This article considers compliance with competition law among a particular sub-set of UK companies. The research was principally motivated by the reform of UK competition law
in the late 1990's and the introduction of new investigatory and fining powers for the UK competition authorities, with potentially very serious consequences for [...]
In the legal profession horizontal segregation (women's division between areas or not) reproduce situations of vertical stratification, helping to explain the role of women
lawyers typically employed in group practices. This leads to a polarization between areas of net operating primarily female, underpaid and oriented to the solution [...]
This article ponders the possibilities existing for legal re-understandings of vulnerability and adopts the International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on the Protection
of Persons in the Event of Disasters (2016) as its principal discursive context. Despite some promise and potential, the draft Articles retreated to conservative [...]
Competition law, its implications for the economy and its consequences for industry are particularly topical and controversial. There are numerous examples of price - fixing
cartels being uncovered by the competition authorities both internationally and dome stically, and there have also been recent and ongoing investigations and sanctions [...]
Compliance has become prevalent worldwide and especially following the passage of various national regulations such as the United States’ Sarbanes–Oxley Act, Australia’s
Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act, and the UK Bribery Act. The cost of business misconduct has been so great to business, shareholders, and the public in [...]
Die Standortsuche für ein Endlager ist neu angelaufen. Für die Auswahl von günstigen Teilgebieten wurden Sicherheitskriterien auf Geodaten angewendet. Regelungen zu Kriterien
und zur Untersuchung von Sicherheitsaspekten sind insbesondere in der neuen Artikel-Verordnung nach §§26, 27 StandAG geregelt. [...]
Bacteriophage therapy is a promising approach to treating bacterial infections. Research and development of bacteriophage therapy is intensifying due to the increase in antibiotic
resistance and the faltering development of new antibiotics. Bacteriophage therapy uses bacteriophages (phages), i.e., prokaryotic viruses, to specifically target [...]
Optogenetics has potentials for a treatment of retinitis pigmentosa and other rare degenerative retinal diseases. The technology allows controlling cell activity through combining
genetic engineering and optical stimulation with light. First clinical studies are already being conducted, whereby the vision of participating patients who were [...]
