Social Rules and Legal Theory

Reconceptualizing Vagueness: Legal Rules and Social Orders

Neutrality in Liberal Legal Theory and Catholic Social Thought

1985. I presented an earlier version of this paper at the inaugural Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law hosted by Villanova University School of Law in 2003. I wish to thank everyone at Villanova who helped to plan and organize that first symposium, especially Mark Sargent, who as Dean of Villanova has demonstrated a palpable enthusiasm for fostering the Catholic intellectual tradi...

Technical Rules and Legal Rules in Online Virtual Worlds

In this paper we reflect on the legal frameworks which affect three-dimensional virtual worlds. Here visualisation and symbolisation precede formalisation on the way to construction and legal knowledge representation. Thus visualisation of virtual world issues can have a favourable effect on modelling, formal representation and implementation. The paper also identifies a legal informatics appro...

Online Judgment in the Context of International and National Rules: Ethical and Legal ‎Challenges

Background: Online judgment is an economical and faster way than the judicial one. With the ‎development of technology in recent decades, it has also been possible to make judgments ‎online. Although few countries have incorporated this approach into their laws, online ‎judgments are being developed and implemented in various areas such as international trade or ‎intellectual property. The pres...

Reforming legal regulations and internal rules