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Flexible Work Arrangements And Low-Wage Work: Presentation By Liz Watson, Liz Watson

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Presentation given by Liz Watson, Legislative Counsel, Workplace Flexibility 2010, during a briefing titled "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work." This event was held on July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.

Improving Work Schedules In Hourly Jobs, Susan J. Lambert

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Slides of presentation given by Susan J. Lambert, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, at a briefing titled "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work." This event was held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.

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

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 …