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Daily Archives: December 27, 2015
Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon
“The Dissent project is a research collaboration between Yale University and UT Austin to create a powerful, practical anonymous group communication system offering strong, provable security guarantees with reasonable efficiency. Dissent’s technical approach differs in two fundamental ways from the traditional relay-based approaches used by systems such as Tor: Dissent builds on dining cryptographers and… Continue Reading
Drug overdose deaths hit record numbers in 2014
CDC – “From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million Americans died from drug overdoses. Opioid overdose deaths, including both opioid pain relievers and heroin, hit record levels in 2014, with an alarming 14 percent increase in just one year, according to new data published today in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The most… Continue Reading
Managing price and financial stability objectives – what can we learn from the Asia-Pacific region?
Managing price and financial stability objectives – what can we learn from the Asia-Pacific region? by Soyoung Kim and Aaron Mehrotra. BIS Working Papers No 533. December 2015. “The international financial crisis led many central banks to adopt explicit financial stability objectives. This raises the question of how central banks deal with policy trade-offs resulting from potential… Continue Reading
Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Evaluation
Mary K. Cunningham, Jennifer Biess, Dina Emam, Martha R. Burt. December 10, 2015. Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Evaluation: “This report documents the outcomes of veterans served by the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration program (VHPD), one element of the Obama administration’s signature initiative to end veteran homelessness. It describes the housing, employment, and health of veterans… Continue Reading
Gene Patents and Human Rights
Van Overwalle, Geertrui, Gene Patents and Human Rights (March 2015). in Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights. Third edition, Paul L. C. Torremans (ed.), Kluwer Law International, 2015, 871 – 914 . Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2708042 “Over the last decade, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and human rights has gained wide… Continue Reading
From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law
Widlak, Tomasz Hubert, From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law (December 17, 2015). From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law, Gdansk University Press, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2707814 “The purpose of this book is to reconstruct the concept of “international community” and to… Continue Reading
