This article introduces the Sub-state Autonomy Scale (SAS), an indicator and database for autonomy demands statutes at sub-state level. The usefulness of SAS comes with two analytical properties. First, it allows evaluating in kind (whether competences are administrative or legislative), degree (how much each dimension is present) by (as a function extent comprised policy domains) same time. Se...

In the 1973 case State v. New Times, INC, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona, ruled that Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion [3] statutes, were unconstitutional. The statues made it illegal for anyone to receive, provide, or advertise abortion [3] services. The Arizona Court of Appeals reviewed a case in which a city court ...

The paper defines the role played by human-readable, namely Russian, language in technologies of machine reading law and statutes. author analyzes complexity factor interpretation according to rules formal logic conceptual units terminology statutes, which may be an obstacle processes machine-reading law, as well formation machine-readable law. draws a number conclusions regarding methodology m...

The International Society of Developmental Biologists (ISDB) is a non-profit scientific association which aims to promote the study of developmental biology:-by providing a forum for scientific discussion and for the publication of results of research, • by promoting the organization of international congresses and symposia, • by encouraging the establishment and improvement of research laborat...

An aspect of the battle over deconstruction is whether resort to legislative intent might help to determine the content of a statutory text that otherwise, in splendid isolation, could be deconstructed by simply positing different interpretive contexts. I examine the same issue by recounting my own quest for determinate meaning in statutes—a sort of personal legislative history. I do not claim ...

Common law has a dictum that people must not benefit from their crimes. In years past, states have enacted slayer rules to prevent killers from inheriting from their victims. The specific criteria and applicability of slayer rules vary by jurisdiction. Recently, several states, including Washington, have expanded their slayer rules to disqualify persons from inheriting if they have been involve...

To constrain the use of intangible assets in tax-motivated state income shifting, many U.S. governments adopted addback statutes. Addback statutes reduce tax benefits that firms can gain from creating such as patents. Using a sample public firms, we examine effect on corporate innovation behavior. First, adoption leads to 4.77 percentage point decrease number patents and 5.12 patent citations. ...