the world of law has been dominated by waves of codification or re-codification and by currents of harmonization and unification. innumerable institutions, not only in europe but around the globe including in iran, try to bring legal systems together, and to suggest uniform laws. such attempts necessarily rely on comparative law as the first methodological tool. the european experience is an il...

background ghana’s national health insurance scheme (nhis), established by an act of parliament (act 650), in 2003 and since replaced by act 852 of 2012 remains, in african terms, unprecedented in terms of growth and coverage. as a result, the scheme has received praise for its associated legal reforms, clinical audit mechanisms and for serving as a hub for knowledge sharing and learning within...

This paper describes our participation in the BioASQ semantic indexing challenge with two hierarchical text categorization systems. Both systems originated from previous research in thesaurus topic assignment applied on small domains from the legal document management field. One of the described systems employs a classical top-down approach based on a collection of local classifiers. The other ...

Building on a model of endogenous innovation à la Romer, we analyze the link between legal institutions, innovation and growth. As in Anderlini, Felli and Riboni (2007), we suppose that law-makers are benevolent and we compare two legal systems: a rigid system, where an uncontingent law is written in a statute ex ante (that is, before knowing the state of the technology that will take place) an...

although england and the united states are both common law states and their legal systems follow the same rules, each has disregarded certain rules and changed them to suit specific circumstances. for instance, they have both disregarded the common law rule on the insertion of exemption conditions by carriers. regarding carrier’s liability towards passengers, the united states accepts the highe...

Indonesia has three legal systems. Thus experts dispute which one to use. Peter de Cruz’s opinion on worldwide systems makes it hard classify Indonesia. This paper analyses the existence of Mixed Legal Systems in world system and consequences adopting them create Prismatic Systems. hermeneutical dialectical inquiry uses comparative ideas. The study shows that is mixed, leads practical challenge...

the importance and the necessity of huge investments in oil section, legal and financial frameworks adjusting the relationship between great investor companies and oil countries have long been important issues. the history of oil investment from colonial period endeavors to investigate the general frameworks defining the relationship between governments receiving the investment and companies. a...