, Ann M. Eisenberg

Faculty Publications

After rancher Ammon Bundy’s forceful occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to protest federal “tyranny” in 2016, mainstream commentary dismissed Bundy and his supporters as crackpots. But the dismissal of the occupation as errant overlooked this event’s significance. This conflict: 1) involved a clash over scarce natural resources, of the type that will likely gain more frequency and intensity in the face of climate change; and 2) highlighted the popular idea that the federal government and federal environmental regulations are the enemy of the (white, rural, male) worker. This thread of antienvironmental, anti-federal alienation among many working people has …

Discrimination In The Copyright Clause, Ned Snow

Faculty Publications

ABSTRACT Does Congress have power to deny copyright protection for specific content? The Copyright Clause grants Congress power to “promote the Progress of Science” by legislating copyright laws. Certainly some content may reasonably be viewed as failing to promote the progress of science. Violent video games or pornography, for instance, may reasonably be viewed as not promoting progress in science, even though they receive protection as free speech under the First Amendment. So even if the Free Speech Clause bars Congress from banning content, does the Copyright Clause provide Congress a permissible means to discourage production of that content? This …

Tax And Social Context: Legal Fictions And Tax, Tessa R. Davis

Faculty Publications

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Tailoring Class Actions To The On-Demand Economy, Joseph Seiner

Faculty Publications

In O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc., a federal district court permitted a class action case to proceed on the question of whether 160,000 drivers were misclassified by their employer as independent contractors rather than employees. The case has garnered widespread interest, making headlines across the country. Yet, it represents only one of many class action cases currently pending against technology companies in the modern economy. Indeed, similar systemic claims have already been brought against Yelp, GrubHub, Handy, CrowdFlower, Amazon, and many others.

The courts have struggled in their efforts to address the proper scope of class cases brought against corporations …

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The Journal of Law and Education

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Restoring The Promise Of Brown: Using State Constitutional Law To Challenge School Segregation, Jim Hilbert

The Journal of Law and Education

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Supreme Court - Recent Cases And Commentary

The Journal of Law and Education

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Lower Federal Courts And State Courts

The Journal of Law and Education

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The Fine Print, Winter (January) 2017, University Of South Carolina School Of Law

Law School Alumni Magazines

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The Shadowy World Of Hazardous Waste Disposal: Why The Basel Convention's Structure Undermines Its Substance, Elizabeth S. Pope

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

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Go Tiny Or Go Home: How Living Tiny May Inadvertently Reduce Privacy Rights In The Home, Marc C. Mcallister

South Carolina Law Review

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The Professional Responsibility Of Fair Play When Dealing With A Pro Se Adversary, Davis G. Yee

South Carolina Law Review

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Enhancing Innovation In The Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Progress, Constraints, And Possibilities, Travis Lybbert, Kritika Saxena, Julius Ecuru, Dick Kawooya, Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

Faculty Publications

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