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2.1 - Representation of Legal Information

from A - Information Representation, Preprocessing, and Document Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

Daniel Martin Katz
Affiliation:
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Ron Dolin
Affiliation:
Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
Michael J. Bommarito
Affiliation:
Stanford CodeX
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Summary

There are a variety of different approaches to representing legal information in order to make that information usable in legal analytics or automated reasoning systems. This variety of approaches stems from the variety of tasks that legal practitioners wish to undertake, and there is no single representation technique that squarely fits all tasks and contexts. This chapter will survey the methods available for representing legal information, and the benefits that each method can bring to the tools used in legal work. This section will also provide a high-level overview of approaches that have been developed to represent laws expressed as statutes, rules, and regulations. It will also survey the standards that have been developed and that are emerging for representing legal information. An overview of methods for representing case law will also be provided, along with a summary of how interpretation of the law can be achieved through automated reasoning mechanisms based on computational models of argument. This chapter will also consider methods of conceptualizing and reasoning about the relations within and between legal documents such as contracts, along with techniques to represent wider networks of information, such as document citations.

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Legal Informatics , pp. 35 - 40
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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