with the emergence of new legal regimes such as intellectual property rights, new complexities in the process of determination of applicable law are involved in private international law. the dilution of physical center of gravity for disputes related to intellectual property rights and the effects of utilitarianism in law with an emphasis on public interest has led to the adoption of new metho...

jurisprudence, in its strict sense which is binding, is regarded as one of the important sources of law. this article seeks by relying on some judgments issued by general board of administrative justice court concerning the social security organization summarily investigate some deficiencies in performances of the social security organization and administrative justice court. in short, the enac...

Argument extraction techniques can likely improve legal information retrieval. Any effort to achieve that goal should take into account key features of legal reasoning such as the importance of legal rules and concepts, support and attack relations among claims, and citation of authoritative sources. Annotation types reflecting these key features will help identify the roles of textual elements...

The main goal of our research is to build a legal reasoning system that performs decision support functions in the criminal domain. The system is based on a rule-based reasoning model which is composed of a legal domain ontology, rule base and reasoning engine. The legal domain ontology is needed for modelling the legal norms of the criminal domain. For this purpose, a middle-out approach is pr...

An electronic Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) is a humanreadable, yet machine-processable contract, regulating how organizations and/or individuals share data. In past work, we have shed light on DSA engineering, i.e., the process of studying how data sharing is ruled in traditional legal human-readable contracts and mapping their fields (and rules) into formats that are machine-processable, leadi...

Negative and positive externalities pose symmetrical problems to social welfare. The law internalizes negative externalities by providing general tort liability rules. According to such rules, those who cause harm to others should pay compensation. In theory, in the presence of positive externalities, negative liability should apply: those who produce benefits should be paid a compensatory awar...

Our article is a methodological critique of the recent legal origins literature. We start by showing that the legal origins literature cannot easily be based on the efficiency hypothesis of the common law. By debunking the relationship between the efficiency hypothesis and the legal origins literature, we are left with no consistent theory to explain the alleged inferiority of French civil law....