as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

Over the past 20 years there has been significant progress in quantitative and qualitative research in information systems (Lee et al. 1997; Myers 1997; Myers and Avison 2002). There has also been much progress in our understanding of the contributions that can be made by both positivist and post-positivist (i.e., interpretive and critical) perspectives. The purpose of this panel is to review t...