Legal Commentary

Nomos and Acronyms

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

BlenderLaw » what’s in a name? asks some thought provoking questions about EDGAR and Gabriel, two electronic financial info retrieval systems — with male names.

I was particularly struck by this, not just because it’s a fun post and uses a foreign character set, because I gather that UM may be buying an electronic medical information system, with a PHR system named Lucy.

Could it be that if it’s about money, you want a boy’s name, but if you want the punters to think of it as a non-threatening, nurturing system, do you give it a girl’s name? The sample is too small for any firm conclusions, but it bears watching.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).