UNICEF Report – Education Under Fire, September 3, 2015: The images are as arresting as they are incongruous: the pool of fresh blood in the corner of a playground; the shrapnel-scarred blackboard inside a rubble-strewn classroom; the heavily-armed gunmen striding between the rows of empty desks. From Syria to Sudan, from Libya to Yemen, as… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Diversity Levers
Burk, Dan L., Diversity Levers (September 6, 2015). Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy, Vol. 23, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2656884 “Patent law is capable of prompting innovation across a wide range of technologies by virtue of flexible “policy levers” that allow patent standards to be calibrated to the impediments that characterize… Continue Reading
Book Review: Econometrics – Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues
Deng, Ai, Book Review: Econometrics — Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues (Second Edition) (August 26, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2656886 “In this article, I review the second edition of Econometrics — Legal, Practical, and Technical Issues (2014) by the American Bar Association. In addition to an overview of the content, I elaborate on… Continue Reading
The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes
Washington Post, Chelsea Harvey, September 3, 2015 “In nature, the relationship between predators and their prey seems like it should be simple: The more prey that’s available to be eaten, the more predators there should be to eat them. If a prey population doubles, for instance, we would logically expect its predators to double too. But… Continue Reading
President Signs Executive Order – Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Contractors
The White House – Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 7, 2015. Executive Order Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors. “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 40 U.S.C. 121, and in order to promote economy and… Continue Reading
The Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment — ABoVE
“Climate change in the Arctic and Boreal region is unfolding faster than anywhere else on Earth, resulting in reduced Arctic sea ice, thawing of permafrost soils, decomposition of long- frozen organic matter, widespread changes to lakes, rivers, coastlines, and alterations of ecosystem structure and function. NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program is conducting a major field campaign,… Continue Reading
England and Germany Limit Bank Resolution Obligations
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Posted by Solomon J. Noh and Fredric Sosnick, Shearman & Sterling LLP “In two recent decisions, European national courts have taken a narrow view of their obligations under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD)—the new European framework for dealing with distressed banks. The message… Continue Reading
Our World in Data
“Life around the world is changing rapidly – here you find the data visualizations that show you how. Poverty, violence, health, education, the environment and much more. Our World In Data covers a wide range of topics and visualizes the empirical evidence of how living standards changed over the last decades, centuries, and millennia. A… Continue Reading
NOAA – National Preparedness Month: What You Can Do
“If an emergency occurred tomorrow, would you be ready? September is National Preparedness Month. Sponsored by FEMA, National Preparedness Month aims to educate and empower Americans to prepare for and respond to all types of emergencies, including natural disasters and potential terrorist attacks. National Preparedness Month is a time to prepare yourself and those in… Continue Reading
An International Legal Framework for SE4All
Kaime, Thoko and Glicksman, Robert L., An International Legal Framework for SE4All: Human Rights and Sustainable Development Law Imperatives (September 4, 2015). 38 Fordham International Law Journal 1405 (2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2656414 “Governments around the world recognize the link between human development and access to safe, secure, and affordable sources of energy.… Continue Reading
Report – disparate impact theory and bias whose roots are in algorithms
Lauren Kirchner is a senior reporting fellow at ProPublica., writing in the Atlantic – When Discrimination Is Baked Into Algorithms: “…Over the past several decades, an important tool for assessing and addressing discrimination has been the “disparate impact” theory. Attorneys have used this idea to successfully challenge policies that have a discriminatory effect on certain… Continue Reading
Most Millennials Resist the Millennial Label
Generations in a Mirror: How They See Themselves: “Millennials will soon become the nation’s largest living generation. They already have surpassed Generation X to make up the largest share of the U.S. workforce. Despite the size and influence of the Millennial generation, however, most of those in this age cohort do not identify with the… Continue Reading
