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Brief of Retired Federal Judges as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party

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United States

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Author(s): Stephen Wm. SmithPublication Date: January 25, 2019Publication Type: Litigation BriefAmicus curiaei brief of retired judges, including CIS Director of Fourth Amendment and Open Courts, in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case challenging the fees charged by the federal courts for electronic access to court records.

Brief of Amici Curiae Former U.S. Magistrate Judges in Support of Petitioners

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United States

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Amicus Brief of EFF and Riana Pfefferkorn

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United States

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Pesquisador da FGV Direito Rio analisa o cenário político atual dos EUA

País acaba de atravessar maior shutdown da sua históriaNo último dia 26 de janeiro, o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, assinou acordo que pôs fim à paralisação parcial do governo que durou 35 dias. Ao todo, cerca de 800 mil funcionários ficaram sem receber seus salários durante o período.

​NTU Singapore and WeBank set up fintech research centre to support Banking 4.0

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International Approach to Internet Policy Declining, Some Experts Say

A long-time multistakeholder and international approach toward creating Internet policy is breaking down, with individual nations and some large companies increasingly deciding to go their own way and create their own rules, some Internet governance experts say.

Christina Dinar will lead research on youth and social media

Christina Dinar will lead research on youth and social media
Christina Dinar has joined the CIHR as the Deputy Director and will lead research program on youth and social media, including the Democratic Meme Factory project. She will focus on the online expression of young people in the broader context of the digital transformation of the public sphere.

Deutsch-belarussische Exkursion zum Thema „Nationalsozialistische Patientenmorde“ in Düsseldorf und Umgebung

Während der erste Teil eine 20-köpfige Düsseldorfer Gruppe im September 2018 zu Gedenkstätten für NS-Opfer nach Belarus, geführt hatte, brachte nun der zweite Teil des Projektes 14 deutsch-belarussische Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer an verschiedenen Gedenkstätten für NS-Opfer und insbesondere an Erinnerungsorten für die NS-Patientenmorde in Düsseldorf und Umgebung zusammen. Finanziert wurde dieser Projektteil aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes. Standort der Gruppe war Düsseldorf.

The People’s Spring – how civic tech movements affect modern politics

Republished from The Alternative UK

Remembering Erik Olin Wright

He was a really great scholar, and his definition of social-ism was simply a society where the social needs are primary, as opposed to capital-ism, where the needs of capital are primary. He invited me in the spring of 2016, because he thought our P2P approach was eminently compatible with his own vision of Real Utopias. It is then that we wrote the first manuscript of what would become our new book (with 2 co-authors, and yes, the wheels of academic publishing turn very slowly).

How can women protect themselves online?


This article was written in collaboration with Raseef22 and published first on Raseef22.com.

¿Agregan valor los colegios de élite?

La investigadora del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE), Liliana Morawietz, asegura que los términos en los que está planteada la llamada "Ley Machuca" no representará ningún aporte en mejorar la calidad de la educación pública, ni a nivel individual ni a nivel de sistema.Al contrario de lo que parecen creer quienes proponen la Ley Machuca, no hay evidencia que permita pensar que la educación que ofrecen los colegios particulares pagados sea beneficiosa para los estudiantes de sectores desfavorecidos.

Impulsan uso del supercomputador en la planificación de Obras Públicas

Un taller reunió a profesionales del Ministerio de Obras Públicas y del Centro de Modelamiento Matemático de la U. de Chile en torno a las posibilidades que la ciencia de datos trae para la proyección de la infraestructura estatal, el modelamiento de fenómenos que la afectan y la fiscalización de su uso.En Chile, hay 101 cuencas hídricas y solo tres de ellas cuentan con algún tipo de planificación para contar con diagnósticos sobre la cantidad de agua que hay en el país y quiénes tienen derecho a usarla.

CIS Career Lunch Series: Sue Glueck - From Computer Programmer to In-House Privacy Counsel

RSVP is required for this free event. 
Join Sue Glueck, Stanford alum and currently Microsoft’s Senior Director of Academic Relations, for a discussion about her journey from being a corporate lawyer to becoming privacy counsel for a myriad of Microsoft products and services for over a decade.
February 19, 2019Stanford Law School

CIS Career Lunch Series: Matt Cagle on Building a Career as a Civil Liberties Technology Lawyer

RSVP is required for this free event. February 12, 2019Stanford Law School

Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN64 in Kobe, Japan

Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan?

WikiAfrica Education initiative teaches South African students to decolonise the internet with Wikipedia

“I’m editing the page for the star Proxima Centauri. It’s missing something about the planet Proxima b, so I should fix it”. These are the words of 12-year-old Michael—surprisingly confident for someone contributing to Wikipedia for the first time.

​NTU Singapore Students' Union leads new initiatives to give career head start for fresh graduates

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​NTU Singapore and AI company SenseTime set up Talent Programme

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Hort-Stiftung vergibt vier Stipendien und fördert Auslandsaufenthalte

Scarlett Dessilla, Studentin der Kunstgeschichte, erhält für einen einmonatigen Forschungsaufenthalt in New York für die konzentrierte Werkanalyse von Lenore Tawney im Cooper-Hewitt Museum und dem Smithsonian Design Museum einen Betrag von 2.800 Euro.