in this article, we tried to identify mechanisms of technology transfer and their legal basis in buy-back contracts. then, analyze the effect of wto regulations on those contracts. in addition, answer these questions: what are legal mechanisms of technology transfer in buy-back contracts? what are the effects of acceptance of wto rules on technology transfer policies in buy-back contracts and t...

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...

Information search and retrieval are part of daily routines of the legal profession. Lawyers, judges, prosecutors, and legal clerks usually access a number of electronic resources to browse, search, select, or update legal contents. Legal databases have currently become large digital libraries where the tasks related to information-seeking may sometimes be cumbersome. Adding semantics to suppor...

The move toward on-line publishing of legal documents in the public domain has made extra information available by way of mark-up for electronic publishing. Legal Concepts that were once implicit in documents are now explicit and further inferences can now be drawn through computation however the quality and extent of this information varies. This paper discusses the application of web techniqu...

Maintaining regulatory compliance is an increasing concern. Legal Knowledge Management systems could support the work of compliance managers. However, there are challenges to overcome, of interpreting legal knowledge and mapping it onto business processes. In this discussion paper we determine requirements for Legal Knowledge Management systems that can handle these challenges. We argue that an...

This paper discusses how to construct a legal ontology from 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 match a legal ontology with a general ontology. The other is to identify bugs in constructed legal ontology and re ne them. Here is presented a new metho...

Laws and regulations play an increasingly important role for requirements engineering and system development. The challenge of interpreting the law to elicit legal requirements for a novel application calls for legal expertise. In this paper, we investigate if the effort of compiling a list of legal software requirements can be reduced by reusing recurring legal requirements. Therefore, we coll...

In this poster I suggest that folksonomies could be fruitfully used in legal information management as a collective process of “codification” carried out by the users of legal documents available on line. In this sense, through the “lattice” topology of collective tagging systems could arise a synthesis between “openness” and “knowledge”, legal information retrieval and legal artificial reasoning.

Legal reasoning is concerned with various kinds of legal concepts that relate to another concepts used in our daily life. Although those legal concepts are abstract in the sense that there always exist possibilities to interpret them in various ways, lawyers seem to understand them as real things at least in their "legal reality". For instance, Japanese Civil Codes include a notion of falsity t...