Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. These technologies allow communications between patient and medical staff with convenience as well as the transmission of medical, imaging and health informatics data from one site to another. It is also used to save lives in critical care and emergency situations. A...

The first panel explores the diverse set of legal issues and risks that arise as governments increasingly adopt open source systems. Governments are attracted to open source software systems by the potential cost savings, open standards and protocols, and the flexibility, adaptability and reliability of the systems. However, there are serious legal issues and liabilities that can arise when gov...

This paper surveys the issues and devises an analytical framework for policy makers and policy advisors concerned with corporate governance. The framework takes a functional approach, identifying six functions provided by a governance system. The paper highlights the possibilities and limits to governance reform through the adoption of legal protections and the use of ownership structure. I cau...

despite the title of intellectual property law, this legal system differs from the classic property law in several aspects, inter alia, the time of protection, the standards for protection, the scope of protection and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. these limitations and differences are largely because of the economic considerations regarding different kinds of positive efficie...

If socio-legal research has taught us anything, it is that legal coercion is expensive and difficult. Law can rarely hope to be meaningful and effective without the cooperation, indeed the normative accord, of the vast majority of populations it hopes to control. Thus after years of researching the behavior of regulatory agencies, regulatory scholars increasingly have turned their attention to ...

In this article we present a principled, four-phased approach to the development of legal knowledge systems. We set out from the well-studied CommonKADS method for the development of knowledge systems and tailor this method to the legal domain. In particular, we propose a generic legal ontology, and describe the creation of statutespeci"c ontologies to adopt the method for building legal system...

BREAUX, TRAVIS DURAND. Legal Requirements Acquisition for the Specification of Legally Compliant Information Systems. (Under the direction of Ana Isabel Antón.) U.S. federal and state regulations impose mandatory and discretionary requirements on industrywide business practices to achieve non-functional, societal goals such as improved accessibility, privacy and safety. The structure and syntax...

Corporate Governance, Capital Market Discipline and the Returns on Investment* by Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and B. Burcin Yurtoglu We analyze the impact of corporate governance institutions, ownership structures and external capital market constraints on company returns on investment by using a sample of more than 19,000 companies from 61 countries across the world. We show that (1) of th...

We propose an effective administration model using organizational structure for a decentralized role-based access control environment. Access control administration is a critical issue for large organizations and information systems. A large organization needs decentralized access control by multiple security officers because it has many users and information objects, and a single security offi...