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Law And Regulation (law + and_regulation)

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Selected Abstracts

Integrated pollution prevention and control: A review of English and European Union Law and Regulation

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2006
J. Rostron
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Law and regulation of retained organs: the ethical issues

LEGAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2002
John Harris
Organ retention has been with us for millennia. Walk into virtually any cathedral and many a church in Europe and you will nd an array of retained organs or tissue, allegedly originally the property of assorted saints, or even of God, and almost certainly collected without proper informed consent and retained in less than secure conditions. In our own time the complexities of organ collection, retention and use have proliferated.1 The events at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and the debates about the ethics of biobanking all over the world have dramatically highlighted the complexity, the difsiculty and the moral importance of these issues.2 Some of these issues have to do with the question of who can give permission for or consent to such removal and retention. Other issues involve consideration of whose rights or interests are engaged when cadaver organs and tissue are removed and retained, just what in particular is the nature, extent and force of those rights or interests, and how they are to be balanced against other moral considerations. These questions are the subject of this paper. We will not, however, here be concerned with the issues of genetic privacy, the security of genetic information. [source]

Mainstreaming the Sex Industry: Economic Inclusion and Social Ambivalence

JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY, Issue 1 2010
Barbara G. Brents
This paper seeks to analyse the expansion of commercial sex through processes of mainstreaming in economic and social institutions. We argue that cultural changes and neo-liberal policies and attitudes have enabled economic mainstreaming, whilst social ambivalence continues to provide the backdrop to a prolific and profitable global industry. We chart the advancement of sexual consumption and sexual service provision in late capitalism before defining the concept of ,mainstreaming' applied here. We use the case studies of Las Vegas and Leeds to identify various social and economic dimensions to the mainstreaming process and the ways these play out in law and regulation. While social and economic processes have integrated sexual services into night-time commerce, remaining social ambivalence fuels transgression and marginalization of the industry which in fact assists the mainstreaming process. Finally, we project some implications for gender relations, work, and inequalities as a result of the integration of sexual services into the economy. [source]

Competition Policy and Property Rights,

THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Issue 544 2010
John Vickers
One of the most controversial questions in current competition policy is when, if ever, should competition law require a firm with market power to share its property, notably intellectual property, with its rivals? And if supply is required, on what terms? These questions are discussed with reference to recent law cases including the EC Microsoft judgment of 2007 and the US linkLine case of 2009. The analysis focuses on whether competition law and regulation are complements or substitutes and on incentives for investment and (sequential) innovation. [source]

Patenting Nanotechnology in Europe: Making a Good Start?

THE JOURNAL OF WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Issue 1 2010
An Analysis of Issues in Law, Regulation
Nanotechnology is the technology that concerns itself with the smallest units of matter and promises manipulation of matter on the level of individual molecules. It is expected that vastly improved quality of many kinds of products will be the result. The patenting of nanotech inventions is well under way in Europe, but going down to the most elemental level raises new and important questions. For example, how does patenting at the nano level relate to similar technology on the super-nano level? Also fundamental questions can be asked, such as: should matter at all be patentable at the most elemental level? This article seeks to give a first overview of questions of law and regulation concerning the patentability of inventions in the field of nanotechnology under the European Patent Convention. [source]