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Armed Non-State Actors and International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Practice of the U.N. Security Council and U.N. General Assembly
(Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2017)Several significant legal, policy, and practical concerns are at issue in whether armed non-state actors (ANSAs) will ultimately be recognized—by all relevant institutions and actors—as bearing human-rights obligations in ... -
Experimental analysis of the effect of standards on compliance and performance
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)Laws can be written along a spectrum of specificity, ranging from vague standards to more detailed rules with particular examples. Behavioral and legal scholarship each present conflicting views about the optimal degree ... -
Who will vote quadratically? Voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting
(Springer Nature, 2017)Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the ... -
Law, Innovation and Collaboration in Networked Economy and Society
(Annual Reviews, 2017)Over the past 25 years, social science research in diverse fields has shifted its best explanations of innovation from (a) atomistic invention and development by individuals, corporate or natural, to networked learning; ... -
Postscript: Journalism After Snowden
(2017)Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well ... -
Final Report of the Access to Attorneys Committee of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission
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A Layered Model for AI Governance
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)AI-based systems are “black boxes,” resulting in massive information asymmetries between the developers of such systems and consumers and policymakers. In order to bridge this information gap, this article proposes a ... -
Making the Case for a National Food Strategy in the United States
(Food and Drug Law Institute and Georgetown University, 2017)Presently, in the United States there is a fair amount of speculation regarding the future of food and agricultural laws and policies, given the recent election of a new president. Based on campaign rhetoric and comments ... -
Tax Reform – Process Failures, Loopholes and Wealth Windfalls
(2017)This paper argues that the rushed legislative consideration of tax reform proposals without adequate time to review and analyze bill text has left open unintended loopholes. The paper identifies a loophole that would benefit ... -
Report of the Massachusetts Justice for All Project Housing Working Group
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Peer Production, the Commons, and the Future of the Firm
(2017)From free and open source software, through Wikipedia to video journalism, peer production plays a more significant role in the information production environment than was theoretically admissible by any economic model of ... -
Legal Profession and Government Lawyers: What is the Highest Competing Duty to Act in the Public Interest?
(2017)It is assumed by many scholars that “the government attorney may have authority regarding legal matters that do not exist in a private lawyer-client relationship, including the settlement of a matter or declining to appeal ... -
Directions for International Tax Reform:, Hearing Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Hearing on International Tax Reform
(2017)Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Hearing on International Tax Reform, October 3, 2017. Objectives for Tax Reform Tax reform should maintain or enhance our tax system’s current level of progressivity ... -
Fairness For All Students Under Title IX
(2017)Four feminist law professors at Harvard Law School have called on the U.S. Department of Education to revise the previous Administration’s policies on sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus. In a memo submitted to ... -
Treasury Can Close a Potential Loophole in the Treatment of Deferred Foreign Income in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – Will It Act?
(2017)This paper points out a potential TJCA loophole allowing a reduction in aggregate foreign cash subject to the 15.5% rate unless Treasury takes steps to implement an anti-abuse rule. If Treasury does not act, aggressive ... -
The Devil's Daughter of Hell Fire: Anger's Role in Medieval English Felony Cases
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-12-12)During the period at issue in this paper–the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, when trial juries were first employed in English felony cases–felonious homicide was a catch-all category, with no formal distinction drawn ...