Stephan Kirste
As law is a hierarchically arranged system of norms, it has to be systematical and can not only be limited to network structures. Nevertheless, the legal network discussion recalls that it is a system that does not follow the way of Prokrustes but is flexible and connects formal unity with dynamic content. The occurrence of spontaneous legal norms and regulations, the fragmentations of individual and society as well as legal pluralism can be picked up by systematic thinking. The term «network» is not yet elaborated enough for this. (ah)
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Category: Podcasts
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Region: Austria
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Field of law: Notes on the General Topic
Paul de Hert
Starting with an introduction of teaching in general and Napoleontic teaching in particular, the referee then elaborates media panic and alarm reading. He talks about the cases of Apple and Microsoft regarding data protection and law lagging behind technological developments. Additionally, the speaker deals with the unpredictability of applicable law, courts, treaties and community and explains why regulatory approaches should no longer be command control interventions but be inclusive and foresee as good as possible the relationships already in place (responsiveness).
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Category: Podcasts
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Region: Netherlands
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Field of law: Notes on the General Topic
Erich Schweighofer
The potential of AI & law methods in law has been not properly used. A promising way out may be legal data analysis. The goal of legal data science is to complement the existing methodology of law with the new computer-based methods, and to bring it into a theoretical framework. In previous research, we have developed the 8 views/4 methods/4 syntheses approach of legal data analysis. In the speech, we will focus on the man/machine delivery of the desired products of legal knowledge representation using AI & law methods. At present, a lot of this analysis is done manually but the lack of sufficient resources becomes more and more evident. So far, tools of data analysis are insufficiently developed and used in the legal domain. This speech should describe the potential of this approach in order to motivate a stronger deployment in the analysis of legal text corpora.
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Category: Podcasts
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Region: Austria
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Field of law: Legal Informatics
Bernhard Waltl
The analysis of legal data using information technology, more specifically text and data mining algorithms, has become very attractive in the field of legal informatics. Additionally, legal science and practice consist of data-, knowledge-, and time-intensive tasks, which have always been in the focus of legal informatics. This paper contributes a data science environment, which is in particular suited for legal texts, e.g. documents from legislation and jurisdiction but also contracts and patents. The environment consists of a reference architecture and a specific data model. Furthermore, it integrates an easily adaptable and extendable text mining engine allowing reuse of components. The base line architecture for the text mining engine is the Apache UIMA. The environment enables to collaboratively specify linguistic and semantic structures. Thereby, it uses an existing rule-based script language, namely Apache Ruta. This paper shows how the system can be used to unveil legal definitions in the German Civil Code (BGB) by not only finding them but also by determining which legal term is defined and how. This functionality enables the structuring of unstructured information, i.e., text, which enables data scientists and legal experts to semantically investigate and explore legal texts.
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Category: Podcasts
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Region: Germany
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Field of law: Legal Informatics