Victims' Rights Revisited

Rights Revisited, and Limited

One of the most justly famous result of social choice theory is Sen’s Theorem on the impossibility of a Paretian liberal. In two recent papers, Salles introduced the notion of limited rights both in an aggregation function framework and in a social choice function framework. He then proved Sen-type impossibility theorems. In the aggregation function framework an individual has a ‘right’ if when...

Cuba's quarantine of AIDS victims: a violation of human rights?

Owning the secret of life: biotechnology and property rights revisited.

QUICKSELECT Revisited

We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.

The Rights of Crime Victims—Does Legal Protection Make a Difference?

Discussed in this Brief: The impact of legal protection on crime victims’ rights. This survey of more than 1,300 crime victims, the largest of its kind, was conducted by the National Center for Victims of Crime to find out whether State constitutional amendments and other legal measures designed to protect crime victims’ rights have been effective. The researchers sought the views of victims in...