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22 May 2017, 7:07 pm
Rather, the controversy masks the real, and substantially unresolved societal framework for understanding what is sexual and what is not, and more importantly, for determining the extent of the legitimate authority of the state to extend its criminal law to conduct deemed both sexual and, by its nature, also criminal.I explained the context of the current controversy last year (here):In 2012, the American Law Institute (in which I am a member), agreed to launch a revision of its… [read post]
7 Aug 2014, 3:42 pm
Judicial proceeding cases offer an example: they rest on the societal benefit of presenting all relevant information in a judicial proceeding. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 8:14 pm
Source: World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (24 October 2022)https://worldcoalition.org/2022/10/24/malaysia-and-the-politics-behind-the-death-penalty-a-tumultuous-relationship/Being one of the few countries around the world to still retain the use of the death penalty in the 20th century, it was a pleasant surprise when the Malaysian Government announced their agreement to abolish the mandatory death penalty on 10 June 2022, following the completion of research that was tabled to push for… [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 8:26 am
The Washington Post recently ran a interview arguing that what’s fundamentally lacking in this election is more “empathy” for Trump supporters, including the most racist, misogynist, and xenophobic among them. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 7:29 am
What makes the conflation terribly ironic, though, is that the object used to scorn the 45th President has been used consistently and effectively by members of the political class to which the authors belong, and for the furtherance of their own political and societal visions (e.g., here). [read post]
13 May 2015, 4:37 am
The UK Supreme Court has rejected arguments that it should expand its jurisprudence on passing-off to follow an alleged trend in other common law countries, in this morning's judgment in Starbucks (HK) Limited and another v British Sky Broadcasting Group plc and others[2015] UKSC 31. [read post]
14 Jun 2017, 10:00 am
The societal goal here is not to ensure that law enforcement can access every piece of data it might ever seek, but that it can get enough information to do its job, and hacking is certainly a part of the solution. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 6:39 am
In an application and sectorally-specific approach, agencies are able to perform focused analysis on the use of an algorithm, appropriately framed within its broader societal context. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 5:16 am
While this could be mitigated somewhat with embedded video conferencing in XR courtrooms, if people’s instinctual responses to XR avatars are negative, or if harsher judicial outcomes result from virtual appearances in virtual courts, then XR trials risk fomenting new forms of societal harm. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 6:38 pm
Pix Credit HEREI have been thinking about the way that digitalization has been transforming the institutional spaces through which humans operate and the cultural presumptions through which human collectives impose meaning on the world. [read post]
29 Nov 2015, 6:50 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015 )Chinese authorities have invited commentaries on the Draft of the People's Republic of China Charity Undertakings Law of the PRC (Draft) 中华人民共和国慈善事业法（草案） (征求意见稿）, which they have circulated earlier this year.I have included my commentary to the Draft Charities Undertakings Law, which… [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 6:39 am
From Claire Wrobel, MAÎTRE DE CONFÉRENCES EN LANGUES, Paris-Panthéon-Assas: The "Law and Humanities" team at the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University in France is organizing a conference in December on the topic of "Facial Recognition Technologies and Monitoring Crowds at Public Events", from legal, ethical and aesthetic perspectives. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 10:40 am
No one expected their words to be enlightening or their tone harmonious. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 6:00 am
Larry Tribe[This is the second part of Professor Tribe's Jackson Lecture delivered on July 8, 2015, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 7:27 am
On other occasions, we sally forth with these beliefs but are not altogether surprised when our inability to produce proofs meeting societal standards means those ideas are rejected. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 12:53 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2019 (Hong Kong 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]
3 Mar 2021, 11:22 am
As politicians and prosecutors in the United States struggle with the question of how to hold Donald Trump accountable in his post-presidential life, there’s an example they might look to across the Atlantic: France. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 7:57 pm
., "Reflexive Governance, Meta-Regulation and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Heineken Effect"; Constitutional Fragments: Societal Constitutionalism and Globalization). [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 10:47 am
“The brutal truth is that nothing is likely to trip up the Online Safety Bill. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 8:18 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)In 2014, the UN Human Rights Council established an open-ended intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights, and mandated the working group to “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. [read post]
