Crimes Against Humanity: Repairing Title 18's Blind Spots
This is a contribution to a feshrift devoted to Professor William Schabas. It takes as its starting point President Obama's atrocities prevention and respon…
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California’s New Self-Driving Car Rules Are Great for Texas
"“California’s proposed rules are great news for Texas,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law…
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Man charged for online violent threats against company over Planned Parenthood fetal tissue
"Prosecution of online comments is exceedingly rare. Nationwide, only about 30 such cases are brought each year, according to online hate speech expert and…
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In An Accident, Who Will A Driverless Car Be Programmed To Kill?
"These ethical programming decisions will be made as a matter of company policy, and buyers may find themselves forced to buy into the brand whose ethics m…
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Eye on Safety, California Sets Rules for Self-Driving Cars
""This points to a very long slog ahead for not just Google, but really other automakers as well," said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at t…
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Google’s Plan for Self-Driving Cars Means It Will Have to Compete With Uber
"“Eventually, Google’s driverless vehicles will compete with not just Uber and taxis, but also FedEx, Amazon, Seamless, transit operators and the very noti…
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Rubio and Cruz spar over domestic surveillance program
"To remedy this, the new law is "technology neutral," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competi…
Here’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Two months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor arrangement, an agreement that big U.S. multinational…
OmniCISA Pits DHS Against the FCC and FTC on User Privacy
On Friday, Congress will vote on a mutated version of security threat sharing legislation that had previously passed through the House and Senate. These earlier…
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Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine
"Trick or trap: In the Harvard Law Review's "Bait, Mask, and Ruse," Elizabeth Joh of the U.C. David School of Lawargues that allowing police…
T-Mobile Is Likely Violating Net Neutrality
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a much-celebrated net neutrality order, which is now on appeal before a federal court. That dec…
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What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?
"“I’d agree that AI is a very powerful tool, and some designs and uses can be better or worse than others,” says Patrick Lin, a philosopher at Cal Poly who…