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Google uses Gmail to track a history of things you buy and it’s hard to delete

CNBC – “Google tracks a lot of what you buy, even if you purchased it elsewhere, like in a store or from Amazon. Last week, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote a New York Times op-ed that said “privacy cannot be a … Continue reading

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William’s World: An Essay About the History of Just Price

William Boyd, Just Price, Public Utility, and the Long History of Economic Regulation in America, 35 Yale J. Reg. 721 (2018). Felix Mormann Reading Professor William Boyd’s fine piece, Just Price, Public Utility, and the Long History of Economic Regulation … Continue reading

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Law and Public History: The Legal History of Memory Regulation in Twentieth-Century Europe

Nikolay Koposov, Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia (2018). Reuel Schiller The United States is in the midst of a memory war. Every month brings a new political and legal dispute over how … Continue reading

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Call For Papers, ESIL International Conference, Athens, 2019 ESIL Interest Group History of International Law @esil_sedi

The Call for Papers for the ESIL Interest Group History of International Law event on 12 September 2019 "New Histories of Sovereigns and Sovereignties" has been extended to May 31, 2019. Here is the call. Read more detail on Recent … Continue reading

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Is History Repeating Itself? Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws Of The Past Still Resonate Today

Terry Gross had author Daniel Okrent on NPR's "Fresh Air." As is well-known, nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a restrictive law that cut the overall number of immigrants coming to the United States and put severe limits on those… … Continue reading

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