This article describes unresolved challenges of regulation of nanoparticles, mainly from a European perspective. The authors shall argue that the presently dominant strategy, which in this article will be called “filling in the regulatory gaps”, is unsatisfactory with respect to…

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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…

Mobile is a rapidly growing and potentially major element of the future Internet, and its environment cannot be sensibly considered in isolation from fixed networks. A note on terminology: Europe uses the term Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while the United…

This paper aims at providing an ontology based model for the creation of a collaborative platform to improve knowledge transfer between research outcomes and educational resources related to European law. The objective of the article is to examine the legal…

Computer security applications (CSAs) are essential for ensuring information security across insecure mediums such as the Internet, however despite the reliance placed upon them empirical evidence and case studies indicate that they suffer similar quality concerns to the broader software…

The nature of the relationship of copyright law and contracts has long been overlooked . This article begins by outlining the two paradigms of contracts, namely the understanding that contracts can be used to either a) provide copyright style protection,…

The paper addresses the technical and legal aspects of the existing and forthcoming intelligent (“smart”) surveillance technologies that are (or are considered to be) employed in the border control application area. Such technologies provide a computerized decision-making support to border…

The article deals with the description of components of the project Improvement of risk area security using combined methods for biometrical identification of subjects , which solves the identification of subjects through multi-factor biometric identification. The article gives a project…