A simple auction-theoretic framework is used to examine symmetric litigation environments where the legal ownership of a disputed asset is unknown by the court. The court observes only the quality of the case presented by each party, and awards the asset to the party presenting the best case. Rational litigants influence the quality of their cases by hiring skillful attorneys. This framework pe...

CONTEXT Physicians need to consider medical-legal issues when volunteering their time to assist with community mass-participation and athletic events. This article also reviews medical-legal aspects of the volunteer physician's out-of-state practice. Seven cases illustrate the importance of expertise and planning to avoid legal issues for the volunteer event physician. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Re...

1275 focus on the path of the vagus nerve, not the human being to whom it belonged. Early in our training, bending over our cadavers, we learned to silence a part of ourselves. We learned the power of humor as a means of avoiding hard conversations about more complicated feelings. Often we kept those feelings to ourselves, rarely giving voice to them as we proceeded through far more challenging...

In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the story of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by measuring how well they cohere when accounting for the evidence. We show that this gives rise to a formalized comparison between rival cases that...

erroneous impressions that may exist regarding them. The first was that of a young man who was brought to tho hospital on the night of the 11th September, with a severe contusion over the left eye, and what appeared to be a simple abrasion of the skin of the left lower eyelid, which his friends said had been caused by a morah that had been thrown at his head during a fight. There was no sign of...

In this paper we report some experiments designed to clarify some issues and to test some of the assumptions in the model of reasoning with legal cases advanced by Bench-Capon and Sartor. We identify the questions to be explored, briefly describe a tool developed to support these experiments and report the results of a series of experiments based on Aleven’s analysis of US Trade Secrets cases. ...

Previous work has shown that theories representing a body of case law can be represented as Abstract Dialectical Frameworks (ADF) but that it is desirable to represent degrees of presence of factors, rather than as simply considering factors as present or absent, as is currently standard. This requires consideration not only of factors, but also of the facts on which their attribution to cases ...

Modeling Legal Argument: Reasoning with Cases and Hypotheticals 1 is the second book in the series on Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning edited by L. Thome McCarty and Edwina Rissland, two of the leaders in a relatively new field that attempts to apply techniques of computer science, formal decision theory, and artificial intelligence ("AT") to law and legal reasoning. Like the previou...

Background: Various studies that have been published to date concerning the Greek population, examine family violence only from the sociological perspective while attempting to correlate it with the socio-demographic data of the perpetrator and the victim. Aims: This study makes an effort to investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of forensic clinical medicine while it simultaneously at...