® Professor McNichol is inaugurating a skills course for Spring 2017 on one of the most common trademark practice situations: lawyers have to offer a reasoned opinion on whether a business’s proposed trademark can be used. In order to support the simulations, he has negotiated free access to one of the principal commercial trademark clearance databases. … Continue reading INNOVATIVE NEW SKILLS COURSE: TRADEMARK CLEARANCE OPINION DRAFTING…
Author: Ellen Goodman
Second Annual Greg Lastowka Memorial Lecture
Rebecca Borden ’86, Senior VP and Associate General Counsel of CBS Managing Copyrights in the Digital Age November 14 @ 4 pm in E403; Rutgers Law @ Camden
Revealing Algorithmic Rankers
By Julia Stoyanovich (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University) and Ellen P. Goodman (Professor, Rutgers Law School). This post is derived from their recent Freedom to Tinker post. ProPublica’s story on “machine bias” in an algorithm used for sentencing defendants amplified calls to make algorithms more transparent and accountable. It has never been more … Continue reading Revealing Algorithmic Rankers…
Public Unions, Product Labels, and the Abuse of First Amendment ‘Rights’
The case poses the question of whether union collective bargaining involves the kind of expressive speech that employees should not have to support. It’s long been the law (since the Abood case) that employees have a First Amendment right not to be compelled to support union political speech. Collective bargaining is something different. So the … Continue reading Public Unions, Product Labels, and the Abuse of First Amendment ‘Rights’…
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WHEN: Friday, February 19, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EST) – Add to Calendar WHERE: Archibald Stevens Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Register Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL), the New Jersey Press Association, the NJ Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Center for Cooperative Media will present “What’s New … Continue reading Untitled…