All Articles tagged media

• Justice Commentaries
  January 22, 2024 EDT
  THE POTENTIAL FOR DEFAMATION LAW TO STOP HATEFUL AND FALSE ONLINE RHETORIC TOWARDS LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS
  Max Sevor

  The primary question this Albany Law School student note addresses is whether LGBTQ individuals targeted in social media by bad-faith accusations of grooming may seek recourse under defamation law.

• General
  February 28, 2019 EDT
  URBAN CREEP IN UPSTATE NEW YORK: OPTIMIZING THE PRESERVATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND
  Lindsey L. Johnson

  New York State has the tools and capabilities of promoting agriculture and land use planning by focusing on the needs of communities at the local level.

• General
  June 11, 2017 EDT
  SEX-BASED CITIZENSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS AND THE “NEW RATIONALITY”
  Martha F. Davis

  This article will examine sex-based citizenship challenges, including Nguyen and Morales-Santana, through the lens of this new rational basis review.

• General
  May 01, 2017 EDT
  THE RITE OF COPYRIGHT: THE COMPARATIVE PROCEDURAL EMPHASIS OF AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW
  Jimmy J. Zhuang

  This essay argues that American copyright law is heavily influenced by an emphasis on procedure and is much less attentive to underlying substantive rights.

• General
  March 28, 2017 EDT
  GETTING EVEN: EMPOWERING VICTIMS OF REVENGE PORN WITH A CIVIL CAUSE OF ACTION
  Jessica M. Pollack

  Criminalizing revenge porn is not the best method by which to seek redress against an offender, but rather, states should enact civil causes of action specifically against revenge porn.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 17, 2016 EDT
  THE PROSECUTOR’S DUTY OF SILENCE
  Bennett Gershman

  This article demonstrates that regulation of prosecutor speech is piecemeal and inconsistent.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  DEATH, BUT IS IT MURDER? THE ROLE OF STEREOTYPES AND CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS OF WOMEN
  Andrea L. LewisSara L. Sommervold

  This article promotes further study of the wrongful convictions of women and make policy recommendations to reduce those wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  August 03, 2015 EDT
  DEATH, BUT IS IT MURDER? THE ROLE OF STEREOTYPES AND CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS IN THE WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS OF WOMEN
  Andrea L. LewisSara L. Sommervold

  This article promotes further study of the wrongful convictions of women and make policy recommendations to reduce those wrongful convictions.

• Justice Commentaries
  October 16, 2014 EDT
  PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
  John G. Browning

  As this article demonstrates, prosecutorial misconduct arising out of the use of technology poses a particular concern thanks to the ease of use and inexorable spread of new communication platforms.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  September 23, 2013 EDT
  BATTLE BORN: CHALLENGES FACING THE NEVADA JUDICIARY
  Michael A. CherryKathleen M. Brady

  This perspective discusses how the justices of the Nevada Supreme Court are able to dispose of a considerable number of cases each year.

• New York Appeals
  March 03, 2013 EDT
  FOREWARNED: SPORTS, TORTS, AND NEW YORK‘S DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION
  Benjamin P. Pomerance

  For decades New York state courts in torts cases have blanketly applied the assumption of risk doctrine and barred recovery rather than taking a more equitable approach under comparative negligence.

• General
  January 01, 2013 EDT
  ENCOURAGING CONGRESS TO ENCOURAGE SPEECH: REFLECTIONS ON UNITED STATES V. ALVAREZ
  Jeffery C. Barnum

  This article attempts to shed some light on the path forward for the legislative branch, bifurcating (as does the Alvarez decision) to address the harms posed by false claims of...

• General
  January 01, 2013 EDT
  MEDIA DIVERSITY AND ONLINE ADVERTISING
  Marvin AmmoriLuke Pelican

  Tension between privacy of personal information and media diversity is the subject of this paper.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 05, 2012 EDT
  THE CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL AND WRONGFUL EXONERATIONS: HOW TRIAL BY MEDIA‖CASES DIMINISH PUBLIC CONFIDENCE INTHE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  Nicholas A. Battaglia

  This article argues that the phenomenon of a wrongful exoneration is birthed primarily through a trial by media.

• General
  January 01, 2011 EDT
  BRIDGING THE GULF: USING MEDIATED, CONSENSUS-BASED REGULATION TO RECONCILE COMPETING PUBLIC POLICY AGENDAS IN DISASTER MITIGATION
  Michael N. Widener

  The best accommodation of the vital interests of adversarial stakeholders will require significant, collective intelligence of informed citizens from myriad walks of life.

• General
  January 01, 2009 EDT
  MAKING PEACE AND MAKING MONEY: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE MARKET FOR MEDIATORS IN PRIVATE PRACTICE
  Urska Velikonja

  In this article, the author explores the market for mediators, in particular for mediators in private practice.