Юриспруденция, право
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Governments and nonstate actors around the world have signed mutual recognition arrangements (MRAs), but while most of them share the goals of streamlining the recognition of foreign workers' qualifications and boosting labor mobility, the MRAs vary considerably. Implementation challenges faced in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe offer lessons for Asian policymakers seeking to operationalize the MRAs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This report is the...
| Автор | Dovelyn Rannveig Mendoza |
Uzbekistan has achieved sustained growth through its gradual transition to a market-based economy through cautious economic policy reforms. Despite its gradual approach to development challenges, the country experienced the smallest output decline among former Soviet economies and enjoyed high rates of economic growth from 2004 to 2015, largely driven by the high prices of its major export commodities. However, the drop in the global prices of many key commodities in recent years have severely...
| Автор | Kym Anderson |
“There is little dispute that the Internet should continue as an open platform,” notes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Yet, in a curious twist of logic, the agency has moved to discontinue the legal regime successfully yielding that magnificent platform. In late 2010, it imposed “network neutrality” regulations on broadband access providers, both wired and wireless. Networks cannot (a) block subscribers’ use of certain devices,...
| Автор | Thomas W Hazlett |
This is the story of how Title IX, a 1972 law intended to ban sex discrimination in education, became a monster that both the federal government and many college administrators treat as though it supersedes both the U.S. Constitution and hundreds of years of common law. It's a story about the victims of this law—men and women both—and of the unaccountable government bureaucrats at the Departments of Education and Justice who repeatedly prioritize an extreme brand of...
| Автор | Robert L. Shibley |
This Broadside will look at the changes that can be made to halt the full implementation of the law over the next few years, including repealing parts of the act that are unpopular with members of both parties. These parts are the medical device tax, IPAB, the new 3.8 percent tax on unearned income, to name a few.Also covered will be potential reforms to Medicare and Medicaid, two major entitlement programs that, if not reformed to ensure sustainability for those who really need these programs,...
| Автор | Sally C. Pipes |
Who is sovereign in the United States? Is it the people themselves, or is it an elite determined to rule citizens who are seen as incapable of making choices about their own lives? This is the central question in the American gun-control debate.In this Broadside, David Kopel explains why the right to keep and bear arms has always been central to the American identity – and why Americans have always resisted gun control. The American Revolution was sparked by British attempts to...
| Автор | David B Kopel |
Jillian spontaneously decides to holiday on an exotic tropical island located on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Once there, she is amazed to find herself attracted to two eligible men. But could she actually fall in love with one, so quickly after ending her engagement two weeks before her marriage ceremony? Lives are risked when she discovers the island is hiding secrets, and Jillian unwittingly becomes involved. But can she stay safe while unravelling the mystery? And just when you think...
| Автор | Jeanette Walker |
Man ma ikke bega vold. Men hvad med alle de kirurger, som hver dag svinger kniven – er de ogsa voldsmAend? Det er de faktisk ifolge nogle meget kloge jurister. Andre vil sige, at det er det rene nonsens. Derfor er det afgorende, hvem der fortolker loven – skal det vAere fa fine paragrafryttere eller det almindelige fodfolk? Sporger vi Gorm Toftegaard Nielsen, professor i strafferet ved Aarhus Universitet, er Europa delt op i en tysk og en engelsk retskultur, mellem elitAert tankespind og god...
| Автор | Gorm Toftegaard Nielsen |
