Monthly Archives: June 2011

Weekly Announcements – June 6, 2011

SSRN has again been named the Number 1 Open Access Repository in the World (for January, 2011) by the Ranking Web of World Repositories. Our thanks to all of the SSRN community who helped make this happen.
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 24, 2011

1. Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime by Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) and Benjamin Engelstätter (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) – Information and Communication Technologies Research Group) and Michael R. Ward (University of Texas at Arlington – College of Business Administration – Department of Economics) 2. Therasense v. Becton Dickinson: [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 17, 2011

1. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 2. Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement by Morgan Leigh Manning (University of Tennessee, Knoxville – College of Law) 3. Divine Operating System by Glenn Harlan Reynolds (University [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 10, 2011

1. ‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove (George Washington University Law School) 2. Case Closed by Robert A. Haugen (Haugen Custom Financial Systems) and Nardin L. Baker (SSIA) 3. Less than Picture Perfect: The Legal Relationship between Photographers’ Rights and Law Enforcement by Morgan Leigh Manning (University [...]
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Searle Center “Internet Search and Innovation” Conference Keynote

I’m looking forward to delivering the keynote, Searching and Accessing the Right Content, in the Right Place at the Right Time, tonight at the Searle Center’s Second Annual Conference on Internet Search and Innovation at Northwestern Law School.  The Searle Center runs several conferences each year related to the impact of laws and regulations on [...]
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Weekly Top 5 Papers – June 3, 2011

1. Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency by Reuben Grinberg (Yale Law School) 2. The Future Has Thicker Tails than the Past: Model Error as Branching Counterfactuals by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (NYU-Poly) 3. Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany by Nico Voigtländer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – Anderson [...]
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Weekly Announcements – May 30, 2011

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN: Announcing CAAA 2011 Annual Meeting Abstracting eJournal In cooperation with the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) is pleased to announce the 2011 Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual Conference abstracting eJournal. The abstracting eJournal is available to all users at no charge and [...]
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Michael C. Jensen Delivers Georgetown’s MSB Commencement

Michael C. Jensen, SSRN‘s Chairman and Professor Emeritus gave the commencement address to the graduating class of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business on Saturday May 21. Jensen spoke to the class about integrity, authenticity and being committed to something bigger than oneself – topics drawn from work with his co-author, Werner Erhard . Jensen [...]
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