Lawyers and the legal system have been much criticized in recent years. Despite popular perceptions, the legal system contains numerous mechanisms and rules designed to ensure fair results. This paper shows how the legal system tries to implement, in commercial transactions, the ethical principles of truthfulness and fairness. The AngloAmerican development of Equity Courts is reviewed briefly. ...

CAT0 is an instructions environment for practicing basic skills of legal research: to use cases in arguments about a problem situation and to test a theory about a legal domain. Using the CAT0 tools, law students analyze a legal problem, frame queries of CATO’S database of legal cases, and judge how relevant the retrieved cases are to their developing argument or theory. CAT0 aids hming by maki...

The BankXX system models the process of perusing and gathering information for argument as a heuristic best-first search for relevant cases, theories, and other domain-specific information. As BankXX searches its heterogeneous and highly interconnected network of domain knowledge, information is incrementally analyzed and amalgamated into a dozen desirable ingredients for argument (called argum...

what happened in recent decades in collapse of several states and birth of new ones, raised serious questions about the legal aspects of the problem. does international community actually endorse the unilateral secession to create new states? what could be the real impacts of recent cases like kosovo and ossetia on the future of international legal order? the present article tries to find these...

background although in many countries child abuse reporting is mandated, iranian nurses report abused cases voluntary. some of the cases are reported to the police and others are referred to welfare organizations or other non-governmental organizations. absence of a uniform reporting system along with a lack of legal support in the specific cultural context of iran has resulted challenges for t...

Legislation grows in number and complexity, and so does the need to get informed about them, and to be able to infer the consequences of rules and requirements for particular situations. Access to legal sources has thus far been handled in the same way as information retrieval in general by using database technology. This misses out what is the crucial issue in legal information serving (LIS): ...

This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology using a general ontology that has already been developed and a case ontology that has been automatically constructed on the basis of precedent cases input by the user. In order to construct a legal ontology, we consider to nd out the best correspondence to given a legal concept in a general ontology and a case ontology. Furthermore, we conc...