Fuzzy Rule-Based Classification Systems (FRBCS) are highly investigated by researchers due to their noise-stability and  interpretability. Unfortunately, generating a rule-base which is sufficiently both accurate and interpretable, is a hard process. Rule weighting is one of the approaches to improve the accuracy of a pre-generated rule-base without modifying the original rules. Most of the pro...

Islamic financial jurisprudence has always had the stated aim of enhancing human welfare, and therefore prohibitions must be seen through the lens of welfare-enhancing regulation of financial practices. In today’s age of financial engineering, utilizing many of the legal and financial advances of the past two decades, it is quite easy to synthesize the contracts that classical and contemporary ...

Do we own our bodies as legal property? Or, are our bodies rather part of who we are as a juristic person, capable of invoking legal rights and remedies under a legal system? To illustrate the complexities of this legal-philosophical puzzle, French legal historian Jean-Pierre Baud uses the following case of “jurisprudence-fiction”, a term he coined himself in his classic 1993 work L’affaire de ...