The SEC and Cybersecurity
Diana E. McCarthy (LAW ’93) and Joshua M. Lindauer examine the SEC through the lens of cybersecurity enforcement
Technology
FinTech – The CFTC’s Silver Bullet?
Technology-focused investigations are in the CFTC’s future, predicts Peter Isajiw (LAW ’02) and colleagues
New York Revises Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations, Pushes Back Effective Date
Laura Schmidt (LAW ’14) and Jay Shapiro highlight how New York’s proposed cybersecurity regulations balance minimum standards with industry concerns.
The Brave New World of Assisted Reproductive Technology
Alan C. Milstein (LAW ’83) discusses “reproductive tourism” in the U.S. and the need for regulations.
2016 HIPAA Settlements Demonstrate HIPAA Compliance Challenges in a Mobile Society
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has been actively enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) in 2016. As of August, covered entities and business associates (the organizations who are subject to HIPAA) have paid OCR more than $20 million to resolve allegations of
Cybersecurity Startups Poised for Growth
Cybersecurity solutions are in high demand and investors are betting on startups for high returns. In the past six years, high growth emerging companies in this space have received a total of $9 billion in venture capital funding, according to the National Venture Capital Association. But while the private sector has rapidly adopted the solutions
How Technological Disruption is Only Strengthening Financial Intermediation
Intermediation is a fundamental fact of finance. Intermediaries like commercial banks, investment banks, stockbrokers, mutual funds, and stock exchanges form the fabric of modern finance. Despite all these financial links, entrepreneurs and innovators continue to endeavor towards the possibilities of fundamentally disrupting and disintermediating these existential financial ties with new financial technology. In a new
Competition Law for a Post-Scarcity World
Talk of a post-scarcity society can easily sound like the stuff of science fiction, or techno-utopianism, or worse, blithe ignorance of the billions of people on the planet for whom real scarcity of basic needs is very much an entrenched difficulty of the present. Nevertheless, the convergence of a series of technological developments has convinced
The App with a Heart: Why I developed the Donafy App
For most of us the holiday season is a time of friends and family, lots of food and too many holiday parties. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most difficult times of year for the poor amongst us and one of the reasons I created the Donafy App. Donafy is a free smartphone app
Should Lawyers Learn To Code?
Few groups within our society are as confident in our intellectual abilities as attorneys. After all, we excelled in our primary and secondary educations, attained high honors in undergraduate studies, tackled the LSAT, successfully ran the gauntlet of law school, and now we are trusted advisors to our clients on a daily basis in a