Introduction Once a backwater of law that elicited little interest beyond arts and entertainment industries and their lawyers, copyright law has become a major arena of social and political conflict over the past generation. Many clashes amount to tactical skirmishes among companies for competitive advantage – a long and familiar dynamic in copyright law. But much of the turmoil revolves around...

Plant Genetic Resources (PGRs) are one of the most valuable natural resources of anycountry. Biotechnology through genetic engineering of plants and the creation of new plantvarieties can increase the value of these resources. Different technical and legalmechanisms such as ex situ/in situ collection of PGRs, and Intellectual Property Rights(IPRs...

The goals of this paper are two-fold: I wish to clarify the Aristotelian conception of the law of non-contradiction as a metaphysical rather than a semantic or logical principle, and to defend the truth of the principle in this sense. First I will explain what it in fact means that the law of non-contradiction is a metaphysical principle. The core idea is that the law of non-contradiction is a ...

 J.D., New York University School of Law; Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law. The author was a member of a working group in New Jersey that collaborated to identify issues to assist the State in its drafting of regulations to implement its Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) legislation, which is the ...

The article deals with the use of fuzzy logic at support of manager decision making. The brief description of fuzzy logic and the process of calculation are mentioned. The use is demonstrated on the example such as the decision making whether to accept, entertain or reject the client of law office. The scheme of models, rule blocks, attributes and their membership functions are mentioned. The u...

The Fraud Bill, which received Royal Assent on 8 November 2006, created an offence of fraud in English criminal law which marks a departure of utmost significance from the approach adopted hitherto, whereby a number of related offences cover behaviour deemed to amount to fraud. To mark the passage of the Fraud Act 2006 into law, this article examines the references which were made during its co...

current approaches to the analysis of internal combustion engines are no longer merely based on the first law of thermodynamics and are conducted from the second law either. the evaluation of processes by the first law cannot provide a sophisticated insight into the issue. so, due to the necessity of having a detailed perspective of the losses in different thermodynamic processes, a useful meth...