Statutory Interpretation: General Principles and Recent Trends. March 30, 2006 – September 24, 2014. 97-589. “The exercise of the judicial power of the United States often requires that courts construe statutes to apply them in particular cases and controversies. Judicial interpretation of the meaning of a statute is authoritative in the matter before the court.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2018
United States Census Bureau Data Repository
“The United States Census Bureau Data Repository preserves and disseminates survey instruments, specifications, data dictionaries, codebooks, and other materials provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. ICPSR, the host of this data repository, has also listed additional Census-related data collections from its larger holdings. The repository helps fulfill key recommendations made by the 2017 “Report of… Continue Reading
OPM Report – Understaffing, lack of training at agencies hampering agency services to public
Washington Post – “Shortages of employees — a common feature of troubled government programs — are hampering a range of services to the public and stressing the federal workforce, the government’s central personnel agency said Wednesday. The report comes just ahead of a White House budget proposal that is expected to include plans for carrying out… Continue Reading
Paper – Deliberate Learning, Motivation and Resilience
Kass, Kim, Millennials, Deliberate Learning, Motivation and Resilience (January 30, 2018). Learning Curve, Forthcoming; Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-3. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3113603 – “Law school faculty and staff frequently engage in conversations about the challenges of teaching the millennial generation. The millennial generation will continue to fill law school seats for… Continue Reading
Paper – Of Judges and Robots
Capeta, Tamara, Of Judges and Robots (June 4, 2017). Liber amicorum Marko Ilešič – Challenges of Law in Life Reality, Univerza v Ljubljani, Pravna fakulteta, Ljubljana, 2017, 129-142 . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3109512 – “In this contribution, I develop my thoughts on how we can use knowledge about our fears of replacing human judges by… Continue Reading
Beginning July 2018 Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Google Chromium Blog: “For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly advocating that sites adopt HTTPS encryption. And within the last year, we’ve also helped users understand that HTTP sites are not secure by gradually marking a larger subset of HTTP pages as “not secure”. Beginning in July 2018… Continue Reading
Eight Essays On Sexual Discrimination And Harassment In DC Across Politics, Policy, And The Media
New Republic – Eight Essays On Sexual Discrimination And Harassment In D.C., Across Politics, Policy, And The Media, February 8, 2018. Elizabeth Drew, Ana Marie Cox, Sarah Jones, Eve Fairbanks, Heather Boushey, Ai-jen Poo, Monica Potts, Jill Abramson: “…Last year, a number of congressmen were either forced to resign or got out, taking sudden retirement… Continue Reading
‘Fiction is outperforming reality’: how YouTube’s algorithm distorts truth
theguardian – An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos: “There are 1.5 billion YouTube users in the world, which is more than the number of households that own televisions. What they watch is shaped by this algorithm, which skims and ranks billions of videos to identify 20 “up… Continue Reading
CRS – Resolutions to Censure the President: Procedure and History
Resolutions to Censure the President: Procedure and History, February 1, 2018. “Censure is a reprimand adopted by one or both chambers of Congress against a Member of Congress, President, federal judge, or other government official. While Member censure is a disciplinary measure that is sanctioned by the Constitution (Article 1, Section 5), non-Member censure is… Continue Reading
Knowledge Management Priorities in Large Law Firms – 2018 Survey
This posting [snipped] is authored by Ron Friedmann, Prism Legal: “I report here on the 2018 Knowledge Management (KM) Summit survey results. The Summit is a meeting of senior knowledge management professionals from large US, UK, Canadian, and Australian law firms. Mary Abraham, Oz Benamram, and I organize the meeting. To prepare for it, we… Continue Reading
Cliff Notes for Managing the Data Science Function
William Vorhies – Data Science Central: “There are an increasing number of larger companies that have truly embraced advanced analytics and deploy fairly large numbers of data scientists. Many of these same companies are the one’s beginning to ask about using AI. Here are some observations and tips on the problems and opportunities associated with… Continue Reading
Broadening Understanding of the Interplay Between Public Transit, Shared Mobility, and Personal Automobiles
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Broadening Understanding of the Interplay Between Public Transit, Shared Mobility, and Personal Automobiles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24996. “TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited, draft version of Research Report 195: Broadening Understanding of the Interplay Between Public Transit, Shared Mobility,… Continue Reading
