“Society at a Glance 2016 says that about 40 million young people in OECD countries, equivalent to 15 per cent of youth aged 15 to 29, are not in education, employment or training, so-called NEETs. Two-thirds of them are not even looking for work. While up to 40% of all youth experience a period of inactivity… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Paper – Rethinking Prosecutors’ Conflicts of Interest
Green, Bruce A. and Roiphe, Rebecca, Rethinking Prosecutors’ Conflicts of Interest (October 7, 2016). Boston College Law Review, Vol. 58, No. 2, 2017; Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2849658. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2849658 “Conflicts of interest are endemic to almost all prosecutors’ discretionary decisions, and are the source of many instances of misconduct and… Continue Reading
Open Government Plan 2016 – 2018
“Welcome to the Open Government Plan for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for 2016-2018. Start out by viewing the Message from the Archivist and the Executive Summary, which will provide an overview of the plan and open government commitments the agency has made for the next two years. We want to hear from you!… Continue Reading
CRS – How Big Should the Army Be? Considerations for Congress
How Big Should the Army Be? Considerations for Congress. Lawrence Kapp, Coordinator, Specialist in Military Manpower Policy; Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces; Kathleen J. McInnis, Analyst in International Security; Lynn M. Williams, Analyst in U.S. Defense Budget Policy. September 2, 2016. “Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution vests Congress with broad… Continue Reading
Paper – Autonomy and Agency in American Criminal Process
Sklansky, David Alan, Autonomy and Agency in American Criminal Process (October 6, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2849226 “This is an essay about the interaction of two assumptions that shape the way fairness is pursued in American criminal procedure. The first assumption is that fairness is best advanced through a series of procedural rights… Continue Reading
White House Announces Russia Responsible for Hacking Democratic National Cmte
Reuters – Mark Hosenball, Dustin Volz and Jonathan Landay: “The U.S. government for the first time on Friday formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election. “We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could… Continue Reading
Draft – Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services
A Notice by the Federal Procurement Policy Office on 10/07/2016: “The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing to issue a new OMB Circular, Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services, to codify category management, a strategic practice where Federal contracting for common goods and… Continue Reading
OPM Should Improve the Availability and Reliability of Payroll Data to Support Accountability and Workforce Analytics
Federal Human Resources Data: OPM Should Improve the Availability and Reliability of Payroll Data to Support Accountability and Workforce Analytics, GAO-17-127: Published: Oct 7, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 7, 2016. “The Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI) payroll data are not fully supporting the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) strategic and open data goals. This is… Continue Reading
Bloomberg Law – Privacy Laws Around the World
ABA Journal – “Development of international privacy laws and regulations with critical impact on the global economy been extremely active over the last several years. Privacy Laws Around the World [download requires registration] to access common and disparate elements of the privacy laws from 61 countries…the report includes expert analysis on privacy laws in Europe… Continue Reading
Business Insider – 22 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US
“Everyone knows Americans don’t agree on pronunciations. That’s great, because regional accents and dialects are a major part of why American English is so interesting. Josh Katz, a former Ph.D. student of statistics at North Carolina State University, published a group of awesome visualizations of Professor Bert Vaux and Scott Golder’s linguistic survey, which looked… Continue Reading
NIST study – Security Fatigue
Security Fatigue, Issue No. 05 – Sept.-Oct. (2016 vol. 18) ISSN: 1520-9202 pp: 26-32 DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2016.84 “Security fatigue has been used to describe experiences with online security. This study identifies the affective manifestations resulting from decision fatigue and the role it plays in users’ security decisions. A semistructured interview protocol was used to collect… Continue Reading
Paper – A Behavioral Approach to Lawyer Mistake and Apology
O’Grady, Catherine, A Behavioral Approach to Lawyer Mistake and Apology (October 5, 2016). 51 New England Law Review, Forthcoming; Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 16-37. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2848612 “The Article explores the social psychology behavioral principles that prevent us from recognizing that we have made a mistake and applies those principles… Continue Reading
