Mental disabilities under the ADA: a management rights approach

While numerous sources have focused on employee rights and employer obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act, this article will emphasize employer rights with respect to mental disabilities under the ADA. Specifically, it addresses the ADA's definition of "mental disability," the right of employers to screen job applicants in spite of the ADA, the conditions under which an employer may require an employee to undergo a "fitness for duty" examination, and the limits of the duty to "reasonably accommodate" an employee with a mental disability.     

论信息的民事权利客体地位

传统民事权利客体中并无信息的独立地位,不利于信息的民法保护。面对现实困境,应明确把信息作为民事客体,因为信息不同于物、智力成果、人身利益和行为。在民事领域,信息表现为信息财产与信息人格利益等具体形式。     

Measuring criminal justice technology outputs: The case of Title III wiretap productivity, 1987-2005

This analysis considers outputs produced by Title III electronic wiretaps. Based on 1987-2005 data, wiretap productivity is assessed by examining the number of wiretaps, places wiretaps are installed, numbers of people whose communications are intercepted, the number of intercepted communications, the number of communications labeled incriminating, the arrests and convictions linked to wiretaps, and the relationships among arrests and convictions. Wiretapping is focused mostly on narcotics violations. The numbers of people, interceptions, and incriminating interceptions increased. One-fifth of intercepted communications were classified as incriminating. Incriminating information is linked to arrests and convictions that unfold over time. The more people intercepted, the more arrests result, but convictions decline over time. Arrests are driven by the number of intercepted persons. Convictions are driven by the number of incriminating interceptions. Two simultaneous but opposing operations were in place by 2005: big increases in the number of intercepted communications in 2003 through 2005; and by 2005, overall declines in the measured productivity of wiretaps.     

论行政公权机关的民主决策

提高行政公权机关决策质量刻不容缓.行政公权机关决策必须恪守民主理念,遵守民主程序,贯彻民主原则.因此,根据不同情况,行政公权机关民主决策应分为主要领导民主决策、领导集体民主决策、公务员民主决策、专家民主决策、公众民主决策等基本形式.决策中必须实行决策公开、决策问责、决策评议制度,坚持决策法治、决策科学、决策为民(为公)原则,以防范、克服决策失误乃至决策腐败,提高行政公共决策(公共政策)的质量.     

Biometric technology and human rights

Biometrics contributes a new dimension to authentication and identification process of persons. Besides knowledge （passwords） and possession （smart cards）, biometrics provides new means of personal identification. Biometrics procedures are used to recognize or verify behavioral or physical characteristics of a person. Also biometry provides us with a user-friendly method for automatically identification and becoming a competitor for current identification systems, especially for electronic transactions. Cause of biometric increasing position in electronic transaction and security identification system we must to assure perfect information security tools to purpose stability such a systems. But before deploying any security tools or system, one should carefully examine the sensibility and added value of it, as we do in our daily work. However, there are ways to compromise a system based on biometric identification. This article focuses on the future and draw-after of biometric identification, specifically implication on tomorrow＇s network society.