International Law as a Cyborg Science

International Law and Social Science: A Mild Plea in Avoidance

International environmental law as a complex adaptive system

Complex adaptive systems are a special kind of self-organizing system with emergent properties and adaptive capacity in response to changing external conditions. In this article, we investigate the proposition that international environmental law, as a network of treaties and institutions, exhibits some key characteristics of a complex adaptive system. This proposition is premised on the scient...

Science and Law. Applying scientific principles in international law on whaling.

SCIENCE sciencemag.org I n March 2014, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, ruled that a Japanese whaling program in the Antarctic, ostensibly for scientific purposes, was not sufficiently research-oriented and thus was illegal ( 1). The ICJ’s critical assessment represents the first time that scientific whaling has been reviewed by an au...

Application of Lex Mercatoria as Applicable Law in International Commercial Arbitration

In settling disputes regarding international commercial arbitration the parties may instead of choosing the law of one country to choose lex mercatoria or the law of merchants as a applicable law to the disputes. When this choice is possible that applicable choice of law rules recognize such power for the parties. The principle of autonomy is choosing lex mercatoria has been recognized in many ...

Poultry science--growing as an international journal.

Poultry Science is the journal of the Poultry Science Association, an organization that celebrated its first 100 years in 2008. The journal has one of the highest impact factors for any animal agricultural journal and has by far the highest impact factor of any poultryrelated journal (Scanes, 2007a). The number of papers published in Poultry Science is increasing, from 276 papers published in 2...