The TREAT paradigm and the doctrine of explanatory synthesis are both organizational methodologies and substantive theories designed to improve the substance of legal writing. The TREAT paradigm doctrine holds that the presentation of legal discourse in a carefully constructed order not only promotes clarity and satisfies audience expectations but also maximizes the communicative potential and ...

Consider a type of argument that is familiar in legal scholarship, such a commonplace in fact that its structure may lurk unnoticed in the background by the reader. The argument proceeds like this: (1) Here is some legal doctrine or rule; (2) courts and scholars (or at least my rivals) tend to think that its point, rationale, purpose, or function is X—that is, the doctrine is “all about” X; (3)...

among the naval forces of Port Boyal, Jamaica, this pestilence has ceased to be the scourge it was when Lind wrote: " It is reputed that in the early part of the eighteenth century this island (Jamaica) buried to the amount of the whole number of its white inhabitants once in five years." The writer had an opportunity of studying the disease clinically in 1882, during an outbreak of yellow feve...

reincarnation (tan?sokh) and return (raj?t) are two similar, and at the same time controversial, issues in religious beliefs domain. the first is an important doctrine among great number of religions and philosophical and theosophical schools in world; and the second has also a significant position in some religions. this similarity is so that some people consider them as one doctrine. but this...

theorization in the realm of criminal policy is badlyneeded by the country. lack of coherent, indigenouspattern of managing activities dealing with offence anddeviation causes lack of harmony of governmentalinstitutions invested with administrative affairs, and thiswill lead to nothing but drop of standards of criminaljustice in iran. although approaching criminal justice iniran is primarily an...

the legislator needs to legal entity to management of financial crisis of bankrupts in order toyour goals. the legal entity that plays an important role in management of financial crisis of bankrupts is “discharge”.the definition of discharge is that the bankrupt discharge from payment of debts after the bankruptcy proceeding. the goal of discharge is “fresh start” of bankrupt. the positive eff...

if several factors are causing the damage, discussion about the damage distribution and the share of each parts is one of the important issue in the law of civil liability. law in the few cases has adopted different approaches, legal doctrine provides different views and the difference is evident in the precedent. this is a controversial issue in the jurisprudence and should be review since the...

in articles of 196,768 and 769, the iranian civil code, under influence of the french law (art.1121 civ. code) and imamieh's jurisprudence, without any explanation to the legal nature of the contract for the benefit of third party, has briefly allowed the contracting parties to create an obligation for the benefit of third party. this brevity caused an ambiguity in explaining of the relati...