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Contributors Woodrow Barfield served as Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Departments of Environmental Health and Civil Engineering. He holds a PhD, a JD, and an LLM; is currently Associate Editor for the Virtual Reality Journal, is a former senior editor of the MIT journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, and was on the editorial board of the Washington Journal of Law Technology & Arts. Further, he was Visiting Professor in computer science at University College, London, and was on the program committee which established the first conference on wearable computers and augmented reality. He also edited the first academic books on the same topics. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award and was an External Fellow for Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. His writings, which include more than 300 scholarly papers, discuss the law of virtual and augmented reality, and how the law applies to artificial intelligence and to humans enhanced with implanted technologies such as neuroprosthesis and brain-computer interfaces. His most recent books are Cyber Humans: Our Future with Machines and the edited collection Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality (2nd edition), and he is coediting, with Professor Ugo Parallo, the forthcoming Research Handbook on Law and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he frequently lectures on systems of the future at Duke University and publishes in engineering journals and law reviews, actively reviews for several journals, serves on various program committees, and gives invited keynote talks and lectures. -
Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2007 Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace Paul Schiff Berman George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace, Ashgate Publishing, 2007. This Book Part is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace The International Library of Essays in Law and Society Series Editor: Austin Sarat Titles in the Series: Law and Religion Law and Social Movements Gad Barzilai Michael McCann Police and Policing Law Colonial and Post-Colonial Law Jeannine Bell Sally Merry Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace Social Science in Law Paul Schiff Berman Elizabeth Mertz Law and Families Sexuality and Identity Susan B. Boyd and Helen Rhoades Leslie J. Moran Rhetoric of Law Law and Poverty Marianne Constable and Felipe Gutterriez Frank Munger Law in Social Theory Rights Roger Cotterrell Laura Beth Nielsen Ethnography and Law Governing Risks Eve Darian-Smith Pat O’Malley International Law and Society Lawyers and the Legal Profession, Volumes I and II Laura Dickinson Tanina Rostain Legal Lives of Private Organizations Capital Punishment, Volumes I and II Lauren Edelman and Mark C. Suchman Austin Sarat Courts and Judges Legality and Democracy Lee Epstein Stuart A. -
The Inevitable Legal Pluralism Within Universal Harmonization Regimes: the Case of the Cisg
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by George Washington University Law School GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2016 The Inevitable Legal Pluralism within Universal Harmonization Regimes: The Case of the Cisg Paul Schiff Berman George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Berman, Paul Schiff, The Inevitable Legal Pluralism within Universal Harmonization Regimes: The Case of the Cisg (2016). Unif. L. Rev., 2016, 1–18 ; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-7; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-7. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2749847 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The inevitable legal pluralism within universal harmonization regimes: the case of the CISG Paul Schiff Berman* Downloaded from Abstract Faced with a world of multiple overlapping normative communities and jurisdictions, law often seeks universal rules and harmonization regimes. Such rules and regimes offer http://ulr.oxfordjournals.org/ to tame pluralism through the imposition of common codes of conduct. The 1980 Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is a useful example of this phenomenon. Arising from harmonization efforts dating back at least to the 1920s, the CISG purports to solve the problem of jurisdictional overlap and inconsistency in the application of domestic law to cross-border commercial transactions. -
Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by George Washington University Law School GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works Faculty Scholarship 2007 Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace Paul Schiff Berman George Washington University Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace, Ashgate Publishing, 2007. This Book Part is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace The International Library of Essays in Law and Society Series Editor: Austin Sarat Titles in the Series: Law and Religion Law and Social Movements Gad Barzilai Michael McCann Police and Policing Law Colonial and Post-Colonial Law Jeannine Bell Sally Merry Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace Social Science in Law Paul Schiff Berman Elizabeth Mertz Law and Families Sexuality and Identity Susan B. Boyd and Helen Rhoades Leslie J. Moran Rhetoric of Law Law and Poverty Marianne Constable and Felipe Gutterriez Frank Munger Law in Social Theory Rights Roger Cotterrell Laura Beth Nielsen Ethnography and Law Governing Risks Eve Darian-Smith Pat O’Malley International Law and Society Lawyers and the Legal Profession, Volumes I and II Laura Dickinson Tanina Rostain Legal Lives of Private Organizations Capital Punishment, Volumes I and II Lauren Edelman and Mark C. -
Curriculum Vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE Paul Schiff Berman CURRENT POSITION 2011 – present The George Washington University Walter S. Cox Professor of Law. Courses taught: Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II, Conflict of Laws. PREVIOUS POSITIONS University Administration 2013 – 2016 The George Washington University Vice Provost for Online Education and Academic Innovation and Manatt/Ahn Professor of Law; oversaw all online operations for the University’s 105 online degree and certificate programs, generating nearly $70 million in gross revenue annually; chaired the University’s Strategic Planning Committee for Online Education; managed the creation of the University’s eDesign Shop, a production facility and team of instructional designers, videographers, computer animation specialists, and supporting positions; built the eDesign Shop’s capacity to create state-of-the-art online courses; worked with units throughout the University to create new online programs; managed all budgeting, vendor contracting, faculty licensing, state authorization, and university-level support for online programs; launched the University’s first set of Massive Open Online Courses; built some of the first large-scale university-level courses in the world using the openedX platform; created the University’s first comprehensive website for all online programs university-wide; organized and chaired the first two annual national meetings of Vice Provosts for Online Education; oversaw the University Academic Technologies Department and managed the university-wide analog-to-digital conversion of all campus classrooms; oversaw Operation GW VALOR, the University’s comprehensive set of services and opportunities for veteran students and active duty military students, a program that resulted in a 70 percent increase in GW’s military student population over two years; co- chaired the University’s Innovation Task Force; served on university-wide committees on Executive Education and on Graduate Enrollment Management.