Millions more voters legalizing marijuana won't clear up regulatory haze
Oct 28, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Law
Congress continues to resist decriminalizing marijuana even as a popular crusade to legalize its use state by state may soon mean almost a quarter of Americans can smoke up at will, not including the many more who can use...
The problems with AT&T's bid for Time Warner
Oct 27, 2016 05:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it. So it is with a sense of familiarity that we greet ATTs proposed acquisition of Time Warner. In early 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner for US$164 billion....
Press regulation in Britain: a step forward – and a step back
Oct 26, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Anyone reading recent editorials in the British press will know that the industry is worried. Following the discovery in 2011 that journalists on a number of newspapers had been hacking peoples phones to get stories, the...
What You Need to Know About NMLS's Electronic Surety Bonds
Oct 25, 2016 17:28 pm UTC| Law
A number of professionals in the financial field across the U.S. undergo their required licensing procedure via the National Multistate Licensing System and Registry (NMLS). As the NMLS is introducing a new system for...
Deaf or blind people can't serve on juries – here's why law needs to change
Oct 25, 2016 11:18 am UTC| Law
You might have thought any ordinary person of sound mind can serve on a jury, but actually no. Various groups are excluded in many countries including the UK, Ireland and Australia because of legal prohibitions. In the UK...
CRISPR gene-editing controversy shows old ideas about East and West still prevail
Oct 24, 2016 09:37 am UTC| Science Law
The debate that followed initial experiments using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tool show that old stereotypes about Asia still resonate in the West. CRISPR-Cas9 is a gene editing tool that was first demonstrated US...
Why companies like Wells Fargo ignore their whistleblowers – at their peril
Oct 24, 2016 04:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Enron. Worldcom. The Madoff scandal. The mortgage meltdown. Now Wells Fargo. High-profile corporate frauds like these all seem to follow the same pattern. First the misconduct is discovered, and then we learn about all...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects