Monthly Archives: July, 2024
Lillian White, ‘Carcinogenic Chemicals in Black Hair Products: A Product Liability Issue’
ABSTRACT The global hair market is valued at approximately ninety billion dollars. African American (or Black American) women consume hair care products more than other ethnic groups. Recent studies have shown that the ingredients used in Black hair relaxers are linked to cancer. Consequently, over two hundred product liability cases have emerged against hair care […]
Matthew McGhee, ‘Beware the automatic signature: a proposal to re-affirm formalities requirements’
ABSTRACT This article explores whether an automatically-applied email signature is sufficient to meet formalities requirements. It is proposed that, for a document to be ‘signed’, a mark should be applied by the document’s author (not purely automatically) such as would convey to a reasonable recipient that the author intended to authenticate the document. € (Westlaw) […]
‘The Ethics of Personalised Digital Duplicates: A Minimally Viable Permissibility Principle’
It’s now possible, with the right set of training data, for anyone to create a digital copy of anyone. Some people have already done this as part of research projects, and employers are proposing to do it for employees. What are the ethics of this practice? Should you ever consent to having a digital copy […]
‘Can a Claimant Rely on an EU Directive to Avoid the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013?’
I recently acted in the High Court appeal in Wetherell v Student Loans Company Ltd [2024] EWHC 1443 (KB) which raises some interesting questions about the personal injury landscape after the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. When the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 came into force and personal injury claimants could no longer […]
Daniel Solove, ‘A Regulatory Roadmap to AI and Privacy’
ABSTRACT This short essay provides a regulatory roadmap to artificial intelligence and privacy. AI and privacy are deeply intertwined and have a complicated relationship with much overlap. AI can increase existing privacy problems, add dimensions and complexities to them, or remix them. Some attempts to regulate focus exclusively on AI, but doing this is like […]
J Peter Byrne, ‘Cultural Property: “Progressive Property In Action”’
ABSTRACT Cultural property law fulfills many of the normative and jurisprudential goals of progressive property theory. Cultural property limits the normal prerogatives of owners in order to give legal substance to the interests of the public or of specially protected non-owners. It recognizes that preservation of and access to heritage resources advance public values such […]
Nezhad, Rashidian and Botta, ‘Revolutionizing trade finance: leveraging the power of blockchain and AI in electronic letters of credit’
ABSTRACT This article examines the innovative combination of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the field of electronic letters of credit and international trade finance. It explores how the combined effect of this convergence may greatly improve the security, effectiveness, and clarity of trade finance procedures. The article presents a suggested framework for combining […]
Laje and Schmidt, ‘The Right to Data Portability as a Personal Right’
ABSTRACT The right to the portability of personal data guarantees the interested party the right to receive personal data that concern themselves. Specifically, data which a person has provided to a ‘data collector’ in a structured format can currently be transmitted to another ‘data collector’ without any legal consequences as long as the original ‘collector’ […]
Rachel Arnow-Richman, ‘Battling the Form: A Front-End Approach to Default-Use Noncompetes’
ABSTRACT A growing consensus holds that employer overuse of noncompete agreements adversely affects workers and the economy. But there is little agreement on how best to regulate these instruments. States have experimented with an array of idiosyncratic reforms that capture the most egregious misuses, while the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has issued an outright ban […]
Robert Emerson, ‘Electronic Assent: Assuring the Review and Comprehension of Contract Terms in Franchising’
ABSTRACT Franchisees often sign agreements without understanding the contract to which they have theoretically agreed. Digital business technology has become the norm across the world, however; and electronic contracts – e-contracts – come with a unique set of advantages – faster turnaround, seamless integration, increased flexibility – and also a unique set of challenges. This […]