RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP 1997 Research Projects Law
Research Projects Arts and Languages Administrative, Business and Social Studies Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Education Medicine, Dentistry and Health: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Civil and Structural Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Computing Sciences, Information Technology and Applied Mathematics Mechanical, Production and Industrial Engineering including Textiles and Clothing Architecture, Surveying, Urban Planning and Urban Studies Law	LAND-USE REGULATION IN COASTAL REGIONS OF PACIFIC ISLAND STATES:- TOURISM, TOURIST DEVELOPMENTS AND CONSERVATION To draft a "model" set of land-use regulations for the control of tourist related facilities in the coastal zones of small, Pacific Island states. Investigator: Mr. B.G. Baillie Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1995.01 THE BANKRUPTCY (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE OF 1994 To study the changes that will be made in the new legislation and to discuss the importance of this major effort to reform Hong Kong's bankruptcy laws. Investigator: Mr. C.D. Booth Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1994.01 CORPORATE REORGANIZATION IN HONG KONG To analyze the proposals of the law reform commission of Hong Kong regarding corporate rehabilitation. Investigator: Mr. C.D. Booth Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1997.04 CONTESTED CONFESSIONS IN HONG KONG MAGISTRATES' COURTS To secure accurate empirical data as to: (i) the extent; (ii) the nature; (iii) the processing and (iv) the disposition of contested confessions in criminal treats at magistracy level in Hong Kong. Investigator: Ms. J.M. Brabyn Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.06 CONTESTED CONFESSIONS IN THE HONG KONG DISTRICT COURTS To obtain reliable information about the frequency of contested confessions in the districts courts, the percentage of court time consumed by such challenges, the nature of the challenges made by the defendants, the quality of evidence offered by the prosecution, the attitudes of the judges towards confession evidence generally and towards the challenges in actual cases, the rate of prosecution / defendant success, the significance of admission / exclusion decisions on conviction / acquittal rates. Investigator: Ms. J.M. Brabyn Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 COURT ANNEXED MEDIATION SERVICES IN HONG KONG To examine the viability of ADR as an alternative to Civil Litigation in the resolution of disputes, with particular attention to the use of mediation. This will involve a comparison of the forms and use of mediation services in another common law jurisdiction i.e. New South Wales. I will look in particular at the use of mediation in respect of personal injuries litigation. Investigator: Miss J.R. Burton Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.03 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOUR STANDARDS AND FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN HONG KONG To examine the applicability of international human rights guarantees and international labour standards to foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong and the manner in which Hong Kong law and practice conforms or fails to conform to these standards. Investigator: Mr. A.C. Byrnes Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1991.05 INTERNATIONAL LAW, NATIONAL LAW AND THE TRANSNATIONAL ASPECTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE AGAINST CHILDREN To examine present and proposed international and national legal responses to the phenomenon of transnational sexual abuse of children, in particular sex tourism. Investigator: Mr. A.C. Byrnes Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.07 CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN To prepare comprehensive, critical commentary on the 1979 convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. Investigator: Mr. A.C. Byrnes Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.05 HONG KONG TREATY SUCCESSION PROJECT: HONG KONG'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AFTER 1997 To examine from international law, diplomatic, political and economic perspectives the process and outcome of the negotiation of Hong Kong's position in the international community in the transition to Chinese rule in 1997; the particular focus of the project will be the steps being taken by the British and Chinese governments to ensure that existing treaty arrangements from which Hong Kong benefits due to its status as a British dependent territory continue beyond 1997 so far as possible or are replacedby other appropriate arrangements. Investigators: Mr. A.C. Byrnes (Principal) Ms J.M. Brabyn Mr. J.M.M. Chan Mr. G.N. Heibronn Professor R. Mushkat Mr. P.F. Rhodes Dr. J. Tang Departments: Law Politics and Public Administration Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1995.01 