Disseminating Knowledge Broadly--New Offerings From the Digital Commons Network

I have written about the way in which the efforts of the last decade to financially exploit the dissemination of knowledge has produced an increasingly class based system of knowledge dissemination in which the rich or well funded have access to knowledge denied to poorer individuals and institutions.  (E.g.,Open Access at Penn State: Scholarsphere (Dec., 14, 2012);   Between Scholar and University--Sharing Knowledge, Protecting Revenue and Control--Is the UCSF Approach Worth Considering (May 28, 2012); Opening Access: Course Proposals Archive at Penn State (June 1, 2012); Digital Humanities From the CIC (Oct. 6, 2012).

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As a result, academics and academic institutions in developed states, and the wealthy elites in developing states have access to knowledge production denied to poorer individuals and institutions.  Publishers (but generally not the producers of knowledge) profit from this new market regime, and the perpetuation of systems of academic prestige based on publication through these knowledge exploiting and restricting enterprises compounds and deepens the effect, while hiding its financial objectives.Efforts by some publishers to permit the free circulation of older work is to be lauded as a nod in the right direction, but the pricing structures of new knowledge and the unwillingness, especially of certain market dominant publishers to contribute remains troubling.

It is in this environment that efforts like those of the Digitial Commons Network ought to be hailed and supported.  From their website: "The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work." 

This post includes the latest efforts of that Network to spread knowledge freely. Additions are made frequently HERE. Visit often.

Digital Commons Network™:

Disciplines

Administrative Law

• Sovereignty Mismatch and the New Administrative Law
  David Zaring The Wharton School
• Something to Talk About: Regulation and Justification in Canadian Municipal Law
  Hoi Kong
• The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law
  Paul Daly
• Table of Contents
  
• Introduction
  Jacqueline McMurtrie
• Gideon at Fifty -- Golden Anniversary or Mid Life Crisis
  Kim Taylor-Thompson
• Fifty Years After Gideon: It is Long Past Time to Provide Lawyers for Misdemeanor Defendants Who Cannot Afford to Hire Their Own
  Robert C. Boruchowitz
• GIDEON: LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING FORWARD, LOOKING IN THE MIRROR
  Steven Zeidman
• Legal Financial Obligations: Fulfilling the Promise of Gideon by Reducing the Burden
  Travis Stearns
• Does the Right to Counsel on Appeal End as You Exit the Court of Appeals?
  Nancy P. Collins
• The Undersigned Attorney Hereby Certifies -- The Washington Supreme Court Rule on Standards and Its Implications
  Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud, Justice Susan Owens, Marc Boman, Joanne Moore
• G Forces: Gideon v. Wainwright and Matthew Adler's Move Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
  Janet Moore
• Improving Access to Justice: Plain Language Family Law Court Forms in Washington State
  Charles R. Dyer, Joan E. Fairbanks, M. Lynn Greiner, Kirsten Barron, Janet L. Skreen
• Dark Medicine: How the National Research Act Has Failed to Address Racist Practices in Biomedical Experiments Targeting the African-American Community
  Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan
• Driving While License Suspended - Third Degree, A Framework for Requesting Alternative Sentences
  Sahar Fathi
• Congress' Encroachment on the President's Power in Indian Law and its Effect on Executive-Order Reservations
  Mark R. Carter JD, PhD
• Do We Have It Right This Time? An Analysis of the Accomplishments and Shortcomings of Washington's Indian Child Welfare Act
  Karen Gray Young
• Securing Food Justice, Sovereignty & Sustainability in the Face of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
  Eve Kerber
• About the Authors
  

