Legislative Technique as Basis of a Legislative Drafting System

Automated Legislative Drafting : Generating

In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative eeects of a new regulation. We will discuss mechanisms that can be used to generate diierent paraphrases of regulations automatically. Since it is possible to test the paraphrases on legal knowledge based systems, we have provided two...

Gauteng workshops on legislative drafting

Formal Aspects of Legislative Meta-Drafting

The paper presents a logic-based approach to legislative meta-drafting. A class of meta-data, corresponding to specific classes of legal provisions, is introduced and discussed. Such meta-data are then formalized using a simple and tractable Description Logic, and the reasoning tasks available in the formalism are described.

A two-level knowledge approach to support multilingual legislative drafting

The quality of legislative drafting process at European and national levels is highly influenced by the legal drafters control over the multilingual complexity of European legislation and over the linguistic and conceptual issues involved in its transposition into national laws. The DALOS project aims at ensuring coherence and alignment in the legislative language, providing law-makers with a k...

Building Semantic Resources for Legislative Drafting: The DALOS Project

The DALOS Project aims at building an ontologicallinguistic resource to be used in the multilingual EU legislative drafting process, as well as in a linguistically reliable national transpositions of EU directives. This paper outlines the design of the ontological-linguistic resource, as well as the main phases carried on for its implementation.