Background: In any society, values, collective and national interests have a special place. National legal systems, in the sense of public order in the nationalization of foreign investor property, support these high national values and interests against individual interests. Therefore, this research has been conducted with the aim of presenting the moral model of public order in the nationaliz...

Legal redress can play a critical role in interrupting the pattern of domination and control inherent in intimate partner violence (IPV), yet it remains an infrequent strategy among battered women. The current study employed a contextual framework for investigating the correlates for engagement in the criminal justice system for a sample of 227 sheltered battered women. Results indicated that i...

Knowledge acquisition constitutes the bottleneck for the creation of legal expert systems. Legal language must be formalised to such a degree that it can be processed automatically. We deal with this problem by supporting the process of creating a selective thesaurus for a legal information system which can be seen as prerequisite for further knowledge processing. This selectivity is obtained b...

Over the course of the last decade there has been an increasing interest in neurobiological analyses of the causes of behavior among many practitioners of criminal law. In some institutional circles this has crystallized as an interest in providing a physical method for classifying the actions of human agents according to preexisting social–legal categories. The impetus driving this search for ...

What explains cross-country differences in the cost of contract enforcement? Previous findings suggest that fewer legal complexities support lower contract enforcement costs. In addition, recent work finds that individuals may rely on informal, cultural means to enforce agreements. Building from these two main bodies of work, this paper seeks to understand the variation of the costs of enforcin...

In this article, I address the persistent confusion over the meaning of a medical diagnosis of drug addiction or substance dependence in the courtroom, specifically in regard to legal judgments about the reasonable legal person, causation, and individual responsibility in civil actions. Using the example of the Engle tobacco litigation in Florida, where the plaintiffs have reduced mind to brain...

The insanity defense is a legal construct that excuses certain mentally ill defendants from legal responsibility for criminal behavior. This practice guideline has delineated the forensic psychiatric evaluation of defendants raising the insanity defense. The document describes acceptable forensic psychiatric practices. Where possible, standards of practice and ethical guidelines have been speci...

in this paper, we have clarified the necessity and motivation about legal act of discerning minor. after this introduction, we have classified related subjects into two topics and here we have investigated each one of them. in first topics of concepts and definitions, discerning minor and legal acts have been investigated. for second topic, we have selected legal acts of discerning minor and ha...

Legal reasoning is concerned with various kinds of legal concepts that relate to another concepts used in our daily life. Although those legal concepts are abstract in the sense that there always exist possibilities to interpret them in various ways, lawyers seem to understand them as real things at least in their "legal reality". For instance, Japanese Civil Codes include a notion of falsity t...

BACKGROUND Effective management of modern public health emergencies requires the coordinated efforts of multiple agencies representing various disciplines. Organizational culture differences between public health (PH) and emergency management (EM) entities may hinder inter-agency collaboration. We examine how PH and EM differ in their approach to PH law and how such differences affect their col...