An egalitarian defense of proportionality-based balancing

Proportionality Balancing and Global Constitutionalism

Proportionality in EU law : a balancing act ?

Proportionality is a legal principle that plays a key role in constitutional review of public acts. In the EU it legitimizes the constitutional claims of EU law in the context of a multi-level legal system. The application of proportionality in the EU differs based on whether EU legal acts or legal acts of the Member States are concerned. In the former case a manifestly disproportionate test is...

Kidney exchange: An egalitarian mechanism

Transplantation is the preferred treatment for the most serious forms of kidney disease; deceaseddonor and live-donor kidneys are the two sources for transplantation, and these sources are utilized via two different programs. One of these programs, a two-way kidney paired donation (KPD), involves two patient-donor couples, for each of whom transplantation from donor to intended recipient is not...

Leadership in an egalitarian society.

Leadership is instrumental to resolution of collective action dilemmas, particularly in large, heterogeneous groups. Less is known about the characteristics or effectiveness of leadership in small-scale, homogeneous, and relatively egalitarian societies, in which humans have spent most of our existence. Among Tsimane' forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia, we (1) assess traits of elected leaders...

An Overview of CORBA-Based Load Balancing

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant load balancing mechanism has caught the attention of many researchers in recent years. Load balancing is an issue, which has to be concerned in CORBA architecture. In this paper, we provide an overview of CORBA-based load balancing mechanism. We discuss its requirements, policies, strategies, as well as the pros and cons. We addres...