Similar to the triaging of patients by health care workers, legal and public health professionals must prioritize and respond to issues of law and ethics in declared public health emergencies. As revealed by the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza outbreak and other events, there are considerable inconsistencies among professionals regarding how to best approach these issues during a public health emergen...

In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the story of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by measuring how well they cohere when accounting for the evidence. We show that this gives rise to a formalized comparison between rival cases that...

The work presented here is part of a wider on-going study aimed at investigating methodological issues and strategies towards the construction of an Italian FrameNet-like resource specialized for the legal domain, through extending and specializing the general FrameNet [1]. This study stems from the idea that FrameNet can be seen «as a backbone of several domain-specific FrameNets» [2]. To the ...

Using law and evidence to achieve fair and accurate decisions in numerous legal cases requires a complex multiagent system. This paper discusses a framework based on many-valued, predicate, default logic that successfully captures legal knowledge, integrates and evaluates expert and non-expert evidence, coordinates agents working on different legal problems, and evolves the knowledge model over...

Stories and legal cases have much in common, but there are also differences. Both can be seen as a sequence of events, but in a legal case the facts and events are legally qualified. Moreover, the point of a story is usually implicit, whereas the outcome of a legal case is explicitly explained. Stories have been mainly used in AI and Law to explore the evidence presented in legal cases, but her...

The paper analyzes new sources of information on criminal cases related to digitalization. study considers the issue reasonability "electronic evidence" concept introduction into procedure, need for additional guarantees procedural form technologies evidence. examines theoretical approaches and requirements, formulated in Russian European legislation, peculiarities admissibility this evidence c...

Many laws, e.g., those concerning taxes and social benefits, need to be operationalized and implemented into public administration procedures and eGovernment applications. Where such operationalization is warranted, the legal frameworks that interpret the underlying laws are typically prescriptive, providing procedural rules for ensuring legal compliance. We propose a UML-based approach for mod...