Sexual bullying is a serious issue that needs to be tackled. Although there is no official definition, sexual bullying is a behaviour, physical or non-physical, where sexuality or gender is used as a weapon against another. Sexual bullying is any ...

School bullying is a type of bullying that occurs in an educational setting. Bullying can be physical, sexual, verbal or emotional in nature. Bullying in schools is a systemic problem that affects all school districts in the United States. In ...

Prisoner abuse means the mistreatment of individuals upon arrest or incarceration. The actions such as needless beating, hitting, or other corporal punishment, taunting, sleep deprivation, or other forms of psychological abuse, occasionally white noise forced intercourse, genital mutilation, or other ...

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. Competition law is implemented through public and private enforcement. In Korea and Japan, the competition law prevents some special form of ...

The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (COPRA) is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 1986 to protect the interests of consumers in India. It makes for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumer's toy and for matters connected ...

The United States’ large and complex economy offers perhaps the broadest potential for products and services in history, but with such opportunities come the risk of scams, fraud, and outright theft. The principle of caveat emptor or “buyer beware” in modern ...

Consumer protection is a group of laws and organizations designed to ensure the rights of consumers as well as fair trade, competition and accurate information in the marketplace. The laws are designed to prevent businesses that engage in fraud or ...

The sociology of law or legal sociology is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology whilst others tend to consider ...

Chilling effect is a term in law and communication that describes a situation where a speech or conduct is suppressed by fear of penalization at the interests of an individual or group. It can affect one’s free speech. Since many ...

The terms Legal case management (LCM) or matter management refer to a subset of law practice management and cover a range of approaches and technologies used by law firms and courts to leverage knowledge and methodologies for managing the life ...