And the evidence clearly shows that effective, legal regulation reduces the harm of drugs better than prohibition ever does.
"There is an awful lot of money sloshing around football, and where you have a lot of money you can have a lot of crime, " says Matthew Johnson, head of legal regulation at the Football Association.
Until Congress acts, the Obama administration must renew its commitment to urgent reform of the detention system by closing the most egregious detention facilities, aggressively working with nongovernmental organizations to promote community-based supervision programs for those in proceedings, and pushing for legal regulation and third party oversight of the remaining detention centers.
Mr. Obama has also signaled his intention to govern as much as possible by stretching the legal bounds of regulation and executive orders.
Three kinds of action have been proposed: market control, legal reform and tougher regulation.
Government regulation and legal liability could soon become bigger obstacles to the spread of autonomous vehicles than the technical challenges of making the systems reliable and cheap enough for mass-market vehicles.
The researchers said there was little evidence of higher regulation or ineffective legal systems to explain the lower European liability costs.
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The review into regulation of the legal profession was ordered by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, who described the current set-up as "outdated, inflexible, over-complex and insufficiently accountable or transparent".
Late in the afternoon on October 22, The World Bank published its 2013 Doing Business Report , a study that rates 185 economies according to 11 indicators relating to the strength of legal institutions relevant to business regulation and the complexity and cost of regulatory processes.
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These efforts include steps to improve corporate governance and banking practices, overhaul the legal frameworks, and strengthen prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions.
C. city council, in which a councilmember accused Uber founder Kalanick of backing out of an agreement to set a pricing floor at the last minute in exchange for exempting Uber from regulation, making it legal for Uber to run its livery service in DC.
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Meanwhile, another legal challenge involves a proposed new SEC regulation mandated by Dodd-Frank.
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Bank stocks have not been terribly popular these days, as banks still suffer from re-regulation, bad loans, legal woes, and a flattening yield curve that squeezes their core profitability.
Judicial regulation of the environment would ask legal experts to inexpertly answer scientific questions and would create a fractured regulatory framework, crippling interstate and international businesses.
The smaller business with no galleon full of legal slaves pulling for them will face more regulation of labor, particularly independent contracting.
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The 1999 gathering above, with legal, medical and business lights to discuss health care regulation, took place at Alden Vineyards in California's Sonoma County, whose owners were sustaining the Fisher cause.
No one doubts that the archaic, overlapping patchwork of agencies needs modernising, with regulation refocused on a firm's activities rather than its legal form.
The yuan is not convertible, foreign banks and other financial institutions are heavily restricted, the country's legal system is, to put it mildly, inadequate, and securities regulation is a joke.
By Friday SIFMA should have a recommendation for the Office of Financial Research (OFR) on who should be in charge of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI), the first step toward improving global regulation.
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Last July, The Legal Pulse expressed its concern over the piecemeal nature of online consumer privacy regulation in the U.S. Indicative of this disarray, we noted, was the response to Google Inc.
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But as a new study conducted by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and distilled in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder demonstrates, these rules have not kept up with technology.
The draft regulation - which has been backed by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee - would create a European Certificate of Succession designed to clarify the position of people drawing up a will, as well as their heirs and creditors.
It means reining in and reversing the regulation of our lives by unaccountable judges who are changing Britain's legal landscape with their judgments in the courtroom.
One interesting straw in the wind is the new legal opinion that the provision that publishers who don't join a self-regulation system could face tougher damages in the courts, if they're sued for libel, may break human rights law.
On June 20, 2011 a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision demonstrating the way in which the U.S. legal system continues to struggle with the digital revolution, a revolution that is undermining securities regulation, intellectual property law, and even the basics of tort law.
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With regard to the proposed direct-trade regulation, this has only a small chance of being adopted, especially since the Legal Service of the European Parliament has recently joined that of the Council in concluding that the proposal is based on an erroneous legal basis as it treats Cyprus as a third country.
The Conservatives opposed regulation backed up by statute, arguing a Royal Charter was the right way to provide legal backing for any new press regulator.
Ms Reding admitted that there was not enough clarity in existing framework, but that a new data protection regulation, drawn up by the Commission at the end of January, would "bring further legal clarity".
The main areas in which firms tend to want to lobby the commission competition policy, state aid, anti-dumping actions, product and market regulation are ones where decisions usually involve a pragmatic mixing of economic, political and legal arguments.
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