Knowledge engineers have been working in the legal domain since the rise of their discipline in the mid-eighties of the last century. More and more knowledge engineering is not just seen as a way of capturing and distributing (legal) knowledge by means of the knowledge-based systems created, but as an analytical approach that helps to improve legal quality. Improving legal access of course rema...

Public health instruments have been under constant development and renewal for decades. International legal instruments, with their binding character and strength, have a special place in this development. The start of the 21st century saw, in particular, the birth of the first World Health Organization (WHO)-era health treaties - the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and i...

We compare the bargaining power of the patentee under American and English rules of legal costs allocation. Using the Nash Bargaining Game framework, we show that litigation can be a Pareto efficient outcome. The cooperative game framework allows us to examine how the institutional and market factors influence bargaining powers of plaintiff and defendant under different rules of legal cost allo...

one of the important subject is the legal status of great dowry; if it is a designated property, the agreement is valid because there is not any limitation on the dowry and spouses can fix it at any amount they may wish in accordance with article 1089 of code civil. if is a general nature property and the husband has the power to deliver it, the agreement is valid but if he has not the power, t...