This article discusses outcomes of a dialogue conference on 'The road ahead for ELSA in Norway: Issues of quality, influence and network cooperation' held in Oslo in December 2012. Norwegian researchers in the field of ethical, legal and social aspects of technologies (ELSA) were invited to discuss conceptual and strategic issues, as well as the setup of a researcher network. In the article I t...

although electronic contract consists of offer and acceptance, its specific characteristics and the fact that parties to it state their intention in a virtual world i.e. cyber-space, and specially given consumer's need of enough protection in this environment, new rules have been included in laws concerning this kind of contract which seek to make sure that consumer has been well informed ...

Organisms are hierarchically organized, both structurally and behaviorally, where one level is defined to be above another level if the objects from the latter are combined together to make objects of the former level. I say that such a pair of levels is a combinatorial system. To understand organisms will require appreciating the relationships between all pairs of adjacent hierarchical levels ...

although there is in neither conventional nor customary international law any comprehensive or universal prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons, it was absolutely possible for the court to conclude, in the light of the documentary evidence and factual data placed before it, that recourse to these weapons would be illegal, in all circumstances. the article tries to examine critically the worl...

despite many researchers conducted on electronic commerce, few studies have been performed in the field of internet businesses (ibs) with no up-to-date and applicable law. as a result, using library and field study, in one section we state the general rules and regulations governing all ibs, and in the other section we survey appropriative rules and regulations governing every model of ib. prov...