Use of Legal Expert System LES-5 in Legal Education
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It is an important task for a law professor to educate law students in the skill of legal reasoning. A legal expert system is a computer system,, which entails legal knowledge of lawyers as legal experts in its knowledge base. The legal knowledge involves not only written, explicit knowledge like conventions, statutes, cases, commentaries etc., but also implicit legal knowledge which a lawyer unconsciously possesses and applyies to solve problems legally Examples are legal principles, legal commonsense etc. A legal expert system is a legal reasoning system, which can infer a legal judgment that is to be justified as a result of the application of the relevant legal knowledge to a given case. It can explain the reasoning process to justify the judgment, showing what kind of legal knowledge is to be applied, step-by-step. It can show legal knowledge itself and its logical systematic structure as well. A legal expert system as a legal reasoning system must be, therefore, a useful tool in legal education to teach students law, especially to educate how to reason legally We have developed several legal expert systems. Recently we have developed Legal Expert System LES-5 in the ‘Legal Expert System’ Project. This system has been applied
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