This paper describes a collaborative modeling environment to support the analysis and interpretation of statutory texts, i.e., laws. The paper performs a case study on formalizing the product liability act and proposes a data-centric process that enables the formalization of laws. The implemented application integrates state-of-the-art text mining technologies to assist legal experts during the...

This paper explores some of the institutional and theoretical silences within debates on infrastructural violence with reference to migrant women survivors gendered violence. Drawing from feminist thinking around structural symbolic oppression, it develops notion help understand how navigate statutory non-statutory institutions when seeking support. Empirically, elucidates diverse Brazilian in ...

Background Having an objective means of evaluating the quality of behaviour support plans (BSPs) could assist service providers and statutory authorities to monitor and improve the quality of support provided to people with intellectual disability (ID) who exhibit challenging behaviour. The Behaviour Support Plan Quality Evaluation Guide II (BSPQEII) was developed to monitor and assess BSPs pre...

Virginia v. Sebelius is a federal lawsuit in which Virginia has challenged President Obama's signature legislative initiative of health care reform. Virginia has sought declaratory and injunctive relief to vindicate a state statute declaring that no Virginia resident shall be required to buy health insurance. To defend this state law from the preemptive effect of federal law, Virginia has conte...

Sec. 2550.403a–1 Establishment of trust. 2550.403b–1 Exemptions from trust requirement. 2550.404a–1 Investment duties. 2550.404b–1 Maintenance of the indicia of ownership of plan assets outside the jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States. 2550.404c–1 ERISA section 404(c) plans. 2550.407a–1 General rule for the acquisition and holding of employer securities and employer real pro...