American Legal History Survey: Syllabus

Legal Taxonomy Syllabus: Handling Multilevel Legal Ontologies

The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus methodology has been used to represent legal information at different levels such, e.g., European Directives, and their transpositions into national legislations. In this paper we point out the main issues of this approach, and extend it to account for a further level, the Acquis Principles level.

Legal Taxonomy Syllabus version 2.0

The need for managing the conceptual representation of European law led to the development of the Legal Taxonomy Syllabus (LTS) and the related methodology. In this paper we consider further legal issues that emerged during the test and use phases, and outline the new features that we added to the new version, the LTS 2.0.

Unexplored Avenues in Comparative Anglo-American Legal History

Legal medicine in history

enthusiast's reading of the literature. It might be more accurate to suggest that Wellcome had an inordinate respect for scholarship (which for him always meant "scientific" study) rather than thwarted talents in this regard. Interestingly he appears to have been less directive of the scientific work closer to his own field which was carried out for the business or at the innovative research in...

Legal Uniformity in American Courts

Intercircuit splits occur when two or more circuits on the U.S. Courts of Appeals issue different legal rules about the same legal question. When this happens, federal law is applied differently in different parts of the country. Intercircuit splits are an indicator of legal non-uniformity, an impediment to lawyering and judging, and have real, practical consequences for American law. They are ...