Antitrust and Trade Regulation

• Introduction
  Susan Beth Farmer Prof. of Law, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law
• The Organized Bar and Antitrust: Change, Continuity, and Influence
  Stephen Calkins Prof. of Law, Wayne State University Law School.
• How Doctors became Distributors: A Fabled Story of Vertical Relations
  Peter J. Hammer Assist. Prof., University of Michigan Law School
• Law School Accreditation: The Applicability of State Action and Noerr Exemptions, and First Amendment Principles
  Marina Lao Prof. of Law, Seton Hal University School of Law
• A Perfect Storm on the Sea of Doubt: Physicians, Professionalism and Antitrust
  Thomas L. Greaney Prof. of Law & Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Who Determines the Optimal Trade-off between Quality and Price?
  Barbara Ann White Assoc. Prof. of Law, University of Baltimore.
• Introduction
  Jeffrey M. Cross Partner, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL
• Parallel Antitrust Investigations: The Long Arm of the DOJ from the Perspective of an E.U. Defense Counsel
  Roderick Lambert Partner, Antitrust Litigation, Eversheds
• The United States as Antitrust Courtroom to the World: Jurisdiction and Standing Issues in Transnational Litigation
  Spencer Weber Waller Prof. & Director, Inst. For Consumer Antitrust Studies, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Jurisdiction and Standing in the International Arena
  William C. Holmes Senior Counsel, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL
• Damages in Private Antitrust Actions in Europe
  Jonathan Sinclair Head of Litigation, Eversheds Leeds & Manchester
• Calculation of Damages in Transnational Antitrust Cases
  Jeffrey Dorman Partner, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL
• From Hollywood to Hong Kong - Criminal Antitrust Enforcement is Coming to a City Near You
  Scott D. Hammond Dir. Of Criminal Enforcement, Antitrust Div. U.S. Dept. of Justice
• A Report on Canada's Conspiracy Law
  Albert C. Gourley Partner, Macleod Dixon, LLP Toronto Canada
• A Review of the Treatment of the <i>Per Se</i> Rule by the U.S. Supreme Court Over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Response to Albert Gourley's Proposal to Add a <i>Per Se</i> Rule to Canada's Competition Law
  Jeffrey M. Cross Partner, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL
• Antitrust Beyond Borders: Some Concluding thoughts on the Globalization of Antitrust
  David C. Gustman Chairman, Freeborn & Peters, Chicago, IL

Constitutional Law

• How NFIB v. Sebelius Affects the
 Constitutional Gestalt
  Lawrence B. Solum Georgetown University Law Center.
• The Proper Meaning of “Proper”:
 Why the Regulation of
Intrastate, Non-Commercial
Species Under the Endangered
 Species Act Is an Invalid Exercise
 of the Commerce Clause
  Kevin Simpson Washington University School of Law
• Paroline, Restitution, and Transferred Scienter: Child Pornography Possessors and Restitution Based on a Commerce-Clause Derived, Aggregate Proximate Cause Theory
  Adam Lamparello Indiana Tech Law School, Charles MacLean Indiana Tech Law School
• The Legitimacy of the Juridical: Constituent Power, Democracy, and the Limits of Constitutional Reform
  Joel Colon-Rios
• Paroline, Restitution, and Transferred Scienter: Child Pornography Possessors and Restitution Based on a Commerce-Clause Derived, Aggregate Proximate Cause Theory.
  Adam Lamparello Indiana Tech Law School, Charles MacLean Indiana Tech Law School
• Are National Class Actions Constitutional: A Reply to Hogg and McKee
  Janet Walker Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
• Table Annexed to Article: America’s Post-War of 1812 Publication Projects
  Peter J. Aschenbrenner Purdue University
• The Supreme Court as Prometheus: Breathing Life into the Corporate Supercitizen
  Robert Sprague University of Wyoming, Mary Ellen Wells Alvernia University
• Memorandum Fourth Amendment Warrantless Search Consent Exception & Request for New Trial
  Rosi Lehr Stetson University College of Law
• The German Abortion Decisions and the Protective Function in German and Canadian Constitutional Law
  Vanessa MacDonnell, Jula Hughes
• Factual Precedents
  Allison Orr Larsen William & Mary Law School
• The Charter at Thirty
  Michael Ignatieff
• Patterning Rights Constitutionalism: Thirty Years with the Charter
  Benjamin L. Berger Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Jamie Cameron Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
• The Charter's Influence around the World
  Mark Tushnet
• Inclusion, Voice, and Process-Based Constitutionalism
  Colleen Sheppard
• Rights Adjudication in a Plurinational State: The Supreme Court of Canada, Freedom of Religion, and the Politics of Reasonable Accommodation
  Sujit Choudhry
• Rights in the Age of Identity Politics
  Avigail Eisenberg
• The Supreme Court of Canada and Constitutional (Equality) Baselines
  Rosalind Dixon
• Social Justice and the Charter: Comparison and Choice
  Margot Young
• Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Violence against Women
  John Borrows
• The New Borders of the Constitutional
  Gavin W. Anderson
• Undoing Historical Wrongs: Law and Indigeneity in India
  Pooja Parmar
• Getting Individuals Committed to the MT State Hospital Out of County Jails
  Anna Conley ACLU of Montana
• Finding the Constitution: An Economic Analysis of Tradition's Role in Constitutional Interpretation
  Adam C. Pritchard University of Michigan Law School, Todd J. Zywicki George Mason University School of Law
• Constitutions and Spontaneous Orders: A Response to Professor McGinnis
  Adam C. Pritchard University of Michigan Law School, Todd J. Zywicki George Mason University School of Law
• Social Movements as Constituent Power: The Italian Struggle for the Commons
  Ugo Mattei University of California Hastings College of the Law, Saki Bailey International University College of Turin
• Demonstrators' Right to Fair Warning
  Caleb Hayes-Deats
• Public Choice Theory and Overcriminalization
  Paul J. Larkin Jr. The Heritage Foundation
• A Mistake of Law Defense as a Remedy for Overcriminalization
  Paul J. Larkin Jr. The Heritage Foundation
• The Meaning of Blacks' Fidelity to the Constitution
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School

