Several major environmental statutes enacted in the 1970s designate resource management agencies as trustees of the natural resources on behalf of the public, and enable the trustees to recover damages for injuries to public resources from releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil. The standard measure of damages in the various statutes is the cost of restoring the resources to bas...

In times of ubiquitous electronic communication and increasing industry pressure for standard electronic authentication, the maintenance of privacy (the “right to be let alone”) becomes a subject of increasing concern. The possibility of a “transparent human” appears most obvious in electronic commerce, due partly to the large amounts of data available, partly to the high payoffs expected from ...