LEGAL DILEMMAS IN RELEASING INDONESIA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS

An Investigation of N-person Prisoners' Dilemmas

This paper is an attempt to systematically present the problem of various N-person Prisoners’ Dilemma games and some of their possible solutions. 13 characteristics of the game are discussed. The role of payoff curves, personalities, and neighborhood is investigated. Experiments are performed with a new simulation tool for multi-agent Prisoners’ Dilemma games. Investigations of realistic situat...

Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Infertility Treatment

One of the main characteristics of the new millennium is the affirmation of human rights in all aspects of human existence, with the intention of turning declarative statements into reality. Development of up-to-date assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and their application in infertility treatment have raised numerous ethical, legal, religious, social and other questions. In vitro fertili...

Infallibility in Bentham’s Political and Legal Thought

Self assessment exercises--legal and ethical dilemmas in medicine.

3. You attend to a young male patient who has sustained a head injury during an alleged assault. He is self-ventilating and haemodynamically stable, but is agitated with a reduced Glasgow coma score, and will require intubation prior to CT scan of his head. His mother is in the relatives’ room waiting for a progress update. The nurse helping you suggests you could get consent from his mother be...

Epistemological Dilemmas in the Assessment of Legal Decision Making

Neil Vidmar and Reid Hastie would surely be at the top of anyone's list of the leading scholars in the jury research community, David Schkade and John Payne are major figures in the broader judgment and decision-making community. All four are careful, sophisticated theorists and researchers. Any dispute involving the four of them is bound to be a productive one for the field. I will argue that ...