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The United States of Anonymous
In The United States of
Anonymous , Jeff Kosseff explores how the
right to anonymity has shaped American values, politics, business,
security, and discourse, particularly as technology has enabled
people to separate their identities from their
communications.
Legal and political debates surrounding online privacy often
focus on the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable
searches and seizures, overlooking the history and future of an
equally powerful privacy right: the First Amendment's protection of
anonymity. The United States of Anonymous features
extensive and engaging interviews with people involved in the
highest profile anonymity cases, as well as with those who have
benefited from, and been harmed by, anonymous communications.
Through these interviews, Kosseff explores how courts have
protected anonymity for decades and, likewise, how law and
technology have allowed individuals to control how much, if any,
identifying information is associated with their communications.
From blocking laws that prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing
masks to restraining Alabama officials from forcing the NAACP to
disclose its membership lists, and to refusing companies' requests
to unmask online critics, courts have recognized that anonymity is
a vital part of our free speech protections.
The United States of Anonymous weighs the tradeoffs
between the right to hide identity and the harms of anonymity,
concluding that we must maintain a strong, if not absolute, right
to anonymous speech.
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A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents
\"An extraordinarily good synthesis from an amazing range of philosophical, legal, and technological sources . . . the book will appeal to legal academics and students, lawyers involved in e-commerce and cyberspace legal issues, technologists, moral philosophers, and intelligent lay readers interested in high tech issues, privacy, [and] robotics.\"-Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh School of LawAs corporations and government agencies replace human employees with online customer service and automated phone systems, we become accustomed to doing business with nonhuman agents. If artificial intelligence (AI) technology advances as today's leading researchers predict, these agents may soon function with such limited human input that they appear to act independently. When they achieve that level of autonomy, what legal status should they have?Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White present a carefully reasoned discussion of how existing philosophy and legal theory can accommodate increasingly sophisticated AI technology. Arguing for the legal personhood of an artificial agent, the authors discuss what it means to say it has \"knowledge\" and the ability to make a decision. They consider key questions such as who must take responsibility for an agent's actions, whom the agent serves, and whether it could face a conflict of interest.
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Nationality and statelessness under international law
\"Written by leading experts, Nationality and Statelessness under International Law introduces the study and practice of 'international statelessness law' and explains the complex relationship between the international law on nationality and the phenomenon of statelessness. It also identifies the rights of stateless people, outlines the major legal obstacles preventing the eradication of statelessness and charts a course for this new and rapidly changing field of study\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution pursues a rigorous examination of the various ways in which the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement.
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Deport deprive extradite : 21st century state extremism
\"The extradition of terror subjects reveals who is considered to be human--and who is not. When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived, his appeal was lost and he was effectively made stateless. Pham's story is one of the many in Deport, Deprive, Extradite that illustrates the perpetual enhancement of state power and its capabilities to expel. In looking at these stories of Muslim men accused of terrorism-related offenses, Nisha Kapoor exposes how these racialised subjects are dehumanized, made non-human, both in terms of how they are represented and via the disciplinary techniques used to expel them. She explores how the establishment of these non-humans enables the expansion of inhumanity more broadly, targeting Muslims, people of colour, immigrants and refugees. In asking what such cases illuminate and legitimate about precariousness and dispossession, she offers a radical analysis of the contemporary security state\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Corporate Romanticism
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developmentsGÇöthe rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial actionGÇöundermined the basic assumption underpinning both liberalism and the law: that individual human persons can be meaningfully correlated with specific actions and particular effects. Reading works by Godwin, Austen, Hogg, Mary Shelley, and Dickens alongside a wide-ranging set of debates in nineteenth-century law and Romantic politics and aesthetics, Daniel Stout argues that the novel, a literary form long understood as a reflection of individualismGÇÖs ideological ascent, in fact registered the fragile fictionality of accountable individuals in a period defined by corporate actors and expansively entangled fields of action._x000D_ Examining how liberalism, the law, and the novel all wrestled with the moral implications of a highly collectivized and densely packed modernity, Corporate Romanticism reconfigures our sense of the nineteenth century and its novels, arguing that we see in them not simply the apotheosis of laissez-fair individualism but the first chapter of a crucial and distinctly modern problem about how to fit the individualist and humanist terms of justice onto a world in which the most consequential agents are no longer persons.
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Law’s meaning of life
Whenever people go to law, they are judged for their suitability as legal persons. They are given or refused rights and duties on the basis of ideas about who matters. These ideas are basic to legal-decision making; they form the intellectual and moral underpinning of legal thought. They help to determine whether law is essentially for rational human beings or whether it also speaks to and for human infants, adults with impaired reasoning, the comotose, foetuses and even animals. Are these the right kind of beings to enter legal relationships and so become legal persons. Are they, for example, sufficiently rational, or sacred or simply human? Is law meant for them?
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