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Law and philosophy. Selected Papers in Legal Theory

Law and Artificial intelligence

This book provides an in-depth overview of what is currently happening in the field of Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI). From deep fakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical robots, and Al lawmaking, the many and varied contributors to this volume discuss how Al could and should be regulated in the areas of public law, including constitutional law, human rights law, criminal law, and tax law, as well as areas of private law, including liability law, competition law, and consumer law. Aimed at an audience without a background in technology, this book covers how Al changes these areas of law as well as legal practice itself. This scholarship should prove of value to academics in several disciplines (e.g., law, ethics, sociology, politics, and public administration) and those who may find themselves confronted with Al in the course of their work, particularly people working within the legal domain (e.g., lawyers, judges, law enforcement officers, public prosecutors, lawmakers, and policy advisors). Bart Custers is Professor of Law and Data Science at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga is Assistant Professor at eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Criminal avidence and procedure and introduction

Whether a student of Scots Law coming to criminal evidence and procedure as part of your LLB law degree or as part of your Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, or a practitioner needing a quick reference guide, this textbook covers all of the essentials. Sheriff Alastair Brown draws on his extensive experience in practice to present a clear and up-to-date overview of the subject, taking into account updates relating to the law of arrest, the treatment of vulnerable witnesses, the sentencing powers (including non-harassment orders) and the First Diet procedure. Key Features Centred around the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, as amended Covers procedure in the general order in which steps occur in prosecutions Deals with solemn and summary procedure together as far as possible Addresses matters of evidence as they become relevant to the topics being dealt with.

Chip war

One of the most important books I've read in years-engrossing, beau- tifully written. Miller shows that, for all its manifest flaws and failures, the American capitalist system has repeatedly outperformed other systems and in the process has done much to bolster the security of democracy." -Robert Kagan, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution, columnist for The Washington Post, and author of The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World "If you care about technology, or America's future prosperity, or its continuing security, this is a book you have to read." -Lawrence H. Summers, 71st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University "Outstanding. Miller's history of the chip covers all angles: technolog- The go-to reference on one ical, financial, and especially political. of the most important industries today." -Dan Wang, technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics "The battle for supremacy in semiconductors is one of the most impor- tant stories in geopolitics, national security, and economic prosperity. But it's also been one of the least well understood. Thankfully, we now have Chip War to give us a clear view and sharp read on this essential subject."

Handbook of public administration

Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to attack, and difficult to explain, particularly in the soundbite and Twitter-snipe media environment. Not only has the context for the discipline changed, but the institutions of public administration have adapted and innovated to deliver services to the public and serve those in power while becoming increasingly complex themselves. Has public administration evolved? And what new lines of research are critical for effective policy and delivery of programs and public services while preserving foundational principles such as the rule of law and expert institutions? This Handbook of Public Administration sheds light for new researchers, doctoral students, scholars, and practitioners interested in probing modern public administration's role in solving major challenges facing nations and the world. This fourth edition recognizes that the scholarship of public administration must reflect the diverse influence of an international orientation, embracing public administration issues and practices in govemance systems around the world, and illustrating just how practice can vary across jurisdictions Every section identifies foundational principles and issues, shows variation in practice across selected jurisdictions, and identifies promising avenues for research. Each chapter revisits enduring themes and tensions, showing how they persist, along with new challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology and contemporary political realities. The Handbook of Public Administration, Fourth Edition provides a compelling introduction to and depiction of the contemporary realities of public administration, and it will inspire new avenues of inquiry for the next generation of public administration researchers.

The birth of digital human rights

This book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal protections. The author uniquely examines why and how European lawmakers linked digital data protection to fundamental human rights, something heretofore not explained in other works on general data governance and data privacy. In particular, this work examines the utilization of national and European Union institutional arrangements as a location for activism by legal and academic consultants and by first-mover states who legislated digital human rights beginning in the 1970s. By tracing the way that EU Member States and non-state actors utilized the structure of EU bodies to create the new norm of digital human rights, readers will learn about the process of expanding the scope of human rights protections within multipledimensions of European political space. The project will be informative to scholar, student, and layperson, as it examines a new and evolving area of technology governance-the human rights of digital data use by the public and private sectors.

