Brazilian Environmental Law: An Overlook

Policy and Environmental Law Series Peruvian Society for Environmental Law

Do we need an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS) ? The Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 2003) to be held in February 2004 will probably give a political answer to this question. However, we would hope there is time for further legal, technical and economic analysis of this proposal before a definit...

Environmental Law and Policy

The Regulatory Policy Program at the Center for Business and Government provides an environment in which to develop and test leading ideas on regulation and regulatory institutions. RPP's research aims to improve the global society and economy by understanding the impacts of regulation and creating better decisions about the design and implementation of regulatory strategies around the world. R...

Overlook: Scalable Name Service on an Overlay Network

This paper indicates that a scalable fault-tolerant name service can be provided utilizing an overlay network and that such a name service can scale along a number of dimensions: it can be sized to support a large number of clients, it can allow large numbers of concurrent lookups on the same name or sets of names, and it can provide name lookup latencies measured in seconds. Furthermore, it ca...

Screening programs overlook transgender people.

Current Brazilian law on animal experimentation.

Law 11794 establishes procedures for the scientific use of animals and abrogates the previous Law 6638/1979, which was ineffective because it was not regulated by the Brazilian Executive Power. Without regulation, many issues remained ill-defined, including operational procedures and responsibilities such as licensing, accreditation, and institutional compliance inspection. The new law states t...