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How law and computer science can work together to improve the information society

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Seeking to remedy bad legislation with good science.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 1
      January 2018
      110 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3176926
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