The term post-democracy was coined by Warwick University political scientist Colin Crouch in 2000 in his book Coping with Post-Democracy. It designates states that are conducted by fully operating democratic systems ( elections are being held, governments fall and there is freedom of speech), but whose application is progressively limited.
Ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft continue to face legal troubles. This time, it's coming from within. Lawyers have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ridesharing company drivers who say t...
There are many valuable lessons to glean from Code Red_, Steven Brill’s Time Magazine cover story on the rescue of healthcare.gov. For those calling out Silicon Valley for its apparent narcissism,
Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled that the city’s codes allow Robin Speronis to live without utility power but she is still requiredto hook her home to the city’s water system. Her alternative source of power must be approved by the city, Eskin said.
The room-sharing company's fight with the New York attorney general is likely just one of many legal battles to come (Airbnb's legal troubles: the tip of the iceberg for the sharing economy?
Hammond was sentenced on Friday at federal court in Manhattan to the maximum 10 years in jail, plus three years supervised release. He had pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) flowing from his 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known as Stratfor. In an interview with the Guardian in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, conducted on Thursday, he said he was resigned to a long prison term which he sees as a conscious attempt by the US authorities to put a chill on political hacking.
In a setback for the sharing economy, the Office of the New York Attorney General has issued a subpoena demanding data about all Airbnb hosts in New York.
Is a host the same as a hotel? That’s the question Airbnb, a room-sharing startup, found itself answering as the result of a recent legal dispute over its services. The company’s answer... (Will New Legal Frameworks Undermine the Sharing Economy?
Agricultural land trust: A legal mechanism that enables private or cooperative organizations to conserve and manage farmland, acknowledging that while the land may be privately held, it is nonetheless a commons upon which future generations depend.
Reuben Grinberg, a recent Yale Law School graduate now in private practice in New York City, discusses his paper, published in the Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal entitled, Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency.
We are looking to collect legal documents of any form from anywhere in the world and securely archive them. Our initial focus will be legal constitutions, particularly for organisations in the social sector and creative industries. This will be an open uncurated project, if you have a legal document we will make it easy and secure for you to upload this document, so that you will never loose it again. From there users will be able to embed these documents in their own web sites, or link to them from email, or the wide range of social media.
The Pax Directory is a kind of social network, or civic network, made out of smart contracts which interact with the Ethereum blockchain. There are three identity levels correlated with trust and reputation within the system, and a whole suite of services and possibilities.
Startups challenging the increasingly complicated nature of legal practice explain how tools that tap into the power of collaboration and the crowd can improve the practice.
The abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's notice-and-takedown process to silence lawful speech is well-documented and all too common. Far less common, though, is a service provider that is willing to team up with its users to challenge that abuse in court.
"Polycentric law is a structure of overlapping or competing legal systems. Instead of having a single, monopoly provider of law and legal services, different systems are used to resolve disputes alongside one another.
latest sustainable business news - The sharing economy: is Airbnb's legal trouble a sign of things to come? (Challenges: The sharing economy: Airbnb's legal trouble a sign of things to come for resource-efficient businesses?
On the surface, it's a classic disruption story: Airbnb, a scrappy internet company that matches cash-strapped travelers with people who have spare rooms to rent, grows large enough to pose a threat to the hotel market. It then finds itself under attack – in this case, from the New York attorney general's office, protecting the interests of the wealthy, entrenched hotel lobby.
Kendall Clark is the founder and chief executive of Clark & Parsia, a 10-person software product and service firm that does development and R&D in enterprise semantics. He has worked for and with several federal agencies, including NASA and the National Cancer Institute. After my essay in this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek, “The Obamacare Website Didn’t Have to Fail. How to Do Better Next Time,” was posted, Clark (with whom I once worked at the website XML.com) reached out to tell me that he disagreed with my thesis—namely that open source would lead to fewer failed software projects. He’s not against open-sourcing some government code, but he questions the relationship between opening the code and improving the quality. I asked him a few followup questions.
Airbnb has until the end of the day to provide user data on 15,000 New Yorkers who have hosted on the popular apartment-sharing site Airbnb. (Snags in the sharing economy.
"There is only one way to ensure that a company will make decisions in the interests of the people it serves: Put those people in control of the company. So let me introduce the T corporation. Most business-savvy people know that there are S corporations (Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code) and C corporations (Subchapter C), but almost no one thinks about forming a T corporation (Subchapter T). But T corporations have been around for a long time, and they have a major benefit of not paying tax if 1) they are governed democratically by the shareholders (i.e., everyone gets one vote in the election of the board, regardless of share value) and 2) the earnings of the company are distributed to the shareholders on the basis of how much they patronize (i.e. do business with) the company.
On Tuesday, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) declassified an opinion in which it explained why the government’s collection of records of all Americans’ phone calls is constitutional, and that if there is a problem with the program, it is a matter of political judgment, not constitutional law. So, should Americans just keep calm and carry on phoning? Not really.
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