 J.D., New York University School of Law; Research Fellow & Lecturer in Law, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law. The author was a member of a working group in New Jersey that collaborated to identify issues to assist the State in its drafting of regulations to implement its Medicaid Accountable Care Organization (ACO) legislation, which is the ...

Software in India are protectable under copyright law as computer programmes, but the scope of a ‘literal’ part of a programme and the limits of substantial copying are not yet settled. Author’s ‘fair use’ rights and licence use rights are similarly not clear. Software per se is not patentable, but there are no guidelines as in when software is patentable under the Patents Act. But they are pro...

there are two different contradictory approach regarding the interaction of the state immunity and jus cogens. some jurist argue that jus cogens rules should prevail over other inconsistent ordinary rules of international law including state immunity. this argument therefore depends upon the existence of conflict between rules of jus cogens, and the rule of customary law which requires one stat...

to enforce general policies of article 44, ''law of enforcing general policies of article 44 of the constitution'' was recently approved by islamic consultative assembly. the main objective of the present paper is analysis and study of aspects of criminal policy inserted in the law through identification of criminal behaviors and predicted responses. with respect to criminal phenomenon, study t...

As the number of federal criminal laws has increased over the past decade, so, too, has the intensity with which scholars debate the role of federal law generally. However, in their debate, the scholars focus largely on matters of legislative policy. They essentially ask the question, “How far should Congress go when creating new federal law?” Professor George Brown seeks to answer a different ...

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