Consumer Protection Law

• Innovative Class Action Techniques - The Use of Rule 23(b)(2) in Consumer Class Actions
  Thomas R. Grande Partner, Davis Levin Livingston Grande, Honolulu, HI
• Who Bears the Burden of Proof Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. s1681e(b) - Consumers May Bear the Biggest Burden in This Climate of Heightened National Security
  Jennifer Cuculich
• Hanging up on the First Amendment: An Analysis of Contemporary Telemarketing Regulations
  Brook Dambacher
• The Trigen Case: Does This Mean Lights Out for Energy Deregulation?
  Kate O'Loughlin
• The Business of Baseball: The Antitrust Exemption
  Sophie Jacobi
• Refund Anticipation Loans: Less Money for Consumers Entitled to Refunds, More Profit for H & (and) R Block
  Kathryn Smetana

Education Law

• Affirmative Action and Academic Freedom: Why the Supreme Court Should Continue Deferring to Faculty Judgments About the Value of Educational Diversity
  Steve Sanders Indiana University Maurer School of Law
• Teaching the Republican Child: Three Antebellum Stories about Law, Schooling, and the Construction of American Families
  Michael Grossberg Indiana University -Bloomington
• Foreword: Special Issue Dedicated to Legal Issues in Higher Education
  Joy Blanchard Florida International University
• Allocating Higher-Education Stimulus Funds in New Jersey: A Multiple-Streams Case Study
  Michael W. Klein New York University
• Recent Legal Trends Support Requiring Colleges and Universities to Permit Emotional Support Animals in Student Housing
  Neal H. Hutchens Pennsylvania State University
• Keepers of the Night: The Dangerously Important Role of Resident Assistants on College and University Campuses
  Christie M. Letarte
• Institutional Response to the Changing Legal Environment Regarding Student Safety: A Multi-Campus Case Study
  Joy Blanchard

Environmental Law

• Environmental Damages after the Federal Environmental Enforcement Act: Bringing Ecosystem Services to Canadian Environmental Law
  Martin Z. P. Olsynski

Health Law

• Letter from the Editors
  Alex Burke American University Washington College of Law, Adam S. Frankel American University Washington College of Law, Jocelyn Moore American University Washington College of Law
• Interview with Professor Lindsay Wiley, New WCL Health Law Professor
  Health Law & Policy Brief
• Health Care Reform: The Unending Soap Opera of 2009-2010
  Corrine Parver, Biswajit Chatterjee
• The Other Green Movement: How D.C. Can Sensibly Regulate Medical Marijuana & Why It Matters
  Jacob; Rahavi, Robert Ziff
• Reexamining Models on Disability and Applying Rationality, Morality, and Ethics to Support Disability Rights in Context of Genetics
  Gary C. C. Norman American University Washington College of Law
• Regulating Secondhand Tobacco Smoke in the Americas: A Comparison of the Top Down and Bottom up Approaches in Brazil and the United States
  Leigh Warren American University Washington College of Law
• Money, Meet Mouth: The Era of Regulation and Prescription Drug Importation/Reimportation
  Aaron James Wong American University Washington College of Law
• AT&T v. Hulteen: The Ghost of the Supreme Court on Pregnancy Discrimination and Pay Equality for Women's Pension Benefits in America
  Walakewan Blegay American University Washington College of Law
• Salient Issues Affected by the 2010 Health Reform Law
  Ernest Johnson American University Washington College of Law, Kristin Barry American University Washington College of Law, Natassia Rozario American University Washington College of Law

