This lengthy work' is the principal output to date of the General Principles of Law Project at the Cornell Law School in the United States. The purpose of this project has been to test and promote a new comparative law research method. Under this method, legal experts in a particular topic from a number of legal systems meet to compile a report indicating the similarities and differences in the...

This paper takes it as a premise that a distinction between matters of fact and of law is important in the causal inquiry. But it argues that separating factual and legal causation as different elements of liability is not the best way to implement the fact/law distinction. It is partly a legal question what counts as a cause-in-fact; and certain liabilitylimiting doctrines under the umbrella o...

Discussion about airway management is common amongst clinicians involved in critical care, regardless of background. The technique of rapid sequence induction and intubation (RSI) was described in 1970 and there are many accepted variations in modern day practice. Sadly this can lead to difficulty, particularly in the event of an airway misadventure, as clinicians may be subject to post hoc cri...

Legal history is sometimes seen, to quote William Wordsworth, as little more than the study of ‘old, unhappy, far-off things’.1 Paul Finn recently observed that legal has, ‘for most part, … been marginalised point near extinction’.

1. The Bulgarian legal system allows for gaps in the law. According to Art. 46, para 1 of the Normative Acts Law (NAL), when a normative act has gaps, not-provided-for cases are regulated by the provisions, pertaining to similar cases, if that complies with the aim of the act; or, lacking such provisions, by the basic principles of law in the Republic of Bulgaria. The text is phrased as a gener...

The medico-legal assessment and preparation of expert opinions on the ability to undergo imprisonment is an important part of the administration of justice. However, statistical data or reports on such examinations are rare. The article therefore presents an analysis of data from the Medico-Legal Service ("Gerichtsärztlicher Dienst") of the City of Hamburg covering the period from 1975 to 2011....

proceeded difference in opinion of grammarians led to the capacity of thought in grammar of arabic language, and cause to the conflict in thought of the grammarians. this research aims to study the difference between grammarians in modern grammatical matters, which is similar to that difference that took place between grammarians in basra and kufa in matters of arabic grammar. the present resea...