The Commons
“If Trump wanted to purchase Greenland, Denmark wouldn’t be the most important party — the people of Greenland would be.”
Notable &Quotable “We don’t yet have a sense of the violation we might feel on account of the widespread use of drones. … To protect the individual privacy that serves as an important backbone of our civil society, we should be sure that a much wider range of voices influence the decisions of our corporate boardrooms and public policy makers.”
— Associate Clinical Professor Jeff Ward JD/LLM ’09, reacting to news that Amazon got a patent on a home surveillance drone, said that “surveillance capacity is so ubiquitous that perhaps only science fiction has suggested anything close.” (NPR, June 22, 2019)
10 Duke Law Magazine • Fall 2019
Illustrations: Cristina Spanò
— Professors Joseph Blocher and Mitu Gulati note that the principle of self-determination — “the notion that peoples should be able to choose their sovereignty, rather than have it assigned to them” — is now a dominant consideration in transfers of sovereign territory. (Politico, Aug. 23, 2019)
