Are Browse-Wrap Agreements All They Are Wrapped Up to Be?

Electronic agreements continue to fortify their presence in the digital commercial marketplace. Whether used to sell goods or services, or simply to define relationships, standardized electronic agreements have appeared in abundance in business-to-business or business-to-consumer transactions. Standardized electronic agreements, like their physical counterparts, offer the ability to address multiple concerns in a simple, efficient fashion. Although electronic contracts and electronic signatures have been accepted and promoted by federal and state governments, many fundamental aspects of contract law have been left for the courts to wrestle with when disputes arise. Today, there are essentially two types of standardized electronic agreements—the click-through agreement and the browse-wrap agreement. A click-through agreement is an agreement that requires an offeree to click on an acceptance icon, which evidences a manifestation of assent to be bound to the terms of a contract. On the other hand, a browse-wrap agreement is one that is typically presented at the bottom of the website and where acceptance is based on “use” of the site. Litigation surrounding click-through agreements surfaced first, but browse-wrap litigation soon followed. Although neither agreement is particularly new (each has appeared well in advance of the ensuing litigation), few state and federal courts have addressed the enforceability of browse-wrap agreements and the terms therein. The dearth of settled law surrounding browse-wrap agreements creates uncertainty. This article discusses the development of browse-wrap contract law as it relates to formation, enforcement of specific terms and areas that are still to be addressed

Sheila, Take a Bow

Professor Sheila Whiteley passed away on 6th of June, 2015. Sheila’s ground-breaking achievements in popular culture and gender studies, alongside her bright personal triumphs are celebrated by numerous obituaries from national and international media. Here, we present the tributes of Sheila’s students, colleagues and friends.Sheila Whiteley nous a quittés le 6 juin 2015. Ses recherches pionnières sur la culture populaire et le genre, en plus de ses grands succès personnels, furent célébrés dans de nombreux médias internationaux. Nous vous présentons ici une série d’hommages de ses étudiants, collègues et amis

A Clinicopathological Profile of Prostate Cancer in Trinidad and Tobago

Aim. To conduct a clinicopathological review of all prostate biopsies performed in a tertiary referral centre in Trinidad and Tobago over a period of 30 months. Methods. The records of all patients who had prostate biopsies from January 2012 to July 2014 were reviewed. Clinical and pathologic data were compiled and subsequently analysed using SPSS version 20. Results. From January 2012 to July 2014, 617 transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsies were performed. Pathological data were found for 546 patients of whom 283 (51.8%) were confirmed carcinoma of the prostate. Moderately differentiated tumors (Gleason 7) were the most common group. Using the D' Amico risk classification, most cases were found to be high risk (63.1%). Afro-Trinidadians comprised 72.1% of the patients with prostate cancer. Afro-Trinidadians were also more likely to have high risk and high grade disease as well as high PSA values. Conclusion. This study demonstrates that over half of our biopsies are eventually positive for cancer and most cases were high risk. Afro-Trinidadians comprised a disproportionate number of those diagnosed with prostate cancer and had a greater risk of high risk disease

Special Beatles studies

Près d'un demi-siècle après l'adoubement des Beatles par Luciano Berio, ce numéro de Volume ! propose un tour d’horizon de la recherche scientifique sur le groupe dont John Lennon affirmait qu'il était encore « plus populaire que Jésus ». Outre une imposante bibliographie couvrant les 50 premières années de ce qu’il est désormais convenu d’appeler les « Beatles Studies », on y découvrira entre autres que la British Invasion est passée par Paris, que les popular music studies ont débuté par l'étude musicologique des musiques populaires, que la théorie des vecteurs harmoniques peut s’appliquer à la musique pop ou encore que l’album Abbey Road mérite d’être analysé à la lumière des concepts développés par Marshall McLuhan. Nearly half a century after Luciano Berio praised the Beatles in his “Commenti al Rock” (1967), this special issue of Volume! surveys the research carried out on the band that was, according to John Lennon, “more popular than Jesus”. In light of an impressive bibliography covering the first 50 years of what we now call “Beatles Studies”, one learns, for example, that the British Invasion originated in Paris, that Popular Music Studies began with the musicological study of popular music, that the theory of harmonic vectors can help analyze pop music or that Marshall McLuhan's concepts shed an interesting light on albums such as Abbey Road