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At the Crossroads of Consumer Protection, Data Protection and Private International Law: Some Remarks on Verein für Konsumenteninformation v Amazon EU
No full textThis article examines the ECJ’s July 2016 judgment in Verein für Konsumenteninformation (VKI) v Amazon EU, a case which sits at the crossroads of consumer protection, data protection and private international law. VKI, an Austrian consumer protection association, brought a claim for an injunction to preclude the use of unfair terms in Amazon EU’s standard terms and conditions (T & Cs); the Austrian Supreme Court ultimately sought a preliminary ruling from the ECJ for clarification on the applicable conflicts rules to determine the law that governs the consumer and data protection dimensions of the cross-border collective action. The article begins by setting out the facts of the case; it then situates the challenge to Amazon’s T & Cs in the current contexts of consumer and data protection and analyses the key dimensions of consumer and data protection arising in the case. To conclude, the article offers reflections on the interplay of consumer enforcement, data protection and private international law in light of the ECJ’s judgment
Legal Spirits 065: Reading CS Lewis in Law School
No full textIn this episode, Fordham Law Professors Sean Griffith and Richard Squire join Mattone Center Director Mark Movsesian to talk about their experience leading a discussion of CS Lewis’s Mere Christianity in a student reading group this past semester. Sean and Richard discuss their goals in establishing the group, their students’ response to Lewis–in particular, his defense of natural law and Christian ethics–and the value of taking Christianity seriously as a matter of faith and intellect at a 21st-century American law school. A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion. Listen in
Law-guided CS: Ten Commandments for the 21st Century
No full textThe concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has traditionally been viewed as voluntary actions undertaken by corporations. The European Union, for example, famously defined CSR as “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis”. A review of the debate on CSR and regulation undertaken at the turn of the millennium found that when governments felt like intervening in the CSR project, their actions were undertaken explicitly as “pro-CSR initiatives,” rather than (legal) CSR. However, soon afterwards, growing social inequalities exacerbated by corporate social and environmental wrongdoing led to an increasing interest in legal CSR: CSR as mandated by law, as opposed to selfregulation and voluntary codes of conduct merely supported by government action. Accordingly, numerous academic works have endeavoured to elucidate what role the law can play in the CSR project.
If legal CSR is considered a significant part of the solution in plugging the gaps in the current voluntary CSR regime and a key to ensuring the CSR commitments made by corporations in their codes of conduct are sincere, questions remain as to whether and how legally imposed CSR can transform corporate practices. Despite certain recent conceptual discussions on advancing knowledge on how legal CSR works, the underlying legal principles that shape legal CSR remain under-researched. Beyond the wide variety of possible governmental actions and the complex relationship between policy choice and culture and geography, there must be some common principles guiding state action. This article builds on the academic literature and on regulatory developments in various jurisdictions to identify the principles of legal CSR
PiLa-CS Professional Learning Community - Workshop 2 Resources
No full textDuring the Summer of 2021 and 2022, the Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS) Research Practice Partnership convened and supported a community of practice to learn more about how to enable better CS teaching for emergent bilinguals. These are materials from Workshop 2 of the PLC.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Translanguaging Pedagogy in CS Ed
No full textEpisode 3: Translanguaging pedagogy in CS Education
This video looks at how multilingual students already use translanguaging in their computer science classes and discusses how CS educators can further support them with translanguaging pedagogy, a framework that prompts teachers to consider their stance, design, and shifts.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgEpisode 3: Translanguaging pedagogy in CS Education
This video looks at how multilingual students already use translanguaging in their computer science classes and discusses how CS educators can further support them with translanguaging pedagogy, a framework that prompts teachers to consider their stance, design, and shifts.
Featuring team members from Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS), https://www.pila-cs.orgSponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
PiLa-CS Professional Learning Community - Design Journal Template
No full textDuring the Summer of 2021 and 2022, the Participating in Literacies and Computer Science (PiLa-CS) Research Practice Partnership convened and supported a community of practice to learn more about how to enable better CS teaching for emergent bilinguals. These are materials from from the PLC for a Design Journal to act as a planing template for teachers.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation under NSF grant CNS-1738645 and DRL-1837446. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Game Jams: How can they influence Software Development Curricula?
No full textThis paper will present an ongoing project which is attempting to capture the ethos of game jam participation and its inherent educational benefits applying these outcomes to rejuvenate and influence the delivery of Software Engineering curricula
Party-hopping deja-vu: changing politics, changing law in New Zealand 1999-2018
No full textIn 2017 the New Zealand Parliament saw the introduction of legislation designed to make vacant the seats of representatives who left their political parties of election, be that voluntary or not. This was not the first or even the second attempt to legislate in this area but the third. This article considers this proposed law from the perspectives of constitutionality and effectiveness. What can New Zealand’s legislative history tell us about whether this legislation will be fit for purpose? Absent an election, should the courts or the legislature decide the membership of the legislature? What is the impact on the core constitutional freedoms of expression and association and is their restriction justified
Predictive control for the attitude maneuver of a flexible spacecraft
No full textPredictive control for the attitude maneuver of a flexible spacecraft model is proposed. The predictive control law takes the flexibility into account which is caused by the rotational maneuver of spacecraft body. In fact, the new control law is an extension of a previous predictive control law applied to a pure rigid model. The flexible spacecraft model consists of a rigid center body with two identical flexible structures attached. The resultant control law is an output feedback with robustness in the sense that state estimation is not needed for actual implementation of the control law. The control law therefore may be claimed to maintain the inherent properties of nonlinear predictive controllers as well as robust output feedback for the flexible spacecraft model. (C) 2004 Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.The present study was supported by National Research
Lab. (NRL) Program (2002, M1-0203-00-0006) by the Ministry
of Science and Technology,Korea. Authors fully appreciate
the financial support. Also, effort made by anonymous
reviewers for careful review is highly appreciated
Arizona Then and Now: Exploring Arizona's Five Cs Through Photography
No full textabstract: Arizona Then and Now: Exploring Arizona's Five Cs Through Photography is a photographic exploration of the evolution of Arizona's five Cs: cotton, copper, citrus, cattle, and climate. This project first looks to the past to see how these five elements shaped the state of Arizona. Photographs were taken across the valley of these elements, or lack thereof, discovering what Arizona has transformed into in the process. Each chapter of the book begins with a brief history of the element focused on in that chapter, followed by an analytical thought about the photographs taken and how the element has evolved. Each chapter shows two historical photographs followed by a series of photographs taken during the project that the author thought depicted what is seen today. The book ends on a final positive note about how the five Cs are not dead, but soon could be completely taken over. This project was a way for a non-art major to explore the state that she grew up while also challenging herself by more than just taking pictures. The photographs displayed in the book depict a sampling of what the author saw that is left of the five Cs
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