Judicial precedents study

knowing and discerning valid judicial precedents from rescinded one

in modern legal systems there are a variety of sources of law. judicial precedent is one of the legal sources; thus, precedents of supreme court, like enactments of parliament, are enforceable in courts. this similarity between precedents and acts impose many problems as role of supreme court in interpretation of   laws. but the most important problem is the possibility of changing previous pre...

Persuasive Precedents

Stories can be a powerful vehicle of persuasion. We typically use stories to link known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using legal case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story about the facts using pre...

Architecture Design Utilizing Precedents The Study of How Iranian Professional Architects Use Design Precedents

Designers usually use precedents in their designs. They may use them through different stages of the design process and to different ends. As this use is important, the study of its positive and negative aspects has encouraged numerous studies to find out about the correct way of using them. In this paper, the use of design precedents is studied by interviewing professional architects and the r...

Psychologic Study of Judicial Opinions

Design without Precedents

New methods of automating design generation differ greatly from the ways AI researchers have attempted to elicitate and implement design knowledge. The latter tradition is coined by the so called 'knowledge based approaches'. A good example for floor plan design can be found in (Zandi 1992). Using iterative algorithms (e.g. artificial neural networks), this programming work can be relieved, car...