Social Facts: Scientific Methodology as Legal Precedent

The Legal Precedent in Online Dispute Resolution

The advances observed in the last years in telecommunication technologies rapidly brought along new ways of doing business. This new reality, however, has not been so rapidly followed by the entities responsible for dealing with the conflicts that arise from these interactions, now undertaken in an electronic format. Traditional paper-based courts, designed for the industrial era, are now outda...

Precedent and Legal Authority: A Critical History

Laboratory life. The social construction of scientific facts

supported by facts, he believed in the good of the inductive method in all walks of life. He put this to work in studies such as the influences of environment on parameters of behaviour of mice and men. He eventually succeeded in building up a Fondation Francaise pour l'Etude des Problmes Humains in occupied Paris from 1941 to 1944, for which he was much maligned after the liberation. Carrel's ...

Scientific Facts on Dioxins

Level 2 Details on Dioxins 1. What are dioxins?..........................................................................................................2 1.1 What are dioxins chemically?............................................................................................2 1.2 How are dioxins formed?............................................................................................

Brute Facts, Social Facts, and Institutional Facts

Geographic regions (henceforth, regions for short) are spatially extended pieces of (near) earth surface that share some aspect of similarity across their extents. The most fundamental aspect of similarity shared within a region is "locational similarity"-proximity. But regions nearly always share common thematic content or activity too. That is, regions are defined not just spatially but accor...