While practitioners have long considered the transnational sphere an anarchic Wild West, Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law reveals elaborate regulatory foundations comprising both “hard” and “soft” law. In the book, Peer Zumbansen–professor and Canada Research Chair in Transnational & Comparative Law of Corporate Governance at Osgoode Hall Law School–explores [...]

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IPilogue (www.iposgoode.ca) is the first online review of its kind, featuring thoughtful intellectual property and technology law commentary by its student editors as well as scholars and other experts from around the world. As an interdisciplinary forum, we explore issues ranging from biotechnology to telecommunications, media to privacy, antitrust to tort, and beyond. Based at [...]

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Michael John Long is an LLM candidate advancing to the PhD at Osgoode Hall Law School In a recent blog posted on the IP Osgoode website I considered the ruling in City of Ontario v. Quon; a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue of the privacy of employee text messages [...]

Posted in Human Rights Issues, Identity Theft, Privacy
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Amanda Carpenter is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. The New York Times has recently published an interesting article about academic plagiarism. Within the article, a couple of examples of plagiarism are provided. The first example involves a freshman student who copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page, and [...]

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