When that is combined with the positive obligations at the heart of compliance based administrative cultures, one can see both the allure and the inevitability of both an administrative and legal infatuation with the possibilities of managing behavior through the imposition of non-negotiable institutional positive obligations of one sort or another. [read post]

 Another thread that ran through to the close of the year was the harmonisation of copyright in the European Union: The European Copyright Society (ECS) said in a letter to the European Commission's digital commissioner Günther Oettinger, that the "actual Union-wide unification of copyright", as opposed to simply further harmonising the existing EU copyright regime, would have "several major advantages" saying "While copyright unification may be… [read post]

Zebrowski, member of the assembly, for the balance of his unpaid annual compensation 607 A8761 Young -- Relates to bonds of the NYS medical care facilities finance agency 606 A8692C Weinstein (MS) -- Provides that a claim and notice of intention to file a claim in the court of claims need not include the total sum claimed in personal injury and death actions 605 A8664A Canestrari -- Provides for the Beacon Institute Inc. as a public authority for… [read post]