Information & Internet law - global practice

The world relles upon the Internet connecting distant participants freely exchanging information. Bringing some certainty to this dynamic environment are the legal foundations, presented through guidance, standards, statutes, regulations, directives, and cases from the last 15 years in the United States and Europe. The areas of information law addressed are privacy, information security, and data protection law, unlawful data disclosures through cybercrime and data breach, and lawful data disclosures related to messaging and surveillance. The areas of Internet law covered are access, jurisdiction, speech, Intermediary liability. intellectual property, e-commerce through electronic and website agreements, and online consumer protections, including for adtech. This book, used at law schools globally, serves as volume 1 of a two-volume set. New lawyers, lawyers new to Information and Internet law, lawyers updating their knowledge on the latest statutes and cases, and lawyers desiring a U.S. EU comparative legal perspective are among the audiences for this single resource on Information and Internet law. The author has written numerous books on privacy and technology law and on legal history. Having lived and worked across the globe and industries, he brings a unique perspective to explain a complex topic. This book is the result of those many years of experience and Insight.

Criminal law: MBE

A"Criminal Law: MBE" is an essential resource for law students preparing for the bar exam. It offers 500 rigorous multiple-choice questions, each paired with detailed explanations to reinforce legal concepts and strategy. With sections dedicated to specific areas of criminal law, this guide provides targeted practice to build confidence and mastery. A vital tool for aspiring attorneys, it sets the foundation for exam and professional success. This volume is more than a mere compendium of questions; it is a conduit to legal proficiency. Embrace the challenge presented by "Criminal Law: MBE" and elevate your understanding to meet the highest standards of the legal field. Your journey to bar exam readiness and legal excellence begins here.

The international law of biotechnology

In this thoroughly updated second edition, Matthias Herdegen provides a comprehensive and contemporary assessment of the regulation of biotechnology processes and products from an international and comparative perspective, complete with analysis of intricate legal and ethical debates. Considering recent advances in biotechnology, this new edition explores how regulatory approaches to controversial issues such as stem cell research, cloning and gene therapy differ across jurisdictions due to conflicting values and risk perceptions. Reflecting on current developments, the book explores the interaction between biotechnology and different fields of law, including: human rights, intellectual property, trade law and environmental law. In doing so, Herdegen investigates complex concerns such as balancing commercial interests with socio-cultural considerations and ensuring respect for human dignity in the pursuit of biomedical research. Furthermore, this new edition includes examination of recent developments in areas such as genome editing, biomedicine, COVID-19 vaccines, and patents on essentially biological products, with an entirely revised section on biobanks. Providing a concise and accessible guide to a complex field of international law, this book will be of great value to those researching the law and regulation of biotechnology, biomedicine and biodiversity both within the EU and at an international level. Practicing lawyers will also benefit from a diverse array of sources from a range of legal systems.

The model law approach to international commercial arbitration

Taking the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration as its basis, this concise and accessible book presents a cutting-edge account of the international arbitral process. Applying a chronological approach, the book will enable readers to gain an understanding of the arbitral process from start to finish. Chapters explore key topics including the general structure of international commercial arbitration, the Model Law, arbitration agreements, the arbitral tribunal, the conduct of arbitral proceedings, and challenges to and enforcement of arbitral awards. The book highlights key underlying principles in international arbitration such as party autonomy, the finality of awards and the need to limit court intervention. It also examines the harmonising aim of the Model Law, demonstrating how it acts as a blueprint for legislation on international commercial arbitration, and ties in relevant case law to give a holistic picture of international commercial arbitration in action. This book will prove indispensable to academics and students of international commercial law, arbitration and dispute resolution, who are seeking clarity on the legal framework governing the arbitral process. Legal practitioners will similarly benefit from this clear and concise guide to the application of the Model Law.

The law of treaties

Presenting up-to-date case law and a freshly updated bibliography, this second edition of The Law of Treaties is a valuable addition to contemporary international law scholarship. It offers much-needed clarity on complicated cases and questions whilst maintaining a highly readable style. This timely second edition offers both theoretical and practical insights into the modern law of treaties. Chapters include new additions based on recent legal developments, such as updated information on the invalidity of treaties, and provides precise legal analyses through the integration of modern treaty practice. The Law of Treaties will be highly beneficial for students and academics of international law, politics and international relations looking to expand their knowledge of international affairs. It will also be a valuable read for practitioners wishing to remain informed about new treaties law.

