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29 May 2024, 3:52 pm by Reference Staff
”In discussing bias in language and legal analysis, Seattle University School of Law legal writing professors Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist wrote in their law review article (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language:Whether the issue is one of gender, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability, the overriding principles governing word choice are the same:(1) realize that what a person is called… [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 5:00 am by Bernard Bell
Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]
9 Apr 2024, 2:41 pm by vforberger
See Noam Scheiber, How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons (2 Apr. 2017) (describing Uber’s use of “psychological inducements and other techniques unearthed by social science to influence when, where and how long drivers work”), Sarah Mason, High Score, Low Pay: Why the Gig Economy Loves Gamification (20 Nov. 2018) (detailing the “gamification” techniques and algorithms used by Uber and Lyft to manage their drivers), Alex Rosenblat, When… [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
As Adam Smith recognized in The Theory of the Moral Sentiments, business as an institution depends on certain basic moral principles and understandings.[15] Even in his more famous and influential The Wealth of Nations,[16] Smith recognized that promoting excessively “high profits” for capitalists could undermine the economic wealth and moral well-being of a nation as a whole.[17] In my article, I draw also on the contemporary social philosopher Axel Honneth, who… [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:Laura Portuondo, Gendered Liberty, (Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming).Robert W. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 1:19 pm by Daily Record Staff
Small businesses and nonprofits can receive free internal control risk assessments from Justice for Fraud Victims (JFV) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 9:03 pm by renholding
I’d like to thank members of the SEC staff for their work on these final rules, including: Mellissa Duru, Luna Bloom, Elliot Staffin, Kristin Baldwin, Valian Afshar, Almaze Semere, Dennis Hermreck, Nolan McWilliams, Grace Baer, Lindsay McCord, Ethan Horowitz, Robert Errett, Deegi Biteng, Adam Turk, Ted Yu, Liz Walsh, Duc Dang, Brad Skinner, Mike Reedich, Kat Bagley, Cheryl Brown, Jeb Byrne, Nabeel Cheema, John Fieldsend, Jason Weidberg, Michael Coco, Angie Kim, Charli Gibbs-Tabler,… [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 3:10 pm by Amy Howe
Roberts almost certainly will direct Smith to file a response to Trump’s application. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 12:54 pm by Daily Record Staff
A trio of prominent economists who worked under recent White House administrations will launch a “Finance Grand Challenges” speaker series organized by the Office of Executive Education at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 9:01 am by Just Security
In advance of the International Court of Justice’s ruling on Friday, we asked several leading experts if they would provide us with their views on the judicial order once it was issued. [read post]