background and objective: sleepiness is one of the important factors in motor vehicle accidents, especially in commercial drivers (cds). obstructive sleep apnea (osa) has an important role in developing sleepiness. the stop-bang questionnaire is used in medical examinations of commercial drivers in iran by law. this study aimed to investigate the judgment that drivers prefer not to report their...

Reverse Engineering is the traditional bread-and-butter of digital forensics research. Companies like Microsoft and Apple deliver computational artifacts (operating systems, applications and phones) to the commercial market. These artifacts are bought and used by billions. Some have evil intent, and (if society is lucky), the computers end up in the hands of law enforcement. Unfortunately the o...

The severity of the (potential) consequences of the use of agents in the military domain imperatively necessitates research on the application of the law of armed conflict, which provides ‘constraints’ on ‘human’ warfare. In this paper, one of the main principles of that law, target discrimination, is used to highlight legal and ethical dilemmas involving the use of autonomous agents. The incid...

Jonathan M. Stern is Chair of the DRI Aerospace Law Committee. He practices aerospace and insurance coverage law with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, where he is resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC, office. Mr. Stern, who holds FAA-issued commercial pilot, control tower operator, and ground instructor certificates, was formerly an air traffic controller at Washington National Airport and...

This article examines the leading principles governing interpretation of written contracts under English law. This is a comprehensive and incisive analysis of the current law and of the relevant doctrines, including the equitable principles of rectification, as well as the powers of appeal courts or of the High Court when hearing an appeal from an arbitral award. The topic of interpretation of ...

Australian surrogacy legislation punishes the pursuit of a commercial surrogacy arrangement as a criminal offence. Such legislation was first introduced in Victoria in 1986 and has since been applied in every Australian jurisdiction except for the Northern Territory. The current application of criminal law is based upon this 1980s policy which has never been subject to public debate. This artic...