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Video Game Currency: Taming the Wild West of Video Game Economies
Get PDFDo you know the value of digital currency? No, not bitcoin, but rather value generated in online gaming. While on the surface, online video gaming may seem like just another form of entertainment, the value these games are creating is intersecting with the real-world marketplace. The exchange of virtual wealth to real-life wealth is a tumultuous problem that has remained unaddressed by law since the inception of video games. This legal ignorance has left the market for videogame currency in a state reminiscent of the wild west; the wealth is guarded only by those who can protect themselves. Those who cannot protect themselves run the risk of being held up for items worth hundreds of hours of labor. As these markets grow, and assuming we think the online gaming space is worthy of promotion, society must grow with them. When society does decide to move on the issue, it might take a more fluid understanding of John Locke
The Forgotten Crime: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity
No full textWashington University law professor and author Leila Sadet will speak about aspects of her latest book, The Forgotten Crime: Forging a Convention for Crimes Against Humanity. Although the Nazis were prosecuted during World War II for Crimes Against Humanity, since that time, the public’s attention has been captured by the crimes of genocide and war crimes, with crimes against humanity – some of the worst international crimes -- treated as an afterthought. Forgotten victims, forgotten crime scenes, and forgotten justice have been the result. Now, with the advent of the International Criminal Court and the possibility of a new global treaty on crimes against humanity being adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2025, the world can change that, bringing us one step closer to making the pledge of “never again” a reality. Attendees will gain insights about past and possible future legal actions on crimes against humanity. Speaker Bio
Leila Sadat, James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University School of Law, Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Branch of the International Law Association and Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor. About the Klatsky Lecture
The Klatsky Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Human Rights was created in 2001 by Bruce J. Klatsky, chair and CEO of Phillips Van Heusen Corp., and a member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch. The Klatsky endowment also provides annual fellowships for two CWRU law students at Human Rights Watch. The list of past Klatsky Lecturers is a veritable who\u27s who among the most impactful human rights luminaries on the planet, including: Samantha Power (US Ambassador to the UN), Harold Koh (Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights), Navi Pillay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Zeid Bin Ra\u27ad (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Sir Christopher Greenwood (Judge of the International Court of Justice), Ken Roth (Executive Director of Human Rights Watch), Nicholas Koumjian (head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar), Catherine March-Uhel (head of the UN International Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria), Michael Reisman (President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights), Albie Sachs (anti-Apartheid activist and later Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa), Sean Murphy (member of the UN International Law Commission and President of the American Society of International Law), Paul Williams (President of the Public International Law and Policy Group) and Fatou Bensouda (Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court)
Appeal No. 1018: King Oil Company, Inc. v. Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management
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Speech Regulation and Tobacco Harm Reduction
Get PDFRegulation of commercial speech is a major component of federal regulation of tobacco products. Since adoption of federal tobacco legislation, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted regulatory authority over ENDS and other vaping products as “tobacco products,” subjecting them to the same regulatory regime as traditional tobacco products even though such projects appear to pose less of a threat to public health. Such regulation, and the restriction on truthful speech in particular, may be having negative consequences for public health. Barring producers from informing consumers about the relative risks of vaping products and their potential to reduce smoking eliminates a potentially powerful tool for consumer education. Such restrictions are constitutionally dubious under existing First Amendment jurisprudence and may undermine the protection of public health as well
What We Need to Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction
No full textCase Law alum John F. Sopko (’77) was sworn in as Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction on July 2, 2012. He was appointed by President Obama, served under President Trump, and continues to serve under President Biden. Inspector General Sopko has more than 30 years of experience in oversight and investigations as a prosecutor, congressional counsel, and senior federal government advisor. For the last ten years, he and his staff have raised concerns about waste, fraud, and abuse of US assistance funds for Afghanistan, as well as the sustainability and viability of the Afghan government and military ahead of the US withdrawal in 2021. Inspector General Sopko continues to advocate for stringent oversight of the billions in US and other international assistance to Afghanistan that has been provided for the Afghan people since the sanctioned Taliban’s regime’s return to power, despite the regime’s dire human and gender rights record. In his presentation, he will discuss what worked and what didn’t during the United States’ 20-year engagement in Afghanistan and identify lessons from America’s longest war that are applicable to similar efforts in other contingency environments, including the international effort in Ukraine
Stronger Together: Leadership for New Security & Economic Challenges
No full textStronger together than acting alone, Canada and the United States face significant security challenges of sourcing critical minerals (economic security), maintaining military readiness (North American Aerospace Defense Command and Arctic security), and global peacekeeping (NATO security). The 47th Annual Canada-U.S. Law Institute Conference on April 20 and 21, 2023, will analyze these issues by bringing together government officials, distinguished academics, practitioners and business leaders. This will occur on the heels of the first Biden-Trudeau Summit, where the countries’ two leaders will chart the path for being stronger together in today’s volatile world.
5.0 CLE credits are available for April 21st only for an additional 200 for Non-Alumni. Payment is made on April 21st with a check or credit card if attending in-person or paying online if attending virtually
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