Whose North America is it? “Nobody owns it. It owns itself.”

Who owns Children and does it Matter?∗

Most countries seem to have experienced a shift in the property rights over children. While two centuries ago parents had extensive control over their children, laws have been implemented in many countries to curb these control rights and thereby essentially led to the self-ownership of children. In this paper, we first document these changes, then argue that the property right allocation alter...

Who owns your DNA? who will own It?

Q uietly and doggedly, a race is going on in laboratories around the world—the race to determine who will own human heritage. calls the US and British sequencing teams chasing the full sequence of the human genome at breakneck speed. On the other side is the private sector, most notably Craig Venter, PhD, chief scientific officer of Celera, a genomics company. Each group has the same mission: t...

Whose difficulty is it?

Whose future is it?

Good morning. It is a great honour to deliver this talk to a research community of which I have been a member when we were not sure that it was a domain of its own. It has since then developed in an impressive manner, and today it offers all the signs of a maturing scientific community in a technical field: a yearly conference with growing attendance, some structuring paradigms, progress in mod...

whose responsibility is it anyway ?