3141 It is difficult to assess whether stroke neurology is disproportionately affected by the often adversarial relations between physicians and attorneys. Nevertheless, expansion of therapeutic options for patients with stroke has created increased potential for litigation. To address this issue rationally and productively, the stroke clinician must understand some fundamental principles of le...

Legal certainty decreases over time. Rules and principles of law become more and more uncertain in content and in application because legal systems are biased in favor of unravelling those rules and principles. In Part I of this Article, I attempt to show what these biases are, and why commentators who have argued that the law tends toward certainty are wrong. Part II describes various attempts...

legal agency classified behaviour (allowed/disallowed) responsible agent(s) social behaviour (states of affairs, stories) Commonsense Knowledge Figure 6.1: The Funtional Ontology of Law Normative knowledge reflects the regulatory nature of law, and has two functions: prescribing behaviour, and defining a standard of comparison for social reality. A norm expresses an idealisation: what ought to ...

Міжнародні стандарти прав і свобод людини можна розглядати як загальновизнані положення міжнародних актів обов'язкового та рекомендаційного характеру, а також принципи міжнародного права, що закріплюють фундаментальні права особистості, які мають визначальне значення для захисту від незаконних необґрунтованих дій із боку держави, посадових інших осіб, порушують або обмежують ці виконують функці...