Digital Justice

Digital Justice
Author: Ethan Katsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190464593
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Improving access to justice has been an ongoing process, and on-demand justice should be a natural part of our increasingly on-demand society. What can we do for example when Facebook blocks our account, we're harassed on Twitter, discover that our credit report contains errors, or receive a negative review on Airbnb? How do we effectively resolve these and other such issues? Digital Justice introduces the reader to new technological tools to resolve and prevent disputes bringing dispute resolution to cyberspace, where those who would never look to a court for assistance can find help for instance via a smartphone. The authors focus particular attention on five areas that have seen great innovation as well as large volumes of disputes: ecommerce, healthcare, social media, labor, and the courts. As conflicts escalate with the increase in innovation, the authors emphasize the need for new dispute resolution processes and new ways to avoid disputes, something that has been ignored by those seeking to improve access to justice in the past.

Harvard Law Review: Volume 131, Number 3 - January 2018

Harvard Law Review: Volume 131, Number 3 - January 2018
Author: Harvard Law Review
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610277732
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The contents for this January 2018 issue of the Harvard Law Review, Number 3 of Volume 131, include: • Article, "The Endgame of Administrative Law: Governmental Disobedience and the Judicial Contempt Power," by Nicholas R. Parrillo • Book Review, "Rethinking Autocracy at Work," by Cynthia Estlund • Note, "Congressional Intent to Preclude Equitable Relief — Ex Parte Young After Armstrong" • Note, "Sixth Amendment Challenge to Courthouse Dress Codes" • Note, "The Virtues of Heterogeneity, in Court Decisions and the Constitution" In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and other legal actions, including such subjects as: standing in class actions for credit reporting; right of access of press re Guantanamo Bay detainees; parolees and disability rights under the ADA; intent and manslaughter by encouraging suicide; proposed legislation to ameliorate punitive effects of drug crimes involving marijuana; and President Trump's tweets purporting to ban transgender servicemembers in the military. Finally, the issue includes summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition (since 2011), featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs, legible tables, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting.

Harvard Law Review

Harvard Law Review
Author: Harvard Law Review
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610277600
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Harvard Law Review: Volume 131, Number 1 - November 2017

Harvard Law Review: Volume 131, Number 1 - November 2017
Author: Harvard Law Review
Publisher: Quid Pro Books
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1610277724
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The November issue is the special annual review of the U.S. Supreme Court's previous Term. Each year, the Supreme Court issue is introduced by noteworthy and extensive contributions from recognized scholars. In this issue, for the 2016 Term, articles include: • Foreword: "1930s Redux: The Administrative State Under Siege," by Gillian E. Metzger • Essay: "Unprecedented? Judicial Confirmation Battles and the Search for a Usable Past," by Josh Chafetz • Comment: "Churches, Playgrounds, Government Dollars — and Schools?," by Douglas Laycock • Comment: "Equality, Sovereignty, and the Family in Morales-Santana," by Kristin A. Collins In addition, the first issue of each new volume provides an extensive summary of the important cases of the previous Supreme Court docket, covering a wide range of legal, political, and constitutional subjects. Student commentary is thus provided on eighteen of the Leading Cases of the 2016 Term, including such subjects as racial gerrymandering, freedom of speech, regulatory takings, right to effective counsel, equal protection, appellate jurisdiction, fair housing, immigration law, insider trading, venue in patent cases, and remedies for constitutional violations. Complete statistical graphs and tables of the Court's actions and results during the Term are included; these summaries and statistics, including voting patterns of individual Justices, have long been considered very useful to scholars of the Court in law and political science. Finally, the issue includes a linked Index of Cases and citations for the discussed opinions. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs, legible tables, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting. This current issue of the Review is November 2017, the first issue of academic year 2017-2018 (Volume 131). The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. It comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2500 pages per volume. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions.

Law and Macroeconomics

Law and Macroeconomics
Author: Yair Listokin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674976053
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A distinguished Yale economist and legal scholar’s argument that law, of all things, has the potential to rescue us from the next economic crisis. After the economic crisis of 2008, private-sector spending took nearly a decade to recover. Yair Listokin thinks we can respond more quickly to the next meltdown by reviving and refashioning a policy approach whose proven success is too rarely acknowledged. Harking back to New Deal regulatory agencies, Listokin proposes that we take seriously law’s ability to function as a macroeconomic tool, capable of stimulating demand when needed and relieving demand when it threatens to overheat economies. Listokin makes his case by looking at both positive and cautionary examples, going back to the New Deal and including the Keystone Pipeline, the constitutionally fraught bond-buying program unveiled by the European Central Bank at the nadir of the Eurozone crisis, the ongoing Greek crisis, and the experience of U.S. price controls in the 1970s. History has taught us that law is an unwieldy instrument of macroeconomic policy, but Listokin argues that under certain conditions it offers a vital alternative to the monetary and fiscal policy tools that stretch the legitimacy of technocratic central banks near their breaking point while leaving the rest of us waiting and wallowing.

The Right of Publicity

The Right of Publicity
Author: Jennifer Rothman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674986350
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Who controls how one’s identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity—a little-known law, often wielded by celebrities—to answer that question, not just for the famous but for everyone. In challenging the conventional story of the right of publicity’s emergence, development, and justifications, Rothman shows how it transformed people into intellectual property, leading to a bizarre world in which you can lose ownership of your own identity. This shift and the right’s subsequent expansion undermine individual liberty and privacy, restrict free speech, and suppress artistic works. The Right of Publicity traces the right’s origins back to the emergence of the right of privacy in the late 1800s. The central impetus for the adoption of privacy laws was to protect people from “wrongful publicity.” This privacy-based protection was not limited to anonymous private citizens but applied to famous actors, athletes, and politicians. Beginning in the 1950s, the right transformed into a fully transferable intellectual property right, generating a host of legal disputes, from control of dead celebrities like Prince, to the use of student athletes’ images by the NCAA, to lawsuits by users of Facebook and victims of revenge porn. The right of publicity has lost its way. Rothman proposes returning the right to its origins and in the process reclaiming privacy for a public world.