Assessing the Impact of Police Body Camera Evidence on the Litigation of Excessive Force Cases
This article tests the hypotheses that bodycam evidence will be dispositive in most excessive force cases and that such evidence will positively impact the way those cases are litigated and decided.
Symposium on the Economics and Law of Civil Remedies: Developments in Damages and Nationwide Injunctions
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School is hosting a free online Symposium on the Economics and Law of Civil Remedies: Developments in Damages and Nationwide Injunctions from 10:00 a.m. to 2:55 p.m. ET on Friday, February 19.
Policing as a Public Good: Reflecting on the Term ‘To Protect and Serve’ As Dialogues of Abolition
The goal of research described in this article is to investigate how ordinary people discuss a reconceptualization of policing in ways that respond to the current moment.
ALI CLE Program: Ethics in International Arbitration and the Restatement
On Friday, February 19, ALI CLE is offering a new ethics course featuring Reporters from Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. Coupon code is available for our readers.
U.S. Copyright Office Issues an Interim Rule Related to the Music Modernization Act
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued an interim rule related to the protection of confidential information by the mechanical licensing collective and digital licensee coordinator, pursuant to the Musical Works Modernization Act, title I of the Orrin G. Hatch–Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act.
The Myth of the Privacy Paradox
This article deconstructs and critiques the privacy paradox and the arguments made about it. The “privacy paradox” is the phenomenon where people say that they value privacy highly, yet in their behavior relinquish their personal data for very little in exchange or fail to use measures to protect their privacy.
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