Law transformed: Guantánamo and the ‘other’ exception

Doctors as pawns? Law and medical ethics at Guantánamo Bay.

This symposium poses the question: “Guantanamo Bay: How should we respond?” When I thought about this question, it occurred to me that we talk about “responding” in a number of ways. We respond in games, such as chess or bridge. But the detention policy of the Bush Administration (“the Administration”) is not a game—certainly not from the perspectives of those who are being (or have been) detai...

Panel 2: Normalisation of the Exception: the Complicity of Law

Economic Decisions for Others: An Exception to Loss Aversion Law

In everyday life, people often make decisions on behalf of others. The current study investigates whether risk preferences of decision-makers differ when the reference point is no longer their own money but somebody else money. Thirty four healthy participants performed three different monetary risky choices tasks by making decisions for oneself and for another unknown person. Results showed th...

Constitutional law--right of privacy--evidence law of privileges--the patient-litigant exception to the psychotherapist-patient privilege.

TRANSFORMATION SEMIGROUPS AND TRANSFORMED DIMENSIONS

In the transformation semigroup (X, S) we introduce the height of a closed nonempty invariant subset of X, define the transformed dimension of nonempty subset S of X and obtain some results and relations.