Burden of proof

SOME PEOPLE WOULD KILL FOR A FRESH START. Seattle attorney Daniel Raine is going through some tough life changes; he's getting divorced, and his law partner is leaving him to become a judge. If Raine can't find a way to stay afloat, he'll be practicing law out of his car. Then, the perfect opportunity - a rich socialite called Abigail Willoughby arrives at his door, wanting to divorce her even richer husband. Raine is thrilled to take the case but gets more than he bargained for when he is forced into an unlikely alliance with high-powered realtor Rebecca Sommers who has her own motives for wanting to get close to his rich client. What seems like a straightforward case quickly turns to chaos when Abigail threatens her husband Jeremy in front of dozens of witnesses. That same night, Jeremy is discovered murdered in their home. All the evidence points to Abigail as the murderer. But she swears she is innocent and Raine believes her. Together with Sommers, he races to find out who really killed Jeremy and to save his client from serving a lifetime behind bars for a crime she didn't commit.

Trial by jury

Attorney Daniel Raine has recently gone out on his own and now is struggling to make rent. So when he's invited to a fundraiser gala at a downtown Seattle art gallery, he sees it as a chance to find some new clients among the city's wealthy elite. And it works in the most unexpected way - when a young artist is found dead in the women's restroom. The assigned detective declares it a suicide and the young woman's parents promptly sue the gallery owner for driving their daughter to take her own life. Raine is hired to defend the lawsuit and embarks on a mission to exonerate his client. He soon realizes that the Rain City art world is a hotbed of intrigue, treachery and secret deals and becomes convinced that the young artist was murdered. But why? And by whom? Raine finds himself navigating an unfamiliar world peopled by rich collectors, starving art students, and the beautiful and beguiling director of a local art school. Can he piece together what really happened on that fateful night and save his client from ruin?

Patent law

For generous comments on earlier versions of this casebook, we are grateful to Michael Abramowicz, Bernard Chao, Thomas Cotter, Tabrez Ebrahim, Janet Freilich, Dmitry Karshtedt, Amy Landers, Mark Lemley, Doug Melamed, Amy Motomura, Jason Rantanen, Jason Reinecke, David Schwartz, Jacob Sherkow, Marketa Trimble, Heidi Williams, Stephen Yelderman, Samantha Zyontz, and participants at the Notre Dame Patent Colloquium. Special thanks to the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk for his time and thoughtful suggestions. Thanks also to Gabrielle Dohmen, Hayk Esaghoulyan, Mila Gauvin, Trip Henningson, Yiwei Jiang, Casey Lincoln, Yiming Sun, and Elizabeth Trujillo for extraordinary research assistance. We would like to thank Kavita, Kiran, and Alice for their inspiring and unending curiosity. We hope that your love of science never fades and your love of law never grows.

Criminal law

This interactive criminal law casebook continues the tradition of our prior criminal law casebook (which went through four editions), but enhanced that tradition by moving to an interactive format. As with the prior books, our primary goal is to create a "teacher's book"-a book that contains thought provoking problems (referred to as "hypos" in the Interactive Casebook Series) designed to stimulate thought and produce interesting classroom discussion. The hypos are woven throughout the chapters and are designed to help students learn doctrine, illuminate trends in the law, and ultimately produce better learning. A secondary goal was to include a focus on teaching "skills." Some of the problems place students in practical situations that they are likely to encounter in practice, and therefore encourage students to think about how they might handle those situations in real-life.

Fintech

This fully revised and updated third edition provides a practical examination of legal and regulatory issues in FinTech, a sector whose rapid rise in recent years has produced opportunities for innovation but has also raised new challenges. Featuring insights from over 40 experts from 10 countries, this book analyses the statutory aspects of technology-enabled developments in banking and considers the impact these changes will have on the legal profession. Key Features: Three new chapters covering Al in the Financial Sector, Bank-FinTech Partnerships and Embedded Payments, and a Comparison of the Regulation of Cryptoasset Activities in Europe and the United States Examination of potential blockchain and artificial intelligence applications in the financial services industry Exploration of guidelines on data protection, payments, cybersecurity, central bank digital currencies, anti-money laundering, tokenisation and blockchain Analysis of the main regulatory and compliance issues surrounding FinTech developments, from patenting challenges to innovative solutions, including regulatory sandboxes Dissection of the EU's Regulation on Markets in Crypto-assets and DLT Pilot Regime, the US's Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, the UK's Financial Services and Markets Act.

