In many welfare offices, a key component of the Family Violence Option (FVO) of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act was the establishment of experts trained in domestic violence and the new policy. This study analyzes the effect an FVO expert has on three outcomes: domestic violence disclosures; administrative documentation of disclosures; and FVO waiver use...

In the Citibank-Patent-Case, the underlying issue is whether E-bank related business methods are subject matter of patent under Chinese law. At first flash, there are at least two barriers to patent protection for Citibank to cover. The first, E-bank related business methods only function with the help of computer software, so the coming issue is whether computer software is patent subject matt...