in this article economic loss means those losses occurring independently of physical damage to things or to a person's body or health. there are two main positions about reparability of these losses: in some countries like french, belgium, spain, italy and luxembourg as a principle rule economic loss is recoverable and there is no difference between economic loss and other losses. but in s...

the complexity and diversity of international assignment or license of iprs and the territoriality principle, makes determining their applicable law difficult. the rules governing iprs, are distinct from applicable law to contractual issues, hence the importance of characterization in these contracts. party autonomy and the discretion of courts are faced with restrictions including competition ...

From a basic probabilistic argumentation, the Zipfian distribution and Benford’s law are derived. It is argued that Zipf’s fits to calculate rank probabilities of identical indistinguishable objects distinguishable objects. i.e. in words long texts all given identical, therefore, Zipfian. In logarithmic tables, with 1st digits as there many different 2nd, 3rd… places, etc., therefore according ...

hearsay in common law, is a statement made out-of-court and offered in court as evidence to prove the truth of the assertion made in the statement. the hearsay rule states that hearsay is not admissible unless provided by exceptions in the rules of evidence or courts’ precedents. the test for determining hearsay is whether a statement was made out of court and is being offered in order to prove...

foreign state immunity from jurisdiction of internal courts of another states as a customary rule of international law has been appeared in states’ practice and also in legislations passed by their parliaments (states like u.s.a, u.k, australia, canada, south africa, pakistan, etc.,). state immunity as a rule of international law has developed from its beginning (i.e. the schooner exchange case...

foreign state immunity from jurisdiction of internal courts of another states as a customary rule of international law has been appeared in states’ practice and also in legislations passed by their parliaments (states like u.s.a, u.k, australia, canada, south africa, pakistan, etc.,). state immunity as a rule of international law has developed from its beginning (i.e. the schooner exchange case...

This paper reviews the relationship between the rule of law, good governance, and sustainable development as those terms are used by the relevant development organizations; describes the efforts made by various organizations to promote the rule of law and good governance; and addresses the need to strengthen compliance and enforcement for sustainable development. A recent movement, which has re...

the principle of “non-retractable agreement between contractual and non-contractual responsibility” is a traditional rule in the french law and countries adapting the french law of harmony and homogeneity; this rule means that if the claim for petition is based on the mistake, i.e., if it was meant to be based on contractual liability, rather than liability enforced in accordance with establish...