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…

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…

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…

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. 

E-education plays an important role in improving access to knowledge for the present and the next generation society. New and emerging technologies give the possibility to educators to reach individuals and communities in numbers and in manners that were in…

Legal policy on the global stage has combined with history, nature and economics to create an inherently unequal playing field for states seeking to undertake industrial development or agricultural reform at this point in time. The reasons for this are…

Research thrives – indeed can hardly do without – data. It is the raw information upon which better understanding, and better knowledge is based.  Indeed one whole assumption underpinning some visions of Electronic Government – such as Wiki-Gov – is…

Various actors, including the European Parliament, press for labelling of products with a nanotechnology component. A few regulatory agencies or advisers are prepared to move in this direction. In deliberative exercises on nanotechnology, people in their roles as citizens and…