Purpose – Knowledge management (KM) is an important consideration in e-government portals to ensure that knowledge flows efficiently between governments, individuals and organisations. A crucial aspect of e-government portals that has not been addressed adequately is the extent to which KM mechanisms have been implemented. Specifically, the authors argue that appropriate KM mechanisms are neces...

– Every student and staff member authorized as an IS MU user can participate in enhancing the system and contribute to analysis of new applications. The system is to provide something interesting or useful for everyone. The access to the system must be transparent, i.e. all applications have web interface. Apart from around 15 thousand students (who use the system at least occasionally), IS MU ...

In the era of the global Internet, realspace sovereigns face new problems relating to the scope and enforceability of their laws, many of which are intended to protect local individuals and commercial entities. How these traditional sovereigns respond to these challenges will have farreaching implications for the ordering of social and commercial behaviour online. In this piece, we take up the ...

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. Recently, there has been strong public outrage against current pay practices for corporate CEOs, regardver the past few years, there has been strong public outrage against current pay practices for corporate CEOs. To deal with th...

Trade secrecy is unique among the major forms of intellectual property as not being primarily governed by a federal statute. Unlike patents and copyrights, trade secrecy is a creation of state law, arising in the nineteenth century out of a variety of common law to become a separate source of protection against the improper acquisition, disclosure, and use of commercially-valuable information t...

The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act,in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South Korea?s Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the law to the South Korean National Assembly to allow the progress of biotechnology and life sciences research in South Korea while protecting human research subjects with practices such as informed c...

This paper examines how the growth in vote-by-mail and changes in voting technologies led to changes in the residual vote rate in California from 1990 to 2010. We find that in California’s presidential elections, counties that abandoned punch cards in favor of optical scanning enjoyed a significant improvement in the residual vote rate. However, these findings do not always translate to other r...

16 proportionality” which the German Constitutional Court developed in the 1950s and which since then has been treated as unwritten constitutional law in Germany. In the decades that followed the 1950s the German Constitutional Court realized that the principle of proportionality (commensurability) works like a representation of people’s moral sense and sense of justice. Therefore, the German C...

Scholars and activists have long campaigned for domestic violence to be recognised as criminal offending, however, at the same time, they have also consistently warned that a risk of criminalisation is that it inflicts further harm to women. This article draws on a study of criminal prosecutions of breaches of domestic violence protection orders in Queensland, Australia and explores the process...