Regulating Misleading Advertisements: Legal Provisions and Institutional Framework

Semantic Annotation of Legal Modificatory Provisions

In this work we consider the task of the automatic semantic annotation of the normative modifications enclosed in Italian legal texts. The system is based on a deep syntactic parsing coupled with a semantic analysis based on frames.

Institutional and legal issues of emissions trading

Emissions trading systems as a means of air pollution control have been developed in recent years to address some important limitations of traditional command and control environmental regulation. Trading systems address many of the inefficiencies of command systems and may promote cost-effectiveness by introducing flexibility and providing incentives for sources with lower control costs to und...

Lanham Act Revision Provides Relief for Misleading Comparative Advertisements: Does It Go Too Far?

Three legal frameworks for regulating genetic technology.

Should Employers Be Permitted not to Hire Smokers? A Review of US Legal Provisions

Background Increasingly, healthcare and non-healthcare employers prohibit or penalize the use of tobacco products among current and new employees in the United States. Despite this trend, and for a range of different reasons, around half of states currently legally protect employees from being denied positions, or having employment contracts terminated, due to tobacco use.   Methods We undertoo...