Human Rights Law

• Hagar on My Mind
  Azizah Y. Al-Hibri University of Richmond

International Law

• William Howard Taft and the Taft Arbitration Treaties
  John E. Noyes California Western School of Law
• The Common Heritage of Mankind: Past, Present, and Future
  John E. Noyes California Western School of Law
• Continued Oversight of U.S. Government Surveillance Authorities : Hearing Before the S. Committee on the Judiciary, 113th Cong., December 11, 2013 (Statement by Professor Carrie F. Cordero, Geo. U. L. Center)
  Carrie F. Cordero Georgetown University Law Center
• Justice Roger Traynor Professorship Acceptance
  John E. Noyes California Western School of Law
• Louis B. Sohn and the Law of the Sea
  John E. Noyes California Western School of Law
• The Evolution of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; Changing Interpretations of the DMCA and Future Implications for Copyright Holders
  Hillary A. Henderson Texas State University
• SPORTING BOYCOTTS: LEGAL INTERVENTION IN THE SPORTING ARENA
  Bandini Vijay Chhichhia Miss Loyola University of Chicago
• A Decade of Progress: Promising Models for Children Found in the Turkish Juvenile Justice System
  Brenda A. McKinney Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Lauren Salins Loyola University Chicago
• Trick or Treaty? The Australian Debate over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
  Matthew Rimmer Australian National University College of Law
• Not a Bedtime Story: Climate Change, Neoliberalism and the Future of the Arctic
  Avi Brisman
• The Adequacy of the Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law to the Marine Arctic: Integrated Ocean Management and Shipping
  Ingvild Ulrikke Jakobsen
• Legal Questions Regarding Mineral Exploration and Exploitation in Indigenous Areas
  Susann Funderud Skogvang
• Labor Rights and Free Trade; Social Development Parallel to Economic Development
  Hassan Razavi McGill University

Jurisprudence

• In the Park: A Jurisprudential Primer
  Allan C. Hutchinson Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
• Are Jurisprudential Debates Conceptual: Some Lessons from Democratic Theory
  Dan Priel Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
• Book Review: "Supremely Simple" (reviewing Professor Eric J. Segall's "Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court Is Not a Court and Its Justices Are Not Judges")
  Calvin J. TerBeek T. Wade Welch & Associates

Labor and Employment Law

• Assessing the Regulation of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
  Sarah Marsden
• Invasion of the Social Networks: Blurring the Line Between Personal Life and the Employment Relationship
  Robert Sprague University of Wyoming
• Voices at Work in North America: Introduction
  Sara Slinn Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Eric Tucker Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
• The Limits of Voice: Are Workers Afraid to Express Their Health and Safety Rights?
  Wayne Lewchuk
• Solving the Problem from Hell: Tripartism as a Strategy for Addressing Labour Standards Non-Compliance in the United States
  Janice Fine
• “Rights without Remedies”: Enforcing Employment Standards in Ontario by Maximizing Voice among Workers in Precarious Jobs
  Leah F. Vosko
• Attacks on Public-Sector Bargaining as Attacks on Employee Voice: A (Partial) Defence of the Wagner Act Model
  Joseph Slater
• Collective Representation and Employee Voice in the US Public Sector Workplace: Looking North for Solutions?
  Martin Malin
• Employee Self-Representation and the Law in the United States
  Matthew W. Finkin
• Workplace Voice and Civic Engagement: What Theory and Data Tell Us About Unions and Their Relationship to the Democratic Process
  Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer, Paul Willman
• A Model of Responsive Workplace Law
  David J. Doorey

Law and Economics

• Mandatory Rules and Default Rules in Insurance Contracts
  Tom Baker University of Pennsylvania, Kyle D. Logue University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• Ownership and Obligations: The Human Flourishing Theory of Property
  Gregory S. Alexander Cornell Law School

Law and Society

• Imperial Agendas, Global Solidarities, and Third World Socio-Legal Studies: Methodoological Reflections
  Radha D'Souza
• The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Child Welfare and Civil Rights
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• What's in the Third and Final Volume of the New Restatement of Property that Estate Planners Should Know About
  Lawrence W. Waggoner University of Michigan Law School
• Creating and Solving the Problem of Drug Use during Pregnancy
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Foreword: Race, Vagueness, and the Social Meaning of Order-Maintenance Policing
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Debate: The Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk in New York City
  David Rudovsky University of Pennsylvania, Lawrence Rosenthal Chapman University
• The Challenge of Substance Abuse for Family Preservation Policy
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Poverty, Race, and New Directions in Child Welfare Policy
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Foreword: The Meaning of Gender Equality in Criminal Law
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Racism and Patriarchy in the Meaning of Motherhood
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School

Social Welfare Law

• Decision and appeals in Irish social welfare law: recent case law
  Mel Cousins Trinity College Dublin
• Civis europeus sum? Social assistance and the right to reside in EU law.
  Mel Cousins Trinity College Dublin
• Improving effective advocacy by defense counsel of defendants with mental illness in district court criminal cases
  Paul R. Gormley Northeastern University
• Welfare Reform and Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers' Decisions about Work at Home and in the Market
  Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Do Different Types of Hospitals Act Differently?
  Jill R. Horwitz University of Michigan Law School
• Wefare Reform and Families in the Child Welfare System
  Morgan B. Ward Doran, Dorothy Roberts The University of Pennsylvania Law School