Sex offender registries (SOR) were created because of gruesome crimes committed against
minors and the vulnerable, and they serve as a punishment. Empirically, SORs have …

This research has applied automatic semantic annotation to a text easification solution that
aids non-legal experts in reading legislation as part of their work. It annotates the modality …

Ballot measures, such as referendums and initiatives, are seen primarily as mechanisms of
'direct democracy', as supplements to 'representative democracy', or as failures of …

Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) changed the national discussion about who is the
decision-maker in healthcare delivery–physicians or others that pay the bill. The federal …

The era of anonymous defamation and Internet impersonation has arrived. Given a largely
unregulated Internet landscape and boundless international access to information online, it …

The call for papers sent out by this symposium's organizers highlighted two themes:" fake
news" and" weaponized defamation." At the symposium itself, presentations and discussions …