Constitution. UNDERSTANDING RLUIPA CLAIMS: THE LEGAL, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL LANDSCAPE Local government officials need to understand that the “landscape” they will have to navigate when seeking to avoid a RLUIPA claim has legal, political, and social dimensions. Legally, RLUIPA claims occupy a middle ground between challenges to land use regulations in which government is presumed to have acted ...

Wikipedia is a very large and successful Web 2.0 example. As the number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, there are also increasing disputes occurring among the contributors. As a result of disputes, many articles in Wikipedia are controversial. In this project, I propose a supervised learning model using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to identify controversial a...

relations between the third world countries in different parts of asia and africa during the 19th and 20th centuries, to a great extent, were influenced by the presence and policies of colonial powers. thus, for a better understanding of roots of disputes and issues existing between these countries concerning frontiers, disputed islands, political and prejudicial tensions, we need to study past...

sician who passed away due to medical malpractice in 2014, went into practice on November 30, 2016 after approval by the National Assembly in May, 2016. The Shin Hae Chul Law, essentially, is aimed at implementing unconditional dispute mediation without participation or agreement on the part of the physician or medical institution when the patients and/or their families submit serious medical m...

Answering one question often begets another. We present a decision-theoretic model that describes how this dynamic sequences decisions over time. Because answering an easy question may raise a more difficult one, a rational decision-maker may delay resolution even if he has perfect information about the correct decision. Furthermore, because otherwise unrelated questions may raise similar follo...

The development of electronic commerce in the last years results in a new type of trade which the traditional legal systems are not ready to deal with. Moreover, the number of consumer claims increased mainly due to the increase in B2C relations and many of these are not getting a satisfactory response. Having this in mind, together with the slowness of the judicial system and the cost/benefici...

Autonomous agents transcend their individual capabilities by cooperating towards achieving shared goals. The different viewpoints agents have on the environment cause disagreements about the anticipated effects of plans. Reaching agreement requires the resolution of such inconsistencies and the alignment of the agents’ viewpoints. We present a dialogue protocol that enables agents to discuss ca...

To cope with steep losses in membership and eroding legal protections, some unions have begun to look outward for help. Scholars likewise point to broad-based coalitions as a potential route to labor’s revitalization. Yet surprisingly little is known about union coalition work, from when and why it occurs to what union allies typically bring to the table. We take up these issues with a unique d...

Parties involved in disputes often lack the information they need to take rational decisions. As a consequence, they frequently enter into agreements that are not as advantageous as they could be. Having the right information in the right time would guide parties into taking more weighted and realistic decisions. Specifically, parties should consider their best, worst and most likely outcomes i...