• Embedded law
    • Rules as code
    • Fundamental Limits on Automation of Legal Reasoning
      • Advantages of imprecision
        • Normalized legal drafting and the Query method (Allen, 1978)
          • Visualization
            • Automatic contract-processing
              • Contracts as code
                • Legal contract
                  • Classification and summarization
          • Teach humans to draft better
          • Generality
          • Scope ambiguity
    • Create formal models of legal text
    • Overview

Legal expert systems

Automated legal advice. Replace a lawyer with a program.

Possibly powered by Legal ontology#.

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Embedded law#
Docassemble#
ErgoAI / ErgoLite#
Neota Logic#
Oracle Intelligent Advisor#
DataLex#
Legal expert systems#

External links

  • Bloomgerg Law: Automating Legal Advice: AI and Expert Systems
  • Example of a legal expert system in Jason Morris: “Rules as Code” Can and Should Be Done Without Programmers. That system is written using DataLex#.
2020-06-17

Uplinks

  • Embedded law#
    • A step forward is Legal expert systems#: the architect doesn’t need to read pages and pages of legislation or hire a lawyer, but they can use an app to query if their desired door width is legal or not.

  • Rules as code#
    • Legal expert systems#
  • Legal expert systems#
    • Fundamental Limits on Automation of Legal Reasoning#
      • Susskind suggested limiting the users of Legal expert systems# to lawyers, so that they ought to know themselves if the answers are strange, or relevant information has been left out.
    • Create formal models of legal text#
      • Legal expert systems#
    • Overview#
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