Legal dynamics in a border area

Cross-Border Legal Identity Management

Electronic Identities (eID) and their cross-border recognition are on top of the agenda of various e-Government initiatives of the European Commission (EC). Therefore, the EC launched the EU large scale pilot STORK, which was running for about 3.5 years and finished at the end of 2011. In this period, STORK has established a European eID interoperability platform for citizens. The focus of STOR...

Land Cover Change and Landscape Dynamics in the Urbanizing Area of a Mexican Border City

Land cover change associated to urbanization processes represents one of the most insidious forms of ecosystem alteration and links frequently to other types of environmental degradation. Timely and accurate remotely sensed detection of land cover change is therefore an essential requirement for a better understanding of coupled natural and human systems in urban expansion areas. Landscape dyna...

Logics for Legal Dynamics

Legal dynamics is an important aspect of legal reasoning that inspired the area of belief revision. While formal models of belief revision have been thoroughly examined, the formalisation of legal dynamic has been mostly neglected. In this contribution we propose Temporal Defeasible Logic to model legal dynamics. We build such a logic in steps starting from basic defeasible logic, and we show h...

Recalibrating the legal risks of cross-border health care.

Three patients leave the United States for surgery. The first is self-employed and has no health insurance. He needs life-prolonging heart surgery that would cost at least $50,000 in the United States. On the Internet, he finds a cardiac surgeon at a private hospital in New Delhi, India, who can perform the surgery for no more than $10,000.1 Terms and conditions on the hospital’s website requir...

Financial Burden of Border Hospital in Caring for Cross-Border Patients: A Short Note From Thailand