153 research outputs found
Running Scared: Eviscerating Rights in a Post 9/11 World
No full textMichael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal organization dedicated to protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He served as co-counsel in the Supreme Court case of Rasul v. Bush, which established that detainees at Guantanamo Bay had the right to invoke habeas corpus. He continues to fight against the undermining of fundamental rights in the name of the war on terror by representing victims of torture, rendition, and domestic spying. He has taught at Yale Law School and Columbia University Law School and is the author of many books and articles. In 2006, he was included by the National Law Journal on the list of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. Mr. Ratner will speak about the erosion of civil rights following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
Superradiance of J-aggregates: correspondence between infinite disordered chain and regular chain of finite length
No full textThe radiation decay of excitons in a slightly disordered molecule chain is considered. The degree of disordering dictates the excitonic state length that determines the enhancement of the decay rate Г (superradiance). Г was calculated versus disordering degree and temperature and compared with the case of a regular chain where the length of excitonic state is determined by the chain length, N. For every degree of disordering, the value of N was found that provides practically the same decay rate as a function of temperature.The author is grateful to Yu.V. Malyukin and A.M. Ratner for helpful discussions
Business and Human Rights: Seizing the Opportunity
No full textBUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY EMPRESAS E DIREITOS HUMANOS: APROVEITANDO A OPORTUNIDADE Steven R. Ratner* RESUMO: Este artigo resultou da palestra magna proferida pelo Professor Steven Ratner na ocasião da inauguração do Centro de Direitos Humanos e Empresas, da Faculdade de Direito da UFRGS e da Escola de Direito da Unisinos, que ocorreu no âmbito do “I Seminário Internacional de Direitos Humanos e Empresas: hermenêutica para um mundo transnacional”, organizado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFRGS, em parceria com o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da Unisinos, por meio virtual, nos dias 24 a 26 de agosto de 2020. O autor oferece uma visão geral dos desenvolvimentos em direitos humanos e empresas (“BHR”) na última década, isto é, uma noção das reações a eles de diferentes partes interessadas e um roteiro de o que está por vir para um maior desenvolvimento do campo. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Empresas. Direitos humanos. Princípios em Direitos Humanos e Empresas. Direito internacional público. Justiça Global. ABSTRACT: This article comes from the keynote speech given by Professor Steven Ratner on the occasion of the inauguration of the Center for Human and Business Rights, in the Faculty of Law of UFRGS and the Unisinos Law School, which took place within the scope of the “I International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: hermeneutics for a transnational world”, organized by UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Law, in partnership with Unisinos Postgraduate Program in Law, through virtual means, from August 24 to 26, 2020. The author offers an overview of the developments in business and human rights (“BHR”) in the last decade, a sense of the reactions to them from different stakeholders, and a roadmap of what lies ahead for further development of the field.KEYWORDS: Business. Human rights. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Public international law. Global justice. SUMÁRIO: I. II. III. IV. V. References.* Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor em Direito na Faculdade de Direito da University of Michigan, e Diretor do Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan, em Ann Arbor, nos Estados Unidos da América. Doutor em Direito (JD) por Yale, nos Estados Unidos da América, e Mestre em Direito (MD/Diplôme) pelo Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales, em Genebra, na Suíça
Business and Human Rights: Seizing the Opportunity
No full textThis article comes from the keynote speech given by Professor Steven Ratner on the occasion of the inauguration of the Center for Human and Business Rights, in the Faculty of Law of UFRGS and the Unisinos Law School, which took place within the scope of the “I International Seminar on Business and Human Rights: hermeneutics for a transnational world”, organized by UFRGS Postgraduate Program in Law, in partnership with Unisinos Postgraduate Program in Law, through virtual means, from August 24 to 26, 2020. The author offers an overview of the developments in business and human rights (“BHR”) in the last decade, a sense of the reactions to them from different stakeholders, and a roadmap of what lies ahead for further development of the field
Laws of Edu-Automation? Three Different Approaches to Deal with Processes of Automation and Artificial Intelligence in the Field of Education
No full textThis contribution reports on a symposium that aimed to collectively discuss different approaches to deal with processes of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of education. Inspired by Asimov’s Laws of Robotics and Pasquale's recently published New Laws of Robotics, the symposium’s purpose was to collectively advance laws that would be specifically tailored to the field of education. In that regard, the term edu-automation seeks to propose ways of conceptualizing and imagining automation as an educational endeavor; that is, not as a purely technical-factual matter that is subsequently translated into educational practice, but equally as a matter of educational concern. Through three narratives and propositions, this contribution discusses similarities and differences between the concepts of automation and AI, and shows some of the different features that tie education and automation together. The variety and substantial differences between the three accounts shows that automation and AI cannot be approached single-sidedly, and that in order to come to a profound understanding of this phenomenon, we need to deploy a variety of theoretical, educational, and normative standpoints and positions
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