The Sohn Collection Shines at UGA School of Law

An interview with Anne Burnett, foreign and international law librarian at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, reveals a unique library collection from a former world scholar

Annual report

Thomson Corporation es fusiona el 2008 amb Reuters Group PLC per a formar: Thomson Reuter

Guía legal para emprendimientos sociales en Argentina : ¿qué figura jurídica elegir para crear empresas de impacto social?

Esta guía pretende orientar al emprendedor en el análisis sobre la figura jurídica que mejor se adapte a su emprendimiento. Ahora bien, debemos señalar que tradicionalmente en Argentina las figuras jurídicas se dividieron en tres sectores: a) el sector público; b) el sector privado, donde se encuentran las sociedades comerciales u organizaciones con fines de lucro; y c) el tercer sector5, en donde se encuentran las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (en adelante, “ONGs”) organizadas jurídicamente bajo la forma de asociaciones civiles o fundaciones

Academic research groups: evaluation of their quality and quality of their evaluation

In recent years, evaluation of the quality of academic research has become an increasingly important and influential business. It determines, often to a large extent, the amount of research funding flowing into universities and similar institutes from governmental agencies and it impacts upon academic careers. Policy makers are becoming increasingly reliant upon, and influenced by, the outcomes of such evaluations. In response, university managers are increasingly attracted to simple indicators as guides to the dynamics of the positions of their various institutions in league tables. However, these league tables are frequently drawn up by inexpert bodies such as newspapers and magazines, using rather arbitrary measures and criteria. Terms such as "critical mass' and "metrics" are often bandied about without proper understanding of what they actually mean. Rather than accepting the rise and fall of universities, departments and individuals on a turbulent sea of arbitrary measures, we suggest it is incumbent upon the scientific community itself to clarify their nature. Here we report on recent attempts to do that by properly defining critical mass and showing how group size influences research quality. We also examine currently predominant metrics and show that these fail as reliable indicators of group research quality.Comment: Presented at the International Conference on Computer Simulation in Physics and Beyond in Moscow, 2015. The Proceedings will appear in Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS