Towards Customary Legal Empowerment

Allies unknown: Social accountability and legal empowerment.

This essay suggests that two strands of social action which have hitherto developed separately - legal empowerment and social accountability - ought to learn from one another. Legal empowerment efforts grow out of the tradition of legal aid for the poor; they assist citizens in seeking remedies to breaches of rights. Social accountability interventions employ information and participation to de...

Towards a Global Social Contract: Labour Rights for Legal Empowerment of The Poor

130 T he first is that governments and international organisations must address the decent work deficits of those who work informally, since the informal economy, characterized by low productivity , low earnings and high risks, has been growing worldwide, emerging in many new guises and in unexpected places. The second message is one of hope. It is about the new departure in international devel...

Modernizing the Legal Criminal Policy towards the Electronic Tax System

The virtual tax village in line with the transformation of the tax process from self-declaration based method to electronic data based method and with the aim of compiling and developing the tax information bank and using technology, taxpayers in a virtual tax space. It collects the ID card holders and their financial data with the help of modern technologies and by benefiting from systematic m...

Empowerment for Sustainable Development : Towards Operational Strategies

Towards a Legal Recommender System

In this paper we present the results of ongoing research aimed at a legal recommender system where users of a legislative portal receive suggestions of other relevant sources of law, given a focus document. We describe how we make references in case law to legislation explicit and machine readable, and how we use this information to adapt the suggestions of other relevant sources of law. We als...