U.S. congressional review targets nation's first environmental law

Environmental Law: the Us Model

Natural Law and the Law of Nations: Some Theoretical Considerations

I will argue here that the law of nations, the jus gentium, in fact lies at the heart of many crucial modern social and political issues. NATURAL LAW AND THE LAW OF NATIONS: SOME THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS James V Schall, S.J. * Adjus gentium pertinent ea quae derivantur ex lege naturae sicut conclusiones ex principiis, ut justae emptiones, venditiones, et alia hujusmodi, sine quibus homines ad...

Spatiotemporal database of US congressional elections, 1896–2014

High-quality historical data about US Congressional elections has long provided common ground for electoral studies. However, advances in geographic information science have recently made it efficient to compile, distribute, and analyze large spatio-temporal data sets on the structure of US Congressional districts. A single spatio-temporal data set that relates US Congressional election results...

Experts confident of Congressional funding for US Cures Act.

Just 5 weeks before his presidency ended, Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, a law that will sustain several of his signature biomedical research initiatives, streamline the US drug and medical device approval process, improve the nation’s mental health-care system, and combat the country’s opioid misuse epidemic. The legislation won nearly unanimous approval in both houses of Cong...

Policy and Environmental Law Series Peruvian Society for Environmental Law

Do we need an international regime on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing (ABS) ? The Seventh Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD, 2003) to be held in February 2004 will probably give a political answer to this question. However, we would hope there is time for further legal, technical and economic analysis of this proposal before a definit...