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Rise of robotic killing machines has a cautious world talking
"As Professor Patrick Lin of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo pointed out in his analytic address to the panel on April 16, “war is terrible, and all such (war) we…
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Prof. Danielle Citron - Hearsay Culture Show #234 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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March 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
March 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-march/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the…
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Driverless cars face technical, legal hurdles
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, said we're likely not going to find out until the first driverless ca…
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Self-driving cars will be safer, but surprises will happen
""Am I concerned that something could go wrong with an automated car? Yes. But I'm terrified by what happens with all these human drivers," s…
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…
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…