In 2004, the French legal framework applicable to telecommunications has experienced tremendous changes. The aims of these reforms were to transpose into domestic law the second European Telecommunications 2002 package and to complete the total change of France Telecom. On the one hand, this new legal framework allows free entrance in the market. On the other hand, it builds a tighter control o...

Institutions matter both for long-term economic evolution as well as for more short-termed economic performance. The law is particularly important in shaping the institutional framework for economic activities. This paper gives an overview of typical evolutionary explanations of legal change, i.e. the generation and dissemination of legal innovations over time. The main actors, the key determin...

The EU-funded research project MARVIN (EP29049) is developing software to operate a web-based virtual enterprise in the maritime industry, specifically in the area of scheduled and unscheduled repair. The main tool being developed is a prototype of a Maritime Enterprise Integration Tool (MEIT) which is based on multi-agent technology. One of the tasks of this project was to develop a legal fram...

Public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. International legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. The start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first World Health Organization (WHO)-era health treaties – the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and i...

O Framework Nòmos estende o framework i* para alcançar a conformidade legal dos requisitos de software. Um requisito legal é uma exigência expressa nas normas jurídicas e imposta por departamentos governamentais. O não-cumprimento de um requisito legal por parte de um software pode acarretar transtornos legais e financeiros às empresas e suas soluções. Para realizar a Engenharia de Requisitos e...

Adapting to and complying with frequently changing legislation quickly against low costs requires organizations to adapt their business processes automatically. Semantic representation of legal knowledge is a prerequisite for the automatic creation of business processes. Business Rules (BR) can be used to capture legal knowledge and business processes can be created by selecting, composing and ...

Electronic Identities (eID) and their cross-border recognition are on top of the agenda of various e-Government initiatives of the European Commission (EC). Therefore, the EC launched the EU large scale pilot STORK, which was running for about 3.5 years and finished at the end of 2011. In this period, STORK has established a European eID interoperability platform for citizens. The focus of STOR...

Our article is a methodological critique of the recent legal origins literature. We start by showing that the legal origins literature cannot easily be based on the efficiency hypothesis of the common law. By debunking the relationship between the efficiency hypothesis and the legal origins literature, we are left with no consistent theory to explain the alleged inferiority of French civil law....