HONG KONG COMPANY LAW IN THE 21ST CENTURY: DIRECTIONS FOR CHANGE? To identify future directions for Hong Kong company law using a comparative study of U.K., French and Germany company law. In particular to analyse the current reforms on ultra vires and the protection of creditors in "modern" company law theory and to provide a theoretical framework for the protection of creditors in Hong Kong company law. Investigator: Mrs. A.R. Carver Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1996.07 NATIONALITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND TERRITORIAL CHANGE This forms part of the Ph.D. research on how international human rights law have affected the acquisition, change and loss of nationality of inhabitants of a territory when there is a change of sovereignty. Investigator: Mr. J.M.M. Chan Department: Law Starting date: 1988.01 HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE BASIC LAW BULLETIN To note and comment, on a periodical basis, on the latest developments of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights. Investigators: Mr. J.M.M. Chan (Principal) Mr. A.C. Byrnes Department: Law Starting date: 1991.11 THE HONG KONG PUBLIC LAW REPORTS To compile and edit a series of law reports on various aspects of public law in Hong Kong, and in particular, decisions under the Bill of Rights. Investigators: Mr. J.M.M. Chan (Principal) Mr. A.C. Byrnes Mr. G. Edwards Department: Law Starting date: 1992.05 HONG KONG'S BILL OF RIGHTS: THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AS DOMESTIC LAW To conduct a systematic and comprehensive study on each of the provisions of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights ordinance and the impact of international human rights norms on the domestic legal system. Investigators: Mr. J.M.M. Chan (Principal) Mr. A.C. Byrnes Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.07 IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY IN HONG KONG: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE To follow the development of immigration law and policy in Hong Kong since the Second World War; to analyse existing immigration case law; to examine Hong Kong immigration law and policy in the light of international human rights standards, especially the rights of the family and those of the children; to study the problems that will arise or have already arisen under the Basic Law as well as the consequence of the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. Investigators: Mr. J.M.M. Chan (Principal) Dr. B.A. Rwezaura Department: Law Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1995.09 TRADITIONAL CHINESE LEGAL CULTURE AND THE PROJECT OF LEGAL MODERNISATION To investigate the nature, structure and characteristics of traditional Chinese legal culture and its changes in the course of history, comparing it with the Wesrern legal tradition, and, in the light of this investigation, explore the challenges of the current project of legal modernisation in mainland China. Investigator: Professor A.H.Y. Chen Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 GLOBALISATION AND CHINESE LAW: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONTEMPORARY LEGAL SYSTEM BUILDING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA To consider the application of globalisation theory and other social theories to the understanding and interpretation of legal developments in contemporary China. Investigator: Professor A.H.Y. Chen Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 THE LITERATURE OF HONG KONG LAW: THE STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE To analyse the scope and nature of resources available for the study of the law of Hong Kong, and the approaches and assumptions, and to a lesser extent the value, of the secondary literature (in English) on that law; to provoke debate about the future directions of legal research in Hong Kong; to publish a bibliography of Hong Kong law, the content of which will form the basis for the analysis. Investigators: Miss J.H. Cottrell (Principal) Ms. E.M. Nash Departments: Law University Libraries Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.02 LAWS AND POLICIES OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT IN SHANGHAI: THE CHALLENGE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CHINA Analysis of new private property rights emerging from China's economic reform and their challenge to and impact on the existing legal and policy framework within which the state and citizens negotiate their changing relationships. Investigator: Dr. X. Feng Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.11 "RIGHTS OF AUTONOMY" AND PRC LABOUR LAW: THE MAKING OF THE NEW WORKER, HIS MANAGER, AND THEIR ENTERPRISE A study of labour relations and labour disputes in China arising from recent development of "rights of autonomy" of the enterprises, with particular attention to legitimation of the new state-manager/enterprise-worker relationship. Investigator: