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MFNs in Digital Distribution: Anticompetitive Effects Examined Through Modern Gaming Distribution
Get PDFMost Favored Nation clauses and their place within digital distribution agreements is a problem that seems yet to be resolved. The argument that entities with large enough market share in their respective market can utilize these provisions to ensure that they remain on top is a contested topic that is actively being challenged in the courts. The lawsuit against Valve, the video game publisher and distributor, provides a lens through which the potential harms and advantages of these provisions can be examined. In analyzing the finer points of this situation potential solutions can be designed to, in a perfect world, protect producers while not infringing on any parties right to contract
Session 2: Diversity as Key to Innovation - Stem Education
Get PDFRichard A. Tapia is a professor at Rice University, where he has taught since 1970. Tapi specializes in optimization theory and numerical analysis. It has been his lifelong work to help underrepresented minorities achieve academic success and success in life.
In this talk, Tapia emphasizes the importance of diversity in STEM fields and highlights the failures of the education system in supporting underrepresented minorities. Tapia opines that more efforts need to be made to bring domestic underrepresented minorities into STEM positions and to recognize the value they bring. Tapia believes that, to address the lack of minority representation in STEM fields in the United States, there is a need to overcome stereotypes and to ensure excellence among minority groups while also distinguishing between foreign and domestic minorities
Session 4: Fireside Virtual Chat with Bruce Jackson, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft
Get PDFRhymes all have in common? Besides musical talent, they have all been represented by Bruce Jackson, one of the founding partners of the entertainment law firm, Jackson, Brown, Powell, and St. George. Jackson, a Brooklynite and longtime Microsoft attorney, is a force in the legal industry. Jackson started at Microsoft in the year 2000 as Corporate Counsel for the digital media division. Jackson now serves as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director for Strategic Partnerships out of the Office of the President for Microsoft. Jackson recently published his first book, Never Far From Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Policing for Profit: A Constitutional Analysis of Washington State’s Civil Forfeiture Laws
Get PDFThe summer of 2020 reignited a conversation about the relationship between race and policing in the United States. While many have taken the opportunity to scrutinize the racially discriminate components of our criminal justice system, comparable aspects of civil law must be equally scrutinized. A particular area of concern pertains to racially biased policing and the concept of “policing for profits” with Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities (BIPOC), which is accomplished mainly through civil asset forfeiture at a state and federal level
The World Moved on Without Me: Redefining Contraband in a Technology-Driven World for Youth Detained in Washington State
Get PDFIf you ask a teenager in the United States to show you one of their favorite memories, they will likely show you a picture or video on their cell phone. This is because Americans, especially teenagers, love cell phones. Ninety-seven percent of all Americans own a cell phone according to a continuously updated survey by the Pew Research Center. For teenagers aged thirteen to seventeen, the number is roughly 95%. For eighteen to twenty-nine-year-olds, the number grows to 100%. On average, eight to twelve-year-old’s use roughly five and a half hours of screen media per day, in comparison to thirteen to eighteen-year-olds, who use about eight and a half. The primary ways teenagers use their phones are to pass the time, connect with other people, and learn new things. With this data in mind, imagine an entire group of youth who are completely banned from using cell phones and spend large periods of their youth unable to permanently document some of their memories and connect with many of their peers. That is the experience of incarcerated and detained youth.
