STLR Link Roundup – March 13, 2013
Harvard Defends Email Search Harvard faculty reacted angrily to Harvard’s search of Resident Deans’ emails. (Resident Deans are administrators who oversee the affairs of Harvard’s residential dorms.) Harvard conducted the search, without notice to the deans whose accounts were searched, in order to determine how confidential information regarding last year’s cheating scandal leaked to the press. Through the [...]
Pitting Robots Against Spammers in Rulemaking Comment Wars
As the notice-and-comment process that has been a feature of agency rulemaking for the past 60 years moves online, citizens have started to exercise their right to spam. Some scholars, notably Stuart Shulman, write that electronic comment tools flood agencies with low-quality comments that agencies ultimately ignore. Shulman, The Case Against Mass E-mails: Perverse Incentives [...]
STLR Link Roundup – October 1, 2012
Google Can Test Its Driverless Cars in California A new law in California allows Google’s cars on the road, as long as there is a driver inside ready to take control. This license to Google to test their cars comes on the heels of similar legislation in Nevada. A reporter from CNN test-drove Google’s car, [...]