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The Importance of Corporation Law to Civil Society
Bowman, Woods - In: Nonprofit Policy Forum 2 (2011) 1
The thesis of this paper is that transactions costs related to formation of nonprofit corporations are restraining the size of the nonprofit sector in Europe. An unfettered ability to incorporate is an important determinant of nonprofit formation. The point is illustrated with historical data...
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The judicial system of Bangladesh: an overview from historical viewpoint
Panday, Pranab Kumar; Hossain Mollah, Awal - In: International Journal of Law and Management 53 (2011) 1, pp. 6-31
tribunals that performs the delicate task of ensuring rule of law in the society. The paper depicts the history and evolution of … not based on rule of law rather on caprice and caste consideration. The executive branch of government always attempts to … British colonial common law countries.  …
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Land law in the kingdom of Cambodia
Russell, Ray - In: Property Management 15 (1997) 2, pp. 101-110
history of land law and its related institutions in Cambodia and examines the implications of this history for the current … for Cambodia is to establish the rule of law and create the effective property rights which are a prerequisite for a … institutions. Such changes cannot be made in isolation from the lessons and the legacies of the country’s history. Summarizes the …
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Public administration in early America: sex and the law in Puritan Massachusetts
Wells, Michael V. - In: Management Decision 40 (2002) 6, pp. 596-602
When they arrived in the New World the English Puritans expected to pursue justice by using the Bible and discretionary justice. Because they left England, in part, as an escape from a contemporary Sodom and Gomorrah, it is ironical that the discovery of sexual license in the New World forced...
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Police Service Crime Mapping as Civic Technology: A Critical Assessment
Scassa, Teresa - In: International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 5 (2016) 3, pp. 13-26
It is increasingly common for municipal police services in North America to make online crime maps available to the public. This form of civic technology is now so widely used that there is a competitive private sector market for crime mapping platforms. This paper considers the crime maps made...
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Lessons in Copyright Activism: K-12 Education and the DMCA 1201 Exemption Rulemaking Process
Hobbs, Renee - In: International Journal of Information and Communication … 12 (2016) 1, pp. 50-63
Digital learning is being transformed by changes in copyright law. This article discusses the author's personal journey … anti-circumvention provisions of one part of the copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is the … law that exempts YouTube and other ISPs from liability from copyright claims and criminalizes the circumvention of digital …
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And Action! Live in Front of the Camera: An Evaluation of the Social Live Streaming Service YouNow
Friedländer, Mathilde B. - In: International Journal of Information Communication … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 15-33
service. The experience of “flow” was sometimes perceived. Possible law infringements (such as copyright and personality …
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Emergency Ethics, Law, Policy & IT Innovation in Crises
Kerasidou, Xaroula; Buscher, Monika; Liegl, Michael; … - In: International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis … 8 (2016) 1, pp. 1-24
Ethics, law, and policy are cornerstones for effective IT innovation in crisis response and management. While many … paper reviews The Library of Essays on Emergency Ethics, Law and Policy (2013), a four Volume series edited by Tom D …. Campbell, that presents a collection of 113 seminal articles and chapters on emergency ethics, law and policy, and emergency …
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Fair Use Defences During Copyright Litigation: Is the Success of a Fair Use Defence Strategy Predictable?
D'Rosario, Michael - In: International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS) 8 (2017) 2, pp. 31-51
The prediction of legal outcomes and other legal domain related variables has served as the basis of a number of recent studies. While recent studies have estimated standardised variables and dichotomous outcomes such as the outcome of a judicial decision process, few studies have employed...
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Revenge Pornography: Are Australian Laws up to the Challenge?
Butler, Des - In: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 8 (2017) 1, pp. 56-67
Revenge pornography, or nonconsensual pornography as it is also known, is the distribution of intimate sexual images by disaffected and disgruntled individuals as a means of seeking vengeance against ex partners. It is highly destructive behaviour which can result in victims being humiliated and...
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