The United States has committed to promote Health Information Technology through Electronic Health Records that will be exchanged among participants in the healthcare enterprise. In anticipation of problems, legal remedies have been established to protect the rights of all participants, especially their rights to protect the privacy of their own information. However, there are certain to be sit...

The Canada-U.S. dispute over softwood lumber imports provides an important case in understanding issues of international bargaining and treaty compliance. Recent events in the dispute suggest that one of the leading theoretical accounts of treaty compliance does not offer an adequate explanation of state behavior. Policy makers should recognize the importance of cross-border ownership and indus...

We present an unified methodology for representation and development of dialectical proof procedures in abstract argumentation based on the notions of legal environments and dispute derivations. A legal environment specifies the legal moves of the dispute parties while a dispute derivation describes the procedure structure. A key insight of this paper is that the opponent moves determine the so...

relations between the third world countries in different parts of asia and africa during the 19th and 20th centuries, to a great extent, were influenced by the presence and policies of colonial powers. thus, for a better understanding of roots of disputes and issues existing between these countries concerning frontiers, disputed islands, political and prejudicial tensions, we need to study past...

Efficient and equitable dispute resolution is key to avoiding systemic disturbance in the use and valorization of top level domain names (TLDs). Such dispute resolution is also important given the increasing number of clashes between TLD providers and managers and between trademark owners and generic (gTLD)-related registrants. ICANN policies/rules form the basis of gTLD-related second level do...

Abstract The Appellate Body (AB) report in Korea–Pneumatic Valves is among the most structurally complex of recent trade remedies reports. AB weaves a complicated web to explicate intricacies relationship relevant provisions on injury determination anti-dumping disputes midst contentious and long-running series between two close regional trading powers. This Article first examines Korean invest...

Contract dispute resolution has become an important aspect in the negotiating process. Objective and effective contract dispute resolution can reduce the high transaction cost and time in the negotiation process. This paper proposes a principle-based contract dispute negotiation system based on expert system and knowledge resource space model (KRSM). The system provides an accurate and objectiv...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the disputed maritime areas causes significant damage to marine ecology authorized fisheries, increases risk of conflicts among states, violates human rights at sea. Both unilateral measures cooperative governance for IUU are often inadequate these areas. In light, this study aims clarify regulatory obligations relevant states explore feasib...