Excessive Prices: Using Economics to Define Administrable Legal Rules

Using Rules to Define the Semantics of Privacy Policies

Do Excessive Legal Standards Discourage Desirable Activity?

Overly strict legal standards are commonly thought to discourage parties from engaging in socially desirable activities. It is explained here, however, that excessive legal standards cannot lead to undesirable curtailment of activities when legal standards are enforced by liability for negligence, essentially because parties can choose to be negligent rather than comply. But excessive legal sta...

How to define ‘Moral Realism’

Moral realism is the doctrine that some propositions asserting that some action is ‘morally’ good (obligatory, bad, or wrong) are true. This paper examines three different definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good (with corresponding definitions for ‘morally’ obligatory, bad, or wrong) which would make moral realism a clear and plausible view. The first defines ‘morally good ...

Using RuleBuilder to graphically define and visualize BioNetGen-language patterns and reaction rules

RuleBuilder is a tool for drawing graphs that can be represented by the BioNetGen language (BNGL), which is used to formulate mathematical, rule-based models of biochemical systems. BNGL provides an intuitive plain-text, or string, representation of such systems, which is based on a graphical formalism. Reactions are defined in terms of graph-rewriting rules that specify the necessary intrinsic...

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