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Appeal No. 0763: B T Energy V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2006-94 & 2006-96

Appeal No. 0762: B T Energy V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2006-94 & 2006-96

Appeal No. 0777: Mike Johnson V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Order 2006-131

Appeal No. 0776: Stream Global Investments, Llc V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Order 2006-130

What's Wrong With The Patent System? Fuzzy Boundaries And The Patent Tax, James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer

Faculty Scholarship

The annual number of patent lawsuits filed in the U.S. has roughly tripled from 1970 to 2004. The number of suits was more or less steady in the 1970s, climbed slowly in the 1980s, and exploded in the 1990s. Why? The usual answers point to (1) the growth of the “new economy” and the concomitant explosion of patenting, (2) the failure of the Patent Office to reject patents on old or obvious inventions, or (3) the rise of the patent troll. There is an element of truth in all these answers, but even collectively they do a poor job explaining …

Session 10 - Risk Education: Teaching (And Learning) About Technology And Uncertainty In Society, Julian Kilker

International Symposium on Technology and Society

Recently heightened concerns about governmental and corporate surveillance, coupled with long-term social and psychological research on privacy, present both an opportunity and a challenge for discussions about risks and risk assessments related to national security and civil liberties, as well as discussions about the social implications of technology in general. These issues include ethics, assessing uncertainty, balancing risks, and negotiating multidisciplinary expertise. This paper contextualizes the planning, implementing, and responses to several iterations of the Honors course “Who’s watching? Media, privacy, and surveillance,” within the larger topic of pedagogical practices appropriate for examining important, but controversial, topics related to technology …

A Legal Miscellanea: Volume 4, Number 1, Jacob Burns Law Library George Washington University Law School

A Legal Miscellanea: Archives (Print)

A Newsletter for the Friends of the Jacob Burns Law Library, highlighting the Library's collections, services, recent acquisitions, events and exhibits.

The Lessons Of Capturing The Friedmans: Moral Panic, Institutional Denial And Due Process, Susan Bandes

College of Law Faculty

In the 1980's hundreds of childcare workers were accused of sexually abusing children in horrific ways. Arnold and Jesse Friedman, whose prosecutions are chronicled in the film Capturing the Friedmans, were among those convicted and sent to prison during this period. Sociologists have called this series of prosecutions a classic moral panic: a widespread, hostile, volatile overreaction to a perceived societal threat. This paper examines the concept of moral panic in the context of the day care sexual abuse prosecutions in general, and the Friedman prosecutions in particular. It begins by exploring the role of the legal system in …

The Problem With Unpaid Work, Katharine K. Baker

All Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the problems with a social norm that assumes women should shoulder a disproportionate amount of unpaid family work. It evaluates the most recent empirical data which suggests that women continue to do substantially more unpaid work than men, and men continue to do substantially more paid work than women. It then briefly reviews two standard explanations for where this gendered division of work may come from, biological inclination and/or systems of male dominance. It suggests that neither of these traditional explanations have given adequate consideration to the normative question begged by the extant division of labor. Is …

Remedying Trade Remedies, Sungjoon Cho

All Faculty Scholarship

Although competition has been an ideological beacon of economic governance ever since the birth of the Union, it has largely been an internal affair. External competition from foreign producers has failed to be factored into antitrust scrutiny. On the contrary, the government, through its trade policies such as antidumping remedies, has often hampered foreign competition to protect domestic producers at the expense of all the benefits that foreign competition might bring to the economy. Antidumping remedies tend to create a legal cartel: they fix the import prices and generate non-price predation by petitioners. However, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s potential …

Of The World Trade Court's Burden, Sungjoon Cho

All Faculty Scholarship

Decisions of the WTO tribunal (Court) on sensitive disputes, such as those concerning human health, have often caused resentment from some groups, besides losing parties. Beneath this disapproval against the Court lies an image of a Dworkinian Hercules which capriciously renders its own answers on risks and science. In judging which party should win the case, this Hercules assesses parties' arguments and evidence on risks and regulatory responses through a technical rule labeled the “burden of proof” (BOP). Yet, the BOP is more of the Court's burden than of parties' burden (who to prove) in that the final outcome of …

