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Catala: A Programming Language for the Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Law at large underpins modern society, codifying and governing many aspects of citizens' daily lives. Oftentimes, law is subject to interpretation, debate and challenges throughout various courts and jurisdictions. But in some other areas, law leaves little room for interpretation, and essentially aims to rigorously describe a computation, a decision ...
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The monkey selfie: copyright lessons for originality in photographs and internet jurisdiction [PDF]

open access: yesInternet Policy Review, 2016
In 2011, a macaque monkey used a camera belonging to British photographer David Slater in Indonesia to take a self-portrait. The selfie picture became famous worldwide after it was published in the British media. In 2014 Slater sent a removal request to Wikimedia Commons, which indicated that the picture was in the public domain because it had been ...
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Interpretative decisions in the practice of the Constitutional Court of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2014
The relationship between the Constitutional Court and Parliament is marked by envolving process. The desired balance between these two state bodies was gradually disturbed by the Constitutional Court.
Rajić Nataša
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An Empirical Study on Cross-X Transfer for Legal Judgment Prediction [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Cross-lingual transfer learning has proven useful in a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, but it is understudied in the context of legal NLP, and not at all in Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP). We explore transfer learning techniques on LJP using the trilingual Swiss-Judgment-Prediction dataset, including cases written in three ...
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The Natural Right To Parody: Assessing The (Potential) Parody/Satire Dichotomies In American And Canadian Copyright Laws

open access: yesThe Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2018
This paper argues that the right to expressing oneself through parodies should constitute part of the core freedom of expression of a normative copyright regime. By drawing upon natural law legal theories, the paper proposes a legal definition of parody
Amy Lai
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Canonical and Church Administrative Aspects of the Dispute About the Prerogatives of the Metropolitans of Nicaea and Nicomedia at the Council of Chalcedon

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2023
Introduction. On October 30, 451, during the 4th Ecumenical Council in Chalcedon, the dispute between Metropolitan Eunomius of Nicomedia and Metropolitan Anastasius of Nicaea was considered.
Mikhail Gratsianskiy
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Cognition, Grammaticalization and Syntactic Change. The emergence of Compound Tenses in Portuguese

open access: yesEntrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2013
This article analyzes the historical process of the grammaticalization of aver/ter ‘to have’ in compound tenses, since Portuguese is somewhat isolated among Romance languages in this respect.
Maria José Carvalho
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Swiss-Judgment-Prediction: A Multilingual Legal Judgment Prediction Benchmark [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
In many jurisdictions, the excessive workload of courts leads to high delays. Suitable predictive AI models can assist legal professionals in their work, and thus enhance and speed up the process. So far, Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) datasets have been released in English, French, and Chinese.
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Policy choices and outcomes for offshore wind auctions globally [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Offshore wind energy is rapidly expanding, facilitated largely through auctions run by governments. We provide a detailed quantified overview of applied auction schemes, including geographical spread, volumes, results, and design specifications. Our comprehensive global dataset reveals heterogeneous designs.
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On the Origins of Administrative and Judicial Discretion in Russian Administrative and Jurisdictional Activities

open access: yesSiberian Law Review, 2023
The article continues the discussion organized by the journal with the participation of professors Yuri P. Solovey and Petr P. Serkov on the problem of administrative discretion. The Author proposes to look at the difference between the internal content of administrative discretion and judicial discretion, which is evolutionarily incorporated in the ...
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