The politics of reintegrating Australian Aboriginal and American Indian indigenous knowledge into resource management: The dynamics of resource appropriation and cultural revival

As the United States and Australia struggle with contemporary crises over competing uses of rapidly depleting natural resources, there are striking parallels between American Indian and Australian Aboriginal communities demanding a place at the management table and offering culturally based understandings of and solutions for the ecosystems at risk. These efforts to integrate indigenous knowledge into mainstream natural resource management are part of larger legal and political debates over land tenure, the locus of control, indigenous self-governance, and holistic ecosystems management.

Recording and preserving legal history

The lack of a systematic approach in Australia to recording and preserving legal history was highlighted in the article by Catherine Hutchins in the August 2002 issue of the Australian Bar Review. This article describes the modest, albeit continuing, efforts on the part of the Supreme Court Library to meet this need in the State of Queensland. The efforts began in 1983 and have recently escalated with a series of exhibitions, talks, displays, interviews and preservations of documents (from online publication).

Reforma administrativa e marco legal das organiza????es sociais no Brasil: as d??vidas dos juristas sobre o modelo das organiza????es sociais

O modelo brasileiro das organiza????es sociais representa uma das respostas poss??veis ?? crise do aparelho do Estado no ??mbito da presta????o dos servi??os sociais. Essas entidades s??o percebidas como uma forma de parceria do Estado com as institui????es privadas de fins p??blicos (perspectiva ex parte principe) ou, sob outro ??ngulo, uma forma de participa????o popular na gest??o administrativa (perspectiva ex parte populi). No texto s??o tematizadas as diferen??as e semelhan??as entre o marco legal das organiza????es sociais e das entidades de utilidade p??blica no Brasil, as notas distintivas entre a disciplina dos servi??os privados de interesse p??blico e dos servi??os p??blicos, bem como o que distingue juridicamente o modelo das organiza????es sociais de processos de privatiza????o e terceiriza????o. Em todos esses temas os juristas aparecem como protagonistas na determina????o dos limites do modelo das organiza????es sociais, evidenciando que processos de reforma normativa exigem, para serem eficazes, uma concomitante reforma na mentalidade dos agentes p??blicos.

A trajet??ria da constru????o do arcabou??o legal das compras e contrata????es na administra????o p??blica federal brasileira: processo decis??rio e oportunidade pol??tica

Este trabalho aborda a trajet??ria de constru????o do arcabou??o de leis e normas sobre compras e contrata????es, no ??mbito da administra????o p??blica federal do Brasil, ao longo da sua hist??ria recente, bem como suas implica????es para a compreens??o de alguns dilemas e perspectivas que atualmente se colocam para o fortalecimento institucional desta ??rea. O arcabou??o legal, para os fins desse trabalho, ?? o conjunto das leis aprovadas pelo Congresso Nacional, decretos-lei com for??a de lei e os decretos e outros atos normativos editados pelo Executivo para regulamenta????o de leis, que t??m por objeto as regras e procedimentos das compras e contrata????es realizadas por ??rg??os p??blicos.

As tend??ncias atuais na gest??o de suprimentos diante do marco legal das licita????es

Este trabalho analisa algumas das novas pr??ticas em gest??o de suprimentos e sua compatibilidade com o marco legal e normativo que regulamenta as compras e contrata????es na administra????o p??blica federal. ?? estudo explorat??rio que pretende identificar pr??ticas que possam ser adotadas sob o marco vigente, visando avan??ar no sentido da estrutura????o em moldes mais atualizados da fun????o suprimentos na administra????o federal. Diversas das limita????es apontadas poder??o eventualmente ser objeto de propostas para a revis??o da legisla????o e das normas vigentes, conforme indicado nas conclus??es.

Climate paradox of the G-8: legal obligations, policy declarations and implementation gap

This article analyzes the climate policy performance of the G-8 from 1992 to 2012 based on their legal commitments (Annex-1 and Annex-B countries) under the UNFCCC (1992) and the Kyoto Protocol (1997) and their policy declarations on their GHG reduction goals until 2050. A climate paradox has emerged due to a growing implementation gap in Canada, USA and Japan, while Russia, Germany, UK, France and Italy fulfilled their GHG reduction obligation.

Privacy and Data Protection in Elderly Healthcare: Threats and Legal Warranties

The progressive aging of the population requires new kinds of social and medical intervention and the availability of different services provided to the elder population. New applications have been developed and some services are now provided at home, allowing the older people to stay home instead of having to stay in hospitals. But an adequate response to the needs of the users will imply a high percentage of use of personal data and information, including the building up and maintenance of user profiles, feeding the systems with the data and information needed for a proactive intervention in scheduling of events in which the user may be involved. Fundamental Rights may be at stake, so a legal analysis must also be considered.