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Acceptance sent through email; is the postal rule applicable?
Purpose - This paper focuses on the application of the postal rule to email, due to the controversy surrounding the application of the âinstantaneousâ test to emails. Methodology/approach/design - This article analyses standards and literature on the formation of contract under English law. Findings - Although the postal rule is an invention of its time, this rule could still play a role regarding emails. Indeed, due to the difficulties in applying the âinstantaneousâ test to emails, emails would still be subject to the postal rule. Of course, the postal rule in its current form is no more fitting the reality. However, the benefits that such rule provides should not be lost, instead a new rule could be drafted based on the postal rule. Practical implications - This article discusses the possible improvements to the already existing framework. Originality/value - This paper analyses the use of the postal rule to electronic contracts in the UK, a topic that is not much researched but could have great importance when doing electronic business
The Rhetoric of Email in Law Practice
This article responds to and appears alongside an article by Professor Kirsten Davis in the December 2013 issue of the Oregon Law Review. An interesting debate has arisen among legal writing faculty with respect to the primary form of communication today between attorneys, and between attorneys and clients. Although most legal writing faculty agree that teaching traditional memoranda continues to have pedagogical benefits for first-year students, there is disagreement on how to conceptualize and teach the use of email memoranda in law practice. Professor Davis argues that to think of and label âemail memorandaâ as something different from traditional memoranda is misguided. In contrast, this article argues that email memos are indeed differentâthat the medium of email has altered the nature of the message (as Marshall McLuhan might say). In other words, the process of writing email in the context of a conversation changes both the format and the nature of legal analysis. This author also believes that the question for legal writing faculty is not whether to teach traditional memoranda or email analysis but how to teach both well to prepare law students for the real world of law practice
Barriers and enablers in integrating cognitive apprenticeship methods in a Web-based educational technology course for K-12 (primary and secondary) teacher education
The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of a cognitive apprenticeship model into an educational technology Webâbased course for preâservice primary through secondary teacher education. Specifically, this study presents an overview of methods, tools and media used to foster the integration of a cognitive apprenticeship model, and presents the types of barriers and enablers encountered when attempting to participate in a computerâmediated cognitive apprenticeship. The methodological framework for this investigation is a qualitative case study of an educational technology course for preâservice primary through secondary teacher education. The findings of this study reveal that various tools, methods and media were used to varying degrees of success to foster cognitive apprenticeship methods in a Webâbased learning environment. The goal of this study was to better understand the pragmatics, suitability, affordances and constraints of integrating cognitive apprenticeship methods in a Webâbased distance education course for teacher education
An Intervening Ethical Governor for a Robot Mediator in Patient-Caregiver Relationships
© Springer International Publishing AG 2015DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46667-5_6Patients with Parkinsonâs disease (PD) experience challenges when interacting with
caregivers due to their declining control over their musculature. To remedy those challenges, a
robot mediator can be used to assist in the relationship between PD patients and their caregivers.
In this context, a variety of ethical issues can arise. To overcome one issue in particular,
providing therapeutic robots with a robot architecture that can ensure patientsâ and caregiversâ
dignity is of potential value. In this paper, we describe an intervening ethical governor for a
robot that enables it to ethically intervene, both to maintain effective patientâcaregiver
relationships and prevent the loss of dignity
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