Dr. X. Feng Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 A STUDY OF NEW PROPOSALS AND EXPERIMENTS OF ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE PRC To study the effectiveness of types of actions and remedies in enforcing established intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the People's Republic of China by means of a critical evaluation of the recently proposed reforms in relevant substantive and procedural laws. Investigator: Dr. X. Feng Department: Law Starting date: 1997.07 THE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN KENYA To examine the constitutional order (ie. consititutional law and practice) as it has developed in Kenya since its independence in 1963 and to explore the scope in it of the application of human rights. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1991.05 LAW AND SOCIETY IN HONG KONG To produce a text on the interaction of law and society in Hong Kong. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1991.07 TRANSLATION OF WRITINGS ON BASIC LAW INTO CHINESE To study translation of writings on Basic Law into Chinese. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.05 ETHNIC CONFLICT IN ASIA An analysis of research and evaluation of policy measures. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Starting date: 1992.06 THE BILL OF RIGHTS ORDINANCE: HISTORY, INTERPRETATION AND IMPACT To study the Bill of Rights Ordinance in three principal aspects: the history and politics of its enactment, the scope and meaning of its provisions, and its impact on law and administration. The aim is to further our understanding of the Ordinance to ensure that its provisions are properly applied and developed. An important objective is public education in the Ordinance, to enable legal practitioners and judges to acquire greater familiarity with the background to and the interpretations of terms, and to increase the awareness of other professional and social groups of their rights and the potential of the Ordinance in realising them. Investigators: Professor Y.P. Ghai (Principal) Mr. A.C. Byrnes Mr. J.M.M. Chan Professor R.I. Wacks Department: Law Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1992.10 THE BASIC LAW OF THE HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION To analyse the provision of the Baisc Law and to discuss how the political and legal system of Hong Kong would ooperate after June 1997. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 A SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE HONG KONG LEGAL SYSTEM To examine the importance of the law and legal institutions in Hong Kong society and economy. Investigators: Professor Y.P. Ghai (Principal) Miss J.H. Cottrell Department: Law Source of funding: Hong Kong Research Grants Council Starting date: 1995.01 THE SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HONG KONG LEGAL SYSTEM To stimulate research on the sociological aspects of Hong Kong's legal system; to produce a collection on various aspect of the law - public as well as commercial to examine law operates in practice, which kinds of interests are presented through it, Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.12 CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN FIJI To examine the interaction between ethnicity and constitutional development, and to analyse the new constitutional arrangements adopted in August 1997. Investigator: Professor Y.P. Ghai Department: Law Starting date: 1997.05 HONG KONG TORT LAW : CASES AND MATERIALS To identify and classify unreported judgments in tort law in Hong Kong. Investigator: Mr. R.A. Glofcheski Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.06 TORT LITIGATION IN HONG KONG To identify trends in tort litigation in Hong Kong (litigation concerned with the extra-constractual recovery of compensation for injury or damage), in particular the incidence of litigation and the identity of the main users, and to explain those tre having regard to institutional and cultural biases. Investigator: Mr. R.A. Glofcheski Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 HONG KONG INSOLVENCY LAW To write a book on commercial law and practice in Hong Kong which is intended for our students, trainees and qualified solicitors. Investigator: Mrs. C.M. Hague Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.01 ENFORCEMENT OF COURT JUDGEMENTS IN HONG KONG To analyze the status and relent developments in respect of the means of enforcing judgments and orders obtained in civil claims in Hong Kong courts. Investigator: Mr. G.N. Heilbronn Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.07 Completion date: 1996.11 TRADITIONAL RIGHTS OF THE NEW TERRITORIES INDIGENUOUS INHABITANTS AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS To investigate the nature and scope of the succession right of the New Territories indigenuous inhabitants to Tsos and Tongs and the compatibility of the preservation of these rights with the Bill of Rights. Investigators: