THE COMPLEAT LAWYER--MEDICAL LAW AS PRACTICAL REASONING: DOCTRINE, EMPIRICISM, AND ENGAGEMENT

The compleat lawyer--medical law as practical reasoning: doctrine, empiricism, and engagement.

Margot Brazier has modelled the relationship between legal scholarship and health care practice--an evidence-based approach to doing good in the real world through the application of the discipline of law. No ivory tower academic, but a good citizen. This paper explores the expression of her comprehensive contribution in an academic paper and a policy review. She has shown how law needs to take...

Criminal Mediation as a Doctrine of Restorative Justice from the Perspective of Law and Ethics

Background: Creating the ground for peace and reconciliation through recourse to arbitration has been one of the common methods of litigation that is rooted in ethics. In the criminal justice system, judicial and police officials are the reference for investigation, inquiry and investigation. The sovereign and their representatives have the exclusive competence and no other person has the autho...

Formalising Debates About Law-Making Proposals as Practical Reasoning

In this paper the ASPIC framework for argumentation-based inference is used for formally reconstructing two legal debates about law-making proposals: an opinion of a legal scholar on a Dutch legislative proposal and a US commonlaw judicial decision on whether an existing common law rule should be followed or distinguished. Both debates are formalised as practical reasoning, with versions of the...

Empiricism in mental health law.

Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1932. "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single ... State may. if its citizens choose. serve as a laboratory .... "1 Brandeis was writing here in the context of statutory change. Experiments. however. mean little unless meaningful data are collected which establish the results or effects brought about by changes in the law or in any ot...

The Compleat Pediatrician Practical, Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Preventive Pediatrics. For the Use of Medical Students, Internes, General Practitioners and Pediatricians