Expert system in law

By:

Susskind, Richard E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford; Clarendon Press; 1987Description: 300pISBN:

198255829

Subject(s):

Law-Data processing

DDC classification:

343.0999 SUS

Summary: This book is a comprehensive investigation into expert systems in law. These systems are introduced as interactive computer programs built with the help of legal experts and designed to assist general legal practitioners in solving legal problems beyond their range of knowledge. The systems engage in a form of legal reasoning: they draw legal conclusions on the basis of their formal and 'heuristic' legal knowledge, and they can justify and explain their reasoning. The book demonstrates that all such systems make assumptions about the nature of law and legal reasoning. Accordingly, the book is written from the perspective analytical jurisprudence (a branch of legal d sophy/legal theory). sprudence is used throughout both to articulate the presuppositions and limitations of building expert systems, and also to provide sound, practical guidance for their designers. The book compares current projects in the field, and analyses and clarifies those concepts that are central to expert systems in law. The study focuses on the jurisprudential problems of the structure of legal rules, the individuation of laws, the relationship of logic to the law, and on the nature of legal knowledge, legal science, legal reasoning and legal systems. Computationally the book recommends methods for the representation of legal knowledge and for the design of legal inference engines. It is concluded that there are no theoretical obstacles, from the point of view of legal philosophy, to the development of 'rule-based systems of limited scope. This claim is supported throughout both by reference to consensus located in many contemporary jurisprudential writings and by discussion of a prototype system that operates on Scottish divorce law. This is the first book devoted to the topic of expert systems in law. Richard Susskind obtained a law degree and Diploma in Legal Practice from Glasgow University and his doctorate from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a consultant in expert systems in the London office of Emst & Whinney, international

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	343.0999 SUS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		41967

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This book is a comprehensive investigation into expert systems in law. These systems are introduced as interactive computer programs built with the help of legal experts and designed to assist general legal practitioners in solving legal problems beyond their range of knowledge. The systems engage in a form of legal reasoning: they draw legal conclusions on the basis of their formal and 'heuristic' legal knowledge, and they can justify and explain their reasoning.

The book demonstrates that all such systems make assumptions about the nature of law and legal reasoning. Accordingly, the book is written from the perspective analytical jurisprudence (a branch of legal d sophy/legal theory). sprudence is used throughout both to articulate the presuppositions and limitations of building expert systems, and also to provide sound, practical guidance for their designers.

The book compares current projects in the field, and analyses and clarifies those concepts that are central to expert systems in law. The study focuses on the jurisprudential problems of the structure of legal rules, the individuation of laws, the relationship of logic to the law, and on the nature of legal knowledge, legal science, legal reasoning and legal systems. Computationally the book recommends methods for the representation of legal knowledge and for the design of legal inference engines.

It is concluded that there are no theoretical obstacles, from the point of view of legal philosophy, to the development of 'rule-based systems of limited scope. This claim is supported throughout both by reference to consensus located in many contemporary jurisprudential writings and by discussion of a prototype system that operates on Scottish divorce law.

This is the first book devoted to the topic of expert systems in law.

Richard Susskind obtained a law degree and Diploma in Legal Practice from Glasgow University and his doctorate from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a consultant in expert systems in the London office of Emst & Whinney, international

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