Legal recognition of patient's rights aspired to change clinical relationship and medical lex artis. However, its implementation has been hampered by the scarcity of resources and the abundance of regulations. For several years, autonomy, consent, and responsibility have formed one of the backbones of the medical profession. However, they have sparked controversy and professional discomfort. In...

The goal of the tort system can be reduced to one basic principle: the judiciary imposes legal responsibility on certain actors for certain conduct in order to remedy past harms and influence prospective behavior. Over the course of its existence, our judiciary has designated particular actors deserving of legal responsibility for various reasons. Guiding this imposition, however, is the will a...

Information technology has entered a big-data era. Large-scale data is becoming the basic factors of production and it would affect the corporate social responsibility disclosure deeply, the use of big data has become the key factor to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. Through this empirical analysis, we can draw the following conclusions: corporate social responsibility is mainly com...

In this paper we present DIRECT, a system for automatic discovery of responsibility and causal relations in legal case descriptions based on LRI-Core, a core ontology that covers the main concepts that are common to all legal domains. These domains have a predominant common-sense character – the law is still for the people – and typical legal concepts such as norm, role responsibility, contract...