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LLRX.com: DNA Identification Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions In criminal cases, there have been challenges on sufficiency grounds and concerns over the use of forensic DNA evidence as the sole or primary proof of guilt. Uncorroborated DNA matching might not be enough to satisfy the burden of establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The reliability of …
LLRX.com: Cloud Computing for Lawyers – This is Nicole L. Black’s primer for the legal profession on an emerging technology which is defined as a “type of computing that is comparable to grid computing, [and] relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud …
LLRX.com – Social media, geolocation and privacy, oh my! – Nicole L. Black highlights how our net activities are carefully monitored and meticulously tracked by some of the biggest players, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. Our individual online footprints, from the Web sites we visit, the items we purchase, the people with whom …
Magazines and Their Web Sites, A Columbia Journalism Review survey and report by Victor Navasky with Evan Lerner, March 2010 “Virtually every significant magazine in the United Statesand increasingly abroadeither already has, or is in the process of establishing, a Web site. These interactive Internet offspring speak to a new generation of magazine readers, and …
Parity democracy A far cry from reality – Comparative study on the results of the first and second rounds of monitoring of Council of Europe Recommendation Rec (2003) 3 on balanced participation of women and men in political and public decision-making: “concludes that in the last years no major progress has been achieved to …
News release: “Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland calls on states to do more to eradicate discrimination against women.” Link to fact sheet on the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights Link to special file on International Women’s Day
Preliminary Analysis of the President’s 2011 Budget “Each year CBO estimates the budgetary impact of the proposals in the President’s budget using the same economic assumptions and estimating techniques that the agency uses to produce all of its analyses and cost estimates. Because CBO’s economic forecast and estimating techniques differ from those of the Administration, …
Factsheet on European Court of Human Rights and Gender Equality “Over the years, the Council of Europe’s activities to promote the cause of women have taken a number of forms, such as legal measures, mobilising public opinion and training and research. One of the main threads running through all these activities is the principle that …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the annual summary of the Superfund programs fiscal year (FY) 2009 progress. The report shows that the program continues to make significant progress in achieving its mission of cleaning up the countrys most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites and protecting the health of nearby communities …
