Your selfie may raise legal questions
Your selfie may raise legal questions |
In this short Legal Brief video, Professor Nita Farahany explains what can be inferred from that selfie you post on social media, and how those inferences are being used to shape your habits and preferences. She also explains how existing laws fall short of protecting what’s learned from the data. “The real harm in today’s day and age is what the data does rather than what the data is itself,” Farahany said.
|
How to think about “meme stock” regulation |
Professor Gina-Gail Fletcher examines the rise of “meme stocks” through the lens of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Fletcher, a member of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee, concludes that while the laws of market manipulation are ill-suited to addressing meme stock trading, that doesn’t mean this sort of activity should proceed unchecked. She suggests some ways to think about potential regulations.
|
A new way to think about corporate law |
Professor Emilie Aguirre argues that the traditional model of corporate law centering on shareholders and managers isn’t working in a world under pressure from new technologies, climate concerns, and economic and geopolitical risks. She suggests recommendations for reform in her latest research. “We are asking people to think of corporate law in a really new way: Can we reimagine corporate law in a way that aligns with how organizations actually behave?” Aguirre said.
|
|
|
Quantifying human well-being in risk measurement |
Professor Matthew Adler developed a methodology for applying a social welfare function framework to fatality risk regulations, policies designed to reduce statistical human deaths from natural disasters, pandemics, and exposure to toxic workplace chemicals, among other examples. By demonstrating how the well-being of individuals fares under different frameworks, he offers policymakers a structured way to rank them, so they can choose the most ethical and equitable options.
|
|
|
Want more insights from Duke Law? |
|
|
|
Know someone who would enjoy receiving this newsletter? Please forward this email and have them subscribe.
|
| |
|
Duke University
210 Science Drive | Durham, NC 27708 US
|
Manage your preferences | Opt Out using TrueRemove™
Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future emails.
View this email online.
|
|
|
|
