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Transgendered In Alaska: Navigating The Changing Legal Landscape For Change In Gender Petitions, Leslie Dubois-Need, Amber Kingery Dec 2009

Transgendered In Alaska: Navigating The Changing Legal Landscape For Change In Gender Petitions, Leslie Dubois-Need, Amber Kingery

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reasonableness Meets Requirements: Regulating Security And Privacy In Software, Paul N. Otto Nov 2009

Reasonableness Meets Requirements: Regulating Security And Privacy In Software, Paul N. Otto

Duke Law Journal

Software security and privacy issues regularly grab headlines amid fears of identity theft, data breaches, and threats to security. Policymakers have responded with a variety of approaches to combat such risk. Suggested measures include promulgation of strict rules, enactment of open-ended standards, and, at times, abstention in favor of allowing market forces to intervene. This Note lays out the basis for understanding how both policymakers and engineers should proceed in an increasingly software-dependent society. After explaining what distinguishes software-based systems from other objects of regulation, this Note argues that policymakers should pursue standards-based approaches to regulating software security and privacy. …


Regulating Sperm Donation: Why Requiring Exposed Donation Is Not The Answer, Vanessa L. Pi Aug 2009

Regulating Sperm Donation: Why Requiring Exposed Donation Is Not The Answer, Vanessa L. Pi

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

[...] the risk of incest and consanguinity11 are prevalent with anonymous donation12 since there is no monitoring of the number of live births per donor. [...] the number of children born from sperm donation has doubled in recent years.30 Although sperm may be donated by a relative or close friend of the couple or individual, often the sperm is donated anonymously through a sperm bank or clinic.


Applying Lawrence: Teenagers And The Crime Against Nature, Daniel Allender Apr 2009

Applying Lawrence: Teenagers And The Crime Against Nature, Daniel Allender

Duke Law Journal

The Supreme Court's decision striking down a Texas statute prohibiting homosexual conduct in Lawrence v. Texas is vague in many ways. The opinion failed to articulate both the contours of the right the Court was recognizing and the level of scrutiny courts should apply when enforcing the right. When a question concerning the rights of minors arises under Lawrence, the answer is even more obscure. The Supreme Court of North Carolina faced precisely this question in a 2007 decision, in which the court considered whether Lawrence prohibited the state from prosecuting a minor for engaging in nontraditional sexual activity when …


The U.S. Discovery-Eu Privacy Directive Conflict: Constructing A Three-Tiered Compliance Strategy, Carla L. Reyes Jan 2009

The U.S. Discovery-Eu Privacy Directive Conflict: Constructing A Three-Tiered Compliance Strategy, Carla L. Reyes

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.