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Corruption In Education: A Global Legal Challenge, Vincent R. Johnson
Corruption In Education: A Global Legal Challenge, Vincent R. Johnson
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In every educational institution, in every country and generation, there is a struggle between corrupt practices and the continuing quest for high ethical standards. An educational institution is poorer if its members engage in corrupt practices. Such misfeasance wastes limited resources, demoralizes participants, and adversely affects productivity. The nature of this corruption is multi-faceted, and observes no geographic boundaries. It exists in every culture.
In some of these cases, educational corruption can be quite subtle. This is true where conduct that is neither criminal, fraudulent, nor a breach of fiduciary duty nevertheless undercuts the moral foundations of the educational enterprise. …
Data Security And Tort Liability, Vincent R. Johnson
Data Security And Tort Liability, Vincent R. Johnson
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Established tort principles carefully applied to the contemporary problems of cybersecurity and identity theft can perform a key role in protecting the economic foundations of modern life. Tort law offers an appropriate legal regime for allocating the risks and spreading the costs of database intrusion-related losses. It can also create incentives, on the part of both database possessors and data subjects, to minimize the harm associated with breaches of database security.
In considering this field of tort law, it is useful to differentiate three questions. The first issue is whether database possessors have a legal duty to safeguard data subjects’ …