This paper is to study the effect of the six elements of task put forward by Nunan on the improvement of students' competencies in legal English, hoping to provide an important glimpse of how current legal English teaching in Chinese universities meets the requirements of the curriculum and the needs of the learners. Based on a case study of college students in China University of Political Sci...

Section 6.4, Compliance with Permit Requirements describes studies that evaluated several aspects of how well compensatory mitigation projects met legal or permit requirements. These included whether projects were completed or installed according to plan, whether they attained the required wetland acreage, whether performance standards were achieved, whether the project was monitored or maintai...

Privacy and data protection are pivotal issues in the nowadays society. They concern the right to prevent dissemination of sensitive or confidential information of individuals. Many studies have been proposed on this topic from various perspectives, namely sociological, economic, legal, and technological. We have recognized the legal perspective as being the basis of all other perspectives. Act...

This paper describes a collaborative modeling environment to support the analysis and interpretation of statutory texts, i.e., laws. The paper performs a case study on formalizing the product liability act and proposes a data-centric process that enables the formalization of laws. The implemented application integrates state-of-the-art text mining technologies to assist legal experts during the...

In the fall of 2004, the United States faced a national shortage of influenza vaccine after a major vaccine manufacturer was unable to produce millions of doses of the vaccine due to potential contamination. Many public and private sector entities had far fewer doses of influenza vaccine to allocate than they had anticipated. In response, federal, state, and local public health officials, priva...

Informed consent has legal, ethical, and clinical dimensions. a. From the legal perspective, it requires physicians to disclose certain classes of information to patients, and to obtain their consent before initiating medical treatment. b. In its ethical dimension informed consent encourages respect for individual autonomy in medical decision making. c. As a clinical process, informed consent o...

The legal framework in South Africa (SA) provides for strict requirements regarding prescriptions. However, pharmacists are still confronted daily with illegible handwritten scripts, increasing the risk of medication errors. E-prescribing is being implemented in SA to overcome these disadvantages. The general regulations made in terms of the Medicines and Related Substances Act as well as the E...

Mobile agents traverse the Internet, often on behalf of their users. Intelligent search agents access dynamic information in heterogeneous environments. The legal implications of the use of agents in such situations are not fully understood. In this paper a scenario in which a mobile agent searches a multimedia database on behalf of its user, is used to illustrate the legal and technical issues...

Introduction ........................................................................................610 I. Business and Technological Realities in the World of Biotechnology ...........................................................................611 II. Reach-Through Patent Claims .................................................616 III. Fundamental Legal Framework for Treatment of ReachThr...

Information systems for supporting collaborative activities (e.g., business process modeling tools, workflow management tools, or project management tools) should explicitly address regulatory requirements. Integrating a legal perspective into such information systems would contribute to a better legal compliance and a more effective collaboration. This paper introduces a meta-design for integr...