The article aims at presenting a comparative analysis of food safety regulatory systems in the People's Republic of China and in the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong (hereinafter: HK). S such comparison is useful considering the central role played…

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…

Cloud computing can be defined as the provision of computing resources on-demand over the Internet. Although this might bring a number of advantages to end-users in terms of accessibility and elasticity of costs, problems arise concerning the collection of personal information…

Since the official date of implementation of the Database Directive[1], namely the 1 January 1998, 14 years have now already passed. During this decade and a half, French courts have handed down around 30 decisions on database protection. Between 1998…

The B-Annual SubTech meeting - from which some papers are appearing in this journal - is open to active researchers in the field of applications to computers and law. In this short overview I detail the philiosophy behind the meeting. …

                                             Judgment of  the German Supreme Court in  Gedichttitelliste III  concerning  the infringement of the Sui Generis database right after ECJ…

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…

Worldwide, soft regulation like codes of conduct and benchmarks have been introduced to cope with the uncertain risks and benefits of nanotechnologies. However, it seems that these regulations are facing effectiveness problems. For instance, the European Commission’s 2008 Nano Code…

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Analyzing emerging technologies may demand new tools. The following article considers some of the challenges associated with critically analyzing the arguments made about emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology. The content of this article draws from a decade of humanistic analysis as…