In chapter 2 of the Principles, the ALI proposes sweeping changes to the legal conception of parenthood. It would confer custody and visitation “rights”1 on a stepparent or ex-livein lover of a child’s legal parent2 who shared caretaking responsibility for a child for as little as two years (“Ex Live-In Partner”).3 Such an individual is recognized by the Principles as a “de facto parent,” a ter...

the system of land registration is protective formalism that is formed based on the theory of “public confidence”. this theory presumes that what reflected by the land registration offices is based on the legal fact. this theory, which provides legal stability and security in transactions, is manifested in three guiding principles including “mirror principle”, “curtain principle” and “insurance...

As climate change begins to disrupt the settled expectations of humans, demands on the legal system will be intense and long term. Is the law up to the task? If it is, it will be at least in part because the legal system proves to be resilient and adaptive. This Article therefore explores how to think about designing legal instruments and institutions now with confidence they will be resilient ...

Transparency of personal data processing is enforced by most Western privacy laws, including the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will be effective from May 2018. The GDPR specifies that personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner. It strengthens people’s rights for both ex-ante and ex-post transparency and intervenability. Equally important...

Professor Einer Elhauge’s provocative article, Tying, Bundled Discounts, and the Death of the Single Monopoly Profit Theory, 123 Harv. L. Rev. 397 (2009), contests two propositions on which efficiency-minded antitrust scholars have largely agreed: (1) that there should be no tying liability absent substantial tied market foreclosure (a position contrary to the legal status quo), and (2) that co...

The legal aspects of epilepsy encompass all the issues that are encountered in the legal considerations that affect any person’s everyday life. These areas include all those experiences that involve the home, work, driving, inter-personal relationships and virtually every aspect of daily living. There is no reason to suspect that these legal issues should be any different to those facing people...

in modern legal systems there are a variety of sources of law. judicial precedent is one of the legal sources; thus, precedents of supreme court, like enactments of parliament, are enforceable in courts. this similarity between precedents and acts impose many problems as role of supreme court in interpretation of   laws. but the most important problem is the possibility of changing previous pre...