–The term legal research generally refers to the process of identifying and retrieving appropriate information necessary to support legal decision-making from past case records. At present, the process is mostly manual, but some traditional technologies such as keyword searching are commonly used to speed the process up. But a keyword search is not a comprehensive search to cater to the require...

Employers and employees are both highly vulnerable to negative consequences which may result from e-mail privacy intrusions. These intrusions may arise internally from co-workers or the employer, or externally from entities associated with the U.S. legal system, such as law enforcement agencies or attorneys, or from hackers. Given potentially differing perceptions regarding e-mail privacy and t...

The difficulties, barriers and challenges in implementing a regulatory framework for a pan-European electronic identity (eID)1 have been analyzed before in a number of studies. Deliverables pertaining to research projects funded by the European Union (EU), as well as study reports prepared for the European Commission in the areas of eID and eGovernment,2 have focused on the legal complexities t...

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...