Jusletter IT

Program Transparency for Legal Machines

  • Authors: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Lithuania, Austria
  • Field of law: Theory of Legal Informatics
  • Collection: Tagungsband IRIS 2014
  • Citation: Vytautas Čyras / Friedrich Lachmayer, Program Transparency for Legal Machines, in: Jusletter IT 20 February 2014
This paper attempts to define the transparency problem. The context is the changeover from a text culture to a machine culture in law. The paradigm change to electronic procedures reveals new contexts for justice. Note that equal access to e-procedures does not guarantee justice. The transparency of the law leads to the transparency of programs. We formulate two requirements for legal machines: 1) the architecture of the program must be made accessible; and 2) the program must provide legal protection. The implementation of these requirements is a subject for software engineering. A need therefore arises for the requirements to flow down to lower level specifications. In the end we define program transparency as a compliance problem.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The context of justice in the paradigm change to electronic procedures
  • 3. Transparency in software engineering
  • 3.1. On implementing Requirement 2 – legal protection
  • 4. Formulating program transparency as compliance
  • 5. Conclusions
  • 6. Acknowledgement
  • 7. References

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