Wu, Mark and Salzman, James, The Next Generation of Trade and Environment Conflicts: The Rise of Green Industrial Policy (August 15, 2014). Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 2, 2014. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2481209 “A major shift is transforming the trade and environment field, triggered by governments’ rising use of industrial policies… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2014
New on LLRX – Case Law in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny
Via LLRX.com – Case Law in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny – Ken Strutin’s documents the scope of sources that encompass a critical issue that has recently repeatedly surfaced in mass media and the legal press – the fact that judicial decisions are believed to embody legal reasoning, societal values and support the foundations of our legal system. For… Continue Reading
ABA Draft Report on Stand Your Ground Laws
American Bar Association National Task Force on Stand Your Ground Laws, Preliminary Report and Recommendations, August 8, 2014. “This report represents the culmination of the Task Force’s analysis of a substantial compilation of information: testimony from experts and stakeholders received at five regional hearings, extensive legal research on each jurisdiction’s self-defense regime, quantitative assessments of… Continue Reading
HIV Or Anti-HIV Drugs Unexpectedly Protect Against Multiple Sclerosis
Neomatica: “A team of an Australian doctor and British researchers analyzed the medical records of over 5 million individuals and discovered that either HIV or anti-HIV drugs have a protective effect against multiple sclerosis (MS). AIDS patients or people with HIV receiving treatment have a 60% less likely chance of receiving a diagnosis of MS. Deeper analysis found that… Continue Reading
Europe’s Greater Depression is worse than the 1930s
Washington Post, Matt O’Brien: “Europe hasn’t recovered, because it hasn’t let itself. Too much fiscal austerity and too little monetary stimulus have, instead, put it more than halfway to a lost decade that’s already worse than the 1930s. It’s a greater depression. And as the latest GDP numbers show, it’s not getting any less so. Indeed, the eurozone as a whole didn’t… Continue Reading
Investigative Report into the lucrative world of debt collection
Jake Halpern, New York Times Magazine: Paper Boys: Inside the Dark, Labyrinthine, and Extremely Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection: ‘From 2006 to 2009, … the nation’s top nine debt buyers purchased almost 90 million consumer accounts with more than $140 billion in ‘face value.’ And they bought at a steep discount. On average, they paid… Continue Reading
1000 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Via Open Culture: “Get 1000 free online courses from the world’s leading universities – Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over 30,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now.” Continue Reading
Energy Department launches portal for access to research papers
ScienceInsider: “The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled its answer to a White House mandate to make the research papers it funds free for anyone to read: a Web portal that will link to full-text papers a year after they’re published. Once researchers are up to speed and submitting their manuscripts, that will mean… Continue Reading
Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity
Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity, by Dorothy Carner, Edward McCain, and Frederick Zarndt. Submitted on: 8/4/2014. IFLA 2014 Lyon. “That the spread of printed news has changed dramatically since the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. The Christian Science Monitor, in print since 1908, ceased daily publication in 2009 to focus on web-based… Continue Reading
Market Reaction to Information Technology Investment Announcements in Russian Firms
Boyko, Xenia and Rogova, Elena and Roztocki, Narcyz and Weistroffer, Heinz Roland, Market Reaction to Information Technology Investment Announcements in Russian Firms (August 8, 2014). Proceedings of the 20th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2014. Available at for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2480622 “This study examines the stock market reaction to announcements of information technology (IT)… Continue Reading
IRS IG – Some Contractor Personnel Without Background Investigations Had Access to Taxpayer Data
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration – Some Contractor Personnel Without Background Investigations Had Access to Taxpayer Data and Other Sensitive Information. July 7, 2014. Reference Number: 2014-10-037 “Taxpayer and other SBU information may be at risk due to a lack of background investigation requirements in five contracts for courier, printing, document recovery, and sign language interpreter services. For example,… Continue Reading
Tablets join the Navy toolkit for managing maintenance procedures
Kris Osborn – Defense.org: “The Navy has begun a new pilot program to put tablets on board a destroyer in order to reduce paperwork and more efficiently streamline maintenance procedures, service officials said. Roughly 20 wireless tablets will soon arrive on board the USS Laboon, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently pier side in Norfolk, Va., Rear Adm.… Continue Reading
