Stories and legal cases have much in common, but there are also differences. Both can be seen as a sequence of events, but in a legal case the facts and events are legally qualified. Moreover, the point of a story is usually implicit, whereas the outcome of a legal case is explicitly explained. Stories have been mainly used in AI and Law to explore the evidence presented in legal cases, but her...

as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

This paper exploits machine learning methods to separate robbery and intimidation cases, and predicting their sentencing by considering defined legal factors. We introduce a framework to fetch 21 legal factor labels of robbery and intimidation cases, then use the labels for case classification and sentencing prediction. Our experiments show that the legal factor labels can indeed improve the re...

Experiments described here demonstrate a role that intermediate legal concepts play in predicting the decisions of new cases. The experiments compare variations of each of an Issue-Based Prediction algorithm (IBP) and a CATO prediction algorithm in which the use of legal concepts are ablated in various ways. The results confirm those legal philosophical theories that assert that intermediate co...