Knowledge engineers have been working in the legal domain since the rise of their discipline in the mid-eighties of the last century. More and more knowledge engineering is not just seen as a way of capturing and distributing (legal) knowledge by means of the knowledge-based systems created, but as an analytical approach that helps to improve legal quality. Improving legal access of course rema...

Access to legal documents has been hampered by the lack of attention for specific user groups accessing such documents. In this article, we focus on one of these user groups (legal professionals), who can benefit from specific types of cross-lingual information retrieval for, e.g., comparative law research. We propose to use legal definitions as anchor points in legal documents. Through the bod...

One of the most pervasive and recurrent issues that legal theory has had to deal with is the very concept of law. And one of the most puzzling questions that cyberspace lawyers have been jacing is where and in which form law is to be found on the Internet. This essay seeks to build a bridge between these two issues. The main argument is that, on the Internet and more specifically in the context...

When laws or legal principles mention mental states such as intentions to form a contract, knowledge of risk, or purposely causing a death, what parts of the brain are they speaking about? We argue here that these principles are tacitly directed at our prefrontal executive processes. Our current best theories of consciousness portray it as a workspace in which executive processes operate, but w...

... It is difficult to say, however, whether the Korean legal profession in general has played the pivotal or appropriate role that society expected from it during Korea's transition to democracy and market economy. ... Nevertheless, it seems that the current legal system, as well as the legal profession, is incapable of meeting such demand. In this regard, the paper argues that all of the basi...

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...