investment in oil and gas upstream activities is very important for the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. different and various laws and regulations deal with the investment in upstream operations. by reviewing these various laws and regulations, this research paper tries to discuss to what extent these laws and regulations have created legal confident for foreign investment up...

the financial crisis have caused many writers to become concerned with the effectiveness of existing bankruptcy laws, which encompasses both the usefulness of reorganization and liquidation laws, as well as efficiency of the judicial system to uphold the laws in court. this concern accompanied in our legal system with the privatization movement has caused many banks owned by the government to b...

Editorials 482 In this edition of the Bulletin, Marks-Sultan et al. 1 propose that the World Health Organization (WHO) should provide capacity-building for drafting health laws in Member States. They highlight that WHO has the authority and credibility to work with countries to make their national laws easier to access, understand, monitor and evaluate. WHO's new technical support work related ...

Dynamic logic programming allows the representation and the inference of evolving knowledge. Legal knowledge reasoning needs the capability to model laws that change over time and to model laws produced by distinct entities with different priorities at different time points. In this paper we propose the use of dynamic logic programming to model these legal dynamic situations. Some examples are ...

Dynamic logic programming allows the representation and the inference of evolving knowledge. Legal knowledge reasoning needs the capability to model laws that change over time and to model laws produced by distinct entities with different priorities at different time points. In this paper we propose the use of dynamic logic programming to model these legal dynamic situations. Some examples are ...

Background: The legality of the laws and regulations on ethics has always been emphasized on the morality of legal systems and its necessity has been discussed. In Iran, because of other small-scale systems, the law creates and introduces strong rules. The law may not be applicable to the evidence. In fact, the high-level rules have many implications. The purpose of this study is to investigate...

Legal analysis is a multistep process that performs the complex tasks of disambiguation of comported real world activities through the lens of a predefined legal code and sets of laws. These activities often may instantiate multiple separate as well as overlapping legal stipulations and criteria thus creating a potential for contextually significant interpretations of how a given code or law ap...

Many laws, e.g., those concerning taxes and social benefits, need to be operationalized and implemented into public administration procedures and eGovernment applications. Where such operationalization is warranted, the legal frameworks that interpret the underlying laws are typically prescriptive, providing procedural rules for ensuring legal compliance. We propose a UML-based approach for mod...