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A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem. Lying has been with us from time immemorial. Yet today is different-and in many respects worse. All over the world, people ...are circulating damaging lies, and these falsehoods are amplified as never before through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. Liars are saying that COVID-19 is a hoax. They are claiming that vaccines cause autism. They are lying about public officials and about people who aspire to high office. They are lying about their friends and neighbors. They are trying to sell products on the basis of untruths. Unfriendly governments, including Russia, are circulating lies in order to destabilize other nations, including the United Kingdom and the United States. In the face of those problems, the renowned legal scholar Cass Sunstein probes the fundamental question of how we can deter lies while also protecting freedom of speech. To be sure, we cannot eliminate lying, nor should we try to do so. Sunstein shows why free societies must generally allow falsehoods and lies, which cannot and should not be excised from democratic debate. A main reason is that we cannot trust governments to make unbiased judgments about what counts as fake news. However, governments should have the power to regulate specific kinds of falsehoods: those that genuinely endanger health, safety, and the capacity of the public to govern itself. Sunstein also suggests that private institutions, such as Facebook and Twitter, have a great deal of room to stop the spread of falsehoods, and they should be exercising their authority far more than they are now doing. As Sunstein contends, we are allowing far too many lies, including those that both threaten public health and undermine the foundations of democracy itself. Read more
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Examines how regulators ensure that the growing number of conglomerates are regulated sufficiently strongly to eradicate systemic risks and conflict of interest abuses, yet are flexible enough to allow the benefits of conglomeration to be secured. It looks particularly at the Chi...nese wall. Read more
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This book provides an ideal introduction to the French legal system and its internal workings, replete with the latest case law and developments.
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This is the first volume of The Max Planck Handbooks of European Public Law. Volume I: The Administrative State frames the administrative regimes of Europe in a comparative perspective, analysing the evolution of state and administration of major European jurisdictions, and exami...ning issues that cut across national boundaries. Read more
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Details 20 court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. This casebook also includes cases involved in psychological issues such as: insanity, criminal profiling, capital punishment, competence to stand trial, infanticide..., domestic violence, false confessions and psychological autopsies. Read more
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This collection of essays reflects on the fifth enlargement of the European Union, projected to take place in 2004. It examines the process of enlargement, its impact on both the candidate States and on the institutions and policies of the European Union.
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Eight essays that examine particular issues in the relations between subjectivity, authenticity, writing, speech and the law.
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New technology has revolutionized the nature and threatened the existence of traditional stock and futures exchanges. This book analyzes how exchanges have responded to developments in automation, and the resultant laws and their enforcement.
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A history of the discipline of public law in Germany, covering three dramatic decades of the Twentieth century. This work opens with the First World War, analyses the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 an...d extended to the downfall of the Third Reich. Read more
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Principles of French Law provides a comprehensive introduction to French law aimed at students and scholars embarking on their first study of the system. This new edition takes account of major changes in a number of areas of law with substantial parts of the book rewritten to me...et the needs of students and to reflect legal developments. Read more
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