Miss L.K.S. Ho (Principal) Mr. J.M.M. Chan Department: Law Starting date: 1993.06 EQUITY IN HONG KONG To explore and evaluate the law and policy of the operation of equitable principles in Hong Kong commercial law, and to make suggestions for law reforms, in the hope that there will be doctrinal re-adjustment of the existing law. Investigator: Miss L.K.S. Ho Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 THE EROSION OF CONSTITUTIONALISM IN SRI LANKA To identify the cause for the erosion of constitutionalism in a country which, at least in the first two decades of its independent existence, had remained relatively stable in political, econmic and social terms. Investigator: Dr. N.M.S. Jayawickrama Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 Completion date: 1997.05 THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE AND THE RIGHT TO FOUND A FAMILY To collect material relevant in the writing of a book provisionally entitled "The Right to Reproduce and The Right to Found A Family". Investigator: Dr. A.N.C. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1988.12 FAMILY LAW: THE LAW RELATING TO MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, COHABITATION, PARENT AND CHILD: THE PAST, PRESENT AND INTO 1997 To examine the present state of family law and its future developments. Investigator: Dr. A.N.C. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.07 LEGAL ASPECTS OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE To examine the present state of the law and its interaction with individual health care and medicine. Investigator: Dr. A.N.C. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.07 FAMILY LAW DATABASE PROJECT To collect the family law data systematically from court files. Investigator: Dr. A.N.C. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: The Freemasons" Fund for East Asian Studies Starting date: 1995.10 JUDICIAL DATA ON FAMILY LAW To collect historical statistics in relation to divorce proceedings in the courts. Investigator: Dr. A.N.C. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 INTERESTS IN REAL ESTATE IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA To examine the important, but sensitive and also long-ignored issues surrounding the existing legal and policy framework of real estate in China; to foreseen and analyze the consequence of the unresolved issues for both Chinese citizens and foreign investors; to make suggestions as well as a challenge to the real estate law making bodies. Investigator: Dr. N.P. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.11 PUBLISHED CASES IN THE GAZETTE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT: A TRANSLATION AND THE COMMENTARY To examine the case law in shaping and developing the new legal system in the People's Republic of China. Investigator: Dr. N.P. Liu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 RESOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL DISPUTES IN HONG KONG AND THROUGHOUT ASIA To complete a comparative study analyzing the various methods used to resolve commercial disputes (both domestic and international) in Hong Kong and in other States in Asia. Investigator: Ms. K.L. Lynch Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1992.07 Completion date: 1997.08 PREPARATION OF TEXTBOOK: "CASES AND MATERIALS ON HONG KONG COMPANY LAW" Writing a textbook on Hong Kong Company Law which includes extracts of relevant cases, legislation and academic commentary on the following topics: registration, corporate personality, constitution of a company, division of powers, direct duties, capi and dividends, charges and loan capital, shares, minority shareholder protection, inside dealing, etc. Investigators: Ms. K.L. Lynch (Principal) Mr. P.S.J. Smart Ms Anna Tam Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 Completion date: 1997.03 THE ALCHEMY OF RIGHTS AND ROMANTICISM: LAW, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE ERA OF REVOLUTION To examine, and hope to write up in article form, how rights discourse emerges from the discourse of Romanticism - literary as well as political romanticism. Investigator: Mr. W.P. MacNeil Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.01 LAW SCHOOL AS TRAINING FOR HYSTERIA: THE REPRESSED AND THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED IN LEGAL EDUCATION First to produce a lengthy law review article; second, possibly a monoraph. Both studying the problematic status of legal theory in legal education. Investigator: Mr. W.P. MacNeil Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 HONG KONG AND INTERNATIONAL LAW - A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE To produce a book on key issues of international law which are of great relevance to pre- and post-1997 Hong Kong. Investigator: Professor R. Mushkat Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 NON-TRIAL ADVOCACY To identify the elements of effective strategic planning used by expert lawyers in solving non-trial advocacy