Multistorey buildings typically include stratified legal interests which provide entitlements to a community of owners to lawfully possess private properties and use communal and public properties. The spatial arrangements of these legal interests are often defined by multiplexing cognitively outlined spaces and physical elements of a building. In order to support 3D digital management and comm...

Lennart Aqvist (1992) proposed a logical theory of legal evidence, based on the Bolding-Ekell of degrees of evidential strength. This paper reformulates Aqvist's model in terms of the probabilistic version of the kappa calculus. Proving its acceptability in the legal context is beyond the present scope, but the epistemological debate about Bayesian Law is clearly relevant. While the present mod...

The excavation of mass graves provides information and documentation for both human rights work and for forensic medico-legal investigations. Medico-legal documentation for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a major reason for recent excavation of large mass graves in these countries. The mass grave ...

In argumentation system, it is important to reason about winning strategy during argument according to the context of their counterpart arguments and their own past arguments. In legal reasoning, it is more complicated than the ordinary argumentation system, since it involves a notion of a burden of proof. In this paper, we extend our framework to reason about the next move given context of arg...

Illegal hunting of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) for ivory is causing rapid declines in their populations. Since 2007, illegal ivory trade has more than doubled. African elephants are facing the most serious conservation crisis since 1989, when international trade was banned. One solution proposed is establishment of a controlled legal trade in ivory. High prices for ivory mean that th...

Multilingualism is a phenomenon which greatly affects the efficiency of information exchange among people in every sector of life. Cross-language retrieval systems are tools that contribute to such exchange, supporting research and worldwide communication, helping to search for data irrespective of the language in which information objects are expressed. In particular, in the domain of law a va...