Establishing and operating a virtual organization implies a number of challenges from many different perspectives, including socio-economic, organizational, legal and computational issues. This paper focuses on the legal aspects with a particular view on legal risks with respect to intellectual property rights. A risk analysis with respect to legal issues can either be based on abstract legal r...

Predicting violent activity with a youth violence profile in schools raises a host of legal concerns focusing on the validity and use of profiles as social science evidence: the impact of potential discrimination, search and seizure, and the implications for privacy. Schools differ from airports or other settings where profiles are used. Profiles are useful if they properly establish reasonable...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 539 I. NETWORK ANALYSIS BACKGROUND ...................................... 540 A. What is a Network? ......................................................... 541 B. Network Analysis History ............................................... 543 1. Social Network Analysis ......................................

This introduction presents and draws together the articles and themesfeatured in this special issue of The Medieval Globe, “Legal Worlds and LegalEncounters.”

translation of any type of technical and specialized texts inevitably faces with specific terminological challenges, most of which can be solved through documented searches or consulting the related experts. but legal translation deals with greater and more serious difficulties, because such kind of translations has legal consequences like a contractual relation which entails moral or financial...

due to the british hegemony of iran in both pre- and post-constitutional revolutionary periods (1906-1911), the iranian legal system was expected to be influenced by british common law following the establishment of the modern government after the revolution. but it did not happen for various legal and non-legal reasons. a major legal reason could be iranians’ long history of acquaintance with ...

in this paper, we have clarified the necessity and motivation about legal act of discerning minor. after this introduction, we have classified related subjects into two topics and here we have investigated each one of them. in first topics of concepts and definitions, discerning minor and legal acts have been investigated. for second topic, we have selected legal acts of discerning minor and ha...

Currently, Artificial Intelligence and Law is an interdisciplinary field somewhere on the border between Computer Science and Law. For many reasons, this interdisciplinarity hampers its further development and the transfer of its results into both legal theory and legal practice. In this position statement, we argue that AI and Law should become part of legal theory, or rather a “school” of leg...

Legal translation is a type of translation for legal terms and documents from a source language (SL) into a target language (TL). Moreover, it is also a translation from one legal system into another. It involves all the legal texts that are used in different legal settings; in courts, legal reports, contracts, etc. This paper aimed at examining the translatability of Google Translation (GT) fo...