A network approach to the French system of legal codes—part I: analysis of a dense network

Abstract  We explore one aspect of the structure of a codified legal system at the national level using a new type of representation
to understand the strong or weak dependencies between the various fields of law. In Part I of this study, [...]

A dynamic logic for privacy compliance

Abstract  Knowledge based privacy policies are more declarative than traditional action based ones, because they specify only what is
permitted or forbidden to know, and leave the derivation of the permitted actions to a security monitor. [...]



The modular logic of private international law

Abstract  We provide a logical analysis of private international law, a rather esoteric, but increasingly important, domain of the law.
Private international law addresses overlaps and conflicts between legal systems by distributing cases [...]

Value-based argumentation for justifying compliance

Abstract  Compliance is often achieved ‘by design’ through a coherent system of controls consisting of information systems and procedures.
This system-based control requires a new approach to auditing in which companies must demonstrate [...]

A framework for the extraction and modeling of fact-finding reasoning from legal decisions: lessons from the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus

Abstract  This article describes the Vaccine/Injury Project Corpus, a collection of legal decisions awarding or denying compensation
for health injuries allegedly due to vaccinations, together with models of the logical structure of the [...]



Moral particularism in the light of deontic logic

Abstract  The aim of this paper is to strengthen the point made by Horty about the relationship between reason holism and moral particularism.
In the literature prima facie obligations have been considered as the only source of reason [...]

Danièle Bourcier, Pompeu Casanovas, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Catharina Maracke (eds.): Intelligent multimedia. Managing creative works in a digital world

Danièle Bourcier, Pompeu Casanovas, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay, Catharina Maracke (eds.): Intelligent multimedia. Managing creative works in a digital world
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Book ReviewPages 357-361DOI [...]

Obligations and prohibitions in Talmudic deontic logic

Abstract  This paper examines the deontic logic of the Talmud. We shall find, by looking at examples, that at first approximation we
need deontic logic with several connectives:

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Talmudic obligation

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Relationships between obligations and actions in the context of institutional agents, human agents or software agents

Abstract  The paper presents a logical framework for the representation of interactions between institutional agents, human agents and
software agents. A case study is used to analyze how obligations on institutional agents are [...]

The mathematics of patent claim analysis

Abstract  In patent law most of the crucial legal questions such as patentability and infringement are linked to the patent claims.
The European Patent Office regards patent claims as a set of independent features which are examined [...]