This Note specifically addresses ways to change this harmful prohibition. Part I defines contraband and the Washington laws affecting incarcerated and detained youth. Part II discusses Washington’s youth confinement structure and data regarding disparities in incarceration. Part III proposes cell phones be removed from the definition of contraband in juvenile community facilities. Part IV addresses potential concerns with this solution and suggestions to mitigate the risks associated with the proposed change. Finally, Part V includes the most updated information regarding a new cell phone policy being implemented in one juvenile community facility to provide cell phone access to youth
Dahlia Lithwick
No full textDahlia Lithwick is the senior legal correspondent at Slate and host of Amicus, Slate’s award-winning biweekly podcast about the law. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and Commentary, among other places. Lithwick won a 2013 National Magazine Award for her columns on the Affordable Care Act. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October, 2018. She is the author of “Lady Justice.”https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/luminaries/1002/thumbnail.jp
“What’s Past Is Prologue”: The Story of the Sale of the University of Puget Sound School of Law to Seattle University
Get PDFWhen the Seattle University Law Review editorial staff invited me to write an updated history of the Seattle University School of Law in honor of our 50th anniversary, I planned to start the narrative with the year 1989, which was where the prior written history (authored by former Law Library Director Anita Steele and published by the Law Review) had left off. It also happens to be the year when I graduated from this law school and joined the tenure-track faculty, so 1989 seemed like a propitious place to begin. However, as I began to do the research necessary to cover the ensuing 33 years of the school’s history, I was drawn over and over again to one particular part of our story: the announcement in 1993 that the University of Puget Sound had sold its law school to Seattle University. In conducting my research, I came to realize that as others from the law school have moved on, retired, or passed away, I am the lone remaining faculty member who was here for that remarkable period in our history. Thus, in commemoration of the law school’s half-century mark of existence, I have chosen to travel back in time to the defining moment on November 8, 1993, when everything changed. While 1972 marked the law school’s founding, the announcement of the sale in 1993 was the critical inflection point that started us on a difficult but fascinating journey to where we are in this, our 50th year: a vibrant, urban, Jesuit, justice-focused law school, located in the heart of Seattle and at the heart of Seattle University
The Exacerbating Role of Technological and Connectivity Challenges on Older Detroiters’ Health in a Pandemic
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic hit communities of color hard. The City of Detroit was particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to racial, socioeconomic, and environmental health factors. To analyze the exacerbating role of technology and connectivity challenges on older Detroiters\u27 health in a pandemic, we first examined Detroit’s demographics. This analysis involved looking at the continued evolution of the City\u27s population toward older adults, as well as the impact of COVID-19 and the healthcare services on Detroit’s elder population. Next, we examined Detroit’s internet access challenges, including the presence of digital exclusion among older adults in Detroit, the impact of COVID-19 on digital inclusivity, the requirements for telehealth services and how they limit access to older adults, COVID-19 funding for telehealth services and internet connectivity, and finally the impact of access to devices and digital literacy in Detroit.
Finally, we address how Detroit, the State of Michigan, and the Federal government can bridge the digital gap. This recommendation included examining the current steps taken by The Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), and what programs are needed next, including follow-up, connecting with community partners, the potential benefits of funding announcements by federal and state programs aimed at addressing connectivity gaps, and community-based connectivity solutions and their real-world impact
Vertical Farming: A Bottom-Up Approach
Get PDFThe twenty-first century will require innovative solutions to address the effects of climate change. Vertical farming is one solution that could help conserve a significant amount of freshwater and reduce the agricultural industry’ s overuse of pesticides and intensive tilling practices, which contributes to soil erosion and pesticide runoff. There has been significant investment in vertical farming in every region of the United States; however, the cost to produce foods with vertical farming remains more costly than traditional farming, which is in large part due to the substantial amount of electricity needed to power all the technology required to grow crops indoors. Leafy greens are the predominant crops grown with vertical farming and Arizona and California are the primary producers of leafy greens, specifically lettuce and spinach. California is also a major producer of kale, strawberries, and tomatoes, which can also be grown with vertical farming. The widespread introduction of vertical farming could have a negative economic impact on Arizona and California’s current agricultural industry. Additionally, Arizona and California have access to a substantial amount of solar energy and are simultaneously experiencing a decades-long drought. These circumstances present Arizona and California with the opportunity to benefit greatly from the utilization of vertical farming. Accordingly, the state and local governments in Arizona and California should subsidize the installation of rooftop or onsite solar projects for vertical farms because it will reduce the cost of produce grown with vertical farming and prevent an increase in greenhouse gas emissions compared to vertical farms that must rely on fossil fuels for their energy needs. Although vertical farming may address some important environmental concerns, it will likely fail to address social and economic concerns related to food affordability and food accessibility and may even accelerate gentrification. However, these unintended consequences can be addressed with a bottom-up approach that prioritizes low-income and other historically marginalized communities, rather than profit
Abolition Infrastructures: A Conversation on Solidarity Economies, Carceral Resistance, and Worldmaking
No full textOver the past two decades, transformative justice has gained momentum as an organized effort to answer contemporary abolitionism’s thorniest question: How can a society handle the problem of harm without resorting to punishment? The movement has sought to develop responses to harm and violence that reject retribution and instead emphasize accountability, repair, care, and attention to the systemic roots of violence. In large part because the movement took form in explicit rejection of the state’s administration of justice, the work of transformative justice has most frequently been done on an unpaid basis of mutual aid. Here’s a movement that has germinated in collective homes, borrowed office spaces, online forums, activist convenings, parks—in other words, in the abolitionist commons. As transformative justice has gained currency over the course of the pandemic, its ideas have been taken up in new realms, including the university, the nonprofit, the prison, and the courts. The current moment is ripe for taking stock of where the movement is right now, and where it is going. What does it look like to build toward abolition infrastructures or infrastructures of collective care? How might an abolitionist theory of the state guide this work