Australians prepare to legislate on euthanasia

Australia's Northern Territory: the first jurisdiction to legislate voluntary euthanasia, and the first to repeal it.

Is It Possible to Legislate Fair Share?

Lost in the debate surrounding net neutrality is the assumption that all end hosts play nice and “fair share” the limited network bandwidth. Traditionally, “fair share” is enforced through a combination of forces: there is a general consensus on the TCP congestion control algorithm, operating system vendors implement such algorithm in the kernels and it cannot be changed, applications use TCP a...

Eric Hanushek Can Governments Legislate Higher Teacher Quality? Can government legislate higher teacher quality?

This paper discusses different perspectives from which to assess teacher quality and develops a conceptual framework focusing on outcome based measures of instructional performance. Results from a series of analyses on academic achievement in Texas public schools are used to describe both the variation in teacher effectiveness and the extent to which that variation is captured by observable mea...

Prepare to Be Challenged!

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2014 (“The West Bend Challenges: Open Access and Intellectual Freedom in the Twenty-First Century,” edited by Joyce M. Latham and Barbara M. Jones), pp. 759–770. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract An examination of the controversy at the West Bend Community Memorial Library over homosexual materials in the young adult collection, and an...

Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?

In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate "agree to disagree". This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more complicated than what is usually believed to be the case. Agreeing to disagree is philosophically p...