This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology using a general ontology that has already been developed. In the construction process, we must solve two hard issues. The one is to localize legal contexts in a general ontology in order to extract a legal ontology with a general ontology. The other is to identify bugs in a constructed legal ontology and re ne them. Here is presented a meth...

This article offers a history of the English legal category monster, a legal category that entered English law in the mid-thirteenth and survived until the mid-nineteenth century. The aim of the article is to provide a close textual analysis of an otherwise absent legal history and to locate law’s monsters, and the anxieties that they suggest, within their appropriate contexts: social, politica...

This paper presents a Web editor (RAWE: Rules Advanced Web Editor) for marking up legal rules starting from legally binding texts. The Web editor exploits the legal information embedded in the Akoma Ntoso markup, in combination with and XML techniques, so as to help the legal-knowledge engineer model legal rules and convert them into LegalRuleML, an OASIS XML standard candidate.

________________________ *1) Corresponding author; Associate Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr. T. Popa” Iasi, 16 University Street, Iasi, e-mail: [email protected] 2) Associate Professor of Legal Medicine, Department of Legal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Gr. T. Popa”, Iasi 3) Professor of Legal Medicine, Department of Le...

This paper addresses the problems that lawyers experience retrieving information from legal-text databases. Traditional access mechanisms of text databases require users to know how information is stored. I will propose a method for index organisation which shields lawyers from the internal storage structures and which allows them to address the legal databases in their own legal terms. The pro...

We have already developed a legal reasoning system by analogy based on a framework, called Goal-Dependent Abstraction (GDA), to detect similarities dependent on given goals. According to the framework, two legal concepts are regarded as similar ones, provided they share the same explanation of a legal purpose as the goal to be explained. Consequently, we can automatically capture similarities b...

legal terms are as heritage of civilization and arising out of social developments of nations. however, public order in international law is required in international instruments and is cited repeatedly by international tribunals and authors but still have a vague concept in practice. what is studied in this article is analyze of concept and nature of international public order in considering v...

neurolaw, as an interdisciplinary field which links the brain to law, facilitates the pathway to better understanding of human behavior in order to regulate it accurately through incorporating neuroscience achievements in legal studies. since 1990's, this emerging field, by study on human nervous system as a new dimension of legal phenomena, leads to a more precise explanation for human behavio...

HE role and structure of the Hungarian legal profession both changed quite markedly after the changeover from the communist regime (1989), particularly because of the opportunities provided by the new market economy. The legal profession in Hungary is generally of a high standard because of the elitist approach which once prevailed in the university education system, reinforced by a technocrati...