Background Sexual violence (SV) remains a global public health problem and a violation of multiple human rights. It can negatively impact on the shortand long-term physical, social and mental health of survivors and is associated with many adverse health outcomes [1-3]. It is assumed that some of the negative outcomes of SV can be addressed through the provision of appropriate postrape care ser...

With the popularity and development of the Internet, E-commerce gradually spearhead the international trade, and become the main medium of trade. The application and development of E-commerce poses a severe challenge toward the traditional legal system, and bring about lots of new legal problems, especially worrisome is the evidence of E-commerce, which constitutes the major stumbling blocks in...

Context he review summarized here provides a global overview of the uses and impacts of medico-legal evidence in cases of sexual assault of adolescents and adults. It examines the existing peer-reviewed scholarly and grey literature from industrialized and developing regions. Over 400 items on sexual assault, including books, journal articles, news articles, research reports, annual reports, di...

Adopting the interpretative/hermeneutical method typical of much legal scholarship, this article considers two sets of issues pertaining to LTDNA profiles as evidence in criminal proceedings. The section titled Expert Evidence as Forensic Epistemic Warrant addresses some rather large questions about the epistemic status and probative value of expert testimony in general. It sketches a theoretic...

Advances in neuroscientific techniques have found increasingly broader applications, including in legal neuroscience (or "neurolaw"), where experts in the brain sciences are called to testify in the courtroom. But does the incursion of neuroscience into the legal sphere constitute a threat to individual liberties? And what legal protections are there against such threats? In this paper, we outl...

Legal and illegal immigrants are concentrated in U.S. border states. This paper asks to what extent geographic clustering is attributable to differences in state-provided public aid. California has been shown to have a disproportionate number of legal immigrant welfare users, but little evidence exists concerning illegal persons. Illegal immigrants may collect welfare benefits on behalf of lega...

BACKGROUND The preparation and provision of medico-legal reports by the treating doctor is an inevitable but sometimes unwelcome part of general practice. OBJECTIVE This article outlines the steps involved in preparing a 'good' medico-legal report, including some of the common pitfalls to avoid. DISCUSSION General practitioners play an important role in providing medico-legal reports about ...

This paper studies the growth and performance of foreign investment enterprises in developing countries in the context of global economic integration and domestic reform with a focus on Vietnam as a case study. A model of enterprise performance is constructed to provide empirical findings and evidence-based policy implications on the role of capital, investment, monetary and development pol...

Unlike research in linguistics and artificial intelligence, legal research has not used advances in logical theory very effectively. This article uses default logic to develop a paradigm for analyzing the reasoning behind legal fact-finding. The article provides a formal model that integrates legal rules and policies with the evaluation of both expert and nonexpert evidence—whether the fact-fin...