Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "law"
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Big ideas paper: Policy-driven middleware for a legally-compliant Internet of Things
(2016)Internet of Things (IoT) applications, systems and services are subject to law. We argue that for the IoT to develop lawfully, there must be technical mechanisms that allow the enforcement of specified policy, such that ... -
Disposable Subjects: Law and Child Migration to the United States, 1890s-1920s
(2022-03-17)Disposable Subjects argues that foreign-born minors at the US border found themselves increasingly at the disposal of others, first and foremost the state, from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. It explores the ... -
Essays on Causality, Race, and the Law
(2012-07-26)Making causal inferences about race is difficult because no means exist to manipulate units into treatment and control groups. Chapter 1 addresses this predicament. First, I argue that race should be defined as a composite ... -
For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything
(The Royal Society, 2004)The rapidly growing field of cognitive neuroscience holds the promise of explaining the operations of the mind in terms of the physical operations of the brain. Some suggest that our emerging understanding of the physical ... -
Governing Islam: Law and Religion in Colonial India
(2013-08-09)This dissertation charts how the legal regulation of Islam in colonial India fostered a conception of religion that focused on dividing it from secular economy and politics. Colonial law segregated religious law from other ... -
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)Recent research has documented large differences among countries in ownership concentration in publicly traded firms, in the breadth and depth of capital markets, in dividend policies, and in the access of firms to external ... -
Kant's Typo, and the Limits of the Law
(2013-10-08)This dissertation develops a Kantian philosophical framework for understanding our individual obligations under public law. Because we have a right to do anything that is not wrong, the best interpretation of Immanuel ... -
Natural Law and the Law of Nature in Early British Beast Literature
(2014-02-25)In the tumultuous political environment of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Britain, animal literature saw rapid development and innovation. Beast fable and epic, which already had a long tradition in Latin and ... -
On the use and misuse of genomic and neuroimaging science in forensic psychiatry: Current roles and future directions
(Elsevier BV, 2011)Dramatic advances in the understanding of the neurobiological bases of human behavior have prompted excitement and controversy surrounding the ethical, legal, and social applications of this knowledge. The authors critically ...