An Advance care directive entitles a person to request in advance either the refusal of or consent to certain medical treatment if that person is not competent to consent or refuse at the time such refusal or consent is required. The 2003 Law Reform Commission’s Consultation Paper on Law and the Elderly briefly mentioned advance directives. However, the Paper decided to leave the issue to a fut...

This review essay challenges siloed thinking about housing precarity by bringing a sociological account of emergency shelters in Ottawa, Canada–Erin Dej’s book A Complex Exile–into conversation with recent scholarship from Canadian academics on residential tenancy law.3 One intuition underlying this is that we need to think these disparate legal regimes as comprising bigger system law. Bringing...

Under subchapter V of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code (U.S.C. 5351– 5356), agencies may pay stipends and provide certain services to certain student-employees assigned or attached to hospitals, clinics, or medical or dental laboratories operated by agencies. Student-employees covered under the program are excluded from certain provisions of law relating to classification, General Sche...

1. The idea that crimes are public wrongs is a well-established one within the field of law. Its role in English Law was explicitly affirmed by Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. Recently, the idea of ‘public wrongs’ has also gained prominence among those working on the normative issues in criminalization, most notably in the works by Duff and Marshall. I have no intention t...

The article is devoted to the coverage of one today's topical topics - termination an employment contract under martial law. In connection with introduction law in Ukraine, thousands people were forced urgently leave their place residence and, accordingly, work order save lives and relatives. Many enterprises destroyed by enemy, or they moved other regions our country already new realities less...

In response to your request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted a long-term analysis of your proposal to substantially change federal payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, eliminate the subsidies to be provided through new insurance exchanges under last year’s major health care legislation, leave Social Security as it would be under current law, and set paths for a...

In this paper, a general control-to-facet problem for affine systems on polytopes is studied: find an affine feedback law such that all trajectories of the closed-loop system leave the state polytope through an a priori specified (possibly empty) set of facets. Solutions are presented in terms of (bi)linear inequalities in the coefficients of the affine feedback. The result is applied to contro...

We discuss three dimensional compact QED with a θ term due to an axionic field. The variational gauge invariant functional is considered and it is shown that the ground state energy is independent of θ in a leading approximation. The mass gap of the axionic field is found to be dependent upon θ, the mass gap of the photon field and the scalar potential. The vacuum expectation of the Wilson loop...