- Informational Inequality: How High Frequency Traders Use Premier Access to Information to Prey on Institutional Investors
By: Jacob Adrian
In recent months, Wall Street has been whipped into a frenzy following the March 31st release of Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys.” In the book, Lewis characterizes the stock market as being rigged, which has institutional investors and outside observers alike demanding some sort of SEC action. The vast majority of this criticism ...
- Legal Nature of Emails: A Comparative Perspective
By: Edina Harbinja
There is currently a conflict between laws and the market in their treatment of email. Laws mandate that emails are not protected as property unless copyrightable or protected by another legal mechanism. But the market suggests that emails are user-owned property without further qualification. Moreover, the nature of email is treated slightly differently ...
- Weathering the Nest: Privacy Implications of Home Monitoring for the Aging American Population
By: Jillisa Bronfman
The research in this paper will seek to ascertain the extent of personal data entry and collection required to enjoy at least the minimal promised benefits of distributed intelligence and monitoring in the home. Particular attention will be given to the abilities and sensitivities of the population most likely to need these devices, ...
- The Red Dawn of Geoengineering: First Step Toward an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections
By: Edward J. Larson
A landmark report by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) issued in 2015 is the latest in a series of scientific studies to assess the feasibility of geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols to offset anthropogenic global warming and to conclude that they offer a possibly viable supplement or back-up alternative to reducing carbon ...
- Aereo and Internet Television: A Call to Save the Ducks (A La Carte)
By: Pooja Patel
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Copyright Act employed this “duck test” when determining that Aereo, an Internet content-streaming company, violated the Copyright Act by infringing on the copyrights of ...
