as turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts swiss civil code, thestate implements secular legal system. however, as people in turkey are predominantlymuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. as a result, thereare...

parliament established jurisprudence of the islamic republic with due regard to the fundamental difference with conventional systems, is important. in conventional systems, the relationship between parliament and the people, legally determines representative role, responsibilities and his duties. but in the islamic republic of iran to the foundation fqhyash to find out the legal status and lega...

Data protection, currently under the limelight at the European level, is undergoing a long and complex reform that is finally approaching its completion. Consequently, there is an urgent need to customize semantic standards towards the prospective legal framework. The aim of this paper is to provide a bottom-up ontology describing the constituents of data protection domain and its relationships...

This paper presents a SWOT analysis of SEA systems in the Middle East North Africa region through a comparative examination of the status, application and structure of existing systems based on country-specific legal, institutional and procedural frameworks. The analysis is coupled with the multi-attribute decision making method (MADM) within an analytical framework that involves both performan...

With an abundance of legal documents now available in electronic format, legal scholars and practitioners are in need of systems able to search and quantify semantic details of these documents. A key challenge facing designers of such systems, however, is that the majority of these documents are natural language streams lacking formal structure or other explicit semantic information. In this re...

As Turkey is officially a secular state and it adopts Swiss Civil Code, thestate implements secular legal system. However, as people in Turkey are predominantlyMuslim and theyare born and raised in a traditionally Muslim environment,people generally and especially women live under the influence of these two sometimescontradictory and inconsistent legal systems and customs. As a result, thereare...

. This paper gives an overview of my PhD study into the persuasiveness of (legal) knowledge-based systems. The results of three experiments show the possible problems that may arise when computerised legal decision aids are put into practice. The users in the experiments had great difficulties with judging the limitations of the legal knowledge-based systems they were using. For the average law...

The increasing development of legal ontologies seems to offer satisfactory solutions to legal knowledge formalization, which in past experiences lead to a limited exploitation of legal expert systems for practical and commercial use. The paper describes some ontology-based tools that enable legal knowledge formalization. Jurwordnet is an extension to the legal domain of the Italian version of E...