Consumer protection is everywhere in retreat. Congress has rejected the Food and Drug Administration's proposed ban on saccharin,' and several courts and state legislatures have attempted to block the FDA's attack on Laetrile.2 The Consumer Product Safety Commission's recent ruling that swimming pool slides must carry danger warnings 3 has elicited widespread ridicule, brought a reversal in the...

OBJECTIVE To describe the judiciary's approach to parent-physician disputes over the care of sick children. DATA SOURCES Court publications. STUDY SELECTION Fifty parent-physician disagreements over the care of children led to physician requests for court intervention and resulted in judicial opinions published by the court. The opinions describe 66 children from 20 states. DATA SYNTHESIS...

The European Commission relies increasingly on commitment decisions. More transparency on the substance of allegations, and the establishment of a higher number of legal precedents, are however necessary. This applies in particular to cases that tackle antitrust issues in new areas, such as markets for digital goods, in which companies might find it difficult to assess if a certain behaviour co...

This paper proposes a new approach to the centuries-old question of federalism. In a word, we approach the problem offederalism from a Coasian or property-rights perspective. That is, instead of attempting to draw an arbitrary boundary line between state and federal spheres of power through traditional legal or semantic analysis of the constitution and previous judicial precedents, this paper p...

Recent empirical scholarship that shows that judges decide cases in a manner that is consistent with their political biases has motivated a stream of proposals for reform, including judicial term limits, limitations on judicial review of statutes and agency actions, revision of the judicial appointments process, and mandatory mixed party representation on judicial panels. However, these proposa...

The computer forensic discipline was established around 2000 in mainland China, which was further developed along with Chinese judicial appraisal system in 2005. This paper introduces the reformation of computer forensic legal system in mainland China, the general concept of computer forensic legal system, the management of computer judicial experts, the management of computer judicial expertis...