problems; based on this identification, to design models of effective problem-solving so that students can enhance their understanding of how lawyers persuade. Investigator: Mr. S.B. Nathanson Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1997.07 DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY AND FATAL ACCIDENTS IN HONG KONG To produce a text book on the above topic and a digest of all Hong Kong cases on personal injuries and fatal accidents. Investigators: Mr. P.F. Rhodes (Principal) Mr. M. Downey Mr. G. McCormick Mr. M. Turnbull Department: Law Starting date: 1992.01 HALABURY'S LAWS OF HONG KONG: WILLS PROBATE ADMINISTRATION AND SUCCESSION To write a complete volume, pp420, on the wills, probate, administration and succession laws of Hong Kong as part of a complete expression of all laws. Investigate and research all relevant law to the title. Investigator: Professor C.H. Sherrin Department: Professional Legal Education Starting date: 1994.07 WILLS, PROBATE, ADMINISTRATION AND SUCCESSION LAW IN HONG KONG To write a complete volume, pp420, on the wills, probate, administration and succession laws of Hong Kong as part of a complete expression of all laws. Investigate and research all relevant law to the title. Investigator: Professor C.H. Sherrin Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 HONG KONG COMPANY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS To prepare textbook containing cases and materials on Hong Kong company law for use in LL.B. and LL.M. degree programmes. Investigators: Mr. P.S.J. Smart (Principal) Miss K.L. Lynch Ms. A.Y.M. Tam Department: Law Starting date: 1993.03 Completion date: 1997.02 CONSITUTIONALISM IN HONG KONG: BEYOND 1997 To explore not the consitutional law of Hong Kong at present but the development of constitutional law in Hong Kong after 1997. Investigator: Mr. B.Y.T. Tai Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.09 THE PROTECTION OF PRIVACY IN HONG KONG To provide the first comprehensive legal analysis of the law and practice affecting individual privacy in Hong Kong. Investigator: Professor R.I. Wacks Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.07 SELF-DETERMINATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST TIMOR To collect materials for analysis of the illegal occupation of East Timor by Indonesia with reference to international human rights norms. Investigator: Professor P. Wesley-Smith Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1993.01 ASPECTS OF THE HONG KONG LEGAL SYSTEM To explore different aspects of, and examine various questions relating to, the legal system in Hong Kong. Investigator: Professor P. Wesley-Smith Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 ACADEMIC FREEDOM IN HONG KONG To prepare a monograph or article about the current state of academic freedom in the tertiary institutions of Hong Kong and consider the likely impact of the Basic Law. Investigator: Professor P. Wesley-Smith Department: Law Starting date: 1994.07 NINETEENTH CENTURY HONG KONG To provide a translation of a volume on 19th Century Hong Kong published by Xinhua in Beijing. Investigator: Professor P. Wesley-Smith Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.07 CONVEYANCING TEXT BOOK FOR LEGAL PRACTITIONERS To write and update annually a text book together into materials for practitioners. Investigators: Professor R.M. Wilkinson (Principal) Ms. J.E. Sihombing Departments: Professional Legal Education Law Starting date: 1993.07 Completion date: 1997.06 LEGAL ASPECTS OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: HONG KONG-PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA-TAIWAN To investigate the practical and legal problems involved in an integrated air traffic control system for Hong Kong-People's Republic of China-Taiwan. Investigator: Professor R.M. Wilkinson Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1994.07 HALSBURY'S LAWS OF HONG KONG: CIVIL PROCEDURE To write the relevant section of Halsbury's laws of Hong Kong on civil procedure. Investigator: Professor R.M. Wilkinson Department: Professional Legal Education Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1995.03 ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF SECURED DEBT To examine the economic functions of secured debt. It is argued that secured debt serves the function of reducing ex ante adverse selection problems and allevating ex past moral hazard problems in the context of debtor and creditor relations. Investigator: Dr. G.H. Yu Department: Law Starting date: 1996.08 Completion date: 1996.11 THE RELEVANCE OF COMPARATIVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STUDIES FOR CHINA To examine how corporation governance and monitoring devices affect incentive alignment between shareholders and managerial personnel and discuss policy implications for China. Investigator: Dr. G.H. Yu Department: Law Source of funding: Committee on Research and Conference Grants Starting date: 1996.11 Completion date: 1997.06