This paper will evaluate present legal approaches to foster care in the light of the realities of the foster care experience. Since recent studies have called into question some of our traditional assumptions about foster care, these findings will be a helpful starting point in evaluating

the consequences of these differences, and suggest potential strategies of reform of corporate governance. We argue that the legal approach is a more fruitful way to understand corporate governance and its reform than the conventional distinction between bank-centered and market-centered financial systems.

In this paper we present a "routine activity approach " for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. Rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach we concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory criminal acts. Most criminal acts

Abstract. This paper discusses different needs and approaches to establishing “causation ” that are relevant in legal cases involving statistical input based on epidemiological (or more generally observational or population-based) information. We distinguish between three versions of “cause

. This has the benefit that law is not treated as an isolated event, but addressed in combination with political or socio-economic influences. However, there is also a drawback: the specific characteristics of a legal approach to SDI assessment remain non-explicit or unfamiliar, holding the danger of the SDI

The authors suggest that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach. This approach requires the identification of risk factors for drug abuse, identification of methods by which risk factors

Abstract. This paper discusses different needs and approaches to establish-ing “causation ” that are relevant in legal cases involving statistical input based on epidemiological (or more generally observational or population-based) information. We distinguish between three versions of “cause

In the spring of 2003, the Public Health Advocacy Institute, whose mis-sion is to explore law in common cause with public health, held its first annual conference on “Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic.”

connects developments in public health and nutrition with legal advances to define promising avenues for preventing obesity through the application of the law. Findings: Two sets of approaches are defined: (1) direct application of the law to factors known to contribute to obesity and (2) original

Abstract. A good legal framework is vital for the development of a well-functioning Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). This chapter describes the tools offered by legal scholarship to assess an SDI and describes three levels of assessment. The first level is of compliance and describes whether