Advanced macroeconomics

An Introduction to the Study of Macroeconomics at an Advanced Level The fourth edition of Romer's Advanced Macroeconomics presents the major theories concerning the central questions of macroeconomics. In areas ranging from economic growth and short-run fluctuations to the natural rate of unemployment and fiscal policy, formal models are used to present and analyze key ideas and issues. The theoretical analysis is supplemented by examples of relevant empirical work, illustrating the ways that theories can be applied and tested. The book has been revised more extensively than ever before. There are changes throughout to incorporate new research, eliminate inessential material, and further improve the presentation Key revisions include: There are now separate chapters on endogenous growth (Chapter 3) and cross-country income differences (Chapter 4). Chapter 3 includes a careful presentation of Paul Romer's now-classic model of endogenous technological change, and Chapter 4 takes the reader to the frontiers of empirical research on the underlying sources of the enormous differences in standards of living among countries Chapters 6 and 7 on short-run fluctuations when prices are not fully flexible have been completely redone. The analysis is grounded in microeconomic foundations from the outset. The chapters build from simple models to the canonical three-equation new Keynesian model (the new Keynesian IS curve, the new Keynesian Phillips curve, and an interest rate rule) and the ingredients of modern dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium models of fluctuations. The revisions to Chapters 6 and 7 carry over to the analysis of monetary policy in Chapter 11. This chapter has been entirely reorganized and includes a careful treatment of optimal policy in forward-looking models. An epilogue describes some of the main issues that the financial and macroeconomic crisis that began in 2008 raises for macroeconomics and discusses how the crisis may change the field.

Comparative law

"The publication of the third edition of Mathias Siems' excellent Comparative Law is to be greatly welcomed by students and comparative law scholars alike. Siems provides not only clear guidance to the methodology and essential contemporary debates of comparative law, but a truly global perspective! Professor Paula Giliker, University of Bristol 'With its attention to postmodern, socio-legal and numerical approaches to comparative law, this book represents an innovative toolkit for analysing legal diversity. It further illustrates the significance of comparative analysis through references to several topical issues, ranging from corporate governance to human rights. Comparative law emerges as an open discipline, fundamental to understanding contemporary law in a global perspective! Dr Guido Comparato, Birkbeck, University of London Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike, covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically debates both traditional and modern approaches to the discipline and uses examples from a range of jurisdictions to give the reader a truly global perspective. Its contextualised and interdisciplinary approach draws on examples from politics, economics and other social sciences to provide an original contribution to topics of comparative law. This new third edition is fully revised to reflect developments in the scholarship and includes two new chapters, balancing the book's structure between comparative law of the past, present and future. Suitable for students taking courses in comparative law and related fields, this book offers a fresh and cosmopolitan perspective on the subject.

Criminal law

The present volume is an updated version of the hornbook most recently published in its Sixth Edition under the authorship of the legendary Wayne R. LaFave. The Sixth Edition, like its predecessors, included the work not only of LaFave but also of Professor Austin W. Scott, Jr., who collaborated with Professor LaFave on the first edition of this hornbook. In this Seventh Edition, I have endeavored to take into account all developments in the field of criminal law as of January 2023. Some of the recent changes are relatively minor, while others, such as California's repeal of the felony murder rule, are comparatively significant. But in either case, the DNA of this new volume remains essentially unaltered: the brilliant vision executed primarily by Professor LaFave.

Introduction to criminology

After many years in academia, we are grateful for having the colleague whom we also consider a dear friend, someone special in our lives. Steve was one of those exceptional colleagues. a dear friend, to me. I will miss our conversations. Those who knew Steve appreciate that those conversations could range from how much snow he was shoveling to his thoughts on why the SEC is so wonderful (I'm Big 10) to his favorite episodes of Law and Order. Steve always expressed such joy and pride when talking about the special loves in his life-his wife, Kim, his daughter, Rian; and his mom and dad, Jane and Steve.