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5 Sep 2020, 9:27 am
Sherman has come to understand the applicability not just of the UNGP to university decision making, but its human rights and broad stakeholder centering approach for making good on the university's constant and unceasing claims to serve as beacons of societal virtue.The problem, was given quite specific context by the decision of Boston University to resume in person teaching. [read post]
17 Dec 2020, 9:22 am
Localism in Broadband and Investments in Fiber Will Be How We Get 21st Century Access to All People If the large national carriers are ill-equipped to take on the societal challenge of connecting everyone to robust 21st-century ready access to the Internet, then we need to explore our alternatives and to rethink the government’s approach. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 11:03 am
Earlier this week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited opinion in U.S. v. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 6:37 pm
But if humanity is possible only within a societal collective, and disciplined by these collectives, then does the collectivity--does humanity--make the individual incomprehensible, impossible, except as a deviant, as someone "over" or "beyond" humanity, or within herself to the point where she neither recognizes nor is recognized (drowning in herself, the fate of Narcssus). [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 3:27 pm
These common characteristics transformed both into the bête noir of a motley group of civil society, of old fashioned internationalists, of state-privileging constitutionalists and of those who are generally suspicious of governance in societal hybrid (public-private) transnational space. [read post]
18 Aug 2019, 7:32 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019)The Coalition for Peace and Ethics BHR Treaty Project is considering Draft of the "Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, The Activities Corporations and Other Business Enterprises," released on 16 July 2019 by the open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) Chairmanship. [read post]
21 May 2018, 6:35 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2006)I am delighted to be part of the upcoming workshop entitled Entangled Legalities hosted by the Graduate Institute of Geneva and its Global Governance Center (more HERE). [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 4:38 am
Recently, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces, spoke at Chatham House about the “worrying constraints on the use of force […] in the areas of societal support, parliamentary consent and ever greater legal challenge. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 1:29 pm
And that ideological substructure (if I am permitted a little word play here) is all too apparent when Americans tend to view the normative structures of Chinese societal or political organization. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 11:30 pm
[CONTENT PROVIDED BY VIA TRANSPORTATION] LEARN MORE How California Lawmakers Are Trying to Regulate AI California legislators are rushing to address concerns through roughly 50 AI-related bills, many of which aim to place safeguards around the technology, which lawmakers say could cause societal harm. [read post]
9 Oct 2022, 7:01 am
Editor’s Note: In recent years, men have had the dubious distinction of dominating the ranks of terrorists, but that may be changing. [read post]
5 Jun 2020, 8:08 am
IPAC Co-Chairs, Pix from Website We have been chronicling the measures taken by Chinese central authorities to re-frame the basis on which Hong Kong's status, going forward to full absorption in 2047, under the "One Country, Two Systems" principles, from one grounded on international law guarantees, to one grounded on national constitutional principles and protections (e.g., 2019 Hong Kong Situation). [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 5:16 am
The drafters of SOSSA and its public supporters share a common view on the origin of the modern open source software security problem: insufficient societal investment in the health and security of open source software. [read post]
30 Sep 2018, 9:30 pm
The contemporary issue is how communities may choose to facilitate economic development or improve societal well-being by creating and deploying moneys that are complementary to currencies issued by a monetary union or by a central bank against financial assets. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 12:54 pm
The problem of business operation in conflict (and weak governance) zones remains a key issue for framing the business, legal, political, economic, and societal risks of operating in the face of conflict or in the absence of the state. [read post]
2 Apr 2020, 9:30 am
Efforts to sow societal division and distrust do not readily lead to a finding of coercion; after all, the citizenry is free to accept or disavow the disinformation being disseminated. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 4:24 pm
Michael Komesaroff is a principal of Urandaline Investments, a consultancy specializing in China’s capital intensive industries, and a former executive in residence at the School of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University, whose insights on Chinese economic activity has been featured here in prior posts. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:30 pm
We might ask whether our current legal regime is doing what we want (taking into account not only the sum of those two types of costs but also societal understandings of what justice requires). [read post]
23 Nov 2018, 2:14 pm
Another argument against technology, as tools in themselves, involves a similar shift: technology is not neutral as it can have non-neutral consequences.[5] This is because technological affordances, introduced into societal context, create new opportunities for use and those opportunities may favor certain people or groups, for example.[6] Again, this illuminates the role of humans, including the economic and governmental systems they’ve created. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 12:45 pm
The court held that plaintiffs' sexual harassment claims (under Title IX) and religious objection claims (under the Illinois RFRA and under the Free Exercise Clause) could go forward, at least for now.In Friday's decision in Students and Parents for Privacy v. [read post]
