Legal Situation

Oral piercing: dental considerations and the legal situation in Spain.

Body piercing has become increasingly popular in Western countries, especially among young people. However, not everyone is aware of its potential risks, which may develop local and systemic complications shortly after, or long after the piercing procedure. Given that the oral cavity is one of the most frequent sites for piercing placement, the aim of this paper is to familiarise the oral healt...

Beyond Legal Realism?: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Situation of Legal Scholarship

aliens legal situation in iranian legal system in the light of humanization of international law

aliens presence in other states territory, be individually or collectively, has an ancient history and because of this, aliens presence in other state is not a unusual phenomenon. explicitly this presence entails some legal effects. aliens have minimum rights recognized by states; otherwise some discriminations may be seen in performance of this rights. nowadays by some developments in internat...

Induced abortion in Thailand: current situation in public hospitals and legal perspectives.

Abortion is illegal in Thailand unless the woman's health is at risk or pregnancy is due to rape. This study, carried out in 1999 in 787 government hospitals, examined the magnitude and profile of abortion in Thailand, using data collected prospectively through a review of 45,990 case records (of which 28.5% were classified as induced and 71.5% as spontaneous abortions) and face-to-face intervi...

The legal protection of databases: current situation of the international harmonisation process

The requisite of creativity set down by copyright laws does not fit well into the context of digital databases. The risk of being unprotected increases in the case of factual compilations, as simple facts or data are not copyrightable, meaning that their contents can easily be copied and/or used by others without infringing copyright. After more than a decade of intense debate about the need to...