Toward An Identity Theory Of International Organizations, Sungjoon Cho

All Faculty Scholarship

Conventional international relations (IR) theorists, such as realists, neo-functionalists or regime theorists, view international organizations (IOs) as passive tools with which to achieve certain goals. Although an IO may facilitate inter-state cooperation and reduce transaction costs, it does not have a life of its own. Therefore, conventional IR theorists focus mostly on the creation of an IO and inter-state cooperation leading up to the creation. As a result, an IO's institutional change remains rather an “under-studied” and “under-theorized” issue in the conventional international relations (IR) framework.

Granted, conventional IR theories may provide useful insights on an inter-national dynamic among creators …

Retrying The Acquitted In England, Part I: The Exception To The Rule Against Double Jeopardy For "New And Compelling Evidence", David S. Rudstein

All Faculty Scholarship

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Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

A Not-So Equitable Allocation: The Need For An Environmental Cost Principle , Joshua H. Van Eaton

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Corporate Farming: How Interpretation Of The Commerce Clause Is Making Restrictions More Difficult. Jones V. Gale , Brock H. Cooper

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Reimbursement For Voluntarily Cleaning Up Your Mess? The Seventh Circuit Says Yes Under Cercla. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Of Greater Chicago V. North American Galvanizing & Coatings, Inc., Nikki Mullins

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Ninth Circuit Narrows Exception To Plain Meaning Interpretation Of Sip's. Safe Air For Everyone V. Epa, Ryan Westhoff

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Conservation Easements: Tax Shields With Philanthropic Means. Glass V. Commissioner, John H. A. Griesedieck

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Environmental Updates

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Fundamental Reform In Public Safety Communications Policy, Jon M. Peha

Federal Communications Law Journal

Symposium: The Crisis in Public Safety Communications. Held at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, December 8, 2006.

The communications systems used by first responders in the U.S. are inadequate, primarily because of outdated and ineffective public policy. Fundamental reform is needed, and the upcoming digital TV transition provides an outstanding opportunity. This Article describes options available to policymakers, if they act soon.

Unh Law Alumni Magazine, Summer 2007, University Of New Hampshire School Of Law

UNH Law Alumni Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Year In Review 2006: Selected Cases From The Alaska Supreme Court, The Alaska Court Of Appeals, And The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit

Alaska Law Review Year in Review

No abstract provided.

Studying The Death Penalty In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Eesi Newsletter, No. 1, June 2007, Energy & Environmental Security Initiative (University Of Colorado Boulder)

EESI: The Energy & Environmental Security Initiative [Newsletter] (2007)

No abstract provided.

Darwinism And The Meaning Of Life, Arthur Falk

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.

That’S A Fine Chablis You’Re Not Drinking: The Proper Place For Geographical Indications In Trademark Law., Justin Hughes, Lynne Beresford, Annette Kur, Kenneth Plevan, Susan Scafidi

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Discovering Injury? The Confused State Of The Statute Of Limitations For Federal Copyright Infringement. , John Ramirez

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Protecting Minority Shareholders In Alaska Close Corporations, Keith Rogers

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.

Agent Design Of Smart License Management System Using Gaia Methodology, Qian Zhao, Yu Zhou, Mark Perry

Computer Science Publications

Modern software services and data centers require a license management system to regulate the agreements that have been reached between subscriber and provider. License management helps to track usage and protect service from abuse. License agreements provide the basis for enforcement and regulation. The automation of license agreements is desired by providers and subscribers to improve transaction efficiency, give flexibility, and minimize unwanted cost.

We have proposed a framework, called SmArt (Semantic Agreement) system, that enables agreement automation in the autonomic computing context using ontology and agent technologies. This paper applies the SmArt system to the domain of license management …