the most accurate contracts may also be involved in ambiguity, and interpretation is trying to understand the legal concept. insurance contract are counted as accession contracts in which the insured has no thorough understanding of the terms. because of parties inequality in insurance contracts, they fall into a different category from the interpretation perspective and demand protective inter...

Conflict resolution is nowadays an important topic. Online Dispute Resolution in particular is nowadays a major research topic, focusing on the development of technology-based tools to assist parties involved in conflict resolution processes. In this paper we present such a tool aimed at the generation of solutions. It is based on Genetic Algorithms that evolve a population of solutions through...

Students of international conflict are increasingly aware of the potential problem of spatial dependence. Much of international behavior is linked spatially and temporally. Yet, many dyadic analyses of interstate interactions assume independence among units. Although there exist some technical and statistical solutions for addressing spatial dependence, directly modeling the dependence generati...

Parties involved in disputes often lack the information they need to take rational decisions. As a consequence, they frequently enter into agreements that are not as advantageous as they could be. Having the right information in the right time would guide parties into taking more weighted and realistic decisions. Specifically, parties should consider their best, worst and most likely outcomes i...

The article examines the problem of proportionality civil procedural interim measures. contains statistical data and examples judicial practice on applied measures support. authors come to conclusion that when establishing measures, requirement must be met they are proportional intended legal result main relationship (procedural dispute), as well actual state subjects secured (the parties dispu...

ODR in the consumer context refers to the use of ICT tools and methods (usually alternative to the court system) employed by businesses and consumers (B2C) to settle conflicts that arise out of economic transactions between the parties, particularly in e-commerce. It is often distinguished from other fields where ODR is used, such as in the commercial field (B2B), in the public sphere to resolv...

Mediation is an important paradigm for dispute resolution. It can lead to “win-win” situations and benefit all parties. Yet, when people negotiate they demonstrate bounded rationality in their actions and diversity in their behaviors. This increases the difficulty to design automated mediators. To be successful, the mediator must take this into account and propose solutions deemed relevant, oth...

the cooperation theory of the parties and the judge in the settlement of disputes is a new issue in the civil procedure that has been presented by one researcher in recent years. the cooperation theory is defined to mean law enforcement. in other wllmords, the parties and the judge participate with each other to settle a dispute. although in some of the new rules this theory can be seen sporadi...

10.1080/10242690600853373 Defence and Peace Economics 24-2694 (print)/1476-8267 (online) Original Articl 2 06 Taylor & Francis 0Y ng-MingChang [email protected] This paper presents a simple model to characterize the outcome of a land dispute between two rival parties using a Stackelberg game. Unlike Gershenson and Grossman (2000), we assume that the opposing parties have access to different techn...