When the first German Transplantationsgesetz (Transplant Act) entered into force in 1997, post-mortem organ donation had reached an all-time low at 12.5 donors per million inhabitants. The Act was intended to create safety in core medical ethics issues and improve trust in transplant medicine – the beginning of a new era. The number of postmortem organ donors increased only slowly, and compared...

The EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is proposing to build on its existing approaches for estimating pesticide concentrations in drinking water as part of its assessment of dietary exposures to pesticides. The purpose of this consultation is to provide a progress report to and seek advice from the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) on the latest effort to further develop the methodology for ...

The 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA) extended the existing federal criminal laws against child pornography to include certain types of “virtual porn”. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court found that portions of the CPPA, being overly broad and restrictive, violated First Amendment rights. The Court ruled that images containing an actual minor or portions of a minor are not prote...

5582 ACT research has found that the joint use of test scores and high school grade point average (HSGPA) provides more information than either test scores or HSGPA alone for predicting college success. Consequently, ACT has advocated for the use of multiple measures when making admission and course placement decisions. This paper aims to help two-year institutions understand the benefits of us...

This chapter provides an overview of recent changes in the income support system for lowincome families in the State of California, and describes some of the associated changes in the labor market outcomes of women. Although much attention has focused on federally-initiated welfare reform associated with the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), signific...

Within the context of the Dutch Delta Programme, economically efficient flood protection standards for the entire Netherlands were calculated using a recently developed methodology for cost-benefit analysis and up-to-date insights into flood risk assessment. This results in economically efficient flood protection standards for different parts of the Netherlands that significantly differ from cu...

Providing parents with low incomes accused of child maltreatment with legal representation is a basic social justice issue. The Minnesota state public defender’s office ceased representation of parents in child protection cases in 2008. The Child Protection Clinic was established in 2011 at William Mitchell College of Law to help fill this gap and develop standards for representing parents invo...

Cooperatives are a fairly new form of economic system in Korea compared to the western nations, yet, it has caught many attentions since the Fundamental Cooperative Act was enacted in 2011. Korea, once a very traditional community-based society, used to develop similar systems such as dooreh and poomasi. Thus, cooperatives have been astonishingly gaining popularity in various aspects recently a...

Ever since individual locus standi before the Cartel Court was introduced in 1993, private enforcement of competition rules has played an important role in Austria. To a considerable extent, actions by private parties, or by public institutions such as the Chamber of Labour, have compensated for the lack of a public prosecutor in competition matters. However, in most cases these private enforce...