muslim scholars and islamic official institutions consider human cloning as opposing religious doctrine, and forbidden. their ideas are based upon some theological and juridical arguments, including: posing a challenge to the creative power of god, breaking the tradition of marriage, breaking the tradition of diversity in creatures or species, making changes in divine creatures, game with creat...

This paper describes the implementation plan of BDJur Consortium – Juridical Digital Library. The goal of this project was to create a juridical information network, with digital repositories and full text documents, linking the Brazilian Judiciary. The seven phases established are pointed out in this work (1. preliminary studies and evaluation of the open sources platforms; 2. installation, tr...

The article focuses on the philosophical, ethical and juridical problems concerning Advance directives and Living Wills (underlining analogies and differences). The author makes a critical comparison between the theories supporting Living Wills (the liberal theory appealing to the principle of self-determination and the utilitarian theory on the "quality of life") and the reasons against them (...

BACKGROUND Cesarean section on maternal request (CSMR) could represent an avoidable quota of cesareans. In Italy, this is a topical problem of health-policy, involving ethical, juridical and medical issues. AIM AND METHODS A 5-questions questionnaire to quantitatively assess the perspectives of medical, juridical and ethical issues of planned CSMR was administered to obstetricians and gynecol...

In this paper we present some aspects of an intelligent interface for a WWWeb legal information retrieval system. Our system is able to keep the context of the user interaction in order to supply suggestions for further refinement of the user queries. The set of documents obtained from the user queries is dynamically organised in clusters labeled with keywords from a juridical thesaurus. Since,...

Portuguese juridical documents from Supreme Courts and the Attorney General’s Office are manually classified by juridical experts into a set of classes belonging to a taxonomy of concepts. In this paper, a preliminary approach to develop techniques to automatically classify these juridical documents is proposed. As basic strategy, the integration of natural language processing techniques with m...

today the most common formal communication tool in social systems is writing so that formalization as one of the main structural dimensions of organization is measured in terms of the written rules level. confidence-building of writing in administrative relationships is so that lawyers consider written documents as one of evidences in courts. as far as the validity of written documents exceeded...

Electronic contracting is an essential service to develop electronic commerce. But this service is not very used because merchants and consumers do not trust in contracting by electronic means. For time we already have technical solutions that should allow to give trust to the actors implied in this new scenario. But the lack of international standards and of an appropriate juridical mark, supp...