Review: Environmental Principles - From Political Slogans to Legal Rules

from historical facts to geo-political realities: relation between turkey and armenia ( 1915 – 2010)

armenias geopolitics and its historical experience have had a determining impact on the character of its foreign policy .present-day armenia is a small, landlocked country with _11,620 square miles area armenias landlocked nature makes it dependent on the benevolence of its neighbors for access to the outside world a fact that gives it a sense of isolation and vulnerability. as it was indic...

Legal ruling leads to 'light touch' review of resuscitation rules.

Lost in Translation: from Political Communication to Legal Communication?

APLA Limited v Legal Services Commissioner (NSW)2 (‘APLA’), decided in September this year, had the potential to be a landmark decision in the field of implied constitutional freedoms comparable to Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth3 (‘ACTV’) and Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills4 (‘Nationwide News’). In the two latter cases the High Court concluded that the provision for a syst...

From Legal Principles to an Internet Voting System

Past research on Internet voting has been concentrated on two aspects. First, there are investigations to find the appropriate balance between anonymity and authentication. Second, the impact of the use of Internet voting to legislation has been studied. In this paper we analyze the impact of legislation to the design of a real Internet voting system. We discuss how legal aspects constitute sec...

The Situationist Urban Design; Rules and Principles

From a general perspective, urbanism can be assumed as a bipolar world. On one hand, large-scale plans formulated by official organizations are shaping urban environment and the entirety of our cities; on the other hand, social activists and artists, active in the field of cities, are making an effort to give it a human character. According to De Certo (1984), the first approach to city, adopte...