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Consent
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Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
Pa. Wiretap Laws Forbid Use of Smart Phone Apps to Record Conversations
The Pennsylvania courts have delved into the "App Store," addressing for the first time the use of smartphones and their applications in the context of illegal wiretapping. Pennsylvania's Wiretap Act…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Taiwan Amends Personal Data Protection Law
Taiwan’s Office of the President recently issued an order to promulgate certain amendments to Taiwan’s Personal Data Protection Law. The Amendments revise 12 articles in the PDPL concerning the collection…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Rewriting the Law of Sexual Assault and Advance Consent
By Tracy Thomas
Sexual Assault and Advance Consent: A Feminist Judgment in R v. J.A.This is the audio recording of a seminar given at the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of…
Healthcare Law Blog
HHS Recognizes Changing Environment of Research: Still Time to Comment
By Dawn Crumel, Ethan Stanislawski
Late last month the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other Federal Departments and Agencies announced an extension until January 6, 2016 to the comment period for the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Affirmative Consent of “Yes Means Yes” as Nothing New
By Tracy Thomas
I had the pleasure of hearing Jonathan Witmer-Rich (Cleveland State) speak last Friday at the NE Ohio Faculty Colloquium, a twice-annual lunch with the faculties of Akron, Case, and Cleveland State. He previewed…
The Right Coast
Sex Ed Lesson: Yes Means Yes, but It s Tricky – The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO The classroom of 10th graders had already learned about sexually transmitted diseases and various types of birth control. On this day, the teenagers gathered around tables to discuss…
Education Law Prof Blog
Tuerkheimer on Rape On and Off Campus
Deborah Tuerkheimer (Northwestern) has published Rape on and Off Campus, 65 Emory L.J. 1 (2015). The article argues that the criminal justice system’s treatment of non stranger rape reflects a doctrine woefully out of…
Energy & Environmental Law Adviser
Proposed Largest Natural Resource Damages Settlement in U.S. History
By Bina Joshi
On October 5, 2015, the United States, BP Exploration and Production Inc. (BP), Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas lodged a Consent Decree with the District Court for the Eastern…
ContractsProf Blog
Lyft’s TOS Can’t Save It From the TCPA (or Why Contract Law’s Version of Consent Needs to Get With the Program)
The FCC recently issued a Citation and Order to Lyft which alleges that its terms of service violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Under the TCPA, a company that…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
German Data Protection Commissioners Issue Position Paper on Proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation
On August 14 and August 26, 2015, the Conference of the Data Protection Commissioners of the Federal Government and the Federal States (Länder) issued a detailed position paper and a…