Can it be satisfactory in our so called globalising age to group localisms under the broad headings of the ‘civil law tradition’ and the ‘common law tradition’ alone and regard other localisms as being derivatives of one of them? As a better approach I suggested a ‘family trees’ approach within which legal systems could be classified according to their constituent elements. This entailed decons...

It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer u...

In this paper we extend a formal framework presented in [6] to model reasoning across legal systems. In particular, we propose a logical system that encompasses the various interpretative interactions occurring between legal systems in the context of private international law. This is done by introducing meta-rules to reason with interpretive canons.

idea is the starting point for the creation of intellectual works and the development of science and technology and art. in many cases, the birth of idea requires a lot of study and suffering. so the question is whether the idea has capability of legal support? the present article with descriptive and analytic method and by using comparative studies in the legal systems of france and iran, with...

with the establishment of modern bureaucracy in iran, it was expected that the administrative system would find a logical order based on legal rationality. this not only proved to be far from the case, but the administrative system showed an unfortunate return to its previous status as well. the efforts made to improve the system have only aggravated the situation. the first question addressed ...

law department, ferdowsi university of mashhad the importance of the exploitation contracts protecting the literary and artistic rights has, in some legal systems like france, resulted in the devising of general and common regulations about the formation of the above-mentioned contracts. however, so far no independent section has been thought of in the iranian legal system for explicating commo...

A significant problem with hypertext systems is that the tracing of links between information is vexatious. A knowledge of the links that exist is important because the information may require to be updated to take into account changes in the law. Traditional structured methods of mapping have proved to be ineffective at mapping hypertext systems, so this paper looks at computer science data mo...

in every community, higher values and interests have a special position. in the form of the concept of public order, national legal systems support these higher values and interests against the individual interests and freedom. in these systems, the function of public order is to limit contractual freedom and to prevent from enforcement of foreign law and awards. although the international comm...