it is well understood that the jouisance capacity of foreigners in intellectual property rights has a paradoxical nature. on one hand and as a minimalist approach, this right is governed by private law and on the other, based on a maximalist approach; it is under the public-economic law governance. therefore, reconnaissance of jouisacne capacity is under the publican law domain. meanwhile, it i...

In recent years, the Australian Government has committed significant resources to combating trafficking in persons. Within this larger anti-trafficking effort, the community sector, law enforcement, prosecutors, health professionals and members of the community all have an important role to play. As each sector comes to terms with the reality of trafficking in Australia, it is important that em...

Moore's Law and the wave of technologies it enabled have led to tremendous improvements in productivity and the quality of life in the First World. Yet, technology has had almost no effect on the four billion people that make less than a dollar per day. The decreasing costs of computing and wireless networking make this the right time to spread the benefits of technology: the biggest missing pi...

J.C. Hammer, 2 J.C. Cuevas, 2, 4 F.S. Bergeret, and W. Belzig Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Departamento de F́ısica Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institut für Nanotechnologie, D-7...

The ability to influence behaviour is central to many of the key policy challenges in areas such as health, finance and climate change. The usual route to behaviour change in economics and psychology has been to attempt to ‘change minds’ by influencing the way people think through information and incentives. There is, however, increasing evidence to suggest that ‘changing contexts’ by influenci...

This article examines the most recent shift in ongoing debates concerning the relationship between international criminal law and transitional justice, using the examples of international criminal prosecutions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and transitional justice mechanisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reframes the problematic relationship between...

Previous academic and popular literature has raised important debates concerning the contradictory incentives for international firms to reduce their environmental impacts and offer transparent environmental information about their operations. As an exhaustive review of this literature revealed mixed and partial evidence, we compared the individual corporate environmental performance and disclo...

this paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. a recent movement, which has re...

A correct understanding of the law of diminishing returns both as to its application, as well as to its statement as a principle, is fundamental in any study designed to measure the effect of increasing units of an input factor upon the output whether this output be in the form of plant growth or animal production. Immediately following Von Liebig's emphasis of the need by plants of various min...

there are two historical paradigms in iranian family law: love law and libido law. understanding the two approaches is possible by thinking on the four categories of love: 1. libido: the passion of life and manifestation of sexual drive. 2.eros: the romantic love and the genuine material of poem and literature. 3.philia: the mere love purified from libido. 4. agape: the spiritual love in mystic...