1. THE PHENOMENON Our work on adding the “missing user” to the telecommunication (telecom) policy discourse reaches back to the early 1990s.(1) Much like today, policy debates at the time raged over issues such as the upgrading of telecom networks and the need for new services, the (re)definition of universal service, the emergence of “information age” inequalities (e.g., the rural-urban divide...

Thirty years ago, in Youngberg v. Romeo, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized that those who are involuntarily committed in a state institution enjoy a constitutionally protected liberty interest, which protects the right to reasonably safe conditions of confinement, freedom from unreasonable restraint, and minimally adequate training sufficient to ensure these liberty interests. In a unanimous de...

The use of detention for psychiatric treatment is widespread and sometimes necessary. International human rights law requires a legal framework to safeguard the rights to liberty and personal integrity by preventing arbitrary detention. However, research suggests that extra-legal factors may influence decisions to detain. This article presents observational and interview data to describe how de...

This paper describes how a startup business process outsourcing (BPO) provider named Liberty Source helped a large U.S.-based client reshore business services from an established Indian BPO provider. Founded in 2014, Liberty Source is a for-profit firm that provides a competitive alternative to offshoring while fulfilling its social mission to launch and sustain the careers of U.S. military spo...

This article examines legal pleadings in Scottish cases involving naval impressment the period 1778-1795. The Session Papers provide a rich source of both law and fact, these cases, as well reflecting on Admiralty practice across Britain, demonstrate reliance by counsel English sources – including pre-Union statutes alongside Scots law. Impressment sparked constitutional debate concerning relat...

In this paper we study the role of religiosity in political choices such as redistribution and individual liberties. To a standard model with consumption and effort, we add a third good: civil liberties with a cap established by law. More liberties, like divorce, abortion, gender parity, or gay marriage, may be considered good by the secular and detrimental by the religious individuals. With st...

Edited by British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Liberty, games and contracts: Narveson and the defence of libertarianism 1.Narveson, Jan, 19362. Libertarianism 3. Contractarianism (Ethics) 1.Murray, Malcolm 320.5'12 MALCOLM MURRAY University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Liberty, games, and contracts: Jan Narveson and the defence of...

IT IS OBVIOUS FROM his review of my book that J.H. Huebert holds me in genuine high esteem. This saddens him all the more for, in his view, I have squandered my talents on so unworthy a topic as Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, which he characterizes as “an unfortunate waste of talent for a powerful mind such as Randy Barnett’s” (p. 108). While there is much that I d...

Cross-domain identity management is gaining significant interest in industry. A wellknown example is the Liberty Alliance’s specifications for single signon of web users across different enterprises. The Liberty Alliance stresses that account linking is voluntary for the users and that privacy is an important consideration. We evaluate the privacy of these specifications in detail. We point out...