Reasoning about causation in fact is an essential element of attributing legal responsibility. Therefore, the automation of the attribution of legal responsibility requires a modelling effort aimed at the following: a thorough understanding of the relation between the legal concepts of responsibility and of causation in fact; a thorough understanding of the relation between causation in fact an...

This study delineates the use of cultural hegemony in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) through the vantage points of Italian critic Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) who clarifies domination of the ruling class over ruled class. Cultural hegemony is the mastery of the middle class and governing groups among the lower divisions. Antonio Gramsci declares that the only means of keeping cult...

Alluding to Peter Wilson’s book Some Reasons for Travelling Italy (2016) and adopting its narrative device, this article also invites a journey of discovery into own architectural universe time. Listing idiosyncrasies work reasons delving multi-layered nature, the decodes conceptual, figurative, tectonic references from which Wilson derived his vocabulary. Scanning oeuvre requires traversing di...

Although the last forty years has seen considerable growth in the use of statistics in legal proceedings, it is primarily classical statistical methods rather than Bayesian methods that have been used. Yet the Bayesian approach avoids many of the problems of classical statistics and is also well suited to a broader range of problems. This paper reviews the potential and actual use of Bayes in t...

Does multiculturalism imply that certain cultural minorities – nomos groups, whose cultural conceptions extend in important ways into views about the law – should have forms of legal autonomy that go beyond normal multicultural accommodations such as exemptions and special protection? In other words: should we allow «minority jurisdictions» for multicultural reasons and give certain minorities ...

Legal scholars in the United Kingdom (UK) rarely adopt a quantitative approach to addressing socio-legal questions. Reasons for this are typically grounded nature of general education, legal and research training. In article, we argue that an intellectual debate on capacity building needs consider conditions have limited production work both within beyond our discipline. This article draws empi...

This paper maintains that objectivism about practical reasons should be combined with pluralism both the nature of and action explanations. We argue for an ‘expanding ...

OBJECTIVE To identify and quantify the reasons general practitioners and family physicians consider retraining and their reasons for not pursuing further training. DESIGN Population-based mailed survey. SETTING British Columbia. PARTICIPANTS Family physicians and general practitioners identified by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Practis...