Problems enforcing Ecuador ecology law

Enforcing Murphy's Law for Advance Identification of Run-time Failures

Applications do not typically view the kernel as a source of bad input. However, the kernel can behave in unusual (yet permissible) ways for which applications are badly unprepared. We present Murphy, a language-agnostic tool that helps developers discover and isolate run-time failures in their programs by simulating difficult-to-reproduce but completely-legitimate interactions between the appl...

A Proposal for Software Accountability of Law Enforcing Information Systems

Everyone in our society must obey law. Similarly, in esociety, information systems which play the role of enforcing law must obey law. A law usually defines its purpose, conditions, and activities/procedures. In this paper, we propose a concept of Software Accountability of Law Enforcing Information Systems (LEISs) and show its realization method. Software accountability is that a LEIS itself c...

Law and Contemporary Problems

Law and Contemporary Problems

No country so empowers its citizens to redress the social harms committed by others as does the United States. Compensating the injured and deterring future violations are frequently seen as complementary objectives of private suits. Our legal system further affirms its commitment to compensation and deterrence through modern joinder rules and class action procedures, not to mention contingency...

Law and Contemporary Problems

In April of 2005, a group of scientists, scholars, policymakers, and legal professionals gathered at Duke Law School to discuss the implications of attempts to introduce behavioral biology evidence into the criminal justice system. The conference, entitled “The Impact of Behavioral Genetics on the Criminal Law,” was sponsored by Law and Contemporary Problems; the Institute for Genome Science an...