Computable Models of the Law Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontolo
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 techn
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
4884
Pompeu Casanovas Giovanni Sartor Núria Casellas Rossella Rubino (Eds.)
Computable Models of the Law Languages, Dialogues, Games, Ontologies
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Pompeu Casanovas Núria Casellas Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Institute of Law and Technology 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: {pompeu.casanovas, nuria.casellas}@uab.es Giovanni Sartor European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini 9, 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Rossella Rubino Università di Bologna, CIRSFID Via Galliera 3, 40121 Bologna, Italy E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008934302
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.4, H.3, H.5, J.1, K.4.1-2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-85568-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-85568-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Foreword
Information technology has now pervaded all sectors of legal activities, and the very modern concepts of e-law and e-justice show that automation processes or more generally the use of computers to facilitate the legal practitioner, the judge, public administration and above all the citizen are ubiquitous. In spite of some reluctances shown in the past, the law field is experiencing nowadays a new computer turn. Legal professions might have been facilitated in this evolution by the correlative revival of theoretical legal fields such as the study of legal philosophy, logics and reasoning, legal linguistics and legistics, which provide the structural basis to the development of artificial intelligence and law. But one of the most significant trends today is the wish to transpose the use of technology in each field of professional and private life to the legal field as well. Current cross-border developments of human, economic and social activities add, moreover, the necessity to deal with foreign systems, mostly in foreign languages. The current ext
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