Global Witness: “The food on our plates, the rings on our fingers and the wooden furniture in our homes: all too often there is a violent reality behind household items we use everyday. As agribusiness booms, tropical forests are logged and mining continues to deliver huge revenue to major global corporations, there are increasingly brutal attacks on land… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the pre-incarceration incomes of the imprisoned
Prison Policy Initiative: Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the pre-incarceration incomes of the imprisoned – “Correctional experts of all political persuasions have long understood that releasing incarcerated people to the streets without job training, an education, or money is the perfect formula for recidivism and re-incarceration. While the fact that people released from prison have difficulties finding… Continue Reading
Media Lawsuits Seeking Government Records Jump Under Trump
“The number of lawsuits filed by news organizations and reporters to obtain federal government records was up sharply during the first year and a half of the Trump Administration. On an annual basis, news media Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filings rose above 100 for the first time. This is a dramatic increase compared with… Continue Reading
A Surveillance State Unlike Any the World Has Ever Seen
Spiegel Online: “In western China, Beijing is using the most modern means available to control its Uighur minority. Tens of thousands have disappeared into re-education camps. A journey to an eerily quiet region… Nowhere in the world, not even in North Korea, is the population monitored as strictly as it is in the Xinjiang Uighur… Continue Reading
Trump Moves to Ease Obama Auto-Mileage Rules, California’s Clout
Bloomberg: “The Trump administration, taking aim at one of former President Barack Obama’s signature environmental achievements, is proposing to suspend required increases in vehicle fuel economy after 2020 and unwind California’s authority to limit tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions in the state. The Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly proposed on Thursday… Continue Reading
Comparing Men and Women in Parliament – data analysis about gender representation
The Pudding – What 1.2 million parliamentary speeches can teach us about gender representation. “100 Years of Women in the House of Commons – This year marks a century since some women in the United Kingdom were awarded the right to vote in and stand for elections. Since then, 490 different women have represented their… Continue Reading
Population in Private Prisons Grew Five Times Faster than Total Prison Population, 2000-2016
“Despite substantial research that challenges the purported cost-saving benefits of private prisons, and the bipartisan consensus on the need to address mass incarceration, from 2000 to 2016 the number of people housed in private prisons increased 47 percent, compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 9 percent, according to a new report… Continue Reading
Map of non voting people in the United States 2016
Amateur cartographer Phllip Kearney created a map using US Census Bureau American Community Survey Data that he titled the United States of Apathy. He subtitles his map – “2016 U.S. Presidential election results if abstention from voting was counted as a vote for “Nobody.” The results, and the lessons that Kearney is teaching us with… Continue Reading
From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of rogue gun makers
Prof. Timothy D. Lytton: “Gun rights activist Cody Wilson got a green light from the Trump administration in June to publish digital blueprints on the internet that will enable anyone with a 3D printer to make a plastic gun. A federal judge blocked distribution of those blueprints. But thousands of people have already downloaded them.… Continue Reading
Cybersecurity Role, Spend on the Rise for Corporate Legal
Association of Corporate Counsel: “More than 40 percent of in-house lawyers stated their companies plan to change data security standards, breach notification procedures, and incident response plans as a result of the upcoming European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and 63 percent in the United States strongly favor the implementation of a federal law… Continue Reading
Methodology of Legal Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Langbroek, Philip M. and van den Bos, Kees and Simon Thomas, Marc and Milo, J. Michael and van Rossum, Wibo M., Methodology of Legal Research: Challenges and Opportunities (December 13, 2017). Utrecht Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, p. 1–8, 2017. Available at SSRN 23 Jul 2018 : https://ssrn.com/abstract=3118156 “The position of legal studies has… Continue Reading
Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing
Wealthy countries dominate industrial fishing. Science Advances 01 Aug 2018: Vol. 4, no. 8, eaau2161. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau2161 “The patterns by which different nations share global fisheries influence outcomes for food security, trajectories of economic development, and competition between industrial and small-scale fishing. We report patterns of industrial fishing effort for vessels flagged to higher- and… Continue Reading
