Inheritance Law in the Twenty-First Century: New Circumstances and Challenges

Fiduciary Law in the Twenty-first Century

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1289 I. THE NATURE AND COMPONENTS OF FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE RISKS THE RELATIONSHIPS POSE TO BOTH PARTIES .......... 1293 A. Components of Fiduciary Relationships .................................... 1293 B. While Fiduciaries’ Services Provide Benefits to Entrustors, the Services I...

Nutrition challenges for the twenty-first century.

Although progress has been made towards international goals for the eradication of hunger and malnutrition, considerable work is still required to achieve them and to respond to emerging public health nutrition challenges. The present paper outlines sixteen major inter-linked nutrition challenges recently identified by the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition. While many of the challenges relate ...

Law and Social Science in the Twenty-first Century

The use of social science—of psychology in particular—to inform legal theory and practice is fast becoming the latest craze in the pages of legal academia. Books and symposia have recently been devoted to the interplay between psychology and law and between emotions and the law, and to the application of other psychological and social scientific research to legal questions. An increasing number...

Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Twenty-first century challenges for biomaterials.

During the 1960s and 1970s, a first generation of materials was specially developed for use inside the human body. These developments became the basis for the field of biomaterials. The devices made from biomaterials are called prostheses. Professor Bill Bonfield was one of the first to recognize the importance of understanding the mechanical properties of tissues, especially bone, in order to ...