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To Our Children's Children's Children: The Problems Of Intergenerational Ethics, Lawrence B. Solum
To Our Children's Children's Children: The Problems Of Intergenerational Ethics, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay serves as the introduction to the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review's symposium on intergenerational justice. The importance of this topic cannot be overstated. Intergenerational ethics bears on questions of environmental policy, health policy, intellectual property law, international development policy, social security policy, telecommunications policy, and a variety of other issues.
Part II, Clarifying the Problems of Intergenerational Ethics, is a first sketch of the scope and nature of intergenerational justice, introducing a variety of cases and contexts in which issues of intergenerational ethics arise and distinguishing between the political and moral dimensions of these issues. Part …
Privacy And Power, Rosa Brooks
Privacy And Power, Rosa Brooks
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Something has gone wrong in modem America, argues Jeffrey Rosen in The Unwanted Gaze. Our medical records are bought and sold by health care providers, drug companies, and the insurance industry. Our e-mails are intercepted and read by our employers. Amazon.com knows everything there is to know about our reading and web-browsing habits. Poor Monica Lewinsky's draft love letters to President Bill Clinton were seized by the villainous Ken Starr, and ultimately plastered all over the nation's newspapers.
To Rosen, the nature of the problem is clear: These examples are all part of a troubling "phenomenon that affects all …