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27 Sep 2020, 9:02 pm by Series of Essays
That prong is mitigation, the curbing of emissions. [read post]
23 Sep 2020, 1:55 am by Kevin Kaufman
Introduction In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius was the first to calculate how increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide could raise Earth’s surface temperature through the greenhouse effect.[1] A century later, Sweden was one of the earliest adopters of a tax on carbon, implementing it in 1991, just one year after Finland, which was the first country to do so.[2] Sweden has a long history of levying taxes on energy products. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
It was only in the beginning of the twentieth century, however, that the federal government and states began to adopt parole as an institution. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:40 am by Ellis Cose
”James Fields’ lawyers sought mitigation by stressing his history of mental illness. [read post]
During 2020, state residents and businesses have been navigating through unprecedented fires, landslides, economic downturns, and a once-in-a-century pandemic. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 3:46 pm by Eugene Volokh
Defendants attempt to justify their extraordinary "mitigation" efforts by pointing to actions taken to combat the Spanish Flu pandemic a century ago. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 3:33 pm by Eugene Volokh
That century of development has seen the creation of tiered levels of scrutiny for constitutional claims. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 7:32 pm
Introduction; The Temptations of Algorithmic LawSince before the start of this century, those committed to the development of legal regimes for the regulation of the human rights effects of economic conduct, especially economic conduct across borders, have been frustrated in those efforts in a number of ways (e.g., Ruggie 2013; Weissbrodt 2014). [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 12:50 pm by Steve Lubet
Universities would have to limit faculty appointments to a century at most in order to refresh their talent pool and mitigate old-fashioned education and research dogmas. [read post]
23 Aug 2020, 4:23 pm by Stuart Kaplow
The SEC Commissioner has also questioned “the materiality of ESG” including finding fault with ESG for having no enforceable or common meaning, “while financial reporting benefits from uniform standards developed over centuries, many ESG factors rely on research that is far from settled. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 5:01 am by Gavin Wilde
The correct balance between privacy and security was fodder for debate long before the formal establishment of U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies well over a half-century ago. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 7:56 am by Paul Rosenzweig
In recent years, two unfortunate trends have converged in cybersecurity—the growth of child pornography distributed online and the proliferation of encryption systems that enable the distribution of all forms of content (both lawful and illicit) in a manner that is inaccessible to service providers and secure from observation and interception by law enforcement. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 2:06 pm
  That, in turn, reframes vectors and valuation of risk; it builds structures of accountability in different ways, grounded in  a sometimes quite distinct set of notions of what is to be prevented, mitigated or remedied.7.The external implications for China's intelligentsia remain unclear. [read post]
16 Aug 2020, 7:01 am by Kurt M. Campbell, Ali Wyne
The transnational challenges that are increasingly defining this century—maintaining macroeconomic stability, managing fast-moving pandemics and mitigating climate change, for example—leave the two countries with little choice but to cooperate, however begrudgingly, if they hope to assure their own vital national interests. [read post]
2 Aug 2020, 2:20 pm
This basic principle has been the foundation on which the great international projects of the United States and China have been built since the middle of the second decade of the 21st century. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 8:37 pm by Eugene Volokh
The mandate's purpose is not to suppress expression; its purpose is to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 7:15 am by Eric Goldman
To me, that perfectly encapsulated my problem with the bill–it seeks to do something to Section 230, but lacks clarity about why other than Section 230 is a quarter-century old and the Internet “is different now” (I believe that’s what he said). [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 8:36 am by Andrew Kent
Constitution were mostly focused on English practice during the 17th and 18th centuries. [read post]