China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech onli…
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U.S. Policy on the ICC Crime of Aggression Announced
At the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law earlier this month,Professor Michael J. Matheson of George Washington University Law School c…
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Autonomous Vehicles Coming, But Not Slam Dunk You May Have Read About
"But there will be failures that result in fatalities, and Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina and a legal expert,…
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Video recording of talk given April 21, 2015 at Stanford Law School. Why is it bad when the government or companies monitor our reading or web-surfing? We have…
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Targeting Safe Harbors to Solve the Music Industry’s YouTube Problem
Last week, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released its 2015 Digital Music Report—an annual state of the industry update for di…
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Shots fired in new Web war
"“There are questions of substance, questions of process and some constitutional questions,” said Barbara van Schewick, the director of Stanford Law School…
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Waterloo region kids involved in child porn investigation
"“It’s become almost the norm,” said Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University who researches cyberbullying and digital citizenship, wit…
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The Sheer Difficulty of Defining What a Robot Is
"Many different existing legal regimes will be able to competently address problems posed by robots without having to settle on a standard definition,” Woo…
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ICRAC second statement on Overarching Issues, 2015 CCW Expert Meeting
On Thursday April 16, ICRAC’s Dr. Peter Asaro delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. Thank you M…
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Why some people believe Mark Zuckerberg's plan to bring cheap internet to the world is majorly flawed
"The Hindustan Times' Nikhil Pahwa wrote a scathing response to Zuckerberg’s editorial on Thursday. He cited Stanford Law School professor Barbara van…
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook is not, and should not be the internet
""I think zero-rating is the next big threat to innovation and free speech online," says Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School…
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Technologists oppose CISA/information sharing bills
Today we sent a letter to lawmakers expressing security experts' opposition to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) as well as two other pending…