Legal Orientalism, or Legal Imperialism?

8 Weed: Lethal or Legal?

MARIJUANA'S BILL OF HEALTH While the War on Drugs is fought out on the high seas and in the coastal swamps and in the big cities, another war against drugs goes forward in the government-subsidized laboratories where countless scientists have labored for years to discover whether marijuana damages the brain or some other part of the human body. The number of these studies, experiments and proje...

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...

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...

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 Personality—Legislative or Judicial Prerogative