In Germany the public awareness on ethical problems of the application of medicine and life sciences on human beings is very high. It can be observed that German Society is rather sensitive concerning bioethical issues. Politics supports this attitude. Many articles in professional journals as well as in newspapers cover bioethical issues. Conferences and workshops on a professional and an educ...

Comparative lawyers often argue that, upon close examination, technical differences between legal systems from a particular, e.g. Western, tradition are not as important as they might seem. From a functional viewpoint, these legal systems might in fact be converging. However, various degrees of convergence exist, depending upon the area of the law under examination. In tort law, sometimes a str...

We explore what benefits network position in online business social networks like LinkedIn might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur. We compare two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks. The promise of social networks like LinkedIn is that network friends enable easier access to critical resources suc...

Information extraction tasks are particularly challenging in specific contexts such as the legal domain. In this paper, Named Entity Recognition is used to make texts more accessible domain experts and laymen. This paper focuses on extracting law references citations of court decisions, which occur various syntactic formats. To investigate task a reference data set constructed from large collec...

BACKGROUND IT adoption is a process that is influenced by different external and internal factors. This study aimed1. to identify similarities and differences in the prevalence of medical and nursing IT systems in Austrian and German hospitals, and2. to match these findings with characteristics of the two countries, in particular their healthcare system, and with features of the hospitals. ME...

the system of land registration is protective formalism that is formed based on the theory of “public confidence”. this theory presumes that what reflected by the land registration offices is based on the legal fact. this theory, which provides legal stability and security in transactions, is manifested in three guiding principles including “mirror principle”, “curtain principle” and “insurance...