VOLUME 4(2) • 2012
THE CHALLENGES OF ENFORCING INTERNATIONAL LAW
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the significance of territorial cohesion, endogenous models of human capital and economic growth, and corporate-related human rights abuses. Scholarly research reveals strong correlations between the intersection of human rights a..
QUINE’S HOLISTIC MODEL OF SCIENCE AND LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the philosophical consequences of Quine’s naturalized epistemology, Quine’s semantic and confirmational holism, his project of regimenting the language of science into a canonical notation, and his behavioristic notion of stimulus..
THE PITFALLS OF SIMPLIFYING LEGAL WRITING
ABSTRACT. Considerable research attention has focused on the problem of poor legal writing skills, the gap between the law language and “ordinary” language, the central role modality plays in legal language, and the fundamental goals of legal writing. In this paper I am particularly interested in ex..
MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATIONS OF ROMAN LAW
ABSTRACT. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse context for understanding the indebtedness of the common law to the Roman law, the historical and continuing contribution of Roman law, the Roman contribution to the common law, and the relationship between the Roman and the c..
TERRITORIAL COHESION AND SPATIAL JUSTICE
ABSTRACT. Crime declines do not inevitably produce decreasing rates of imprisonment. Understanding the social roots and distribution of serious crime are important elements in understanding and controlling crime. (Zimring) Destruction of elements of the built environment is part of a wider formation..
EPISTEMIC ECOLOGIES OF KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the complexly networked global processes of reflexive modernization, the circulatory dynamics of the information economy, the continuous dilation of the scale and scope of knowledge, and mass media’s societal function of providing..
THE SOCIAL PERCEPTION OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN GREECE
ABSTRACT. This study is grounded in the considerable body of scholarship examining the formation of the global environment around the Greek crisis, the evolution of the crisis that affected the Greek economy, the need of financing the individuals and the enterprises after the crisis, and the impact ..
THE INCREASED SIGNIFICANCE OF EDUCATION AS AN INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL
ABSTRACT. There have been few comprehensive assessments of what research has learned about the extent to which globalization affects investments in human capital, the forces that shape human capital accumulation, and the interaction between schooling and ability with experience in earning regression..
THE LEGAL CONCEPT OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of the nexus between reward and personnel evaluation structures, determinants of desired KM behaviors, and the implementation of the TQM process. The results of the current study converge with prior research on organizational inve..
QUINE’S SCIENTIFIC SEMANTICS
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on Quine’s rejection of analyticity, his naturalized ontology, his holophrastic interpretation of observation sentences, and his version of naturalized empiricism. This study is grounded in the considerable body of s..
PRESERVING CONCEPTUAL CONCORDANCE IN THE MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATIONS OF EU LEGISLATION
ABSTRACT. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on linguistic problems that make language inadequate to define rights and obligations, the opportunities offered by multilingualism as it is organized in the EU context, and the multilingual legislation of the EU. Th..
THE IMPACT OF ROMAN LAW IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
ABSTRACT. The material gathered in this study provides a rich and diverse con- text for understanding the methods and principles of Roman law, the profundity of Roman juridical thought, the legitimacy of Roman-law-based conceptions of monarchical regulatory authority, and the state of the legal prin..