Legal Interpretation after Endumeni: Clarification, Contestation, Application

Legal Status of Treaties in Interpretation and Application of Article 7 of the Iranian Civil Code

Nowadays there are many aliens’ populations living in other countries. Forced Migration and Study of Religious Sciences are two main reasons introducing Iran as a host country. This paper Intends to clarify some questions about enforcement of Iranian civil code which determines the applicable law on the personal status of foreigners. There are some disagreements about the law governing personal...

Interpretation Across Legal Systems

In this paper we extend a formal framework presented in [6] to model reasoning across legal systems. In particular, we propose a logical system that encompasses the various interpretative interactions occurring between legal systems in the context of private international law. This is done by introducing meta-rules to reason with interpretive canons.

A Logical Understanding of Legal Interpretation

If compliance with a norm does not achieve its purpose, then its applicability must dynamically be restricted or expanded. Legal interpretation is a mechanism from law allowing norms to be adapted to unforeseen situations. We model this mechanism for norms regulating computer systems by representing the purpose of norms by social goals and by revising the constitutive rules defining the applica...

After Legal Consciousness

■ Abstract Legal consciousness as a theoretical concept and topic of empirical research developed to address issues of legal hegemony, particularly how the law sustains its institutional power despite a persistent gap between the law on the books and the law in action. Why do people acquiesce to a legal system that, despite its promises of equal treatment, systematically reproduces inequality? ...

Legal clarification of "loss of chance of a better outcome" in Australia. Comment.