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Legal Theory
No full textThis volume presents 20 articles on various theoretical aspects of law. Legal Theory, or as it is sometimes labelled, Analytical Jurisprudence, is a topic which has been attracting a lot of interest from Scandinavian lawyers for a long time. This tradition has generated a vast amount of literature and is reflected in a continuous debate concerning various methodological and ontological aspects of the law. The articles have been arranged under the subheadings On the Nature of Law, On Legal Concepts and Legal Principles, On Legal Reasoning, Legal Rules and the Development of the Legal System, and Perspectives on Legal Science. Taking into account the richness of the material it is the conviction of the editors that this volume provide interesting material for further discussions concerning legal theory also outside the Scandinavian countries. Table of Contents: Bjarup, Jes, Ought and Reality: Hägerström's Inaugural Lecture Re-considered, p. 11-72 Christensen, Anna, Protection of the Established Position, p. 285-324 Diesen, Christian, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, p. 169-180 Evald, Jens, Law, Method and Values, p. 73-94 Hellner, Jan, Causality and Causation in Law, p. 111-134 Hellner, Jan, The Law of Obligations and he Structure of Swedish Law, p. 325-341 Jareborg, Nils, Crime Ideologies, p. 431-443 Jørgensen, Stig, On Concepts in Law, p. 134-145 Jørgensen, Stig, Lawyers and Hermeneutics, p. 181-188 Lando, Ole, Some Features of the Law of Contract in the Third Millenium, p. 343-402 Leijonhufvud, Madeleine, Legal Science and Criminal Policy, p. 421-429 Niemi, Matti Ilmari, A Conventionalist Analysis of the Preconditions of Knowledge in Legal Dogmatics and the Foundations of Legal Orders, p. 95-107 Sandgren, Claes, On Empirical Legal Science, p. 445-482 Skogh, Göran, Property Rights and the Environment, p. 483-504 Strömholm, Stig, Goal-Steering and Judicial Review, p. 189-197 Sundell, Jan-Olof, Karl Schlyter – A Swedish Lawyer and Politician, p. 505-514 Wahlgren, Peter, Legal Reasoning: A Jurisprudential Model, p. 199-282 Wahlgren, Peter, On the Future of Legal Science, p. 515-525 Warling-Nerep, Wiweka, Irreconcilable Tasks - a New Model for Law-Making, p. 403-418 Wilhelmsson, Thomas, Contract and Equality, p. 145-165</p
Stability and Change in Nordic Labour Law
No full textThis volume provides a broad, comparative analysis of the development of Scandinavian labour law over the last decades. The picture of development is one of both stability and change. The institutional framework of Nordic labour relations has remained largely unchanged; employers organisations and trade unions still hold a strong position, and the collective agreement continues to be the principal instrument for regulation of the labour market. But, in other aspects, extensive changes have occurred. Labour law is no longer solely the concern of national legislators and social partners. International influences, especially from the European Community, are important. Further, this volume covers several topics such as equal treatment, employee privacy and temporary-work agencies that would not have been regarded as relevant some thirty years ago. A majority of the contributions were presented at a conference held in Stockholm 2002. Table of Contents: Aarvaag Stokke, Torgeir, Mediation in Collective Interest Disputes, p. 135-158 Bruun, Niklas, The Future of Nordic Labour Law, p. 375-385 Edström, Örjan, Co-Determination in Private Enterprises in Four Nordic Countries, p. 159-188 Eklund, Ronnie, Temporary Employment Agencies in the Nordic Countries, p. 311-333 Fahlbeck, Reinhold, Industrial Relations and Collective Labour Law: Characteristics, Principles and Basic Features, p. 87-133 Hasselbalch, Ole, The Roots - the History of Nordic Labour Law, p. 11-35 Júlíusdóttir, Lára V., Icelandic Labour Law, p. 357-374 von Koskull, Anders, Employment Privacy Protection - Nordic Comparative Perspectives, p. 335-356 Källström, Kent, Employment Agreements and Contract Work in the Nordic Countries, p. 77-86 Malmberg, Jonas, The Collective Agreement as an Instrument for Regulation of Wages and Employment Conditions, p. 189-213 Nielsen, Ruth, Nordic and EU Labour Law, p. 37-75 Numhauser-Henning, Ann, Fixed-term Work in Nordic Labour Law, p. 277-310 Roseberry, Lynn, Equal Rights and Discrimination Law in Scandinavia, p. 215-256 Sigeman, Tore, Employment Protection in Scandinavian Law, p. 257-275 Wahlgren, Peter, Legal Abbreviations, p. 393-415</p
Intellectual Property
No full textIntellectual property has become in recent years an issue which almost everyone has a conscious relation to, partly as a consequence of the digitalisation and the growth of the Internet. It is also obvious that an increasing number of social sectors are becoming affected by problems related to intellectual property, as the technical progress continues. Recent illustrations of this development are provided by the debate about the possibilities of protecting DNA sequences, the increasing awareness of the social impact of granting patents for various medical solutions, and the growing use of the Internet as a medium for transmitting music files. The legal framework covering these issues is multifaceted. It is also noticeable the field is constantly undergoing changes, as various interests are being articulated and challenged. Reflecting several of these aspects this issue of Sc.St.L. provides an overview of