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Commentary On Economic And Ethical Reasons For Protecting Data, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 2001

Commentary On Economic And Ethical Reasons For Protecting Data, Wendy J. Gordon

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Like Jane Ginsburg, I would like to drop back a bit, to talk about more general principles. Essentially, both of our primary speakers focused on a distinction between property and non-property modes of protecting data. I would like to highlight the economic and ethical reasons for maintaining that distinction.


European Law: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, George A. Bermann Jan 2001

European Law: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow, George A. Bermann

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Hans Baade's career spans a period marked by the progressive recognition of European law in American academic circles. At the time that Hans Baade decided to make the United States his academic home, historical circumstances had only recently brought to American shores a whole generation of legal scholars, mostly continental European in background and training. Aided by the compelling nature of the stories about law that they had to tell, these scholars connected strategically with an American legal academy that was then only slowly and tentatively emerging from what could be described, not unfairly, as a period of relative intellectual …