The practice of pharmacy has changed over recent years with a greater emphasis on the patient and the provision of patient care services. This expanded role of pharmacists as medication managers has resulted in changes to their professional responsibility and potential legal liability. Recent international case law demonstrates an increased legal liability of pharmacists in certain instances. H...

in sale of goods, the delivered goods must conform both to what is the subject of contract and to what the parties intend. conformity of goods has two aspects: legal and material. the legal aspect, with which this article concerns, consist of such topics as right of sale, ownership of seller, lack of third party’s claim and so on .since domestic and international transactions are increasing, th...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are a complex knowledge domain. The ability to design EHRs to cope with the changing nature of health knowledge, and to be shareable, has been elusive. A recent pilot study1 tested the applicability of the CEN 13606 as an electronic health record standard. Using openEHR archetypes and tools2, 650 clinical content specifi cations (archetypes) were created (e.g. f...

* Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. This text is the author’s translation of an extract from his article “Internationale Energiepolitik” (“International Energy Policy”), published in the anthology Die Zukunft der Energie (The Future of Energy). If the global climate is to be stabilised to ensure that the average temperature on Earth does not in...

The development, manufacture, trade and distribution of medicines all take place within a web of international legal obligations that states have accepted under a range of multilateral, plurilateral and bilateral agreements. International law can operate either to facilitate or hinder access, depending on how it is developed and implemented. This article examines two areas of international law ...

Legal education is key to the success of every legal system, which, in turn, is the foundation of every society. Legal education should therefore be reviewed on a continuous basis so as to stay consistent with the development of society. However, the current legal education system in Taiwan has been in place for many decades without fundamental change, even though Taiwan has played an active pa...