many of the issues currently debated in the international arena. The volume also contains a cumulative index for Volumes 1-41 of the series. Table of Contents: Bernitz, Ulf, The EC Directive on Comparative Advertising and its Implementation in the Nordic Countries: Especially in Relation to Intellectual Property, p. 11-29 Bing, Jon, Intellectual Property Exclusive Access Rights and Some Policy Implications, p. 31-48 Domeij, Bengt, Implied Technical Warranties in Patent Licenses, p. 49-64 Hammarén, Anna, The Copyrightability of Stage Direction, p. 65-71 Karnell, Gunnar W.G., European Originality: A Copyright Chimera, p. 73-82 Levin, Marianne, Intellectual Property Rights in Transition: Legal Structures and Concepts in Adaptation to Technological Challenges Towards an Intellectual Property System for the 21st Century: A Nordic-European Research Programme, p. 83-95 Nordell, Per Jonas, The Notion of Originality - Redundant or not?, p. 97-111 Oesch, Rainer, Copyright Liability and the Internet from the Finnish Law Point of View, p. 113-125 Pisuke, Heiki, Building a National Intellectual Property Protection System: Some Issues Concerning Copyright and Related Rights in Estonia, p. 127-145 Rosén, Jan, Server Copyright Liability - Notes on the Swedish Act on Liability for Intermediaries and two Recent Decisions of the Swedish Supreme Court, p. 147-163 Rosén, Jan, Administrative Institutions in Copyright: Notes on the Nordic Countries, p. 165-176 Sandgren, Claes, Interpretation of Patent Claims, p. 177-190 Seipel, Peter, Copyright, Information Technology, and the Edifice of Knowledge, p. 191-215 Strömholm, Stig, Droit Moral - The International and Comparative Scene from a Scandinavian Viewpoint, p. 217-253 Wahlgren, Peter, Cumulative Index Volumes 1-41, p. 293-336 Westerlund, Li, Biotech Patents: Grant Requirements and Scope of Protection, p. 255-289</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
IT Law
No full textThe progress of information and communication technology (IT) has surpassed all expectations. IT is affecting almost every aspect of human life and the development can be expected to continue as the technology becomes more advanced and costs continue to drop. The Scandinavian countries have long been in the forefront when it comes to the use of IT, mobile telephones and the Internet. The awareness of technical potentialities is reflected in a longstanding jurisprudential interest in the field. The Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute traces its origin back to 1968, the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law held its first seminar in 1970, and, not surprisingly, the activities in this field are presently more intense than ever. Following this tradition, this volume of Scandinavian Studies in Law presents 27 newly written articles on current legal issues relating to IT. The contributors are all scholars and practitioners active in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Table of Contents: Bing, Jon, Internationalisation and Constant Change, p. 11-30 Blume, Peter, Data Protection in the Private Sector, p. 297-318 Bygrave, Lee A., Privacy Protection in a Global Context - A Comparative Overview, p. 319-348 Galtung, Andreas, The Norwegian Internet Ethical Council, p. 407-419 Halldórsdóttir, Hjördis, The European Union – From Reciprocity to Loyalty, p. 155-172 Hansen, Kim G., Software Patents in Europe, p. 173-201 Helling, Erik, Retrieving the Sources of Legal Decision-Making - Technical Possibilities and Related Legal Issues, p. 531-557 Hreinsson, Páll, Electronic Administration in Iceland, p. 225-243 Kirchberger, Christine and y Olano, Jon Ramón, Issues of Security and Interoperability in Electronic Public Procurement, p. 51-77 Larsson, Conny, Telecom Companies as Crime Investigators, p. 421-449 Larusdottir, Jonina S., Liability of Intermediaries for Copyright Infringement in the Case of Hosting on the Internet, p. 471-490 Lundblad, Nicklas, Privacy in the Noise Society, p. 349-371 Magnusson Sjöberg, Cecilia and Nordén, Anna, Managing Electronic Signatures - Current Challenges, p. 79-95 Maunsbach, Ulf, Some Reflexions Concerning Jurisdiction in Cases on Cross-border Trademark Infringements Through the Internet, p. 493-512 Nielsen, Ruth, Employment and ICT Law, p. 97-110 Olsson, Anders R., Big Brother, Small Sisters and Free Speech: Reanalyzing some Threats to Personal Privacy, p. 373-387 Pöysti, Tuomas, ICT and Legal Principles: Sources and Paradigm of Information Law, p. 559-600 Ramberg, Christina, Electronic Communications under the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, CISG, p. 111-130 Riisnæs, Rolf, Digital Certificates and Certification Services, p. 131-151 Saarenpää, Ahti, E-government and Good Government: An Impossible Equation in the new Network Society?, p. 245-273 Schartum, Dag Wiese, Making Access Rights Operative, p. 275-294 Seipel, Peter, IT Law in the Framework of Legal Informatics, p. 31-47 Still, Viveca, On the Theoretical Foundations of the Principle of Free Flow of Information as Applied to Copyright, p. 203-221 Victorin, Anders, Expropriation for Telecom and Other Infrastructure - the Swedish Experience, p. 513-527 Wahlgren, Peter, IT and Legislative Development, p. 601-618 Wennerström, Erik, EU-legislation and Cybercrime: A Decade of European Legal Developments, p. 451-470 Öman, Sören, Implementing Data Protection in Law, p. 389-403</p
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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