This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet. Jurisdiction is a legal term for the limitation on the ability of a court to determine disputes. Generally, a nation state's jurisdiction only extends to individuals who reside within the country or to the tr...

Our legal expert system KONTERM contains a selective thesaurus and a knowledge base for the automatic representation of the structure and the contents of the document. The thesaurus takes into account the necessary degree of formalism of legal language and therefore overcomes the untidiness of natural language and represents automatically the expert knowledge of a lawyer about legal terminology...

In this paper I discuss the application of stochastic blockmodeling to the domain of legal opinions, and specifically to the end of classifying those legal opinions into topics. I begin by defining the basic social network problem and the stochastic blockmodel in Section 2. In Section 3 I introduce the problem of labeling legal opinions and discuss the particular features of this domain. Sectio...

We analyze the results of several experimental runs submitted to the Legal Discovery and Terabyte Tracks of TREC 2006. In the Legal Track, the final negotiated boolean queries produced higher mean scores in average precision and Precision@10 than a corresponding vector run of the same query terms, but the vector run usually recalled more relevant items by rank 5000, and on average the boolean q...

the contract looks like the natural law. this means the negation of the principle of the autonomy of the will and the will of legislator as a basis for the validity of contractual content would be rejected. because the foundation of creation and validity of natural law would not be the will, but natural justice and natural equity. therefore, the foundation of the validity for such a contract- s...

Fifty years of effort in artificial intelligence (AI) and the formalization of legal reasoning have produced both successes and failures. Considerable success in organizing and displaying evidence and its interrelationships has been accompanied by failure to achieve the original ambition of AI as applied to law: fully automated legal decision-making. The obstacles to formalizing legal reasoning...