Friedrich Lachmayer’s Landscape of Legal Informatics

Vytautas Čyras

Zitiervorschlag: Vytautas Čyras, Friedrich Lachmayer’s Landscape of Legal Informatics, in: Jusletter IT 11-September-2014

This paper presents the landscape of legal informatics which was originally drawn and explained by Friedrich Lachmayer. The landscape is a mental map, and I attempt to interpret it. The work stems from numerous conversations with Lachmayer. His method of legal visualisation is briefly tackled in this paper, although one should note that the method needs a separate thorough study. Lachmayer uses various metaphors and only two are presented here: the vertical and horizontal stages of Is/Ought and the multi-arch bridge.