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...

Jeannine Relly and Celeste González de Bustamante have woven together multiple literatures in theoretically informed scholarship to analyze one of the most important challenges for the contemporary global world: the human rights and security of those involved in disseminating news analyses, so essential to democratic accountability. Given their binational perspectives, I respond with grassroots...

This paper studies the use of hypothetical and value-based reasoning in US Supreme-Court cases concerning the United States Fourth Amendment. Drawing upon formal AI & Law models of legal argument a semi-formal reconstruction is given of parts of the Carney case, which has been studied previously in AI & law research on case-based reasoning. The result is compared with Rissland’s (1989) analysis...

Almost 30 percent of the more than 68 million young adults aged eighteen to thirty-four in the United States today are either foreign born or of foreign parentage. As these newcomers make their transitions to adulthood, say Rubén Rumbaut and Golnaz Komaie, they differ significantly not only from one another but also from their native-parentage counterparts, including blacks and whites. The auth...

Unlike other jurisdictions in the United States where the basis of the law can be traced more exclusively to the common law of England, the legal system in Louisiana also has origins in the laws of France and Spain. In this article, the authors describe the laws and procedures that developed early in Louisiana's history for the involuntary care and civil commitment of the mentally ill, focusing...

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) parents are increasingly common and visible, but they face a number of social and legal barriers in the United States. Using legal consciousness as a theoretical framework, we draw on data from 51 interviews with GLB parents in California and Nebraska to explore how laws impact experiences of parenthood. Specifically, we address how the legal context influences ...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

in recent years, negotiations in order to change the most powerful and effective elements of the united nations, the security council, has sparked a wide range of debates. benefits and special privileges of members of the security council such as the right to veto, imposing sanctions have forced some states to maintain this order on the one side, and has united 5 permanent members of the securi...