Your risk, my reward: is the sharing economy becoming less selfish?
Mar 04, 2016 00:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In the early days of the sharing economy, players like Uber and Airbnb provided a platform for their services, but no such protection on the risks that came with them. They shifted the risk instead to the buyers side or...
Why new law banning all psychoactive substances will be just another 'war on drugs' disaster
Mar 03, 2016 15:35 pm UTC| Law Health
The recent passing of a new addition to the British statute books, which will come into effect on April 6th, is the latest in a long line of poorly drafted drug laws. The new law, to act in parallel with the Misuse of...
Google car crash: who's to blame when a driverless car has an accident?
Mar 03, 2016 13:58 pm UTC| Technology Law
Luckily no one was injured when one of Googles self-driving cars recently crashed itself into a bus as it pulled out at a junction. The car was only travelling at 2mph, after all. The company has admitted it bore some...
Will Republican tax plans make America great again?
Mar 03, 2016 02:31 am UTC| Law Politics
As the old saying goes, there are only two things certain in life: death and taxes. While being taxed is a certainty, the rate and types of income being taxed is not. Each of the five remaining GOP hopefuls Donald...
Three things unions can learn from Uber drivers
Mar 02, 2016 23:34 pm UTC| Technology Law
Unions are in a self-described crisis. The well-known tale of union decline in Australia continues with the latest figures revealing less than 15% of workers are members of unions, with that dropping to 11% in the private...
CEOs emerge unscathed by environment lawsuits
Mar 02, 2016 01:59 am UTC| Law Business
Images of environmental damage caused by large corporations certainly stir public outrage; but new research shows that the chief executives of companies sued for environmental wrongdoing commonly suffer little reputational...
Is a constitutional challenge to Senate voting reforms likely to succeed?
Mar 02, 2016 01:55 am UTC| Law Politics
The response of those senators whose re-election is threatened by the proposed Senate voting reforms has been to lash out with claims of unconstitutionality and threaten High Court challenges. Are these reforms vulnerable...
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