Access to the Law: by M. L. Friedland

Access to Fertility Treatments for Homosexual and Unmarried Persons, through Iranian Law and Islamic Perspective

Background A family traditionally consisted of a married man, his wife, and their children. The new reproductive technologies including use of the third party as egg, sperm and embryo donation and also surrogacy have changed the traditional meanings of lineage, ancestry and family. The increasing number of lesbians and gays in addition to single women requesting fertility treatment from IVF cen...

Interview of Shmuel Friedland for the ILAS

A: When I went to Stanford as a postdoc, I realized that linear algebra and matrix theory were not what most people were interested in (laughter). Indeed, soon after I arrived at Stanford, Paul Cohen asked me what was the most important theorem in my field and I mentioned Perron–Frobenius Theorem. A few days later he told me that he proved it using a hint in Dunford–Schwartz [7]. So I looked ar...

Regulating Access to Databases Through Antitrust Law, 2006 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 7 (2006)

Citizen Science for Citizen Access to Law

Over 2014, the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National University worked with users of the Cornell LII site in a citizen science project to collect over 43,000 crowdsourced assessments of the readability of legal and other sentences. Readers (“citizen scientists”) on legislative pages of the LII site were asked to rate passages from the United States Code and ...

Law Enforcement Access Network

THIS PAPER OUTLINES THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS NETWORK (LEAN) proposal recently announced by the Commonwealth Government. The proposal arose as a direct consequence of the Commonwealth Government’s acceptance of the recommendations in 1987 of the white paper entitled Review of Systems for Dealing with Fraud on the Commonwealth (Australia 1987). A description of the Commonwealth’s campaign again...