Parsing the Purpose Limitation Principle
Last month, the European Union’s Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released an opinion analyzing the data protection principle of purpose limitation. That principle, which...
Read MoreCivil Rights to Human Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin
A year ago today, I helped organize a discussion on civil/human rights rhetoric in America at the Schomburg Center. The impetus for the program was...
Read MoreThe Supreme's Take on Same-Sex Marriage
I didn’t have much time this week to gather my thoughts on the Supreme Court’s handling of the Proposition 8/DOMA arguments (yet I did...
Read MoreKeeping Secrets from Society
While the first round of oral arguments surrounding gay marriage was the big event before the Supreme Court today, the Court also issued a...
Read MoreACS Law Talk Episode 11: The Future of LGBT Equality
After many months, my former employer has posted an interview I conducted with Nan Hunter, an associate dean and constitutional law scholar at Georgetown Law...
Read MoreIs Big Brother Getting Into Our Cars?
In the public relations battle between The New York Times and Tesla over the paper’s poor review of Tesla’s Model S electric car, the real story may be...
Read MoreRural Minority Is a Vast Landed Majority
In an anecdote-filled piece on Republican obsolescence by Robert Draper in The New York Times Magazine, Draper discusses the results of a focus group of average Ohioans....
Read MoreThe High Costs of Cheap Drones
Three weeks into the new year, and the United States has already launched eight drone strikes across Pakistan and Yemen, killing 50 people. Among those killed...
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