Cultural Heterogeneity and Law: Pornography, Blasphemy, and the First Amendment

Examining pornography in cyberspace from the perspective of ethics, spirituality and medicine

Background & Aims: Pornography in cyberspace is one of the emerging and multidimensional challenges in society. Each discipline offers different criteria, reasons, perspectives and solutions according to their point of view; But this multidimensional phenomenon has involved all aspects of human societies in individual and group dimensions and has left negative consequences. The aims of this stu...

Investigating the Economic Effects of Amendment of Law of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Iran: Computable General Equilibrium Model (CGE) Approach

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic effects of amendment of law of value added tax in Iran. The research method is quantitative and standard CGE model of Lafgren et al (2002) is used for analyzing. Data are derived from the latest Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Iran in 2011, which is provided by the Research Center of the Parliament. The data are analyzed in the form of ...

Obscenity, Pornography, and the First Amendment Theory

Pornography and the First Amendment: A Reply to Professor MacKinnon

Creating and Detecting Doctored and Virtual Images: Implications to The Child Pornography Prevention Act

The 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) extended the existing federal criminal laws against child pornography to include certain types of “virtual porn”. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court found that portions of the CPPA, being overly broad and restrictive, violated First Amendment rights. The Court ruled that images containing an actual minor or portions of a minor are not prote...