In ABC v. Aereo, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, held that Aereo, Inc.’s subscription service – which gave subscribers access over the Internet to a miniature TV antenna and a miniature DVR housed in Aereo’s facility, allowing them to record over-the-air broadcast television signals (like the ones transmitted by your local ABC affiliate)
Harold Kohn, the Philadelphia lawyer who was the architect of the modern-day class action, will be honored in memoriam this fall at Temple Law. On October 9, to mark what would have been Kohn’s 100th birthday, Temple will host a lecture sponsored by Kohn’s eponymous chaired professorship, and delivered by Delaware Chief Justice Leo E.
Increasingly, online merchants, together with brick-and-mortar sellers and data intermediaries, are knitting together mass data collection, the interconnective power of the “Internet of Things” and automated algorithmic pricing and selling with their existing retailing and supply-chain businesses. The result of this coordination is that traditional sales functions such as competitive intelligence gathering and pricing are
Third-year law student Han Gil Lee, former Temple Law Professor N. Jeremi Duru and I recently formed Global Sporting Integration LLC (GSI), a consulting firm specializing in assisting Minor and Major League Baseball (MLB) players from Asian countries successfully transition to the United States. During the 2013 season, approximately 60 Asian-born players competed in MLB
Legal academics are in the business of coming up with new ideas and research results, but it’s not often that a research project in law produces a new technology. That rare brand of lightning has struck the Law School’s Public Health Law Research Program, producing Temple Law’s first technology transfer spin-off and, we hope, changing
What is the purpose of a corporation? Today, the standard answer is that a corporation’s purpose is to benefit its shareholders – academics speak of the “shareholder primacy norm,” and many talk of corporate managers’ task as “shareholder wealth maximization.” Even apparently selfless corporate acts, such as charitable donations, are justified as ultimately benefiting shareholders
A sea change is happening in finance. Machines appear to be on the rise and humans on the decline. Human endeavors have become unmanned endeavors. Human thought and human deliberation have been replaced by computerized analysis and mathematical models. Technological advances have made finance faster, larger, more global, more interconnected, and less human. Modern finance
The tax law has a lot of rules. But although no statute conjures a more vivid or immediate picture of complex and detailed rules than the Internal Revenue Code, we have spent the last couple of years showing that tax law is not all about rules. In what are now two articles but will soon