Competitive Legal Professionals’ use of Technology in Legal Practice and Legal Research

Convergence and fragmentation: legal research, legal informatics and legal education

Fragmentation and convergence are two discoursal lenses that have been used to view changes that have taken place in the domains of legal services, the legal profession, regulation and legal education. While they may appear orthogonal, the relationships between them are intimate, sophisticated, constantly shifting and require much more analysis. In this paper I shall argue that law schools need...

Legal status of revolutionary institutions in Iran's administrative legal system

The revolutionary institutions, due to the authority of the public power, form an important part of the administrative organization in Iran. the legal status of the institutions in question was ambiguous, The legislator tried to create a legal personality by adopting the Public Accounts Act of 1366 and the Law on the List of Non-Governmental Organizations and Public Institutions approved in 137...

Use of Legal Expert System LES-5 in Legal Education

It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer u...

Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

Legal translators and legal translation

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...