China’s crackdown on cryptocurrency trading – a sign of things to come
Sep 25, 2017 12:13 pm UTC| Digital Currency Law
The Chinese governments decision to order several Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies exchanges to close shows how much of a threat they are perceived to be to financial stability and social order in China. The decision...
Bitcoin investors should be taxed like any other investor
Sep 25, 2017 07:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Law Digital Currency
Despite its name, cryptocurrency isnt just money. It could also be debt or equity and so it should be regulated and taxed in the same way as other finance. The tokens investors get when they buy a cryptocurrency, like...
An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?
Sep 25, 2017 07:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Law
Americas opioid crisis is getting worse. The role of prescription opioids has both the medical establishment and the government justifiably worried. In response, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and...
Every year, millions try to navigate US courts without a lawyer
Sep 22, 2017 03:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Judge Richard A. Posner, a legendary judicial figure, retired abruptly earlier this month to make a point: People without lawyers are mistreated in the American legal system. In one of his final opinions as a judge on...
What is a cohabitation agreement and do I need one?
Sep 21, 2017 14:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Cohabiting couples, who live together but are not married or in a civil partnership, are the fastest growing family type in the UK. According to statistics from the Office of National Statistics, this type of couple has...
RAISE Act: Global panel of scholars explains 'merit-based' immigration
Sep 18, 2017 01:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In February, U.S. Republican senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, with President Donald Trump, unveiled an immigration bill called the RAISE Act. It would create a merit-based points system for evaluating foreigners...
Legal weed: What your kids really need to know
Sep 14, 2017 01:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Weed, pot, grass, marijuana or cannabis to use the proper terminology will be legal in Canada from July 1, 2018. Anyone over the age of 18 will be able to walk into a store and buy up to 30 grams of regulated product....
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