Taking L. A. Law More Seriously

Taking Japanese Law Seriously

Taking Interdependence And Production More Seriously: Toward Mutual Rationality And A More Useful Law And Economics

ion regarding what became central to economic practices through the legalized definitions of capital and associated property rights in succeeding stages of capitalism: 12 * In merchant capitalism, based on exchange of goods and services, capital was largely tangible (e.g., land, buildings, resources, inventory) and was provided and controlled by individuals or families. * During industrial capi...

Taking National Courts More Seriously ?

Opinion 1/09 on the draft agreement for a unified patent litigation system reveals a degree of scepticism and distrust on part of the ECJ when it comes to the European Union’s international co-operation, especially its participation in international frameworks for dispute settlement. The Opinion not only made it far more complicated to achieve the aim of a unified patent litigation system in Eu...

Taking tissue seriously means taking communities seriously

BACKGROUND Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for analy...

Core concepts of law: taking common sense seriously

In this paper we present LRI-Core, a core ontology for covering domains of law. After a decade of developing many ontologies for legal domains and applications, the need for a unifying core ontology that covers the main concepts that are common to all legal domains became very apparent. It can be argued that not only these domains have a predominant common-sense character – the law is still for...