French Legal Regimes for Digital Labor Platforms

This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to investigate how legal regimes affect social welfare. We investigate four legal regimes, each consisting of a liability rule (strict or negligence) and a damage measure (out-of-pocket or independent-of-investment). The results of the experiment are for the most part consistent with the qualitative predictions of Schwartz's (1997) model; however, subjects' actual choices deviate from the point predictions of the model. We explore whether these deviations arise because: (1) subjects form faulty anticipations of their counterparts' actions and/or (2) subjects do not choose the optimal responses given their anticipations. We find that subjects behave differently under the four regimes in terms of anticipation errors and departures from best responses. For example, subjects playing the role of auditors anticipate investments most accurately under the regime with strict liability combined with out-of-pocket damages, but are least likely to choose the optimal response given their anticipations. This finding implies that noneconomic factors likely play a role in determining subjects' choices.

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Crime-Preventing Neurointerventions and the Law

10.1093/oso/9780198758617.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa Forsberg

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Human Rights ◽

Sex Offenders ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Medical Law ◽

Human Rights Law ◽

Mental Health Legislation ◽

Different Types ◽

Legal Regimes ◽

Health Legislation

Anti-libidinal interventions (ALIs) are a type of crime-preventing neurointervention (CPN) already in use in many jurisdictions. This chapter examines different types of legal regimes under which ALIs might be provided to sex offenders. The types of legal regimes examined are dedicated statutes that directly provide for ALI use, consensual ALI provision under general medical law principles, mental health legislation providing for ALI use (exemplified by the mental health regime in England and Wales), and European human rights law as it pertains to ALI provision. The chapter considers what we might learn from ALIs in respect of likely or possible arrangements for the provision of other CPNs, and draws attention to some ethical issues raised by each of these types of regime, worth keeping in mind when considering arrangements for CPN provision.

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Property in Land in Roman Provinces

10.1093/oso/9780198813415.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Georgy Kantor

Keyword(s):

Local Property ◽

Legal Tradition ◽

Technical Literature ◽

Historical Scholarship ◽

Property Relations ◽

Roman Provinces ◽

Legal Regimes ◽

The Right ◽

Property Regimes

Roman concept of dominium has been fundamental in the formation of concepts of ownership in European legal tradition. It is, however, often considered outside the context of Roman imperial rule and of the multiplicity of legal regimes governing property relations in Roman provinces outside Italy. This chapter starts from the classic passage in the Institutes of Gaius, claiming that the right of dominium did not exist in provincial land, where it belonged to the Roman state. Gaius’ statement is often dismissed in modern historical scholarship as a ‘conveyancer’s fantasy’ (A.H.M. Jones). It is argued here that, on the contrary, this passage and other similar statements in Roman juristic literature and technical literature on land-measurement, show an important facet of Roman ideas of ownership as a socially contingent right, dependent on civic status of the owner, status of the territory within the empire, and Roman recognition of local property regimes.

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Understanding Globalized Digital Labor in the Information Age

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology ◽

10.1163/15691497-12341519 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 308-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jaime F. Cárdenas-García ◽

Bruno Soria De Mesa ◽

Diego Romero Castro

Keyword(s):

Minimum Wage ◽

Information Age ◽

Labor Process ◽

Manual Labor ◽

Bottom Line ◽

Digital Workplace ◽

Digital Labor ◽

Industrial Age ◽

Social Polarization ◽

Good For

Abstract The development of globalized digital labor brings to mind a labor process that seems to have changed dramatically from that of the industrial age. The toil of low-wage manual labor inside extensive buildings with smokestacks prevalent in the industrial age seems to have evolved into well-paid, enjoyable, meaningful labor in elegant buildings in tune with spacious vegetation-filled campuses. At the same time, social polarization is increasing with the threat of minimum-wage service labor and labor-replacing robots seeming to be the order of the day. The bottom line that drives this process seems to be the same as always, i.e. what benefits the capitalist owner is what is good for the digital workplace. This article seeks to identify and demystify the fundamental elements of digital labor in the globalized information age.

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“I can’t just post anything I want”: Self-management of South Korean sports stars on social media

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/10126902211014122 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 101269022110141

Author(s):

Eunhye Yoo

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Self Management ◽

Public And Private ◽

Daily Lives ◽

The Public ◽

South Korean ◽

Digital Labor ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Study Participants ◽

Depth Interviews

This study explores the influence and sociocultural meaning of self-management of South Korean sports stars in the context of their social media activity. The study utilizes netnography to analyze social media posts to determine the meaning of sports stars’ self-management. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with study participants. Ten South Korean sports stars, who are active users of Instagram, were selected as the study participants. Photographs, videos, and stories from their accounts—around 1800 posts in total—were analyzed. The results indicated that the sports stars attempted to share their daily lives on social media to build a close relationship with the public. Moreover, they used their accounts to publicize their commercialized selves and to promote their sponsors. They uploaded only strictly composed and curated posts on their accounts as a form of self-censorship. Finally, it was determined that digital labor was used for self-management on social media, where there is no distinction between public and private territory. A sports star has become a self-living commercial today, and self-management is now a prerequisite for survival. Thus, self-management on social media has become a requirement for sports stars.

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