Introduction ....................................... 3 I. The Asymmetric Risk of Legal Error in Criminal C ases .......................................... 8 A. The Essential Structure of Legal Error ....... 9 B. The Essential Structure of Criminal Trial and A ppeal .................................... 12 C. The Incidence of Legal Error ................ 15 1. The distribution of disputes and err...

Nowadays the amount of legal texts necessary for the execution of legal tasks is growing rapidly. A well-known problem is the retrieval of the right text at the right moment. A solution to this management problem could be the use of knowledge management (KM). In this paper we claim that as part of KM, the development and application of legal ontologies with the help of a mark-up language like t...

Legal compatibility as a characteristic of sociotechnical systems aims at the greatest possible compliance with higher-order legal goals for minimizing social risks of technical systems and extends legality, which refers to the prevention of lawlessness. The paper analyzes the criteria for legal compatibility by reviewing specifications of legally compatible systems and shows goals and resultin...

there are many problems that usually r & d centers and organizations in the decision making and achieve its higher goals, are faced with.such as the density of information in the administrative departments, human resources information and facilities and equipment. the researcher had to make it investigate effective factors in improving management information systems in private banks accordi...

This Article presents an overview of the higher legal education system in China: its structure, purposes, teaching methods, and problems. The Article suggests ways to reform China’s higher legal education system, including clinical legal education, one of the new practical teaching methods that has been used by many law schools in China with promising results. CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE R...

The legal practitioner is a knowledge worker. Two distinct technologies may be of assistance to this type of professional: legal knowledge-based system technology and Internet World Wide Web technology. In this paper we investigate the relation between legal knowledge-based systems and the Internet. Legal knowledge-based systems have long been surrounded by much optimism, but despite the effort...