Deliberate Release: A Legal Opinion

Mathematical applications associated with the deliberate release of infectious agents

Efforts to anticipate, prevent, or control deliberate releases of biological agents are critical components of homeland security research. The lack of data on deliberately induced epidemics naturally leads to the use of mathematical models (capable of simulating realistic scenarios) in the evaluation of policies that ensure our security. Modeling single outbreaks of a disease can help give insi...

Emergency department response to the deliberate release of biological agents.

Bioterrorism is the use of biological agents outside the arena of war. Its purpose is to disrupt civilian life. This article investigates the role of the emergency department in the event of an act of bioterrorism.

Public Opinion Toward Legal Sanctions for Crimes of Violence

OPINION Legal harmonization and reproductive tourism in Europe

Legislation of ethical issues illustrates the uneasy mix of ethics and politics. Although the majority has the political right to express its moral views in the law, a number of important ethical values like autonomy, tolerance and respect for other people’s opinions urge the majority to take the minorities’ position into account. Ignoring pluralism in society will inevitably lead to reproducti...

Formalising a legal opinion on a legislative proposal in the ASPIC+ framework

This paper presents a case study in which an opinion of a legal scholar on a legislative proposal is formally reconstructed in the ASPIC+ framework for argumentation-based inference. The reconstruction uses a version of the argument scheme for good and bad consequences that does not refer to single but to sets of consequences, in order to model aggregation of reasons for and against proposals. ...