In the Western Desert of Australia the land takes hostages. Freedom is regained slowly, often imperceptibly: vanities must be shed, wisdom must be drawn, humility learned. Time moves forward, but only in grinding tectonic shifts, unnoticed by squinting intruders with too much noise in their heads. Twenty-two years ago the young men in Midnight Oil were held hostage by the land. It was only for four weeks, but none of us was ever the same again.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Information technology has now pervaded the legal sector, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes are ubiquitous. European policies on transparency and information society, in particular, require the use of technology and its steady improvement. Some of the revised papers presented in this book originate from a workshop held at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy, in December 2006. The workshop was devoted to the discussion of the different ways of understanding and explaining contemporary law, for the purpose of building computable models of it -- especially models enabling the development of computer applications for the legal domain. During the course of the following year, several new contributions, provided by a number of ongoing (or recently finished) European projects on computation and law, were received, discussed and reviewed to complete the survey. This book presents 20 thoroughly refereed revised papers on the hot topics under research in different EU projects: legislative XML, legal ontologies, semantic web, search and meta-search engines, web services, system architecture, dialectic systems, dialogue games, multi-agent systems (MAS), legal argumentation, legal reasoning, e-justice, and online dispute resolution. The papers are organized in topical sections on knowledge representation, ontologies and XML legislative drafting; knowledge representation, legal ontologies and information retrieval; argumentation and legal reasoning; normative and multi-agent systems; and online dispute resolution.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2022, held in Berlin, Germany, during September 26–28, 2022. This is the 6th conference of a new series, joining the efforts of two existing conference series, namely “RuleML” (International Web Rule Symposium) and “RR” (Web Reasoning and Rule Systems). The 18 full research papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: answer set programming; foundations of nonmonotonic reasoning; datalog; queries over ontologies; proofs, error-tolerance, and rules; as well as agents and argumentation.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, RuleML+RR 2024, held in Bucharest, Romania, during September 16-18, 2024. The 12 full papers and 4 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The RuleML+RR symposia were devoted to disseminating research, applications, languages, and standards for rule technologies, with attention to both theoretical and practical developments, to challenging new ideas and to industrial applications.