This paper describes the philosophy behind our tool called “Legal Taxonomy Syllabus”, the analytical instruments it provides and some case studies. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus allows to build legal dictionaries in a bottom up fashion starting f...

The Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review (MBELR) has always strived to provide a platform for legal scholars, professionals, and students publish business-related scholarship. Yet, little business scholarship focusing on the Black community exists, despite extraordinary impact that communities have in U.S. landscape. In year of revolutionary social change, we are excited feature t...

Crime is defined by society, or by representatives of our society, the lawyers, who legally define it. I suppose if we had no lawyers we would have no crime at least we would have no legal definitions, but criminal behavior would still be a major burden. A useful definition of crime is any behavior which is harmful or potentially harmful to other people. It may be divided into at least three ma...

* Senior Consultant Physician Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Department of Medicine National University Hospital Address for Reprints: Professor Vernon M S Oh, Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore119074. E-mail: [email protected] As with clinical practice, the practice of biomedical research i...

As noted by Della Sala and Grafman in their Editorial, the traditional peerreview process has many drawbacks. In this comment, we would like to emphasize one particular problem of peer review, namely how reviewers handle findings that are incompatible with their own viewpoints. Speculating as to why it took several years before his ideas on the architecture of human memory were accepted by cogn...

The study reported in this paper is part of a programme of ongoing research based on the model of the Information Search Process (ISP) developed in a series of prior studies by Kuhlthau. This study sought to gain a better understanding of the variety of tasks that involve lawyers as a particular group of information workers, how they use information to accomplish their work, and the role mediat...

Law …rms provide extensive intermediation in corporate acquisitions, including negotiation, certi…cation, and drafting of contracts and agreements. Using a broad sample of U.S. acquisition o¤ers, we …nd that large-market-share law …rms are regularly called upon to facilitate completion of large, legally-complex o¤ers. Complex o¤ers are often withdrawn but, controlling for complexity, large-shar...

This article demonstrates the usefulness of an innovative framework called "Relationship-Centered Lawyering" to enhancing real world legal practice. It uses the example of lawyers, particularly criminal defense lawyers, who often deal with clients with cognitive challenges. The article developed out of a series of workshops conducted jointly by the co-authors, an American law professor with a s...