Other News from Participating Centers

Comunidad de la Facultad de Artes cuenta con remozada biblioteca

Amplios espacios para estudio, lectura y reuniones, una sala para proyecciones e infraestructura para digitalización de materiales, es parte de lo que ofrece la remodelada Biblioteca Luis Oyarzún Peña, espacio de 604 m2 donde la comunidad de dicha facultad y de todo el campus podrá realizar su quehacer académico.Revertir las carencias de infraestructura bibliotecaria en lo referente a espacio físico, puestos de estudio y equipamiento tecnológico.

Tribunal Constitucional aprobó proyecto de ley sobre Ues del Estado

Este tribunal colegiado, que vela por la coherencia entre las leyes del país y la Constitución Política, analizó aquellas disposiciones del proyecto que tenían rango orgánico constitucional, aprobando de manera íntegra el documento.

Beyond Civil Rights: Economic Democracy

Aaron Fernando: In June 1968, a group of eight American civil rights and land reform activists travelled to Israel with a plan that was ambitious, if not outright radical. They made the journey in order to study the legal foundations and management practices behind the Jewish National Fund’s leasehold system, and to use this knowledge to advance the civil rights movement and broad-based land reform.

Doctoral Defence Rán Tryggvadóttir

Transparency of Independent "Watchdogs": deliberation, agendas, and negotiations

Transparency of Independent "Watchdogs": deliberation, agendas, and negotiations16h15 até 18h00O Evento: This event is closed to the public
Day 1 – May 29th
14:30-16h - Keynote Speech: David Pozen, “Transparency’s Ideological Drift” 
Panel 1: Transparency and Secrecy: the core debate
16:15-18h 
Chair: Diego Werneck Arguelhes, FGV
Speaker: David Pozen, Columbia University
Speaker: Greg Michener, FGV

Seminário Brasil-China reúne especialistas para debater sobre mediação e arbitragem

Evento foi realizado no Centro Culural FGVNa última semana, a FGV Direito Rio recebeu o seminário Iniciativa Brasil-China: Investimentos chineses no Brasil e o papel da Arbitragem, da Mediação e dos meios online de Solução de Conflitos. O evento trouxe em perspectiva comparada as visões brasileira e chinesa sobre arbitragem e os meios alternativos de solução de disputas, incluindo os meios online de solução de conflitos, através do debate entre especialistas na área.

Blockchain e direito ao esquecimento na internet

Muito tem sido dito sobre Blockchain e criptomoedas, desde as visões mais otimistas a respeito de um possível fim dos intermediários (“trusted third parties”), até aquelas mais pessimistas, que veem na tecnologia uma forma de gastar muito dinheiro (e energia elétrica) em aplicações que poderiam ser muito mais simples e menos custosas.
Blockchain é mais do que um hype, porém. É uma tecnologia que, ao que tudo indica, tem potencial para mudar a forma como entendemos confiança, descentralização e criptografia.
Mas o que é Blockchain?

Representantes da FGV Direito Rio participam de eventos de Nova Jersey à São Paulo

Eventos foram realizados da Universidade de Princeton e na USPO pesquisador do Centro de Pesquisas em Direito e Economia (CPDE) da FGV Direito Rio, Paulo Augusto Franco, participou este mês do evento The Dignity and Debt Network – Inaugural Symposium na Universidade de Princeton, Estados Unidos. Na mesma semana, o professor da FGV Direito Rio, Leandro Molhano, participou do seminário do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência Política da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

FGV Direito Rio firma parceria com TJBA

O acordo é de cooperação científica e acadêmicaA FGV Direito Rio e o Tribunal de Justiça da Bahia firmaram um acordo de cooperação científica e acadêmica. O objetivo da parceria é o de promover atividades de ensino e pesquisa, como o curso de Direito e Economia para magistrados, além de possibilitar a troca de conhecimentos e práticas que benéficas ao aprimoramento das instituições.

The Week in Internet News: Email Encryption Has Efail Moment

Encryption fails: A couple of stories in the news this past week demonstrated problems with encryption, or at least, problems with deployment of encryption. One researcher demonstrated an exploitable loophole he called Efail in PGP/GPG and S/Mime software used by email clients, reports Engadget. Efail abuses the active content of HTML emails to access plain text.

Edital de seleção para professor convidado da Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu

ESCOLA DE DIREITO DO RIO DE JANEIRO DA FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS
FGV DIREITO RIO
FGV LAW PROGRAM
EDITAL DE SELEÇÃO PARA PROFESSOR CONVIDADO DA PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO LATO SENSU
1/2018

How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men

 in the New Yorker: “Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. They’ve now been eclipsed by Math Men—the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated when he humbled himself before Congress, in April.

The Open Data Charter Measurement Guide is out now!

This post was jointly written by Ana Brandusescu (Web Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (Open Knowledge International), co-chairs of the Measurement and Accountability Working Group of the Open Data Charter. It was originally published via the Open Data Charter’s Medium account.
 

Contemplating the More-than-Human Commons

Zack Walsh writing for The Arrow:  The Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change claims that reducing emissions by more than 1 percent annually would generate a severe economic crisis, and yet, climate analysts tell us we need to reduce carbon emissions by 5.3 percent annually to limit global warming to 2°C.1 Moreover, there is no evidence that decoupling economic gro

Ausschreibung für eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung, ist ab dem
3. September 2018 eine
bis zum 31.12.2020 befristete Stelle als
 
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
(Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)
 
zu besetzen. Eine Verlängerung der Befristung wird grundsätzlich angestrebt. Die Arbeitszeit beträgt derzeit 19 Std. 55 Min. wöchentlich (Hälfte der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit).

Legislature 2.0: CrowdLaw and the Future of Lawmaking

With rates of trust in government at all-time lows, the legitimacy and effectiveness of traditional representative models of lawmaking, typically dominated by political party agendas and conducted by professional staff and politicians working behind largely closed doors, are called into question. But technology offers the promise of opening how lawmaking bodies work to new sources of expertise and opinion and making lawmakers accountable to the public more on more than just Election Day.

The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Date published: May 21, 2018Wired"One of the letter’s organizers, Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School, says there are no plans for similar letter for Microsoft or Amazon, “as there has not been a similar effort by employees in other companies.”"

‘Too inconvenient’: Trump goes rogue on phone security

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Date published: May 21, 2018Politico"“This would be the case of a president overruling literally the most rudimentary advice given by the communications agencies,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who served as deputy chief technology officer under Obama and helped develop the former president’s specialized phone."

AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

Article by Vyacheslav Polonski: “Unless you live under a rock, you probably have been inundated with recent news on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). With all the recent breakthroughs, it almost seems like AI can already predict the future.

RightsCon Toronto 2018

RightsCon is organizing the 2018 edition of the event at Beanfield Centre at Exhibition Place, Toronto in Canada. A session on Pervasive Technologies project titled "Cheap and chipper: IP in India’s affordable smartphones" is scheduled on May 17, 5.15 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. in the International Trade and the Commons track. (Room #203B, Beanfield Centre).