Items tagged with Law and Technology

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  Summer Employment Dispatch: Kevin Lawler L’19
  July 13
  This summer, Kevin Lawler L’19 is interning for the Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal Group at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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  Three Penn Law students awarded law and technology scholarships
  June 19
  The Law School and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition have awarded this year’s annual CTIC Interdisciplinary Scholarships to three students: Christina Chen L’20, Delaney Butler L’20, and Kelsey Matevish L’19.
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  New Penn research assesses financial viability of municipal fiber networks
  May 24
  University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Christopher Yoo and co-author Timothy Pfenninger released the first comprehensive study of the financial viability of America’s municipal fiber networks — “Municipal Fiber in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Financial Performance.”
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  Yoo appointed to FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee
  April 12
  Penn Law professor Christopher S. Yoo is one of 29 members of the newly created Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee.
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  Some Ethical and Practical Concerns Re: “The Right to be Forgotten”
  November 14
  The “right to be forgotten” involves new statutes in the EU that allow people to ask Internet content providers to remove information that could hurt their reputation…Forgetting, in this sense, poses a major problem for any search engine, since any query requires a human to make a judgement call. However, I’m focusing on the values and ethics involved
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  “Get Digi With It”: AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGY’S CHALLENGE TO RESTRICTIONS ON RECORDING IN PENNSYLVANIA PRISONS
  October 21
  The PA Department of Corrections’ nearly complete ban on recording in its facilities by lawyers and the media needs to be reexamined in light of advances in the use of digital audiovisual technology and visual legal advocacy.