En las diferentes instituciones del sector salud del Perú, los médicos reciben y asisten diariamente a personas con traumatismos ocasionados por agresiones intradomiciliarias. Por otra parte, las autoridades policiales, fiscal o judicial solicitan a los médicos una descripción detallada de las lesiones con la respectiva identificación de los agentes causantes (objetos contundentes, arma blanca,...

The introduction of molecular biology techniques, especially of DNA analysis, for human identification is a recent advance in legal medicine. Substantial effort has continuously been made in an attempt to identify cadavers and human remains after wars, socio-political problems and mass disasters. In addition, because of the social dynamics of large cities, there are always cases of missing peop...

The 1991 Credit Lyonnais court ruling expanded the fiduciary duties of managers towards debtholders in near-insolvent Delaware firms. Differences-in-differences tests reveal that innovation efficiency increased among all Delaware firms following the ruling. Further, Delaware firms close to (far from) insolvency reduced (expanded) their R&D expenditures and innovation output. Both sets of firms ...

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Preface The Payment Reform: Current and Emerging Reimbursement Models white paper is an American College of Cardiology (ACC) member content-driven educational resource meant to provide baseline knowledge of the payment models proposed in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the innovative payment pilots already being implemented in the private sector. Recognizing that chal...

Constitutional theorists usually assume that minority-protective judicial review leads to outcomes more favorable to the protected minority and less favorable to the majority. Our analysis highlights an indirect effect of judicial review that complicates this conventional wisdom. Without judicial review, pro-majority and pro-minority leaders adopt different policies. Because judicial review lim...

When contemporary commentators decry what they describe as growing threats to “judicial independence,” they typically invoke “judicial independence” as a normative ideal—an institutional virtue. That virtue is the capacity of courts to protect individual rights, to police structural limits on governmental power, and to decide individual disputes based solely on the applicable law and the factua...

This article analyses the anti-corruption transformative processes triggered by Ukraine’s judicial reform. The subject of study is determination critical aspects success measures conditioned reform in Ukraine. objectives are to determine main challenges facing Ukrainian system and characterise legislative countermeasures. authors emphasise that a properly functioning courts supports reali...