This article considers the recent literature concerned with establishing an international prohibition on autonomous weapon systems. It seeks to address concerns…
Disclosing personal information online often feels like losing control over one’s data forever; but this loss is not inevitable. This essay proposes a “chain-li…
Cross posted from the Sacramento Bee. Iran's drive to become a nuclear power hinges partly on a facility outside the small mountain town of Natanz. Accordi…
Recently, there has been considerable debate over whether President Obama should run against the Supreme Court as part of his reelection campaign. High-ranking…
Book Website Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whethe…
Authors: Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky From the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Voume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2012. * Publication Type:Aca…
Daily/Journal Op/Ed The first part of this article outlined the mechanics of the Megaupload website, and the novel questions of criminal inducement on which th…
Daily/Journal Op/Ed Days after anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice coordinated an unprecedented raid on the Hong Kong-b…
John Mitchell and I have written a new paper that synthesizes research on policy and technology issues surrounding third-party web tracking. It will appear at t…
It is now received wisdom that a properly functioning democracy requires transparency and accountability — information shared with the public that allows the pu…
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed us…
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the w…