A Personal Note

It\u27s a pleasure to introduce this issue honoring Columbia\u27s most lovable curmudgeon. What can I say about the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Law? I should acknowledge, at the start, Henry\u27s profound intellectual contribution to Columbia and to the law. There are not many of us who can say, with justification, that we\u27ve written the Greatest Hits of Public Law Scholarship over the course of our careers. And few of us have made individual contributions that equal Constitutional Common Law, Marbury and the Administrative State, We the People[s], Stare Decisis, or The Constitution Goes to Harvard. Henry is unusual among scholars in that you can pick a title from his CV at random and manage to name a chart-topper. Henry doesn\u27t repeat himself, and he doesn\u27t write filler. He just writes Greatest Hits

Working Welfare Recipients: A Comparison of the Family Support Act and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act

This Note compares the work requirements of the Family Support Act ( FSA ) with those promulgated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act ( PRWORA ) This Note concludes that the fairest and most effective welfare program offers a combination of work, education, and training, and proposes suggestions for implementing the existing work requirements to ensure long-term self sufficiency for welfare recipients

The Hunt for Privacy Harms After \u3ci\u3eSpokeo\u3c/i\u3e

In recent years, due both to hacks that have leaked the personal information of hundreds of millions of people and to concerns about government surveillance, Americans have become more aware of the harms that can accompany the widespread collection of personal data. However, the law has not yet fully developed to recognize the concrete privacy harms that can result from what otherwise seems like ordinary economic activity involving the widespread aggregation and compilation of data. This Note examines cases in which lower federal courts have applied the Supreme Court’s directions for testing the concreteness of alleged intangible privacy injuries, and in particular how that inquiry has affected plaintiffs’ suits under statutes that implicate privacy concerns. This Note proposes that, in probing the concreteness of these alleged privacy harms, the courts, through the doctrine of standing, are engaging in work that could serve to revitalize the judiciary’s long-dormant analysis of the nature of privacy harms. It suggests that courts should look beyond the four traditional privacy torts to find standing for plaintiffs who bring claims against entities that collect and misuse personal information. This Note urges courts to make use of a nexus approach to identify overlapping privacy concerns sufficient for standing, which would allow the federal judiciary to more adequately address emerging privacy harms

Some concerns in higher education in England: A personal note

Der Autor analysiert spezifische Merkmale des britischen Hochschulsystems: den Grad der Autonomie der Universitäten gegenüber dem Staat sowie das System der Hochschulfinanzierung. Dabei geht er auf die Bewertung von universitärer Forschung ein und die Bedeutung der Evaluation für die einzelnen Institute hinsichtlich der staatlichen Finanzierung. Außerdem thematisiert er die Einführung von Studiengebühren. (DIPF/av