Acknowledgments I would like to thank both my promoters Peter van Roy and Sabri Skhiri for their insightful comments, critics and advices about my work during the whole academic year. I also want to thank Boris Mejias for his continuous support and for pushing me to make a talk at FOSDEM 2011. This talk really helped moved forward my work by making it more public and brought back a lot of inter...

Although prior studies have found that people generally underweight advice from others, such discounting of advice is not universal. Two studies examined the impact of task difficulty on the use of advice. In both studies, the strategy participants used to weigh advice varied with task difficulty even when it should have not. In particular, the results show that people overweight advice on diff...

In this paper, we present an analysis method, a set of rules, lexical resources dedicated to discourse relation identification, in particular for explanation analysis. The following relations are described with prototypical rules: instructions, advice, warnings, illustration, restatement, purpose, condition, circumstance, concession, contrast and some forms of causes. Rules are developed for Fr...

Timothy J. Muris is a former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission, and presently a Foundation Professor of Law, George Mason University, and of Counsel, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. Bilal Sayyed is a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP. This article revises the comment of Timothy J. Muris and Bilal Sayyed, Three Key Principles for Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Submitted to the Federal Trade...

This article presents an initial set of guidelines to assist IS researchers in creating, negotiating, and reviewing non-disclosure agreements, in consultation with appropriate legal counsel. It also reviews the use of non-disclosure agreements in academic research environments from multiple points of view. Active academic researchers, industry practitioners, and corporate legal counsel all prov...

introduction: among the united arab emirates (uae) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. this is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. this concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travelling abroad so that ...

www.fenwick.com When a patent practitioner reads an article calling on engineers to stage a patent strike within their organizations, alarm is the natural reaction. For inhouse counsel, such articles and sentiments (which I have found to be rather prevalent) make filing patents a tough sell to engineers. The following are some tips for in-house counsel to encourage engineers to engage in the pa...

Counsel for a manufacturer of medical devices or durable medical equipment must have working knowledge of various legal disciplines to draft contracts with intermediaries (sales representatives and distributors) for the marketing and sale of the manufacturer's products. If the manufacturer wishes to sell its products abroad, counsel must become familiar with the laws and business practices of t...

Comprehension of a Canadian police right to silence caution and a right to legal counsel caution was examined. Each caution was first presented verbally in its entirety, followed by its sentence-by-sentence presentation in written format. Participants (N = 56) were asked to indicate, after each presentation, their understanding of the caution. When delivered in verbal format, 4 and 7% of partic...