Roadmap to Reconciliation: An Institutional and Conceptual Framework for Jewish-Muslim Engagement

This paper calls for the establishment of a comprehensive academic and theological center to be created and located at a prestigious secular university in the United States. As the first of its kind in North America, it should be affiliated with both American Muslim and Jewish institutions. Modeled on similar Jewish-Christian centers, its mission will be to foster both a neutral ground for dialogue and the development of a theology of Jewish-Muslim coexistence

Roadmap to Reconciliation: An Institutional and Conceptual Framework for Jewish-Muslim Engagement

This paper calls for the establishment of a comprehensive academic and theological center to be created and located at a prestigious secular university in the United States. As the first of its kind in North America, it should be affiliated with both American Muslim and Jewish institutions. Modeled on similar Jewish-Christian centers, its mission will be to foster both a neutral ground for dialogue and the development of a theology of Jewish-Muslim coexistence

Technological Change and Copyright Tariffs after CBC v. SODRAC (SCC 2015). Part 2

The Honourable Mr. Marshall Rothstein presents his keynote address. REPRODUCTION RIGHTS The majority ruling in the SODRAC case concluded that the Supreme Court’s central holding in Bishop v Stevens [1990] 2 S.C.R. 467 remains sound: there is no reason, either in the subsequent jurisprudence or legislative amendments, to depart from long-standing practice of treating ephemeral copies as reproductions. In a forcefully articulated dissent, the minority described this conclusion as unreasonable and contrary to the principles of balance and technological neutrality. How should “reproduction” be understood in the digital context, where copies may no longer appear to be “material” either in form or effect? Is the holding limited to the broadcasting context? What are the potential risks and benefits of treating every copy as a copy? What bearing will the amendments in the Copyright Modernization Act (2012) have on the potential scope of the SODRAC ruling

Copyright for librarians

Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and EIFL, a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning: 1) copyright law in general 2) the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries 3) how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in 4) the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped.

Lithuania's participation in the reconstruction process of Afghanistan: a case of a small state's engagement in the international arena

Because the international arena is too focused on the interests of big states as structuring international interactions, small states continue to appear merely as objects (versus subjects) in the eyes of a large number of researchers, sometimes unconsciously following the (neo)realist tradition of International Relations (IR). Consequently, small states appear to be devoid of any analytical interest. In fact, such a trend in the field of IR neglects the significance of ever increasing interactions between states. Moreover, these interactions need not reflect incompatible interests of different states. The article argues that the case of the reconstruction process of Afghanistan, implemented by the international community, presents a positive-sum logic. In other words, the efforts of the coalition in the Afghan territory allow the engaged states, be they big or small, to pursue their own interests. The degree of their contributions corresponds to the benefits their engagement might provide. As the analysis of the Lithuanian case demonstrates, a small state need not be a passive object trapped in the interactions of powerful states and can arrange itself in order to proceed with actively pursuing its own foreign policy