Some Problems with the Uniform Trustees' Powers Act

The Uniform Adoption Act.

The Spring 1993 issue of The Future of Children focused on adoption. Guest Editor Dr. Irving Schulman and the Center staff emphasized the significant societal as well as private benefits of adoption, especially for children in need of permanent families, and called for careful consideration of policies intended to remove persistent and unreasonable barriers to adoption. In an article which appe...

The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and Internet Connections Records : some surprising truths ?

Internet Connection Records were one of the key aspects of the recent Investigatory Powers Act 2016. This was a new term for what had been previously referred to as “communications data”, that is, data sent along with a message but not the message itself. Access to this data, which is already allowed and undertaken, by law enforcement is seen as a crucial part of their evidence and investigator...

Uniform Determination of Death Act.

Some Open Problems on excluding a Uniform Matroid

It would appear that minor-closed classes of matroids that are representable over any given finite field are very well behaved. This paper explores what happens when we go a little further to minor-closed classes of matroids that exclude a uniform minor. Numerous open problems of varying difficulty are posed.

Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1968)

The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA or the Act) was passed in the US in 1968 and has since been revised in 1987 and in 2006. The Act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human body parts in the US. The UAGA helps regulate body donations to science, medicine, and education. The Act has been consulted in discussions about abortion [4], fetal tissue transpla...