the aim of this article is. evaluation of traditional knowledge (tk) protection possibility and ways under national legal system potentials in this direction, case laws,- which conventions and inter national treaties are very important party of them - provide proper capacity to protect this knowledge. among them convention of biological diversity (cbd) and convention on desertification have nec...

The problems involved in the translation of legal texts have grabbed attention many translators, linguists and researchers. These seem common general but level difficulty seems to change according certain factors.
 current study aims at providing available definitions translation, introducing language its linguistic characteristics. In addition, it attempts identify best techniques methods...

The importance of language and terminology for the law and the jurisprudence is beyond question because language is a central subject of a lawyer's work (Hatz 1963, Salton/McGill 1983). The particularity of the legal language is the use of a special vocabulary of legal terms which are used to express definite concepts. The presence of a particular term has specific connotations. Legal thinking ...

Despite the ubiquity of time and temporal references in legal texts, their formal-ization has often been either disregarded or addressed in an ad hoc manner. In this paper we address this issue from the standpoint of the research done on temporal representation and reasoning in AI. We identify the temporal requirements of legal domains and propose a temporal representation framework for legal r...

Legislative language exhibits some characteristics typical of languages of administration that are particularly prone to eliciting ambiguities. However, ambiguity is generally undesirable in legislative texts and can pose problems for the interpretation and application of codified law. In this paper, we demonstrate how methods of controlled natural languages can be applied to prevent ambiguitie...