Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...

Benford’s Law predicts the frequency of the leading digit in numbers met in a wide range of naturally occurring phenomena. In data following Benford’s Law, numbers start with a small leading digit more often those with a large leading digit. Here we demonstrate that Benford’s Law also describes a wide range of computational phenomena. In particular, we show that a number of different statistics...

Adoption involves legal, psychological, and social consequences for birthparents, adoptive parents, and adoptees. Efforts to achieve uniformity in adoption law have been in part thwarted by a lack of consensus about how to balance the varied interests of these parties in contemporary adoptions. This article explores the tensions between traditional and present interpretations of six principal e...