Introductory Editorial - Jacques Derrida: Before, Through, Beyond (the) Law

Sports Law: Some Introductory Considerations

With the rise of importance of sport as a social phenomenon in recent decades, more public attention has been paid to the issue of the legal nature of the rules governing social relations in sports. The issue raised above are only a part of a much broader topic that involves questions of relations of a classical Westphalian state and changes in the international community as well as issues of t...

The "French Doctors' Movement" And Beyond (An Introductory Editorial).

A t first glance, the notion that human rights violations, violence, and suffering would lead to a humanitarian response and to promotion of human rights and dignity would seem obvious. Yet history shows that the ultimate benefit of humanitarian action seldom accrues to the "victims." As a result of this conundrum, the humanitarian movement, exemplified by the French Doctors, has entered an unp...

European Memories: Jan Patočka and Jacques Derrida on Responsibility

Introductory Editorial

The Open Journal of Information Systems is a new open-access journal covering all aspects of information systems. In this introductory issue, we present two articles. In the first article, Kessler et al. present new techniques to achieve better anonymity in time series. In the second article, Iivari introduces a new model from which we can derive recommendations to improve the use of social net...

Introductory Editorial

The establishment of the International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV) in September 2005 fulfills a long unmet need to provide a focus for sharing the results of scientific, medical and public health research through the co-ordination of international forums (see http://www.isirv.org/home/home.cfm); it has also provided the incentive for the launch of a new journal d...