This paper investigates biofuels pathways and the potential outcomes of biofuels development for energy security and poverty alleviation in Africa. It also examines various options for biofuels development and its potential roles to improve or undermine the livelihoods of rural communities

In the United States insurance is regulated both by state insurance commissions and class action litigation. The interaction of these two systems has not been extensively studied. We examine four different facets of the regulation litigation tradeoff. The first is to examine whether a...

Infrastructure deficit has been a long standing bottleneck for attaining sustainable and much higher economic growth to align Nepal among the advanced countries. Nepal has a challenge of making huge investment in infrastructure to increase the annual economic growth for graduation to the status...

I show that in a true Coasean world - a world with no transaction costs - there would be no disagreement on moral questions. There would be no disagreement on what the appropriate distribution of income should be. There would be no disagreement on the question of capital punishment or abortion....

This Article proposes a new method of reducing the costs administrative agencies incur in monitoring regulatory compliance by a firm that operates multiple sources of risk, such as air-polluting smokestacks. The expense of individually monitoring such sources directly may consume a large share...

The argument that environmental standards must be harmonized among countries involved in free trade in order to ensure a quot;level playing fieldquot; has been prominent in the recent political discourse surrounding globalization and the expansion of international trade. Among academic...

This essay address the Israeli Supreme Court decision holding that the use of physical force by the General Security Service (GSS) in the course of its interrogations of terror suspects was unauthorized by Israeli law. The Court ruled that, in the absence of explicit enabling legislation, the...

Digital technology has already created more opportunities for more people than any technological change since the printing press. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and Tumblr are radically changing how ideas spread, how they influence others, and how they create networks and...

Bioethics has a core agenda of some coherence. How, then, if we evaluate bioethics by assessing not the merits of the principle it professes but the success of the policies it promotes? What are the fruits of the program to equip patients to make the health-care decisions that affect them? It is...

This chapter examines the issue of coexistence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) alongside conventional and organic crops. The central focus is on whether there is a veritable opportunity for coexistence of all three types of crops, which allows for freedom of choice by both farmers and...