Off-the-Cuff Law-Making: Policing Pandemic Dispossession in Spain

The Role of Criminal Law in Policing Corporate Misconduct

In the early 1990s, I spent a couple of years as Chief of the Criminal Division in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. One of my principal responsibilities was to hear “appeals” from defense lawyers, usually, although not exclusively, in white collar crime cases. These lawyers felt that their clients should not be indicted, or that the plea offer they had rece...

Fever in a returned traveler: an "off the cuff" diagnosis.

Figure 1. Islands of normal skin surrounded by blanching erythema on the abdomen of a 21-year-old woman who returned from travel in Sri Lanka. Diagnosis: Dengue fever. The most commonly diagnosed tropical infections that cause fever in the returned traveler are malaria, dengue, typhoid, and viral hepatitis [1]. The epidemiology may change with appropriate pretravel vaccination and use of malari...

Book Review: Law in the Making

A Study in Development by Dispossession

Implementation of the Dependency Law in Spain. The activities-based cost systems as tools that can facilitate decision-making for the implementation of the Law

The coming into force in 2007 of Law 39/2006 about promotion of personal autonomy and care for people in a situation of dependency has created the right of everyone in these circumstances to be served by public services. This law involves an expansion and complement of the protective action of the State and Social Security System. To date these people have been treated by state, regional and lo...