This paper tries to address the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asian security. This organization was established on April 26, 1996 to settle security and territorial disputes between China and Russia and Central Asian countries (other than Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). After the accession of Uzbekistan to this assembly, the level of the organization was promoted, and...

This paper tries to address the impact of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization on Central Asian security. This organization was established on April 26, 1996 to settle security and territorial disputes between China and Russia and Central Asian countries (other than Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). After the accession of Uzbekistan to this assembly, the level of the organization was promoted, and...

In Argentina, campaigns for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights have sparked opposition through litigation in which the dynamics of legal action have come from self-proclaimed "pro-life" NGOs, particularly since 1998, when the conservative NGO Portal de Belén successfully achieved the banning of emergency contraception through the courts. The activities of these groups, acting as ...

We present a simple sequential bargaining model of a collegial court, analogous to Baron and Ferejohn’s sequential bargaining model of a legislature. However, the model incorporates critical features of appellate court jurisprudence — including disposition votes and coalitions, opinion assignment, opinion writing, and voting over draft opinions to create a majority opinion —so that it is indeed...

How do disagreements between judges on collegial (multimember) courts affect legal policy? We address this question by developing an account of the nature of judicial disagreements in the case-space model of judicial choice. We distinguish between different types of disagreement, from disagreements about case facts to disagreements about how legal rules should treat varying case facts, and cons...

I n previous years, overviews of the Exhibitors’ Hall at the SNMMI Annual Meeting (in Miami, FL, 2012; Vancouver, Canada, 2013; and St. Louis, MO, 2014) have highlighted established patient-focused developments and service products. This year, we looked at the 2015 Exhibitors’ Hall in Baltimore, MD, from a slightly different perspective. The preclinical arena is central to drug discovery, instr...

Persian painting has usually been studied from historical point of views. But its formation is rooted in a specific social context. In this study, we will try to contextualize it and we will show that this social context has a crucial role regarding its aesthetic. Persian painting is an art of royal courts and it represents the life of princes combined with Persian epic legendes. This social co...