Day archives: December 27th, 2015

New on LLRX – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide

Via LLRX.com – Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide.  Sabrina I. Pacifici’s comprehensive current awareness guide focuses on leveraging a selected but wide range of reliable, topical, predominantly free websites and resources. The goal is to support an effective research process to search, discover, access, monitor, analyze and review current and historical data, news, …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Patent and Trademark

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon

“The Dissent project is a research collaboration between Yale University and UT Austin to create a powerful, practical anonymous group communication system offering strong, provable security guarantees with reasonable efficiency. Dissent’s technical approach differs in two fundamental ways from the traditional relay-based approaches used by systems such as Tor: Dissent builds on dining cryptographers and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Managing price and financial stability objectives – what can we learn from the Asia-Pacific region?

Managing price and financial stability objectives – what can we learn from the Asia-Pacific region? by Soyoung Kim and Aaron Mehrotra. BIS Working Papers No 533. December 2015. “The international financial crisis led many central banks to adopt explicit financial stability objectives. This raises the question of how central banks deal with policy trade-offs resulting from potential …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Evaluation

Mary K. Cunningham, Jennifer Biess, Dina Emam, Martha R. Burt. December 10, 2015. Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration Evaluation: “This report documents the outcomes of veterans served by the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Demonstration program (VHPD), one element of the Obama administration’s signature initiative to end veteran homelessness. It describes the housing, employment, and health of veterans …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Government Documents, Housing

Gene Patents and Human Rights

Van Overwalle, Geertrui, Gene Patents and Human Rights (March 2015). in Intellectual Property Law and Human Rights. Third edition, Paul L. C. Torremans (ed.), Kluwer Law International, 2015, 871 – 914 . Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2708042 “Over the last decade, the relationship between intellectual property rights (IPRs) and human rights has gained wide …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law

Widlak, Tomasz Hubert, From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law (December 17, 2015). From International Society to International Community: The Constitutional Evolution of International Law, Gdansk University Press, 2015. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2707814 “The purpose of this book is to reconstruct the concept of “international community” and to …

Subjects: Legal Research