How does law make place? Localisation, translocalisation and thing-law at the world’s first factory

How does a bill become a law?

Step 4: If any amendments were made on the bill by the Senate, it is referred back to the House of Representatives for their approval. If the House rejects the amendments, a conference committee comprised of members of both the House and the Senate come together to reconcile their difference. If the conference committee finds compromise, the final version of the bill is taken through the House ...

How to make the next big thing.

Law and governance and virtual worlds

This panel will survey the virtual world phenomena, introduce the governance issues that arise there and suggests why the digital government community can both contribute to virtual worlds’ success and benefit from the online laboratory these environments provide.

Criminal law and HIV testing: empirical analysis of how at-risk individuals respond to the law.

This Note assesses the effect of laws that specifically criminalize behaviors that expose others to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This Note examines the relationship between HIV testing decisions by high-risk individuals and the existence of these HIV-specific statutes, as well as the amount of media coverage related to them. One of the main reasons public health experts criticize cri...

Flowers of the First Law

Continuing our examination of “the flowers of the First Law” (http://www.mii.ucla.edu/causality/?p=1354), this posting looks at one of the most crucial questions in causal inference: “How generalizable are our randomized clinical trials?” Readers of this blog would be delighted to learn that one of our flowers provides an elegant and rather general answer to this question. I will describe this ...