The effort to codify areas of British and European law has gained new urgency under the efforts towards legal unification in Europe. This paper looks at English legal history during the 17-19 century, to explore earlier proposals for the codification at law. Although it is generally assumed that England’s common law system was inherently antithetic to legislative codification, there was a well-...

abstractderivative action is an action filed by shareholders against corporatedirectors in order to recover corporate’s rights. this mechanism is set up tohave the directors answerable for their failure in carrying out their duties.prior to the ca 2006, foss v. horbottle rule deprived shareholders of takingany action against directors but in exceptional cases. acknowledging theright of filing d...

The Hint Factory is an implementation of our novel method to automatically generate hints using past student data for a logic tutor. One disadvantage of the Hint Factory is the time needed to gather enough data on new problems in order to provide hints. In this paper we describe the use of expert sample solutions to “seed” the hint generation process. We show that just a few expert solutions gi...

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1969. A version of Part II of this article appeared in Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2003. ** Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University. B.A., B.S, Pennsylvania State University, 1969; M.A., Ohio State University, 1972; Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1975; M.S.L., Yale Law School, 1989. The authors would like to thank Ron Allen and ...

Juridical English, judicial opinions written by judges of higher judiciary, is an extremely important genre for legal discourse community. In situations where learners’ first language is other than English, law students and recent law graduates in the profession of law reportedly find it hard to cope with a variety of tasks they are required to perform while reading judicial opinions/cases. The...

majority rule has been a fundamental principle of corporate governance in the corporations and corporation laws of most countries including england and iran. according to it, shareholders who hold the majority of the corporate shares will take collective decisions in joint stock companies and once taken such decisions will bind the company and every company member even those who were in the min...