Law breaking

Breaking a law: tuberculosis disobeys Styblo's rule.

doi:10.2471/BLT07.049510 In 1985, Karel Styblo derived one of the guiding rules of tuberculosis (TB) epidemiology. Bringing together data from 16 countries, he proposed that an annual incidence of 50 sputum-smearpositive TB cases in a population of 100 000 generates an annual risk of infection of 1%.1 This rule of thumb quickly became an established and cherished part of the epidemiological can...

Breaking de Morgan’s law in counterfactual antecedents*

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the relation between the meaning of a sentence and its truth conditions. We report on a comprehension experiment on counterfactual conditionals, based on a context in which a light is controlled by two switches. Our main finding is that the truth-conditionally equivalent clauses (i) switch A or switch B is down and (ii) switch A and switch B are not...

Breaking the Ice: Rethinking Telecommunications Law for the Digital Age

Telecommunications is a trillion-dollar industry undergoing a massive transformation, both in its technological underpinnings and its market dynamics. As technology and market developments undermine longstanding business models and value chains, existing legal frameworks are failing. A ‘‘layered’’ model for communications policy would provide a better foundation for competition, investment, and...

Breaking Murphy's Law. How to reduce the risk of a regulatory failure.

The complexity of health care means compliance failures are practically inevitable. How can the board protect itself and the organization?

Breaking Women's Silence in Law: The Dilemma of the Gendered Nature of Legal Reasoning