This thoughtful contribution to American and German legal literature provides valuable insights for a reader interested in comparing the decisionmaking methodology under the West German and American systems of antitrust law. The work also provides a broader discussion of key distinctions between the jurisprudential and systematic foundations of West Germany’s continental legal system and those ...

This paper discusses some features of evidentiary reasoning in law, more specifically the introduction of “alternative suspects” by defence solicitors, within the framework of a first principle (or model) based decision support system for crime investigation. We introduce some observations from legal reasoning and legal doctrine to argue that the existing approach may not be able to capture som...

Abstract The paper explores the hypothesis that multinomials can act as authorship-based style distinguishing markers in legal communication. Specifically, analysis focuses on identifying quantitative distribution patterns of structural categories typical for two authorship and their communicative function. are contrasted here professionals/experts lay people. is conducted corpus-based methodol...

In this paper we put forward a way of modelling reasoning with cases as it is described by writers such as Levi. This style of reasoning concentrates on finding and refining particular distinctions amongst cases which bear on the outcome. It thus contrasts with work such as HYPO in which such distinctions are the product of initial analysis of the domain, and so come already fixed. We provide a...

The core principles of dental ethics and legal standards of care have similar foundations. Both are dedicated to place the patient's best interest as primary and the practitioner's interest as secondary, Similarities between ethics and the law demonstrate that most often there may be distinctions but little core differences. Informed consent principles illustrate the comparison between dental e...