In the article, author addresses issue of judicial assessment expert evidence in Polish criminal proceedings. Over years, reliance justice system on experts increased dramatically. Nowadays, plays a pivotal role court disputes, directly influencing outcome Experience, however, shows that erroneous reports and flawed testimonies may lead to decisions inflicting irreparable personal social harm. ...

In a recent issue of this Journal, Professor Abraham Goldstein and Research Fellow Martin Marcus discussed their observations about the criminal procedures of three European countries, France, Germany, and Italy, as representative of the "Continental" or "inquisitorial" model of investigation and prosecution.' Their inquiry was prompted, they said, by a desire to probe claims that in those coun...

legal and judicial mitigating factors are one of the effective mechanisms for individualization of punishments and persuading offenders to avoid the continuation of the act of crime. these would also prevent the harmful consequences of crime from proliferating, and it help to discover crime and arrest aiders and abettors. the legislature has in different instances specified such legal exemption...

Effective judicial review of administrative determinations depends on both legislative direction and judicial discretion. The review processes of state appellate courts, unlike their federal counterparts, have only infrequently been intensely scrutinized. In a small effort to fill this gap, this Note will analyze, as an example, the Pennsylvania judiciary's review of the Pennsylvania Liquor Con...

As in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other reproductive technologies become increasingly prevalent, the legal and bioethical issues that inevitably accompany these new technologies are outpacing both legislative and judicial responses. Thus far, legislatures hesitant to address the ethical uncertainties in IVF have been slow to adopt clear guidelines regarding the disposition of the frozen preem...

Current approaches for the design of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) systems involve the replication of Alternative Dispute Resolution practices such as mediation and negotiation. Though such systems have been found to be popular, there are concerns that these systems fail to take into account judicial practices. In this paper a system that supports disputants' decisions making when engaged in ...

This paper examines the current legal treatment of software innovation. It argues that recent judicial standards for the regulation of software innovation do not adequately protect innovation. It presents an original standard for the regulation of software innovation, one intended to guide judicial decisions in contributory copyright liability, in interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyr...