For nearly 25 y, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL), of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, has brought together distinguished
members of the science and law communities to stimulate discussions that would lead to a better understanding of the role of science in legal decisions and government [...]
A defendant is criminally responsible for his action only if he is shown to have engaged in a guilty act—actus reus (eg for larceny, voluntarily taking someone else's
property without permission)—while possessing a guilty mind—mens rea (eg knowing that he had taken someone else's property without permission, intending [...]
According to the CODATA/Research Data Alliance Principles on the Legal Interoperability of Research Data (https://rd-alliance.org/group/rdacodata-legal-interoperability-ig/wiki/legal-principles-data.html),
the distribution and dissemination of research data (including software) is, to a significant extent, governed by law and institutional policy that specify ownership [...]
Phonon heat conduction over length scales comparable to their mean free paths is a topic of considerable interest for basic science and thermal management technologies. However,
debate exists over the appropriate constitutive law that defines thermal conductivity in the nondiffusive regime. [...]
The existing paradigm for the economic analysis of tax compliance provides an inadequate theory of the revenue collection process. Even as a purely economic model, its exclusive
focus on individual taxpayers' decision-making promotes an unduly restrictive vision of the compliance problem and potential responses to it. [...]
This paper first develops criteria by which courts can distinguish between product related risks that profit maximizing firms can and cannot be expected to discover. It then
argues that imposing the former--"knowable"--set of risks on firms reduces accident costs and creates no problems that corporate and bankruptcy law cannot adequately [...]
The October 7, 2003 California Recall Election strained California's direct democracy. In recent California politics there has not been a statewide election conducted on such
short notice; county election officials were informed on July 24 that the election would be held on October 7. [...]
In recent years, finance economists have begun to study several practices that the law traditionally regulates. Examples include attempted explanations of the variety of debt
and equity instruments that firms issue, the nature of bond covenants, the functions that trade credit serves and the likely actions of creditors when their debtor [...]
Perhaps because of the importance and visibility of some regulatory agencies and commissions, numerous observers have come to regard the administrative form of regulation as
the "logical" or "natural" method of intervening in the economy or society. In fact, however, regulation comes in a variety of forms. [...]