This article considers factors that limit or exclude civil society involvement in the regulatory process for nanotechnologies by critically examining an attempt to mount a public-interest legal challenge against the UK Health and Safety Executive for failing to properly enforce…

China’s rapid economic transformation over the last 3 decades has been remarkable both in terms of its speed and scale. As the Economist magazine reported recently, ‘In China each person now produces four times as much as in the early…

The frequency of the electronic media as a source of harm to an  individual’ s  reputation is growing  as it is a source of  knowledge on the information highway and has the potential to leave indelible marks on careers. 

Over the past decades, social sciences have gradually learned to use quantitative methods and computational tools. According to the emerging paradigm of  so called “computational social science” (CSS), the study of social phenomena is more and more often identified with…