TY - GEN
T1 - Detecting conflicts in legal systems
AU - Li, Tingting
AU - Balke, Tina
AU - De Vos, M
AU - Satoh, Ken
AU - Padget, J A
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - When acting in different jurisdictions (e.g. under the laws of different countries) at the same time, it can be of great value for individuals to be able to determine whether disparities among the laws of these different systems exist and allowing them to identify the consequences that may follow from these disparities. For individuals, it is typically not of interest to find all the ways in which these legal systems differ, but rather to establish whether a particular course of action may have different legal interpretations, depending on the jurisdiction. In this paper we present a formal and computational framework that, given specific scenarios (descriptions of courses of action), can automatically detect whether these scenarios could lead to different outcomes. We demonstrate our approach by means of a private international law case-study where a company drafts a contract clause after examining the consequences in the available jurisdictions.
AB - When acting in different jurisdictions (e.g. under the laws of different countries) at the same time, it can be of great value for individuals to be able to determine whether disparities among the laws of these different systems exist and allowing them to identify the consequences that may follow from these disparities. For individuals, it is typically not of interest to find all the ways in which these legal systems differ, but rather to establish whether a particular course of action may have different legal interpretations, depending on the jurisdiction. In this paper we present a formal and computational framework that, given specific scenarios (descriptions of courses of action), can automatically detect whether these scenarios could lead to different outcomes. We demonstrate our approach by means of a private international law case-study where a company drafts a contract clause after examining the consequences in the available jurisdictions.
UR - http://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai-isai/2012/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_13
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39931-2_13
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
SN - 9783642399312
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 174
EP - 189
BT - New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
A2 - Motomura, Y
A2 - Butler, A
A2 - Bekki, D
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - 4th JSAI International Symposia on Artificial Intelligence, JSAI-isAI 2012
Y2 - 30 November 2012 through 1 December 2012
ER -