Law School Casebooks

A number of recent legal casebooks have been among the publications of U-M law faculty members. The ones reviewed here are: Banking Law Teaching Materials, by U-M law Prof. James J. White. The Lawyer as a Negotiator, by Prof. James J. White and Prof. Harry T. Edwards of Harvard Law School. A Modern Approach to Evidence, by U-M law Prof. Richard Lempert and Prof. Stephen Saltzburg of the University of Virginia Law School. Basic Uniform Commercial Code Teaching Materials, by U-M law Prof. James A. Martin and Prof. David G. Epstein of the University of Texas Law School. Conflicts of Law and Other lFlterstate Problems, by Prof. James A. Martin

Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic

We offer a microeconomic model of the two-sided market for the dominant form of spam: bulk, unsolicited, and commercial advertising email. We adopt an incentive-centered design approach to develop a simple, feasible improvement to the current email system using an uncensored communication channel. Such a channel could be an email folder or account, to which properly tagged commercial solicitations are routed. We characterize the circumstances under which spammers would voluntarily move much of their spam into the open channel, leaving the traditional email channel dominated by person-to-person, non-spam mail. Our method follows from observing that there is a real demand for unsolicited commercial email, so that everyone can be made better off if a channel is provided for spammers to meet spamdemanders. As a bonus, the absence of filtering in an open channel restores to advertisers the incentive to make messages truthful, rather than to disguise them to avoid filters. We show that under certain conditions all email recipients are better off when an open channel is introduced. Only recipients wanting spam will use the open channel enjoying the less disguised messages, and for all recipients the satisfaction associated with desirable mail received increases, and dissatisfaction associated with both undesirable mail received and desirable mail filtered out decreases

UM Notes

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Phoenix Memorial Laboratory and Ford Nuclear Reactor Radiation Services

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The Inauguration of the 15th President of the University of Michigan

Santa J. Ono, Ph.D., is the 15th president of the University of Michigan. He began a five-year term on October 14, 2022. A recognized leader in higher education in the United States and Canada, President Ono is an experienced vision researcher whose pioneering work in experimental medicine focuses on the immune system and eye disease. At U-M, he is professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences in the Medical School. He joined U-M after serving as president and vice chancellor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 2016

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