Recently, I witnessed a T.V. programme depicting student life at an American Law School in which a somewhat vigorous competition developed between the Law Faculty and the Engineering Faculty over the power of a computer. It began with laying odds to the effect that the computer could produce a better case analysis than a student. After several students had failed the test, the illustrious profe...

Tomislav Badel1, Kata Rošin-Grget2, Ladislav Krapac3, Miljenko Marotti4 Zavod za stomatološku protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 10000 Zagreb, Gundulićeva 5 Katedra za farmakologiju Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 10000 Zagreb, Šalata 11 Poliklinika za reumatske bolesti, fi zikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju “Dr. Drago Čop” 10000 Zagreb, Mihanovićeva 3 Klinički zav...

We are pleased to present a collection of papers on various topics within the area of Informatics and Information Technologies (IIT). The whole collection has been authored by students. We approached selected authors of papers originally presented at the annual IIT Student Research Conference, IIT.SRC 2011 which was organized by the Slovak University of Technology and attended by its students s...

2002, H. Lessard. * University of Victoria Faculty of Law. The author would like to thank: this Journal’s anonymous reviewer, whose detailed and thorough critique greatly assisted revisions and improved the article; Andrew Petter and Dorothy Chunn, whose comments spurred the author to rethink and refine her argument; the Office of Research Administration at University of Victoria, for providing...

Niall McCrae, Lecturer, and Katerina Kuzminska, Postgraduate Nursing Student, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London, chart the influences of Nightingale's Poor Law infirmary reforms.

economic cooperation organization (eco) is one of the institutions that have been established to help identify and resolve the problems faced by the region. in order to celebrate the eco day, a meeting was held at the center for graduate international studies, faculty of law and political science, university of tehran as attended by yahya maroufi, eco secretary-general, mr. taherian, eco under-...

* University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Research Associate, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge; Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute. ** Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, National Taiwan University; formerly Research Fellow, Centre for Business Research, Cambridge University. *** Geldards LLP Professor of Corporate and Insolvency L...

Richard S.J. Tol and Roda Verheyen a Centre for Marine and Climate Research, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany b Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands c Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA d Research Unit Environmental Law (FORUM), Faculty of Law, Hamburg University...

This paper examines the relationship between faculty participation in university decision-making and university performance. Using an aggregated measure of faculty participation, McCormick and Meiners [The Journal of Law and Economics 31 (1989) 423] find that increased faculty control in decision-making is associated with lower levels of institutional performance. Building on the existing unive...