1.0 Introduction Researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Law (AI & Law) have developed a number of computational models of case-based legal reasoning. For example, see Hypo (Ashley, 1987; 1990), CABARET (Rissland & Skalak, 1991), GREBE (Branting, 1991; 1999), CATO (Aleven, 1997; 2003), BankXX (Rissland, Skalak, et al. 1996), and Split-Up (Zeleznikow, Stranieri, et al., 1995-1996). The models...

The SHYSTER project is concerned with the development of a hybrid legal expert system: one which uses rule-based techniques to represent statute law and case-based techniques to represent case law. A prototype has been developed, implementing the case-based part of SHYSTER. This prototype allows a legal expert to specify an area of case law using a specially-developed case law speci cation lang...

We report a longitudinal study of long-term outcomes of participating in criminal cases following child sexual abuse (CSA). In the 1980s, 218 child victim/witnesses took part in a study of short-term sequelae of legal involvement. Approximately 12 years later, 174 of them, as well as a comparison group of 41 matched individuals with no CSA history, were interviewed about their mental health and...

Objective: Determination of victim’s clothes in gunshot wounds is important due to the necessity of immediate workup in the emergency room as well as the legal aspects of cases. The aim of this study is to evaluate the importance of victim’s clothes in gunshot wounds referred to autopsy hall of legal medicine bureau of Tehran, Iran from 2014 to 2017.Methods: In this analytical comparative...

The days of proprietary legal databases are rapidly ending, as primary legal materials become available on the World Wide Web. In the United States, for example, the decisions of the Supreme Court are now available on line all the way back to 1893. The decisions of the U.S. Courts of Appeal are also available, dating back several years in most cases. State materials are not as complete, but man...

The study of past cases is an important part of the every-day work carried out by people involved with the application of the law. Currently, the consultation and analysis of legal precedents are, in the majority of the cases, made manually, without the use of any supporting tool. This paper presents an architecture that establishes legal case repositories. These repositories can serve as a bas...

Retrieving relevant legal opinions from the large corpora has long been a key problem in common law jurisdictions, where the opinions of judges are distributed amongst the courts. Legal professionals are faced with the difficult and significant task of identifying the cases from the corpora which are relevant to a problem case. Law libraries have long been the center of law firms, containing ex...

A number of important use cases for public administration (“e-governance”) applications of legal knowledge-based systems are identified. For each use case, a data flow model is developed showing processes and document types sufficient to implement the use case. Our main goal is to identify document types which, if standardized, would enable a modular set of interoperable components for building...

This paper describes Stevie, a knowledge representation architecture for the analysis of complex legal cases. Stevie is targeted at legal professionals who may use it to infer stories (plausible and consistent reconstructions of courses of events) from evidence and hypotheses. Stevie is based on known argument ontologies and argumentation logics.