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Notas Sobre Los Medios Alternativos De Solución De Controversias, Óscar Cruz Jan 2000

Notas Sobre Los Medios Alternativos De Solución De Controversias, Óscar Cruz

Óscar Cruz Barney

No abstract provided.


El Arbitraje En México: Notas En Torno A Sus Antecedentes Históricos, Óscar Cruz Jan 2000

El Arbitraje En México: Notas En Torno A Sus Antecedentes Históricos, Óscar Cruz

Óscar Cruz Barney

No abstract provided.


Analogical Reasoning As Translation: The Pragmatics Of Transitivity, Jonathan Yovel Jan 2000

Analogical Reasoning As Translation: The Pragmatics Of Transitivity, Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

This paper attempts to examine the underlying structure of analogical reasoning in decision making. The immediate (but not exclusive) context is the form of reasoning commonly seen as prevalent in common-law judicial decision making. Following Wittgenstein and Strawson the paper identifies the problem of the contingency of transitivity of analogical relations as a serious impediment to analogical reasoning. It then proceeds to offer a method of translation that delineates the borders of contingency and analyticity of transitivity in such cases, as well as proposes how these borders may be manipulated. The theoretical insight is to treat analogical relations anaphorically, as …


What Is Contract Law 'About'? Speech Act Theory And A Critique Of 'Skeletal Promises', Jonathan Yovel Jan 2000

What Is Contract Law 'About'? Speech Act Theory And A Critique Of 'Skeletal Promises', Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

What is contract law about? One way of looking at it is to conceive of the subject-matter of contract law in terms of promises - just as tort law arguably revolves around the concepts of accident or harm. Much like accidents - first-year law students are taught - promises are out there in the world, to be classified and distinguished so as to privilege some with legal enforceability. There is a language/world of promises, this approach seems to indicate, and a language/world of contracts. It is a main function of contract law to perform translations from the one to the …


Trade And Inequality: Economic Justice And The Developing World, Frank Garcia Dec 1999

Trade And Inequality: Economic Justice And The Developing World, Frank Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Globalization And The U.S. Market In Legal Services – Shifting Identities, Carole Silver Dec 1999

Globalization And The U.S. Market In Legal Services – Shifting Identities, Carole Silver

Carole Silver

No abstract provided.


The Usefulness Of Which Rawls?, Frank J. Garcia Dec 1999

The Usefulness Of Which Rawls?, Frank J. Garcia

Frank J. Garcia

No abstract provided.


Responsabilidade Global, Ivo T. Gico Dec 1999

Responsabilidade Global, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

O presente artigo traz ao leitor, para além de questões meramente processuais, argumentos para justificar a responsabilização das empresas ditas globais por obrigações decorrentes de relação de consumo transnacionais.

This article brings to the reader, in addition to purely procedural issues, arguments to justify the accountability of the so-called global firms for obligations related to transnational relations of consumption.