The paper addresses the implementation of legal rules in online virtual world software. The development is performed within a peer-to-peer virtual world platform in the frame of the FP7 VirtualLife project. The goal of the project is to create a serious, secure and legally ruled collaboration environment. The novelty of the platform is an in-world legal framework, which is real world compliant....

The clash between the borderless Internet and the geographically structured legal landscape is almost universally adopted as the starting point for discussions of Internet jurisdiction issues. This clash is important, but to fully appreciate its implications we need to proceed far into the territory of jurisprudence. Here, I draw attention to how three presumptions that underpin all legal syste...

This paper presents a visualization technique to assist legal experts in formalising their interpretation of legal texts in terms of regulatory requirements. (Semi-)automation of compliance processes requires a machine-readable version of legal requirements in a format that enables effective compliance assessment. The use of a semi-structured controlled natural language as an intermediate step ...

E-government is not the machine version of existing administration-governance practice. Deep philosophical and legal issues must be reconsidered in the relations of citizen and governance, the meaning of servicing state, privacy and openness relations, empowering. Data unification is a key legal and technical issue. Systems should survive technological changes and be adaptive for changes in reg...

demonstration of the geomorphological factors in setting the legal regime of the caspian seaintroduction:the caspian sea is the largest water basin which enclosed by land within eurasia continent. the caspian sea is unique in many reasons: the large deposits of oil and gas, valuable fishery resources; including 90% of the world’s stock of sturgeon, important transportation routes; connecting th...

The focus of this article is to throw light on the imminent need for an effective system for extraction, representation and construction of legal norms, especially the national patent law norms. This system, complementary to the FSTP-Expert system, would aim at (semi)-automatically translating the parts of the notion “legal certainty” from its natural language non procedural presentation to a d...

This paper describes recent approaches using text-mining to automatically profile and extract arguments from legal cases. We outline some of the background context and motivations. We then turn to consider issues related to the construction and composition of a corpora of legal cases. We show how a Context-Free Grammar can be used to extract arguments, and how ontologies and Natural Language Pr...

The focus of this article is to provide first approachs to a possible key solution representation and construction of legal norms, especially the national patent law norms. A semantic-system based on these approaches, complementary to the FSTP/IES-Expert system, would aim at (semi)-automatically translating the parts of the notion legal certainty from its natural language non procedural present...

Since I am a lawyer, let me start with a disclaimer: nothing I shall say is intended to reflect the views of my employers past or present or any professional association to which I may belong. And please don’t write any letters — unless they are addressed to me. The reason I start in this fashion is that some years ago, when I had just become a notary, I gave an interview to a charming lady fro...