This paper shows how jurisdictional disputes between congressional committees drives the regulation of the Internet. Committees fight over who will retain jurisdiction over Internet issues, and thus obtain a stream of current and future political rents from Internet interest groups. We show in this paper, that ideology and constituency makeup have relatively little bearing on strategies congres...

The authors argue that the Digital Rights Management (DRM) provisions of Bill C-61– Canada's latest attempt at implementing its obligations under the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, inter alia – is ultra vires of Parliament's enumerated powers, and unconstitutionally intrudes into the Provincial legislative sphere. The DRM provisions of Bill C-61 represent...

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In response to the rise in construction defect litigation and the resulting increase in the cost of insurance contractors are required to carry, the Washington Legislature passed RCW 64.50.005 et seq., which became effective June 13, 2002. The statute (referred to by some as a “bill of rights” for contractors) requires that homeowners and condominium homeowners’ associations (collectively “home...

AS THE MILLENNIUM APPROACHES, THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM IN THE United States remains in a period of transformation. The commercialization of medicine has challenged the professional dominance of physicians. Corporate organizations emerged under the assumption that the principles that defined US industry were applicable to health care. They offered efficiency through vertical and horizonta...