Book Review: Secured Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code

The Gatekeeping Role in Civil Litigation and the Abdication of Legal Values in Favor of Scientific Values

Beginning almost two decades ago, I wrote a series of law review articles about the nature of legal proof in the context of probabilistic evidence or analysis. In these articles, I explored, in passing, some of the differences between the legal system’s concept of proof of facts, especially in the context of civil litigation, and the same subject as seen by scientists, especially those analyzin...

Book Review: Commercial Transactions: Cases and Problems and Text â•fi Forms -- Statutes

Tutorial 4: Issues in Commmercial Law of Interest to Software Engineering Educators

Sweeping changes are being proposed for commercial law as it governs computer-related transactions. For example, the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) has been adopted in two American states and will be proposed in most others. The Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) has been adopted in most states, and the federal E-SIGN law governs in the non-UETA states. The Copyri...

Understanding HIPAA transactions and code sets.

The recently published final regulations for transactions and code sets under HIPAA are the light at the end of the tunnel in the quest for uniform healthcare standards--and the first step on a long road to HIPAA implementation. What are the standard transactions and code sets? This article takes an in-depth look.

Legal ontology of sales law application 3 to ecommerce

7 Abstract. Legal codes, such as the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) examined in this article, are 8 good points of entry for AI and ontology work because of their more straightforward adaptability 9 to relationship linking and rules-based encoding. However, approaches relying on encoding solely 10 on formal code structure are incomplete, missing the rich experience of practitioner expertise that...