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F. de Derecho U. de Chile lidera entre los mejores abogados del país

Chambers & Partners realiza hace años la tarea de medir a los mejores bufetes y abogados en diferentes áreas de la práctica de las leyes, y la Casa de Bello destacó este año al tener a medio centenar titulados de la Facultad de Derecho en la primera línea de la práctica en esta disciplina a nivel nacional. Además, una veintena son académicos de la U.

El desafío que presentan los altos índices de obesidad de las chilenas

Un informe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), y la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), reveló recientemente que el 32,8 por ciento de las mujeres chilenas adultas son obesas. El alto consumo de pan y comida chatarra, la poca actividad física y la ingesta alimentaria como un calmante emocional, explicarían en parte esta elevada cifra, según la nutrióloga del Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile.

Data-driven reporting: An on-going (r)evolution?

Paper by ,  and : “Data-driven journalism can be considered as journalism’s response to the datafication of society.

Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK

Summary from an independent review, carried out by Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Jérôme Pesenti: “Increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring major social and economic benefits to the UK. With AI, computers can analyse and learn from information at higher accuracy and speed than humans can. AI offers massive gains in efficiency and performance to most or all industry sectors, from drug discovery to logistics.

colony

About Colony: “We believe that the most successful organizations of the future will be open.
Openness is not about open plan offices or ‘20% time’. It’s about how decisions get made, how labor is divided, and who controls the purse strings.

The Internet and Everyone: Celebrating John Chris Jones at 90

I’m reposting the piece below to celebrate the 9oth birthday (on 7 October) of john chris jones. For jones, writing and living are still intertwined in a sublime but grounded way.
I’ve been re-reading “the internet and everyone” by john chris jones.
I’ve been astonished once again by the sensibility of an artist-writer-designer whose philosophy – indeed his whole life – first inspired me when I was a young magazine editor more than 30 years ago.

Now available: HIIG Quarterly

Why did two HIIG researchers sign a letter to Mark Zuckerberg? When is Manuel Castells going to kick off our new lecture series? How does the EU fight cyber crimes,... MORE
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Globally, Broad Support for Representative and Direct Democracy

Pew Global: “A deepening anxiety about the future of democracy around the world has spread over the past few years. Emboldened autocrats and rising populists have shaken assumptions about the future trajectory of liberal democracy, both in nations where it has yet to flourish and countries where it seemed strongly entrenched.

Tool Without A Handle: Taking Space Seriously

As I’ve been writing about networked information technologies as “tools,” it’s worth reiterating that metaphors of space are not entirely without value, including in areas of the law that derive from laws relating to real property.  Having noted in multiple prior posts the weaknesses of spatial metaphors, here I discuss some of their common applications in ways that are productive.  There are two particular applications of the physical space metaphor to online platforms and services that are interesting:

China harnesses big data to buttress the power of the state

James Kynge in the Financial Times: “…Over the period of “reform and opening” since the late 1970s, China has generally sought to “bide its time and hide its strength”. But no longer. At the congress, Xi Jinping, the president, presented “socialism with Chinese characteristics” as a “a new choice” for developing nations to follow.

Who governs or how they govern: Testing the impact of democracy, ideology and globalization on the well being of the poor

Eunyoung Ha and Nicholas L.Cain in The Social Science Journal: “This paper examines the effects of regime type, government ideology and economic globalization on poverty in low- and middle-income countries arou

Governance Reforms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; and the Sound: Examining the Past and Exploring the Future of Public Organizations

Ali Farazmand in Public Organization Review: “This paper addresses governance reforms of the last three and a half decades and looks into the future. This is done in three parts.

Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa: Jurisdição e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional nos conflitos da Internet

Realizado no dia 26 de Outubro de 2017, o I Workshop Interinstitucional de Pesquisa Jurisdição e Cooperação Jurídica Internacional nos conflitos da Internet foi um evento multissetorial, que contou com a com a participação de membros dos mais diversos segmentos profissionais: Poderes Executivo e Judiciário; Academia (UFMG, UnB, UFJF e UniCeub); Sociedade Civil; e Setor Privado.

7 Reasons Why Berlin is a Successful Sharing City

Andreas Arnold: Germany’s capital city Berlin has a thriving sharing and collaborative economy, thanks in part to think-and-do tank OuiShare. Since 2012, the group has facilitated a lively exchange of dialogue and action in many different formats, which has led to a strongly connected network of over 200 different projects and more than 1,000 individuals.

Novo diretor da FGV Direito Rio, Sérgio Guerra lança 4ª edição do livro Discricionariedade, Regulação e Reflexividade

Edição conta com prefácio de Tercio Sampaio Ferraz JuniorO Professor Sérgio Guerra, da FGV Direito Rio, lança a quarta edição do livro “Discricionariedade, Regulação e Reflexividade – Uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas administrativas”. Com a atualização e a inclusão de novos tópicos, a obra propõe uma nova teoria sobre as escolhas que os administradores públicos têm que tomar baseados em questões técnicas em setores regulados, tais como como Telecomunicações, Energia e Transporte.

Um ano depois, impeachment de Dilma Rousseff é analisado em novo livro da FGV Direito Rio

Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira são os organizadoresUm ano após o fim do julgamento no Senado, o longo processo de impeachment de Dilma Rousseff ainda deixou muitas perguntas a serem respondidas, como os resultados do longo processo “jurídico-político” para o país. Para responder a algumas dessas questões, os professores da FGV Direito Rio, Joaquim Falcão, Diego Werneck e Thomaz Pereira organizaram uma análise de todos os acontecimentos em um livro intitulado “Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff – Entre o Congresso e o Supremo”.  

Mütter und Neugeborene in besten Händen: Höchste Qualität am UKD bestätigt

Die Besonderheit: Die Qualitätsprüfung erfolgte durch die Ärztekammer Nordrhein. Dabei wurden die personellen, apparativen und die baulichen Voraussetzungen für die Versorgung von Schwangeren und Neugeborenen am UKD erfolgreich überprüft. Die Uniklinik ist damit das erste Krankenhaus in Düsseldorf, das diese Auszeichnung direkt von der Ärztekammer Nordrhein erhielt.„Für Eltern bedeutet dieses Siegel Transparenz und Sicherheit, denn unsere Abläufe und Prozesse wurden streng von externen Gutachtern überprüft“, erklärt Prof. Dr.

Outsider Art – Historie, Gegenwart & Perspektive

Der Begriff Outsider Art – ursprünglich 1972 von Roger Cardinal als Übersetzung der antiakademischen Art Brut von Jean Dubuffet gedacht - nahm in großen Teilen Europas und Nordamerikas eine eigene Entwicklung. Er beschreibt eine Kunst jenseits etablierter Formen und Strömungen. Die Werke der Künstler/innen, die häufig am Rande der Gesellschaft stehen, loten die Grenzen des menschlichen Denkens aus und geben mit ihren eigensprachlichen, meist existentiellen Werken, Anlass zu grundsätzlichen Fragen unseres Daseins.

Exploring the Catalan Integral Cooperative in the Age of Crisis

Last year I went to Catalonia to conduct a field-study of one of the most interesting cooperative projects which have emerged in Europe in the age of crisis: the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC).
The CIC moto: ‘social transformation from below through self-management, self-organization and networking’

Professor Xue Addressed at 39th ICDPPC

 Organizer’s Thank-You Letter to Professor Hong Xue