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The Semantic Web and the Law

The Semantic Web and the Law. Developments, Trends, and Tools in the United States By Iantha Haight. Overview of the U.S. Legal System. Federal/state/county/city/special districts Executive/legislative/judicial Substantive/ procedural Resources for legal information Legal forms

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The Semantic Web and the Law

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  1. The Semantic Web and the Law Developments, Trends, and Tools in the United States By Iantha Haight

  2. Overview of the U.S. Legal System Federal/state/county/city/special districts Executive/legislative/judicial Substantive/procedural Resources for legal information Legal forms Inadequate access for the general public

  3. What do lawyers do? Legal reasoning: IRAC Discover the facts of the case Find the law Paperwork Manage the business Manage relationships Manage their knowledge Stay current

  4. How do lawyers find the law now? West’s Key Number System/Key Cite Keyword searches Legal periodicals Email alerts Continuing education classes Asking colleagues Experience Luck?

  5. Challenges to address Information overload Information retrieval (recall and precision) Support decision making Expedite routine tasks In one word: efficiency Improve public access to the law

  6. Applying semantic technologies to the Law How? • The law “relies on documents”—with a variety of structures • Standard legal markup language • Legal ontologies Where? • Internal corporate settings (km & intranets) • Government information via the Internet

  7. How can semantic technologies help? See Benjamins, V.R., Casanovas, P., Breuker, J., & Gangemi, Al. (2005). Law and the Semantic Web, an introduction. In Benjamins, V.R. et al. (Eds.), Law and the Semantic Web. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1-17. Regulatory metadata and content standardization Information extraction and pattern matching Matching facts to existing law Modelling legal reasoning Management of workflows based on legally-defined tasks Decision support

  8. Difficulties Slow to adapt (stare decisis? policy?) Implementation costs Transition costs Getting lawyers involved Making it easy/automatic Metadata can be evidence against your client or breach security Agreeing on an ontology

  9. Current “semantic-ish” technologies American Bar Association Standing Committee on Technology & Information Systems Legal XML E-filing (committee) West km Westlaw Legal Calendering Westlaw Litigator Case Evaluator

  10. The future… Ontology-driven legal data management? Automated scheduling Legal argument assistance? Outcome predictions Legal opinions issued by computers in small claims cases? Something else?

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