Sarbanes–Oxley Act

The Sarbanes–Oxley Act is also referred to as SOX and came into force on 30th July 2002. This was necessitated by many accounting and corporate scandals in United States back then. The main aim of this law was to bring back the trust the Americans had in the corporate sector. This law emphasis that public traded corporation should have large number of board members that oversee the entire transactions and the auditing process in the organization. Although the bill deals specifically with the...

Should prostitution be legal?

Prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world today. Its nature involves the exchange of money for sex. Definitely, where money and sex are going hand in hand, there is room for controversies. Prostitution has existed in almost every human culture and has been tolerated both from a legal and a moral perspective. Prostitution is legal in many Western jurisdictions like England, Wales, Denmark and Israel which is better known as the brothel capital of the world. In Asia and Iran, it...

Company liability for vehicular homicide business law

Company X is a corporation which provides trucking, cargo, freight and logistic services for the delivery of dry goods to and from any point of Massachusetts. It specializes in contract carrier services and storage of food products. It is incorporated under Massachusetts’s laws and its principal office is located in Springfield, Ma. It has 30 branches around the state.     The family owned business started in since 1971with only 6 trucks and expanded after ten (10) years as X. Inc....

Explaining Law : To Kill A Mocking Bird

To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is so intricately woven that it virtually bagged  a place as a classic novel : it appealed to a lot of readers around the world for the values it deeply upholds. In writing the book, the author drew inspiration from the environment and society once she grew up with. Depicting the real-life scenarios of Black people living in White society. In the court scenario of Tom's (Black Guy's) Rape Trial for a White Girl—indeed it was convincingly clear that the...

Crime in Sports

Authors of this handbook have done a remarkable job by covering wide-ranging analysis of topics regarding sports and particularly media that has changed the whole scenario of sports in current era. Authors have focused primarily on the effects of media on sports, and crime or cheating in sports has been one of the significant impacts of media that has commercialized the sports industry enormously. One of the attributes of this handbook is consideration of different aspects of sports from historical...