abstract      uncertainty is one of the general rules of the law of contract that is discussed from different aspects under islamic and iranian law. however, despite the long history of the subject and its importance, there are still ambiguities about its application in contracts especially the new ones. this article succinctly examines the meaning, scope and application of gharar (uncertainty)...

At present, legal proceedings are often delayed, expensive, and characterized by unforeseeable decisions. In this context my objective would be to reduce obstacles to the good functioning of civil proceedings, especially the cross-border ones, by enforcing a method that could improve civil proceedings by means of a new procedure in certain areas of civil law, such as successions and trust, matr...

For my students I shall consider in detail distributions defined by the principal value and the finite part of divergent integrals. I shall also consider continuity properties of distributions defined by holomorphic functions.

for decades, the approach of legal systems towards private arbitration in competition law has been characterized by a certain mistrust or suspicion. initially, this attitude may somehow have been linked to the uncertainty as to the arbitrability of competition law issues, in view of the fact that, in competition law matters generally, public interests are heavily at stake. in fact arbitration i...

A strong law is established for linear statistics that are weighted sums of a random sample. Using an observation of Cheng (1995a) about the Bernstein and Kolmogorov inequalities, we present an extension to the Hardy-Littlewood strong law under certain moment conditions on the weights and the distribution. As a byproduct, the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong law and the law of the iterated logarith...

Recent results show that a nonsmooth time invariant feedback control law can be used to stabi lize an axi symmetric rigid body using only two con trol torques to the zero equilibrium This method however may require a signi cant amount of con trol e ort especially for initial conditions close to an equilibrium manifold In this paper we propose a control law which reduces the control e ort re qui...

This paper benefitted from presentations at the American Law and Economics Association Meetings, the National Bureau of Economics Law & Economics Summer Session (2003), the NYU Law and Finance Workshop and the University of San Diego Law and Political Theory Workshop, and from comments by Barry Adler, Jennifer Arlen, Ian Ayres, Richard Brooks, Allen Ferrell, Michael Klausner, Alvin Klevorick, J...